(March 16, 2014 at 7:55 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: I'd say Christianity is more than "an image of emotional appeal" that it has going for it....I mean seriously, what else is there?
Discipulus laid his cards on the table. It came down to:
1) Jesus gave me the self-confidence I lacked.
2) Atheism makes life appear too scary so I'd rather pick a religion out of the hat.
3) The Gospels are historical biographies.
I'd say that image is all Christianity really amounts to: an image. Nothing more. Nothing less.
I know appeal to emotion is all they really have.
I was just trying to be cordial with a little sugarcoating.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
