(April 17, 2014 at 2:14 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: Larger point: Christianity is so widespread and diverse, having been a synchratic faith to begin with (it was born borrowing from here and a bit there, and...) that any statement beginning with "Christians believe..." is certain to invite a response from a self-described "Christian" who rejects that idea.
Good point.
(April 17, 2014 at 2:14 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: I mean, there are even self-described "atheist Christians".
Yes, "atheist Christians."
Really, I've actually known a few.
No, I don't get it either but there you go.
I didn't know about them and just looked them up on wikipedia. Some of them are atheists who still believe that Jesus was a wise teacher but I'm baffled by -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_a..._existence
Quote:Thomas J. J. Altizer is a well-known Christian atheist who is known for his literal approach to the death of God. He often speaks of God's death as a redemptive event. In his book The Gospel of Christian Atheism he speaks of how
"every man today who is open to experience knows that God is absent, but only the Christian knows that God is dead, that the death of God is a final and irrevocable event, and that God's death has actualized in our history a new and liberated humanity".[4]
I'm not sure how people can be atheists if they believe that God used to exist but is now dead.
Where are the snake and mushroom smilies?