(May 27, 2014 at 9:21 pm)Brakeman Wrote: Going by strict observation, it appears that the real purpose and meaning of the christian life is to be a bully and a phony.
They bully politically and socially. The pretend to be good, trustworthy, and above vice, which they are not.
They use deceitful and dishonest tactics in debate and do not admit any fault in their beliefs whatsoever.
The majority of theists on this board, by and large, will not discuss their exact beliefs at all.
They keep them tightly guarded, and you get the occasional platitude, or the quoting of scripture, but what they actually believe remains mysterious, so they're free to pick apart and snipe at the beliefs of others without appearing hypocritical.
Another reason seems to be so they can twist their belief system to respond to different arguments, and hide the acrobatics.
