RE: No True Scotsman
June 20, 2014 at 9:15 pm
(This post was last modified: June 20, 2014 at 9:17 pm by SteelCurtain.)
(June 20, 2014 at 8:43 pm)Lek Wrote: Sin is an offense against against God. When we sin we go counter to what God requires of us even though forgiveness is always available upon true repentance. The fact is, though, that when a person sins he is going against Christ's teachings. His actions are not caused by him being a christian and it's not the fault of christianity.
Lek, this is not the argument. The argument is not what individuals do in the name of Christianity. It is the harm that the established church does as a whole. The crusades, the inquisition, the dark ages, and currently, the hate-mongering over basic human rights.
The bottom line is that no matter what time you're in, the past contains people that were "not true christians." During the crusades, men were killing thousands of people, doing the righteous work of god. Those men would have been seen as True Christians™. Currently, people who blindly assert that gays shouldn't have the same rights as everyone else are considered True Christians™. In 50 years, all the Christian homophobes will be considered the same way as the True Christians™ of the 60's in the south are considered now, and Christianity will be continuing its war on scientific progress and education, not to mention moving on to the next atrocity that True Christians™ will be on the front lines over, I predict it'll be over allowing transgender folks to go outside or something.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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