RE: No True Scotsman
June 21, 2014 at 7:12 am
(This post was last modified: June 21, 2014 at 7:16 am by Ryantology.)
(June 19, 2014 at 12:15 pm)Lek Wrote: It's common for non-believers to condemn christianity for atrocities committed or perceived to be committed in the name of christianity. They use this to assert that christianity is an evil force in the world. A christian is defined as one who follows Christ. Therefore I ask if a nation or individual is truly following the teachings of Jesus Christ would they have committed those atrocities?
Who gets to determine whether someone is truly following the teachings of Jesus, Mr. True Scotsman?
The fact that the central tenet of Christianity amounts to blackmailing people to avoid the worst imaginable sort of atrocity, and the fact that God directly orders, condones and commits several atrocities himself, there is nothing about committing atrocities such as mass murder or slavery that is contradictory to Christianity.
