RE: Rant against anti-atheist agnostics.
September 21, 2014 at 1:41 pm
(This post was last modified: September 21, 2014 at 1:49 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Ah, but again - those who bow to this concept are not the yokels, they are not the fundies. Without this concept -even as allegory or metaphor.....there is no christianity. Does it become less abhorrent if we treat it as allegory or metaphor? I think not. Vicarious redemption is, by definition - not a "sacrifice made by each individual". To interpret it as such is to leave the field entirely. Don't get me wrong, your interpretation is admirable - it just isn't very "christian" or "religious".
I'm an anti-theist, not an anti-"well thought out allegorical interpretations not neccessarily bound by their sources or blindly adhered to , exalted, and promoted as fact and fabric of the cosmos" -ist
I'm an anti-theist, not an anti-"well thought out allegorical interpretations not neccessarily bound by their sources or blindly adhered to , exalted, and promoted as fact and fabric of the cosmos" -ist
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