RE: Fixing the bible
October 15, 2014 at 9:07 am
(This post was last modified: October 15, 2014 at 9:19 am by Drich.)
(October 13, 2014 at 3:18 pm)RobbyPants Wrote:(October 11, 2014 at 11:55 pm)Drich Wrote: When I first saw the scene you speak of I thought it was a very anti God, pro atheism scene. Then after seeing the rest of the series and movie a few times, it hit me. River, as 'smart' as she was at her core was broken.
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'It is about believing in something, and letting that belief be strong enought to change your life. You don't fix faith River. Faith fixes you.'
Christianity: Asserting you're broken in a completely nonfalsifiable way and then selling you the nonfalsifiable fix.
At least the mafia can demonstrate the consequences of not buying into their protection racket.
That's not true. Even those outside of christianity, outside religion acknoweledge right and wrong. (Their own versions of sin and righteousness.)
And in the secular version there is forgiveness and attonement.
(October 15, 2014 at 8:03 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Herr Drich, whatever do you mean mein freund?

Kirchenkampf means 'church struggles.' Or rather the struggles the nazi party sponsered church had with the Christian church. The kirchenkampf was a social military campaign (much like the one waged against the Jews and genetically impure.) to wipe out all traces of Christianity in hitler's Germany. Durning the kirchenkampf the bible was deemed a bann book. Like all other bann books the bible was burned.
There is a link explaining the kirchenkampf in the wiki link I left on 'positive christianity.'