(December 18, 2014 at 9:21 am)strawdawg Wrote: What's so offensive about Christianity the message or the messengers.
I think it's the messengers that make it look so bad. A number of them are money grabbers that should be selling used cars. A big time preacher from this area ( now deceased) admitted that while he was going to seminary he helped rob a bank. They present themselves as about the crowd when in actuality many are the scum of society that gravitate to those positions.
Is there an option for both? It's hard to seperate the two of them really. I actually think that New Testament Christianity was a moral improvement over most of the relgions (say belief in the Greek or Roman gods) of the day that it was made. However today it is outdated morally. Way outdated. Why didn't Jesus condemn slavery? Because he never pictured a world without it.
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