Two babies discussion.

[Jenny A]

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So, you don't question it? Because, to be clear, it's literally what you're doing, when you accept the good christianity does as representative, but dismiss the bad out of hand, based on no argument that couldn't also be applied to the good.

You're taking seriously what you want to believe, but asserting that what you don't want to believe doesn't count. I don't care if you've changed your mind on every other issue you've ever discussed here, that doesn't make this particular argument any more honest.

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I think you don't get it. Christianity does nothing bad. People do bad. If people follow christianity and do what it teaches they will do good. If people do bad things and try to use christianity to justify themselves, that's not christianity. You guys are saying christianity is a bad thing when it's not. You tell me christianity does this and that, and I think - "christianity doesn't do that!"

What's done in the name of Christianity by those who consider themselves Christian is what Christianity does.

If people followed what the NT said, they would: behave as if the end of the world were tomorrow; and give away everything they owned; spurn their family; turn-the-other-cheek; and a number of other very difficult things. So far there have been very few takers on that and you aren't one of them. If you follow the OT it's eye-for-an-eye, and much animal sacrifice. Fortunately not many takers on that one either.

What do Christians actually do? Well generally speaking, just what everyone else does both for good and for bad except that from time to time committed Christians start wars, kill other people, enslave other people, torture other people, heavily tax other people, or make other people live in ghettos in the name of Christianity and often with rather more Biblical justification than many Christians currently use to deny gay marriage.