(February 14, 2015 at 9:38 pm)Lek Wrote: I think you don't get it. Christianity does nothing bad. People do bad.
I think you don't get it. Christianity does nothing good. People do good.
Two statements, both with equal evidentiary support behind them. You believe the one you said, because you have a pre-existing definition of christianity that includes only good things, and discounts all the bad. I don't happen to believe my statement, because I understand it to be an overly simplistic binary, like the kind religions like to use, that isn't a comprehensive account of the facts. But despite that, both statements have exactly the same amount of support; other than that it is convenient for your position, what evidence do you have that christianity does nothing bad, especially in light of all the bad things the christian bible explicitly commands?
Quote: If people follow christianity and do what it teaches they will do good.
Like all that slavery, genocide and chattel marriage stuff?

Look, I get it, you've defined christianity in your head only by the good things in it. But to get there, you're ignoring all the bad things in it, or interpreting that away, and I can do that too: if you're intent on finding ways to make the bad qualities of a thing not exist, you'll only be left with good qualities. That's practically a tautology, it's trivial, but your unwillingness to admit that the bad things exist, does not make them disappear. The No True Christian argument is not going to be convincing here.
Quote: 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!"
See above. You aren't the arbiter of what is and isn't christianity, the bible is the closest representation of that, and I gotta tell ya, the bible doesn't agree with this idea you have that only the currently morally acceptable parts of it count.
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