RE: Christian Atheism
June 5, 2015 at 8:42 pm
(This post was last modified: June 5, 2015 at 9:28 pm by Homeless Nutter.)
"Christian Atheists"? Is that anything like "Jews For Jesus"? Or "Satanists For Santa"? (OK - I made that last one up). Basically - square-the-circle eat-cake-and-have-cake club. But then again - that describes pretty much all moderate religious people.
I think calling Jesus a good teacher of morals, or a philosopher is stretching it. If a hippie guru came to your town, told your children to "take no thought for the morrow" (Matt 6:34) and convinced them to give away all of their possessions and follow him into wilderness (Matt 19:21), to hear poetic tales about how nice it's going to be after death - you'd be less than pleased. In fact, you'd want him locked up - and for good reasons.
I think calling Jesus a good teacher of morals, or a philosopher is stretching it. If a hippie guru came to your town, told your children to "take no thought for the morrow" (Matt 6:34) and convinced them to give away all of their possessions and follow him into wilderness (Matt 19:21), to hear poetic tales about how nice it's going to be after death - you'd be less than pleased. In fact, you'd want him locked up - and for good reasons.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
