(May 2, 2019 at 3:42 pm)tackattack Wrote: If you want to argue why it was trashed it's because, as I think we can all agree on, he was deluding himself. That's exactly what it means when you profess to "fake it till you make it". And yes True Christians do call that not being a Christian,
And it never occurred to you that being a Christian means "faking it"?
I mean all you're doing here is ad hominem and no true scotsman fallacies and in that way avoiding what he said, and he said many interesting and obvious things, like:
Quote:We had impossible standards that we could not meet so we turned the attention on others so the spotlight wasn’t on our own inadequacies.
Indeed, Christians are constantly blaming and obsessing about other, non Christian, people. I mean just look at "God's Not Dead" movie.
Or not to mention other everyday stuff that's been happening for years, like Rick Perry’s campaign promise to “end Obama’s war on religion". Or Rick Santorum’s statement during a speech in 2008 that “Satan is attacking the great institutions of America”.
Or Daniel R. Jenky, the bishop of Peoria, Illinois, who made comparison between President Obama, Adolf Hitler, and Joseph Stalin during church sermon. Singling out Nazi and Stalinist regimes as antecedents to Obama’s health-care reforms. This bishop also said "And in the power of the resurrection, the Church will survive the hatred of hollywood, the malice of the media, and the mendacious wickedness of the abortion industry."
Or take a book by David Limbaugh "Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christianity".
Masses of people are being fed with lies, they build their lives on lies. So you can't say that people who believe in these obvious lies told by Christian leaders are not faking it.
And that's just one part of a paragraph that this guy wrote.
