RE: Ex pastor explains how Christianity is fake
May 3, 2019 at 8:26 am
(This post was last modified: May 3, 2019 at 8:34 am by Acrobat.)
(May 2, 2019 at 6:40 am)Fierce Wrote: The theistic troll response on FB is, He wasn't a real christian.
I don’t know about the authenticity of his Christianity, but the dude seems to have had an affair with someone in his church, which his wife later found out about. Rather than dealing with the backlash, the moral uproar, he left the church and Christianity all together, and found comfort in secular communities, that were more accepting of his infidelity, and his abuse of power.
(May 2, 2019 at 3:11 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:(May 2, 2019 at 2:11 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I disagree with the thread title. Christianity is not 'fake'. It may be 'untrue', but it's as real as a belt in the gob.
And I think the 'ex pastor' is a troll.
Boru
The difference between whether it is justified to call Christianity “fake” rather than just “untrue” would be whether the untruth of Christianity was primarily created and set on course for wider dissemination by those who knew they were untrue, or by those who didn’t know they were untrue.
I think many of those instrumental to Christianity attaining its influence knew it was untrue, so it is justified to say it is fake, not just untrue.
Who knew they were untrue, but set on course for wide dissemination? Why do you assume that they knew their beliefs were false? Rather than sincerely believing them to be true?
Do you also think the meaning of "truth", can be different across cultures and times? That the way in which you might define the term truth, is perhaps different than how people 2000 or so years ago would? Or do you think the meaning here is universal.
