(April 26, 2010 at 3:27 pm)True Christian Wrote:(April 26, 2010 at 3:21 pm)Eilonnwy Wrote: This post stinks of No True Scotsman.
Not really. Most Christians see things like i do. The number of Christians who follows the worse aspects of religion is actually very small.
I think most Christians would have a bone to pick with you.
Seriously, you come on this board and the first thing you say is that all the theists here are not "true" Christians because they don't adhere to what you think. Now, the majority of our theists are Christian, and I happen to like some of them. So even though I'm not Christian, I'm personally ticked off that you would make sweeping generalizations about a group of people you don't really know. If they say they're Christian, then that's what they are. You don't get to tell people they're not because they don't think like you. So yeah, no true Scotsman applies here.
And for another thing, you make another hasty generalization of atheists that we essentially are confused by belief so we reject it. That's absurd to the highest degree. Atheists have one thing in common, we lack belief in God. How we arrive at that conclusion is different for everyone. However, in my experience, atheists tend to be people who arrive at their lack of faith through careful study and consideration of the evidence, or more appropriately, lack of evidence.
So if you want to fit in here, you should stop generalizing vast groups of people and maybe show some respect to your fellow Christians here.
You wouldn't want us coming into your house telling you why you believe/don't believe something and that you're not really who you say you are because you don't think like us.
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." Benjamin Franklin
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