RE: Hello, i am a real Christian
April 26, 2010 at 5:25 pm
(This post was last modified: April 26, 2010 at 5:29 pm by True Christian.)
(April 26, 2010 at 5:10 pm)Darwinian Wrote:(April 26, 2010 at 4:51 pm)True Christian Wrote: -About the last part of your post, tell me one bad thing that religion has done that could not have been done anyway by violent, immoral and selfish individuals
1) Islamic Jihads
2) Aztec Human Sacrifice
3) Roman Persecution of Christians
4) The Witch Hunts
5) The Inquisition
6) Mountain Meadows Massacre
7) Thuggee Murders
8) Buddhist Burma
Just for starters. I could go on... and on, and on, and on................
Alright, thats a challenge
1) Mass murders have been done in the names of conquest, ethnicity, or vengeance. War is not a religious idea.
2) At the end of a battle, the Celts used to kill the last man who arrived in combat. This is a sacrifice to encourage a certain type of behaviour, is that not what we are talking about here ?
3)Back to 1), discrimination has been done for many reasons, not only religion.
4) Witch Hunts: what about what was practised against communists in ths US during the Cold War ? communists being beaten up or jailed or even killed for their ideas that didnt fit in with the rest of the people. They were CALLED Witch Hunts. After WW2, in Europe many people who had been suspected of conspiring with the Nazis were humiliated or hung, even though some of them have been proven to have been innocents.
5) Back to the Witch Hunts. Also the Inquisition has been dramatically overemphasized over the centuries. Witch Hunts and the Inquisition actually killed far less people than what is believed.
6) This Massacre wasnt caused by religion alone, only by religious people, and not because of their faith.
7) it was a small minority, also back to 1)
8) i do not know what that is, sorry :/
(April 26, 2010 at 5:17 pm)Thor Wrote:(April 26, 2010 at 4:40 pm)True Christian Wrote: All of that is actually not that hard to believe, once you acknowledge the possibility of a supernatural, all-powerful being.
Wow. Yeah, I guess it's not hard to believe that the sun moves through the sky because it's attached to Apollo's chariot once you acknowledge the possibility of a supernatural, all-powerful being.
That sound you just heard was reason and logic going kersplat on the sidewalk.
The Gospels are the only proof we have of the existence of those miracles. I do not believe in the crossing of the Red Sea because there is no evidence to show it happened, while the Gospels all write about the same miracles.