(November 12, 2020 at 12:55 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote:(November 12, 2020 at 12:38 pm)MilesAbbott81 Wrote: I can't exactly blame anyone for being discouraged or disenfranchised from Christianity since there are so few genuine Christians. There is a lot of hypocrisy and ignorance going on. But anyone genuinely penitent will find God, or He is a liar. People don't find Him because they aren't genuinely penitent.
Says the zealot who believes only he and those who think like him have Truth.
I am in favor of everyone having their own "meaning-making myth". Everyone needs to come to terms with mortality, and find happiness and purpose in life.
I'm not in favor of everyone having their own claims to "Truth". There are so few genuine Christians? You are just part of another Christian splinter group, every one declaring the others as heretics. None can prove their claims, because there is no evidence of gods at all.
If you lived in India, you would probably be a Hindu zealot right now.
Well, do you think that the Truth is unobtainable? If so, then your accusation is rather meaningless, because no one can live up to your standard.
If you think the Truth exists and can be obtained, then what makes you so sure I am just some zealot?
And while you can say I'm part of a sect, well, is that in itself disqualifying? Why should it be? How do you know I'm not a part of the true Church, which is the Body of Christ and no sect at all?
I would add that most sects do not claim the others as heretics. Some do, but most sects are very tolerant of each other. You'll even find many Protestants who are fine with the Catholics, because according to them "All you need is Jesus." (Which is true, but not in the way they assert.)
It's much more in the nature of the nominal Christian to accept false doctrines of others even though it makes no sense to do so and is called for nowhere in the Scriptures, which strictly forbid ungodly mixtures.
Anyway, I digress.