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Another Good Reason to be a Christian
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RE: Another Good Reason to be a Christian
April 22, 2015 at 8:21 pm
A Christian who puts the needs of the minorities over the needs of the majority.
But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin.
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RE: Another Good Reason to be a Christian
April 22, 2015 at 8:35 pm
(April 22, 2015 at 8:21 pm)Polaris Wrote: A Christian who puts the needs of the minorities over the needs of the majority.

Only Christians? Can't be that human empathy is an evolutionary trait and not a patent?
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RE: Another Good Reason to be a Christian
April 22, 2015 at 8:36 pm
(April 22, 2015 at 8:35 pm)Brian37 Wrote:
(April 22, 2015 at 8:21 pm)Polaris Wrote: A Christian who puts the needs of the minorities over the needs of the majority.

Only Christians? Can't be that human empathy is an evolutionary trait and not a patent?

When white people make up for the last 200 years, then maybe I will have universal empathy.
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RE: Another Good Reason to be a Christian
April 22, 2015 at 9:46 pm
(April 22, 2015 at 8:21 pm)Polaris Wrote: A Christian who puts the needs of the minorities over the needs of the majority.

Um the KKK were doing that by eliminating the minority. Thinking 
So they were christian does that count putting the minority over the majority, by eliminating the minority.
Then again there really is no good reason to be a christian at all slavery, racism, anything bad in general they are linked
to still exists.
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RE: Another Good Reason to be a Christian
April 22, 2015 at 10:01 pm (This post was last modified: April 22, 2015 at 10:05 pm by Polaris.)
(April 22, 2015 at 9:46 pm)dyresand Wrote:
(April 22, 2015 at 8:21 pm)Polaris Wrote: A Christian who puts the needs of the minorities over the needs of the majority.
Um the KKK were doing that by eliminating the minority. Thinking 
So they were christian does that count putting the minority over the majority, by eliminating the minority.
Then again there really is no good reason to be a christian at all slavery, racism, anything bad in general they are linked
to still exists.
That was just a white person response.....let me rephrase that: white male who has had little contact with non-whites.
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RE: Another Good Reason to be a Christian
April 22, 2015 at 10:20 pm (This post was last modified: April 22, 2015 at 10:21 pm by Rev. Rye.)
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.

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I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
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RE: Another Good Reason to be a Christian
April 22, 2015 at 11:48 pm
(April 22, 2015 at 10:20 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: To quote George Bernard Shaw:


George Bernard Shaw, Preface to Androcles and the Lion, The Importance of Hell in the Salvation Scheme Wrote:The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one
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Maybe we should all spend more time drinking.

Really, though, I am much happier now as an atheist than I ever was as a Christian.  Worrying about people going to hell was not a fun thing.  Frankly, only a sociopath could be happy about such things.

There is less to worry about as an atheist than as a theist.  The ordinary things of the world were there when I was a Christian, and so they were a concern, but there was also all that god stuff to worry about.  Life is simpler, easier, and better without believing superstitious nonsense.

"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
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RE: Another Good Reason to be a Christian
April 23, 2015 at 12:20 am (This post was last modified: April 23, 2015 at 12:42 am by Whateverist.)
So Polaris, I'm just wondering why it seems to matter to you to be understood or accepted by atheists .. if indeed that is what you want. I'm not sure. But you mention having atheist friends in real life. I don't have a problem either way and I don't care if you keep your religious beliefs if they make sense to you. You're the judge of that. Is that true for you and your atheist friends? Do you and they accept each other on your own terms, or do you hold out hope of conversion?
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RE: Another Good Reason to be a Christian
April 23, 2015 at 12:38 am
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RE: Another Good Reason to be a Christian
April 23, 2015 at 1:11 am
(April 23, 2015 at 12:20 am)whateverist Wrote: So Polaris, I'm just wondering why it seems to matter to you to be understood or accepted by atheists .. if indeed that is what you want. I'm not sure. But you mention having atheist friends in real life. I don't have a problem either way and I don't care if you keep your religious beliefs if they make sense to you. You're the judge of that. Is that true for you and your atheist friends? Do you and they accept each other on your own terms, or do you hold out hope of conversion?

I do not believe I have ever tried to convert anyone. It's not my job. They accept that I can't eat blood and I don't judge them for eating it.
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