St Paul clearly teaches that each Christian is the bride of Jesus. He can't marry a group as a group, so the meaning of the Church as the bride of Christ is clearly that each Christian marries Jesus when he becomes a Christian — Gregory
Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies. — Joseph Campbell
these are symbolic representation of facts of the human condition. — Wayfarer
Obviously a lot of religious doctrine is encoded in tropes and metaphors which are unintelligible to current culture, — Wayfarer
Gotta love how versatile theology is. "there's a meaning there, even if it makes no sense..." — Banno
So if we place the accounts of Jesus's resurrection next to all the other reported miracles, it looks a lot less impressive. — Gregory
If you have no interest in it, there's no point trying to explain it. — Wayfarer
I will go away again, posting here is just a habit, and probably a time-wasting habit. — Wayfarer
Uh this theology is supposed to save the West? — Gregory
they practically built what you live in today. — Gus Lamarch
Thank you for clarifying, I was wondering what infinite stupidity was responsible for the incompetence in which we live. — JerseyFlight
Did the I Ching predict this for you? — Gregory
It could have been another way. — Gregory
slave is not condemned in the Bible, for example — Gregory
the only absolute thing that existed was God — Gus Lamarch
the point is that with secularization, decadence arises and with it, nihilism. — Gus Lamarch
Today's stupidity and incompetence is the result of the secularization of Christianity, not of the christian faith. Christian faith with all its dogmas, laws, morals and values still exists and is there to be studied, the point is that with secularization, decadence arises and with it, nihilism. Without a homogeneous faith, which dictates how life should be lived - according to God - Man gets lost in his own sea of subjectiviness. — Gus Lamarch
History tells those who dare to study it [...] — Gus Lamarch
So, what do you bring me as an alternative to Christianity? — Gus Lamarch
So if we place the accounts of Jesus's resurrection next to all the other reported miracles, it looks a lot less impressive.
So we are free to believe what we want.
I also wanted to point out that Christians have no way of knowing if Luke, Mark, and even Paul were real Apostles and could write Scripture. — Gregory
Antisemitism in Christianity (Wikipedia)
during Nazi times, some 94% of Germans were Christian, that's like 19 on a street with 20 people (Wikipedia), give that some thought
Centuries of Christian anti-Semitism led to Holocaust, landmark Church of England report concludes (Gabriella Swerling; The Telegraph; Nov 2019)
Victims of the Christian Faith (Kelsos via Church and State; Aug 2002)
Flesh Inferno: Atrocities of Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition (Simon Whitechapel; Apr 2003)
Racism in Watchtower publications (John Cedars; Aug 2019)
America’s Biggest Christian Charity Funnels Tens of Millions to Hate Groups (Alex Kotch; Sludge; Mar 2019)
Are All Men Created Equal? (Ronald Hanko; Protestant Reformed Churches in America), apparently not, and, with such reasons, discrimination, and worse, are justified
"femina est aliquid deficiens et occasionatum" (woman is defective and misbegotten)
— Summa Theologiae (1274), Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
Study Shows White Evangelicals Want Christian Supremacy, Not “Religious Freedom” (Hemant Mehta; Dec 2019)
Onward, Christian fascists (Chris Hedges; Jan 2020) — jorndoe
during Nazi times, some 94% of Germans were Christian, — jorndoe
You propose a Christianity which doesnt t retain belief that it can prove its own truth. — Gregory
For my part your insistence on religion is just bizarre, it displays uncritical allegiance to shallow platitudes that circulate through apologetic domains. — JerseyFlight
And here you are, questioning this very belief you believe to not be truhful. So go then and convert to Islam, Buddhism, Shintoism, it doesn't matter what religion you'll follow. This secularism will too happen to it sometime in the future. History proves it. — Gus Lamarch
in 1891 Pope Leo XIII published the encyclical Rerum novarum, which set in context Catholic social teaching in terms that rejected socialism but advocated the regulation of working conditions. Rerum Novarum argued for the establishment of a living wage and the right of workers to form trade unions." — Gus Lamarch
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