| What's "wrong" with Christianity? 20:17 - Aug 3 with 36484 views | Davillin |
What's "wrong" with Christianity?
N.B. In my opinion, it's not what's "wrong" with Christianity, but rather what's wrong with certain dismissive analyses of Christianity.
Everything that's "wrong" with Christianity is not about Christ and his teaching, but is about matters tangential to his teaching.
First and foremost, the Old Testament. Eliminate all of it and all of the hate-filled attacks on the thousands of sometimes imaginary and sometimes at least partly imaginary, and this would be a quieter place, and a quieter message board.
Second, eliminate all of the mythical elements like angels singing on high, and three wise men, and immaculate conception, and virgin birth, etc, etc, etc.
Third, eliminate all of the happy horsesh!t that goes on within the formalized churches -- especially the Catholic Church -- everything from fanciful non-Biblical embellishments and sometimes exceedingly silly rules and dogma, to long-past historical peccadilloes and worse, long-past political, economic, and military outrages.
Fourth, eliminate all of the excesses in wealth, ostentatious wealth, and pseudo regal trappings.
Fifth, do not be put off by Christ's speaking of Heaven and Hell, and the Father, but remember that these are images fully understood by his unsophisticated audience as images of one kind or another, and are not granite-hard reality.
Not one of the things I describe above has anything significant to do with either Christ or his teachings. When you ignore or eliminate all of those things, you will have the freedom to get to the heart of his teaching.
Although you can be richly rewarded by searching through the New Testament, reading all of the red typeface (which is a standard indication of the words of Christ), you really need go no further than the Sermon on the Mount, where, in essence, he gives an explication of The Ten Commandments, which alone give anyone who wants it a guide to a moral life.
http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Matthew-5_7/
The "pixies and fairies" so beloved of those who wish to denigrate either the Bible, religion itself, or just Christianity, were put in there as a means of explaining astoundingly complex concepts to people who were completely ill-equipped to understand them without these "teaching aids."
Anyone who is, or pretends to be, intelligent and well-read, should know to move immediately beyond these images and get to the heart of the teaching.
I not only admit, but trumpet aloud, the fact that it is far too easy to be dismissive based on tangentials, and difficult to get past them to the meaning, and moreover sometimes difficult beyond some persons' intellectual capacity.
In my opinion, it's better simply to not get involved in these discussions than to try to fight against the closed mind, and especially the mind that is closed because of non-essential and inconsequential side issues.
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| What's on 19:18 - Nov 27 with 1232 views | exiledclaseboy |
| What's on 15:33 - Nov 27 by londonlisa2001 |
Excellent outing work ecb.
You and Darran are like Poirot and Miss Marple - I'll leave you two to fight over which one is which  |
Darran did all the leg work (snigger). I just came in for the money shot. |  |
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| What's on 19:22 - Nov 27 with 1224 views | londonlisa2001 |
| What's on 19:18 - Nov 27 by exiledclaseboy |
Darran did all the leg work (snigger). I just came in for the money shot. |
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| What's on 19:24 - Nov 27 with 1220 views | Darran |
| What's on 19:18 - Nov 27 by exiledclaseboy |
Darran did all the leg work (snigger). I just came in for the money shot. |
You f*cking barrel. 🖕🻠|  |
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| What's on 19:27 - Nov 27 with 1217 views | londonlisa2001 |
| What's on 19:24 - Nov 27 by Darran |
You f*cking barrel. 🖕🻠|
Since you two went on your romantic night out to see Motley Crue, you've been really snippy. Hate seeing it to be honest | | | |
| What's on 19:28 - Nov 27 with 1215 views | exiledclaseboy |
| What's on 19:27 - Nov 27 by londonlisa2001 |
Since you two went on your romantic night out to see Motley Crue, you've been really snippy. Hate seeing it to be honest |
He tried to bum me in the mosh pit, Lis. He's a f*cking menace. | |
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| What's on 19:29 - Nov 27 with 1217 views | Darran |
| What's on 19:28 - Nov 27 by exiledclaseboy |
He tried to bum me in the mosh pit, Lis. He's a f*cking menace. |
That made me lol ta c*nt.  | |
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| What's on 19:34 - Nov 27 with 1215 views | londonlisa2001 |
| What's on 19:28 - Nov 27 by exiledclaseboy |
He tried to bum me in the mosh pit, Lis. He's a f*cking menace. |
I've heard it called many things clasie, but never a mosh pit  | | | |
| What's on 19:38 - Nov 27 with 1205 views | Darran |
| What's on 19:34 - Nov 27 by londonlisa2001 |
I've heard it called many things clasie, but never a mosh pit |
You're filth,pure filth. | |
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| What's on 19:41 - Nov 27 with 1203 views | exiledclaseboy |
| What's on 19:34 - Nov 27 by londonlisa2001 |
I've heard it called many things clasie, but never a mosh pit |
You have a dirty mind. I'm appalled. | |
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| What's on 19:45 - Nov 27 with 1195 views | londonlisa2001 |
| What's on 19:38 - Nov 27 by Darran |
You're filth,pure filth. |
I'm pretty certain that's a compliment !! | | | |
| What's on 19:47 - Nov 27 with 1192 views | Darran |
| What's on 19:45 - Nov 27 by londonlisa2001 |
I'm pretty certain that's a compliment !! |
Gosh you're a little minx this evening aren't you? | |
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| What's on 19:56 - Nov 27 with 1182 views | londonlisa2001 |
| What's on 19:47 - Nov 27 by Darran |
Gosh you're a little minx this evening aren't you? |
Started drinking early!
It's been a long week. | | | |
| What's "wrong" with Christianity? on 20:50 - Nov 27 with 1164 views | perchrockjack |
Tsk.
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Moss pit | |
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