This is in fact what's made it difficult for me to take religion especially seriously. The flagrant contradictions practiced by its adherents. Like the gangsters with crosses on their necks, swinging in the breeze as they dish out executions.
This is in fact what's made it difficult for me to take religion especially seriously. The flagrant contradictions practiced by its adherents. Like the gangsters with crosses on their necks, swinging in the breeze as they dish out executions.
When the novelist Graham Greene announced that he was converting to Catholicism, his friends regaled him with countless tales of Catholic barbarism throughout the centuries, in the hopes of making him reconsider. Greene answered that the faith is separate from those who practice it. True.
How so? Christianity was absolutely central to Western Civilization. It IS Western Civilization. I would also add that Christianity is the foundation for the idea of human rights.
WEF atheist "philosopher" Noah Harrari was absolutely correct in mocking the notion of human rights in a recent video. The idea is nonsensical if not tethered to Christianity.
Billions of christians on Earth. You think a few thousands or tens of thousands sociopaths arenтАЩt floating around even if they are just Christian in name only?
ThatтАЩs the wrong standard. Look to the best, not the worst -- remember the bell curve. Fealty to high ideals is difficult, but the value is in the attempt. You might be invigorated by the effort to do better. DonтАЩt reject high ideals simply because some fail to live up to them. Doing that seems to me to be an excuse born of fear of failure.
This is in fact what's made it difficult for me to take internet prognosticators especially seriously. Obvious logical fallacies such as guilt by association, where he neglects to mention some of the biggest mass-murderers were atheistic. The first step to redemption here is realizing all religions (and I throw atheism into this bunch) are both flawed and have flawed followers. But that's not the point, otherwise we would call them cults.
This is in fact what's made it difficult for me to take religion especially seriously. The flagrant contradictions practiced by its adherents. Like the gangsters with crosses on their necks, swinging in the breeze as they dish out executions.
When the novelist Graham Greene announced that he was converting to Catholicism, his friends regaled him with countless tales of Catholic barbarism throughout the centuries, in the hopes of making him reconsider. Greene answered that the faith is separate from those who practice it. True.
... Which completely negates the thesis that Christianity deserves credit for the rise of Western Civilization.
How so? Christianity was absolutely central to Western Civilization. It IS Western Civilization. I would also add that Christianity is the foundation for the idea of human rights.
WEF atheist "philosopher" Noah Harrari was absolutely correct in mocking the notion of human rights in a recent video. The idea is nonsensical if not tethered to Christianity.
Billions of christians on Earth. You think a few thousands or tens of thousands sociopaths arenтАЩt floating around even if they are just Christian in name only?
ThatтАЩs the wrong standard. Look to the best, not the worst -- remember the bell curve. Fealty to high ideals is difficult, but the value is in the attempt. You might be invigorated by the effort to do better. DonтАЩt reject high ideals simply because some fail to live up to them. Doing that seems to me to be an excuse born of fear of failure.
This is in fact what's made it difficult for me to take internet prognosticators especially seriously. Obvious logical fallacies such as guilt by association, where he neglects to mention some of the biggest mass-murderers were atheistic. The first step to redemption here is realizing all religions (and I throw atheism into this bunch) are both flawed and have flawed followers. But that's not the point, otherwise we would call them cults.
Look inward and not outward!