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Thomas, you wonder exactly what we have to put up with here?
Thomas, you wonder exactly what we have to put up with here?
Anyone call this Christianity?
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It's OK, Wil.
I got the key from your mention of the Jefferson Bible.
Although I do not subscribe to stereotypes, I am now of the opinion that Jefferson, in his cut-n-paste job, set the tone for 'American Christianity', which in its various manifestations is a 'prosperity theology' that dismisses the Mysteries in favour of Materialism – personal happiness, wealth, etc.
It's Christianity stripped and repurposed as The American Dream.
So you don't have to flog this line any more ... I get it.
I got the key from your mention of the Jefferson Bible.
Although I do not subscribe to stereotypes, I am now of the opinion that Jefferson, in his cut-n-paste job, set the tone for 'American Christianity', which in its various manifestations is a 'prosperity theology' that dismisses the Mysteries in favour of Materialism – personal happiness, wealth, etc.
It's Christianity stripped and repurposed as The American Dream.
So you don't have to flog this line any more ... I get it.
Oh my.... we got two opposites here Thomas...
This fellow believe every miracle, every jot and tittle literally...
Our problem (of course as I see it) is not the progressive thinking Christians, but but literalist fundie swallowed the whole book Christians....
This fellow believe every miracle, every jot and tittle literally...
Our problem (of course as I see it) is not the progressive thinking Christians, but but literalist fundie swallowed the whole book Christians....
That's the way I see it; right and left, conservative and liberal, traditionalist and modern ... split them how you like, it's the two extremes of the same thing.
And the other fellow believes none of it.
I know, but then, do you not count yourself as a 'progressive thinking Christian'?
oh exactly the literalist fundies think us progressives are the problem.....
you know, accepting things like mixed marriages, against slavery, for women's voting and speaking in church, not into stoning gays or protesting at funerals...blasphemy at its finest.
you know, accepting things like mixed marriages, against slavery, for women's voting and speaking in church, not into stoning gays or protesting at funerals...blasphemy at its finest.
lol!!
yuppers...
yuppers...
I like a religion that teaches one to think...not what to think...
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. - Seneca (ca. 4 BC –AD 65)
All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher. - Lucretius (94 BC - 49 BC)
Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. I, ch. II:
"The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by the habits of the superstitious, part of their subjects. The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord.
All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher. - Lucretius (94 BC - 49 BC)
Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. I, ch. II:
"The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by the habits of the superstitious, part of their subjects. The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord.