I'I posted mostly in the Christianity board, and then I was lead to the progressive Christianity board (I think), which is now the "belief and Spirituality" board.
No actually I think it was called "Liberal Christianity" and that was a part of the "Belief and Spirituality" forum.
But that sub-forum has since been deleted.
Sorry to see that it has failed you then...
Lol. You'd have us all give up the game of religion for good.
I did not want to bring up an issue, which might be seen as tangential, in the Christian sub-forum. Since I am Jewish and my observations may not be relevent in that context.
What are you doing raising an internal dispute in the Christianity forum as a general dispute for all religions? Do you know your mistake, Avi? You've just made the scope a hundredfold too wide.
You've just diluted the whole issue. Reaching a consensus would be easier for one tradition, but you are asking us to reconcile that to many different traditions.
I don't even think they have this issue in most other religions. I look around me and see a hundred times more freedom, flexibility and permissiveness. Thinking seems to be ok even in Judaism and Islam. But in Christianity, you could get a slap in the face.
I would like to know if many here believe that: "This place is dangerous for trying to find the truth" ? How is this forum dangerous ? How does it prevent us from finding truth?
Life would be boring without danger. What is more noble and honourable than confronting danger to get to the Truth? Do you think finding the Truth would follow an easy road?
Only a coward would say we shouldn't surf the Internet because it was dangerous.
It's a test of both courage and mettle.
Are we all heretics here ? Am I a heretic for asking this?
Ask bananabrain.
But really, it is Christians (ie. fundamentalist Christians) that are most notorious and infamous for heresy hunting. I don't think even Jews and Muslims go that far with that kind of demonisation and vilification.
Muslim societies have their "moral police," but in Christianity we don't have a specific group dedicated to monitoring what people say and do. In Christianity (well, in a lot of churches/Christian communities, I should say), everybody is a member of the thought police, policing thoughts. Big Brother is watching you, but nobody has ever figured out where and from whence Big Brother derives his power or even the identity of Big Brother himself. He seems too intangible to arrest, kill and assassinate.
Just when we think we've cornered him, he's moved. The System has a way of adjusting itself.
Jews mind their own business. Muslims have a code. They follow the Islamic rules of engagement. They try to be nice, to be kind to infidels: "If you don't attack us, we won't attack you." At least in Islam you're treated like human being. But with Christians, if you're fundamentalist, a heretic is treated like a witch. A heretic is a child of the devil. He's an agent of something far more evil than himself.
