but take time to look at what ppl are saying
about christianity on here.
Just like there are stupid people who've never actually read the bible and yet feel the need to post stupid and wrong statements
about Christianity on the CNN news blog.
Since I don't believe in an afterlife, my only purpose in life is to complain
about Christianity on the CNN Belief Blog.
@Julie and mat: Before you throw fits about how anti-christain cnn is, how about you look at the varying articles
about Christianity on the Belief blogs.
Not exact matches
Parental consent
on many topics (NOT A LAW) 6: Thou shall not kill — NOT UNIQUE TO
CHRISTIANITY (long pre-dated it) = > Goes back to the first offspring of humanity or the chosen depending
on version 7: Thou shall not commit adultery — huge number of Christians commits adultery by LEGALLY remarrying = > still actionable in various tort and civil cases across America (didn't say it was a law) 8: Thou shall not steal — NOT UNIQUE TO
CHRISTIANITY = > many laws
on this we are very concerned
about our stuff 9: Thou shall not bear false witness — NOT UNIQUE TO
CHRISTIANITY = > purgery anyone 10: Thou shalt not covet — NOT A LAW = > stalking laws (Stalking IS a crime.
Talk
about an attack
on parental rights and
Christianity!
Making a judgement
about a faith, be it
Christianity or Islam,
on the basis of a few extremists has
about the same logical errancy as saying evolution is false because Hitler's murderous race purification rampage was fueled by his study of Darwin's theory, a truth written by Hitler himself.
Well Dan, I suspect you are correct in your observation, of the declining influence of Orthodox
Christianity on the U.S.. But, I would not gloat
about that if I were you.
Parental consent
on many topics 6: Thou shall not kill — NOT UNIQUE TO
CHRISTIANITY (long pre-dated it) = > Goes back to the first offspring of humanity or the chosen depending
on version 7: Thou shall not commit adultery — huge number of Christians commits adultery by LEGALLY remarrying = > still actionable in various tort and civil cases across America 8: Thou shall not steal — NOT UNIQUE TO
CHRISTIANITY = > many laws
on this we are very concerned
about our stuff 9: Thou shall not bear false witness — NOT UNIQUE TO
CHRISTIANITY = > purgery anyone 10: Thou shalt not covet — NOT A LAW = > stalking laws
On this the penultimate day of the year, with just a few (too few, in my view) days to go until the Iowa caucuses (in which Ron Paul is a — not the — front - runner), it's worth spending a few moments thinking
about the connection between libertartianism and
Christianity.
On philosophical grounds, this form of accommodationism is inadequate for purposes of dialogue because its portrayal of the other faith (whether by Jews of
Christianity or by Christians of Judaism) is one that the other faith — in good faith — can not possibly accept
about itself.
Writing in Commonweal, he takes
on the favored shibboleths of those who contend that
Christianity «privileges» the male, and along the way has some important things to say
about movements among Christian men such as Promise Keepers.
Suggesting that if their kids learn
about Christianity in school they should be equally exposed to information
on other religions 4.
I'm a Christian, and all too often I get upset with other Christians who believe that you have to wear your
Christianity on your sleeve and constantly talk
about it to others.
She may not have been indoctrinated / brainwashed by someone within her household, but she didn't form these beliefs
about Christianity in a vacuum where no one around her was attempting to convince her to believe, and she was just studying various religious texts until she happened
on the bible and other apologetics.
But when you and I insist
on that all - too - comfortable paradigm of cosmic score keeping, we stop talking
about Christianity and in fact adopt a Westernized form of Hinduism.
Now in regards to «
Christianity isn't
about helping people be better behaved,» that's
on them not
on Christ.
I agree with Candida Moss
on the premise that martyrdom is NOT what helped
Christianity spread but its message of kindness which is what the Love of God & Salvation are all
about!!!
So, just because of the situation that someone was born into, in your example a person born to Muslim parents in a different part of the world than you, where that person took
on the religous traditions and practices of their parents (as many of us do when we're children), and just never had an opportunity to learn
about christianity and Jesus, again only because of where they were born... you contend that person is going to «burn» in an eternal lake of fire?!
Just look at the droves of people who clicked
on this article specifically to mock and speak out
about Christianity.
* My point, again, as I understand it in terms of our 1st amendment, and freedom of speech, was to (build in) a «wall» of separation of church and government... (because) of «
Christianity,» since you are talking
about our country, so as not to have - anyone's freedom of speech and their civil liberties trampled
on.
Regarding Ryan's ruminations
on S.M. Hutchens» review of E.O. Wilson's The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life
on Earth (warning: I've read neither the book nor the review, just Ryan's post
about them), I think Ryan has it right in concluding that in Wilson's account of
Christianity «nature has become only a vehicle for supernature.»
I LOVE to see athiests
on Christian blogs trying to proselytize by spitting and sputtering
about how foolish
Christianity is.
And concerning things
about God and Jesus Christ, TRADITIONAL
CHRISTIANITY is NOT BASED
ON THE BIBLE!!!
You know, when I think
about «empire» — Roman or Egyptian or Chinese or Russian or American — and consider both accomplishments and damage inflicted (human and otherwise), and then think
about what
Christianity might have to say
on the subject, the first thing that comes to mind is «to whom much has been given, from him much will be required.»
Funny thing
about your shallow American
Christianity, whether here
on this blog or out
on the streets of the US... you look nothing like Jesus or the 1st C apostles (who all claimed that you should be like them and that you would do «greater things» than they did).
Becoming more tolerant to gays, more left leaning, hipper, modern, or whatever else you want to throw out there still doesn't change the fact that
Christianity is based
on a lie
about a man who supposedly walked
on water, reincarnated, was born from a woman who claimed to a be virgin, and changed water in to wine.
He said:: «
Christianity's focus has long been
about ushering in God's kingdom «
on Earth, not just in heaven,» Borg says.
Assuming it was
Christianity, it ameliorated many of the harsh realities of human existence, such as your own death, the death of a loved one, injustice, feelings of being at the mercy of the forces of nature, and so
on, gave you answers to questions
about life, and so
on.
Salvation comes by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone ----- Except if God placed you in a region
on earth where
christianity doesn't exist, then you've never heard of Christ, and will likely go your entire life without learning the first thing
about him.
Pope: «We can go
on all day quoting and counter-quoting scientists
about god, but the reality is that most respected scientists and most smart people think that
Christianity is a total fraud, quite apart from any deist or other god beliefs and speculations.»
I always felt it was a pity that church folk were so intent
on disparaging others, they missed what's great
about Christianity.
Back to that University of Pennsylvania student who was converted from Judaism to
Christianity and then asked me
about my lifestyle and «laying up treasures here
on earth» in anticipation of my retirement.
This weekend (May 29),
on what would be the 1412h birthday of one of the faith's greatest writers, we look at 15 of his quotes that can help you reshape how you think
about Christianity.
AE, we can go
on all day quoting and counterquoting scientists
about god, but the reality is that most respected scientists and most smart people think that
Christianity is a total fraud, quite apart from any deist or other god beliefs and speculations.
90 % of blogs left
on CNN
about religion are from atheist deriding
Christianity.
Spoke - tell that to the majority of Christians who are quick to hate Muslims and other religions... tell that to the Christians who still falsely believe that America was founded
on Christianity — tell that to allthe Christians who are still in denial
about Pedophile running around in the Catholic church — Christians are as silly as they come
I see so CNN feels the need for yet another attack
on Christianity... Why doesn't CNN speak
about other religions?
No one teaches a course
on comparative religions in our country who «knows nothing
about Christianity».
For more
on Diana's perspective, check out this recent interview from Jonathan Wilson - Hatrgrove, or this article
on the Huffington Post
about the future of faith, or one of her excellent, informative books, particularly
Christianity After Religion or The Practicing Congregation.
If these few billboard consti tute a «War
on Christianity» — then what
about the vastly larger number of Christian billboards that try to get people to believe?
Therefore, as he sees it, all the Christian need do is just keep quiet
about his
Christianity and join in revolution simply as a man,
on the human level, without dragging in Christian motivations.
In the years when fresh invasions were sweeping new waves of pagans in destructive raids into nominally Christian areas and Arabs were bringing
about half of what had been Christendom under the sway of the Crescent,
Christianity was recouping some of its losses by conversions in that very Mediterranean Basin and
on the borders of what had been the Roman Empire among peoples which until then had been largely
on entirely outside its influence.
(p. 16) In other words,
about every 500 years,
Christianity experiences a paradigm shift, and according to Tickle, we are
on the verge of experiencing one of these shifts today.
«Look,
Christianity is not all
about being a welcome mat which people can just stomp their feet
on.»
A few decades ago I published a short piece in
Christianity Today
about something I had observed
on a Chicago expressway.
At lunch, a group of students were asked
about their thoughts
on the future of
Christianity and several mentioned the importance of looking to the global South and East since the center of
Christianity seems to be shifting in that direction.
This young man made a wonderful, not dangerous statement
about what
Christianity should really be
about... Jesus, his love for us, that he died
on the cross and rose
on the third day so that we may be forgiven of our sins.
The hypocrisy here is staggering, for as everyone knows, white evangelicals overwhelmingly support President Trump, a man who has been accused by more than twenty women of sexual assault, who is
on record bragging
about those assaults, and who was recently found in a
Christianity Today poll to be evangelicals» «most trusted celebrity.»
Christianity has been described as a set of beliefs
about God and humankind and as a way of life; or attention has been centered
on the worship of God through Christ.