that's how atheists
feel about christianity.
That is the joy
we feel about Christianity.
Not exact matches
Modern humans have been around for 200,000 years,
Christianity for
about 2,000... I
feel bad for all of those billions of humans who are rotting in hell right now because they never had a chance to know of Christ.
I find it interesting that the apparent atheists who
feel the need to make themselves
feel better by criticizing the bible and
Christianity with snide little comments would even waste their time reading a blog —
about belief.
I
feel like they wanted to stop the spread of
Christianity at that time, so anyone who wrote
about Jesus may have been punished in the same way.
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.
I always
felt it was a pity that church folk were so intent on disparaging others, they missed what's great
about Christianity.
When my kids would ask me stuff
about Christianity, I
felt really stupid telling them all the BS I had learned all along.
I see so CNN
feels the need for yet another attack on
Christianity... Why doesn't CNN speak
about other religions?
I am srry you
feel that way
about Christianity.
One of the things I love
about Christianity is the physicality of sacraments like communion and baptism, the way we can taste, smell, hear, see, and
feel the presence of God through these beautiful acts of remembrance and faith.
As Horton points out, White's
Christianity is all
about meeting needs,
felt needs.
Do you
feel it is becoming less taboo to talk openly
about your questions
about Christianity?
Hence
Christianity is not
about feeling happy, good, or saved.
I love Jesus and I do
feel that he had died for each and everyone of our sins and I
feel we are all loved equally no matter what we do rather it be for murder to just plain old coursing He loves us all honestly I've debated in my mind that if
Christianity is
about being mean hateful and thinking that you're going around better than everybody then that's not the religion for me
Do you
feel the modern American Church can do a better job at making
Christianity less
about behavior modification?
I
feel right at home with Nicodemus, because I too am uncertain
about this whole matter of
Christianity.
Their ideas
about the relationship between
Christianity and secularization express, in exaggerated form to be sure, some of the most deeply
felt religious intuitions of our culture.
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.
I've known Jesus for as long as I've known my name, and still I use other people like capital to advance my own interest, still I gossip to make myself
feel important, still I curse my brothers and sisters in one breath and sing praise songs in the next, still I sit in church with arms folded and cynicism coursing through my bloodstream, still I talk a big game
about caring for the poor without doing much to change my own habits, still I indulge in food I'm not hungry for and jewelry I don't need, still I obsess over what people say
about me on the internet, still I forget my own privilege, still I talk more than I listen and complain more than I thank, still I commit acts of evil, still I make a great commenter on
Christianity and a lousy practitioner of it.
Too bad that atheists need to attack
Christianity at Christmastime, a time of goodwil, to
feel better amd more self secure
about themselves.
Well that's exactly how unbelievers
feel about having
Christianity shoved down their throat day in and day out, in this country.
I
feel the same way
about Christianity.
We asked questions
about his faith,
about how it «
felt» to be Sikh in Canada (he laughed),
about their history,
about family dynamics, the differences between Sikhism and
Christianity, what they believed and practiced and what was with the little knives.
And as I knelt in the chapel under the statue of Our Lady, I thought
about a recent controversy in which a popular Protestant pastor, theologian, and writer named John Piper claimed that
Christianity has «a masculine
feel.»
Does it affect the way you
feel about Protestantism or
Christianity?
Kat: I think he's saying that popular
Christianity is
about getting the right things right rather than what he
feels is really important.
I wonder if he
feels the same way
about all religions and not just
Christianity.
So many people — inside and outside the churches — have wanted to ask so many questions for so long
about Christianity, but have
felt they might seem insulting or stupid.
I think the whole language of bad and good and
feelings about self, even in you are heavily influenced by
Christianity and a belief in God.
I've never been a skeptic, never been disillusioned with the Church or
Christianity like I am now, and I've never struggled with cynicism
about the Christian culture, so it all
feels new and foreign and terrifying, like I don't know where this is coming from or who I am becoming in the process.
If it also bothers you that atheists criticize Christians, or «
Christianity without knowing much at all
about it» I can only guess that the atheists you are referring to
feel they know the essential claims of
Christianity and reject them.
It
feels to be sure that it is not able to ignore
Christianity, it is not capable of letting all that
about Christ remain in doubt, and then being for the rest busy
about life.
Instead, we recommend they read a book on proofs for the Christian faith, attend a class
about the basics of
Christianity, or perform some sort of other study so that they can gain the faith and certainty we
feel is necessary for followers of Jesus.
``... The only way to understand what is currently happening to us as twenty - first - century Christians in North America is first to understand that
about every five hundred years the Church feels compelled to hold a giant rummage sale... About every five hundred years the empowered structures of institutionalized Christianity, whatever they may be at the time, become an intolerable carapace that must be shattered in order that renewal and new growth may occur.&r
about every five hundred years the Church
feels compelled to hold a giant rummage sale...
About every five hundred years the empowered structures of institutionalized Christianity, whatever they may be at the time, become an intolerable carapace that must be shattered in order that renewal and new growth may occur.&r
About every five hundred years the empowered structures of institutionalized
Christianity, whatever they may be at the time, become an intolerable carapace that must be shattered in order that renewal and new growth may occur.»
Marriage apart from
Christianity feels nowhere near as high - stakes as marriage within
Christianity, and that's certainly because Christians talk
about marriage, think
about marriage and pursue marriage in ways and avenues that facilitate a level of intensity and intention that, frankly, is a little uncomfortable.
«For me, religious belief is more
about mystical
feelings about the world, and God is something one encounters in one's self,» says Isham, who converted to
Christianity at the age of 40.
If
Christianity is important to you, you probably want to date someone who
feels the same way you do
about your faith.
Karen Armstrong talks
about the fundamentalist phenomenon, why she chose to focus on fundamentalism in Judaism,
Christianity and Islam in The Battle for God, how this relates to modernization, and why she
feels Fundamentalists are becoming more radical.