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Originally Posted by Europa
So? Whats wrong with it? It works, doesn't it? It teaches a lifestyle of compassion and peace, improved the lives of countless people. You can't seem to understand that its accuracy doesn't matter in the slightest as long as people believe and live by what it teaches to the best of their ability.
Why the fuck can't you understand this?
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Apparently you're the one that doesn't understand shit. Peace and compassion aside, Christianity is ruthlessly dogmatic. The pastor himself told me to follow Jesus' teachings and go to heaven.
How can he honestly promise anyone eternal paradise by interpreting a sketchy mélange of more or less contradictory texts.
When you talk about peace and compassion, you delve into the realm of ethics, and Zay's thread here has blown that argument out of the water. You then talk about people believing. Believing what, that a God-man turned water to wine and raised the dead 2000 years? And how can you say it's accuracy doesn't matter?
The whole premise of the fucking religion is the accuracy of it's teachings. By telling people to believe to get into heaven, you must then provide them with a guideline. And of course, most gobble up that misinterpreted guideline like the literal word of God.
But ultimately, you did not mention heaven in your post, so I take it you were giving Christianity props for its morality. Again, I invite you to go see Zay's thread on secular human ethics.