Defining the Christian Life

[Jack]

But why do you complain that I am a bible thumper self-consciously promoting and proselytizing Christianity....

--->"History's Great Christian Lives:

Paul
The early martyrs
Augustine
St. Patrick Bernard of Clairvaux
Francis of Assisi
Clare of Assisi
Catherine of Siena
Thomas More
Martin Luther
John Wesley
The Monks of Mount Athos
Teresa of Calcutta
Martin Luther King

It is ultimately futile to create the definition of a great Christian - we will nevertheless suggest some qualities that just about all of the people on our list share:

1. All are rooted in scripture.
2. All the people we examined were willing to sacrifice their lives for Christ, in imitation of Christ himself.
3.All perceived the need to practice Christian love and live as part of the visible body of Christ on Earth.
4. The virtue of humility is a universal attribute of great Christians.
5. All were conscious of finding a relationship between the active and contemplative dimensions of Christianity."

The Trumptopians are Religious Quacks, similar to ISIS or Al Qaeda. You are feeding them ... stroking them ... giving them some kind of legitimacy. YOU are the OPPOSITE of Modern People, attempting to keep alive a Democracy, Individual Liberty, Freedom of Speech, support of Science and Inquiry. Your above HEROS, would easily put to death Modern People by Torture, screaming in unison 'INFIDEL!'.

[Cypress]

--->"History's Great Christian Lives:

Paul
The early martyrs
Augustine
St. Patrick Bernard of Clairvaux
Francis of Assisi
Clare of Assisi
Catherine of Siena
Thomas More
Martin Luther
John Wesley
The Monks of Mount Athos
Teresa of Calcutta
Martin Luther King

It is ultimately futile to create the definition of a great Christian - we will nevertheless suggest some qualities that just about all of the people on our list share:

1. All are rooted in scripture.
2. All the people we examined were willing to sacrifice their lives for Christ, in imitation of Christ himself.
3.All perceived the need to practice Christian love and live as part of the visible body of Christ on Earth.
4. The virtue of humility is a universal attribute of great Christians.
5. All were conscious of finding a relationship between the active and contemplative dimensions of Christianity."

The Trumptopians are Religious Quacks, similar to ISIS or Al Qaeda. You are feeding them ... stroking them ... giving them some kind of legitimacy. YOU are the OPPOSITE of Modern People, attempting to keep alive a Democracy, Individual Liberty, Freedom of Speech, support of Science and Inquiry. Your above HEROS, would easily put to death Modern People by Torture, screaming in unison 'INFIDEL!'.

So you only get angry when I post about Christianity, but you completely accept when I post about Hinduism-Animism-Buddhism-Judaism-Daoism-Sikhism-Baha'i-Confucianism.

That would mean you are not a consistent, principled, dispassionate Atheist.

It would mean you are an anti-Christian zealot.

Being an anti-Christian zealot is an intellectual posture not bases on reason, it is based on emotion.

The world is not composed of only two groups: Bible thumping jihadists -- and hostile anti-Christian Zealots.

There are people between those two extremes.

[Jack]

So you only get angry when I post about Christianity, but you completely accept when I post about Hinduism-Animism-Buddhism-Judaism-Daoism-Sikhism-Baha'i-Confucianism.

That would mean you are not a consistent, principled, dispassionate Atheist.

It would mean you are an anti-Christian zealot.

Being an anti-Christian zealot is an intellectual posture not bases on reason, it is based on emotion.

The world is not composed of only two groups: Bible thumping jihadists -- and hostile anti-Christian Zealots.

There are people between those two extremes.

You asked why I complain about you promoting 'Christianity'. I gave you my reasoning. Do I need to repeat it.
You are PROMOTING 'Closed-Mindedness', 'Thought Control', 'Conformity'. NOTHING that America, the West, or Modern People support.

I've asked you what qualities do you see in these people and Christianity. So far, you haven't been able to articulate ONE thing. Leaving the impression that you simply Google some names of famous Religious People, post them, and hope others will associate YOU with THEM ... secretly hoping others will assume you are Intellectual Giant.

(I've told you I'm an Agnostic (not Atheist), so I don't spend a lot of time discussing Demons, Spirits, Magic, AfterLife, Dreams, or Gods)

[Jack]

So you only get angry when I post about Christianity ...

Hmmm ... I noticed 'ThatOwlWoman' has thanked you. Since YOU seem incapable of describing why you support Christianity, maybe she can answer for you?

[Jack]

Liked the concept of a 'Man-God'?

[Jack]

Thought burning people at the Stake was a cool way to get people to accept your point of view?

[Jack]

Earth really IS the center of the universe?

[Jack]

No, seriously, there is only one God, and he's the one I believe in?

[Jack]

Turn the other cheek, just let everyone use you as a Punching Bag?

[Jack]

Queers should be Stoned to Death, if God said it, I believe it?

[Jack]

Slavery is in the Bible, where's the Problem?

[Jack]

'Give Caesar what is Caesars', why rock the boat?

[Jack]

Has 'ThatOwlWoman' accepted Jesus Christ as her Personal Savior?

[Cypress]

You asked why I complain about you promoting 'Christianity'. I gave you my reasoning. Do I need to repeat it.
You are PROMOTING 'Closed-Mindedness', 'Thought Control', 'Conformity'. NOTHING that America, the West, or Modern People support.

I've asked you what qualities do you see in these people and Christianity. So far, you haven't been able to articulate ONE thing. Leaving the impression that you simply Google some names of famous Religious People, post them, and hope others will associate YOU with THEM ... secretly hoping others will assume you are Intellectual Giant.

(I've told you I'm an Agnostic (not Atheist), so I don't spend a lot of time discussing Demons, Spirits, Magic, AfterLife, Dreams, or Gods)

I do not think you have to worry about me providing unintended comfort and safe Harbor to JPP bible thumping Jihadists.

I do not have that kind of influence.

And whatever working knowlege I have managed to acquire about Christianity it allows me to excoriate them on not only their own lack of knowlege about their own faith, but to also school them on how unrepresentative the biblical literalism of their Protestant fundamentalism is in view of world Christianity taken as a whole.

[Cypress]

You asked why I complain about you promoting 'Christianity'. I gave you my reasoning. Do I need to repeat it.
You are PROMOTING 'Closed-Mindedness', 'Thought Control', 'Conformity'. NOTHING that America, the West, or Modern People support.

I've asked you what qualities do you see in these people and Christianity. So far, you haven't been able to articulate ONE thing. Leaving the impression that you simply Google some names of famous Religious People, post them, and hope others will associate YOU with THEM ... secretly hoping others will assume you are Intellectual Giant.

(I've told you I'm an Agnostic (not Atheist), so I don't spend a lot of time discussing Demons, Spirits, Magic, AfterLife, Dreams, or Gods)

^^ Triggered!