Why is being a "fundamentalist" a bad thing?
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gladoscake — 9 years ago(January 19, 2017 04:34 AM)
When people offer their different "interpretations" they're no longer adherents to that religion, they've just invented their own.
And what do you think Christianity
is?
certainly wasn't the first faith, and it shan't be the last. -
PoisonedDragon — 9 years ago(January 20, 2017 09:52 PM)
Christianity is an extension of Judaism, the first and only true faith
Were that the case, Christianity would be invalidated by the standards you already proffered.
"interpretation" is the problem, historical religious texts are meant to be taken literally at face value. When people offer their different "interpretations" they're no longer adherents to that religion, they've just invented their own.
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shaun3701 — 9 years ago(January 20, 2017 10:21 PM)
Nope Christianity is not a "re-interpretation" of Judaism, it's the fulfillment of it. Jesus Christ is a Jewish Messiah of a Jewish God. Christianity is actually Judaism 2.0
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PoisonedDragon — 9 years ago(January 20, 2017 11:58 PM)
Nope Christianity is not a "re-interpretation" of Judaism, it's the fulfillment of it.
That isn't for Christians to say. The fact is that they re-interpret the Tanakh in ways that Jews do not.
Christianity is actually Judaism 2.0
You're still speaking of re-interpretation, which you earlier said would invalidate a religion.
The "Jews" today still awaiting the Messiah are actually false Jews.
This is an antisemitic claim.
Interesting that I didn't get an email notification for your reply.
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graham-167 — 9 years ago(January 15, 2017 01:13 PM)
I agree with your conclusion, at least. The majority of christians who are not fundamentalists should stop being christians altogether and become atheists.
At least the terrorists are correctly following their Prophet's words.
Do you not understand that the non-terrorist, non-fundamentalist muslims also believe that they are doing that, and the terrorists are not?
I suppose it doesn't matter in the end though, all of them will be wiped out by the One True God and thrown into the lake of fire.
Your fundamentalist wishful thinking is showing.
If I could stop a rapist from raping a child I would. That's the difference between me and god. -
shaun3701 — 9 years ago(January 15, 2017 01:22 PM)
There's nothing wrong with being whatever you believe as long as no physical harm is caused to others which is why your rationale is silly.
Humans have been causing each other physical harm since Cain killed his brother 6,000 years ago, and that's never going to change until this world passes away. God did command his followers (Jews) to kill in His name prior to Jesus' atonement for sin, but once that was done salvation was opened to all of mankind. True Christians have never physically harmed anyone and never will. Islam on the other hand is a demonic religion that commands it's followers to rape and kill in the name of their false god. -
smithjgs — 9 years ago(January 15, 2017 02:47 PM)
Aren't you forgetting about psychological harm?
There isn't any unless you are already crazyOr an abusive family.
Being fundamentalist is not harmful in and of itself. There's more than enough happy ones to prove that.
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smithjgs — 9 years ago(January 15, 2017 02:52 PM)
You're talking about hurt feelings which is both perfectly legal to cause and also more a reflection of how weak minded the person offended may be.
They should man up and realize that it is not the world's obligation to only believe things they believe.
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AbsolutelyThoughtfulGoz — 9 years ago(January 15, 2017 03:04 PM)
So you think that being vilified by a group of people is inconsequential, even if this vilification is illegal?(cake and wedding licence instances)
Those homosexuals and other groups should just 'man up' and 'turn the other cheek'?
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smithjgs — 9 years ago(January 15, 2017 05:29 PM)
So you think that being vilified by a group of people is inconsequential, even if this vilification is illegal?(cake and wedding licence instances)
Yes.
You can get a wedding cake anywhere. It's illegal like speeding and pot smoking is illegal. Harmless to all thing but feelings.
And yet you can force a baker to make them, meaning that even that isn't causing harm except to dwell on the notion that the baker doesn't want to bake a cake for gay people. in other words, people aren't even happy with the fact that they can force a person to do something for them.
Hurt feelings.
They should get over it and bask in their superiority.
Those homosexuals and other groups should just 'man up' and 'turn the other cheek'?
They aren't required to turn the other cheek.
They can be as mad and bitter as they want to be, but it is a waste of life to wonder what an evangelical thinks of you.
It's not a requirement for anyone to like anybody &/or their actions. It is perfectly fine to be disgusted by gay stuff except for how it makes the gay person feel and I don;t know why that is relevant to the gay person.
As surprising as this sounds, there's probably a person or two who doesn't like me for any number of reasons- valid or not.
I still manage to sleep well at night.
If I were you, I'd wanna be me too.