Mark Taylor, a pastor at a congregational church has written a piece that is classic for showing how christians make their god in their image. Not wanting to accept that his bible is full of a vicious and ignorant god, Mark must claim tht this god is “really” Jesus, whom he conveniently forgets is also vicious and ignorant.
“The problem is that Dawkins doesn’t understand the nature of the Bible. The Bible was written down by people. It contains many very valuable insights regarding the nature of God. But the people who wrote the books of the Bible weren’t taking down God’s dictation. Undoubtedly, on many occasions they were genuinely inspired by God, but sometimes they got it wrong.”
and which parts are wrong, Mark? Christians don’t agree and you all make up your religion in your own images. No reason to believe in Jesus since there is as much chance that this is just something humans invented as the rest. You’ve managed to make your religion entirely worthless.
As for your jesus, curious how this character isn’t about love, but obedience. He says to bring those who don’t want him as king before him and slaughter them. There is also the problem of “hell”, since needing to eternally torture those who disagree with you isn’t love, it’s just what abusive humans fantasize about.
Arch also pointed out how the pastor simply picks and chooses what he wants. As often happens, the pastor tries to ignore the post, but feels he must be polite and acknowledge it.
and now for some more memes and cat pictures
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This strikes me as typical for a liberal protestant church. (I grew up in one of those. It was nice.) When it comes to the choice between following their book literally and being decent human beings, they choose to be decent human beings. Yes, they cherry pick only the nice parts of their book. But it results in churches that don’t tell their members how to vote, don’t support the right-wing culture wars, and tend to put more effort into social projects. They aren’t as much about money and power, and they usually don’t try to use the government to force their version of the religion on everybody else. If this were the only kind of christian church out there, I’d have very little problem with them.
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Unfortunately, they still teach to trust in imaginary nonsense which gets people hurt.
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True, but I’d still push for evangelicals to convert to that sort of view of religion if they aren’t ready for full deconversion. Still bad, but not nearly as harmful as the literalist, black-and-white, us vs. them mentality that the fundigelicals push their followers into.
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