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"A free thinker is Satan's slave"
Christians are fear mongering idiots.
Just sayin..
"A free thinker is Satan's slave"
Christians are fear mongering idiots.
Just sayin..
Are you afraid of slaves?
Where on earth do you get that Christ came for Gentiles only?
That's a great theory, but there's no support for it at all.
"A free thinker is Satan's slave"
Christians are fear mongering idiots.
Just sayin..
Are you afraid of slaves?
Maybe... Slaves are the dumbest humans. Dumb is dangerous. People that believe in devils and gods are dangerous. People act on what they know. It stands to reason that if someone irrationally believes in Devils and Gods that they will be irrational in other areas of their lives..including the part where we co mingle and I am forced to share the world with them.
I tend to watch the delusional christians more closely, the same way I watch any crazy person.
One cannot adhere to a DOGMA (any dogma, not JUST religious dogma) and be a free thinker.
One can BELIEVE something of course, but if one believes that something without question, if one clings to a belief even when evidence comes to light that makes that dogma dubious?
Then one is not a free thinker.
A LOT of people who are atheists are not REMOTELY free thinkers.
They believe other dogmas which cannot be proven, which means that they are not exactly the free thinkers they might like to think they are.
A LOT of people who are atheists are not REMOTELY free thinkers.
That's a great theory, but there's no support for it at all.
Really? Tell ya what Kaiser Twit, give the OT a read sometime.
You might be surprised. Christians aren't the only ones that get into Heaven.
That's a billboard making the rounds, allegedly put up by various churches. I can't verify that it isn't a hoax and it may be. But whether or not any churches have actually displayed that billboard, that IS the thinking of many conservative Christians. I've seen it expressed by certain posters here.
In fact, I think we can take it a bit further: traditional Christianity and freedom in general are enemies. Freedom is a value that's antithetical to traditional Christianity. Not to the teachings of Jesus, mind -- but to traditional Christian teaching.
To a traditional Christian, there is a very, very narrow range of thought, feeling, and action that are permissible. To think freely is to be a heretic or an unbeliever. To feel freely is to lust, to desire, almost certainly to be an adulterer or fornicator in one's imagination, and in some cases to be a homosexual; it's to be angry at times, to long for what traditional morality says should not be yours, to envy and resent.
Freedom means nothing if it is not freedom to sin. Traditional Christianity is opposed to sin. Therefore, traditional Christianity is opposed to freedom.
I couldn't disagree with you more. The First Rule in Judaism and Christianity both is "God First In All Things". Couple that with Personal Responsibility, acknowledge, that We Each learn from "Cause and Effect", from "Consequence", both Good and Bad, and you find Yourself both Free and Accountable. Your first issue is with Your Own Conscience. Are you looking for a Friend or Enemy in that?
An interesting thing is that a big part of Christianity is forgiveness. Until I finally learned how to forgive, I never knew how liberated my mind could be.I couldn't disagree with you more. The First Rule in Judaism and Christianity both is "God First In All Things". Couple that with Personal Responsibility, acknowledge, that We Each learn from "Cause and Effect", from "Consequence", both Good and Bad, and you find Yourself both Free and Accountable. Your first issue is with Your Own Conscience. Are you looking for a Friend or Enemy in that?
I am merely noting that in traditional Christianity, there is very little in the way of thought that is considered allowable, and a great deal of fear and bribery used to imprison the mind. You may, of course, come up with your own theology (as you seem to have done), which is "Christian" in the sense of being compatible with Christ's teaching, and which does not fit that description. If so, however, it will not be traditional Christianity.
As long as people believe that they MUST hold certain opinions or they will be punished, their minds are in prison.
I couldn't disagree with you more. The First Rule in Judaism and Christianity both is "God First In All Things". Couple that with Personal Responsibility, acknowledge, that We Each learn from "Cause and Effect", from "Consequence", both Good and Bad, and you find Yourself both Free and Accountable. Your first issue is with Your Own Conscience. Are you looking for a Friend or Enemy in that?
I am merely noting that in traditional Christianity, there is very little in the way of thought that is considered allowable, and a great deal of fear and bribery used to imprison the mind. You may, of course, come up with your own theology (as you seem to have done), which is "Christian" in the sense of being compatible with Christ's teaching, and which does not fit that description. If so, however, it will not be traditional Christianity.
As long as people believe that they MUST hold certain opinions or they will be punished, their minds are in prison.