Conformity to dogma is a leftist trait. Because higher education is based on conformance above all else, it is little surprise that one finds recent college graduates tend to be leftists. This is particularly true in the soft subjects of liberal arts. In the hard sciences and mathematics, there is generally an absolute right or wrong. A rocket lifts off and flies straight, or it doesn't. Political motivation cannot alter this. But if one has major in history, the only "right" is what the professors have demanded. The only "wrong" is independent thought. So in these liberal arts programs, an unquestioning adherence to dogma is the path to success. Adherence to dogma is also the foundation of leftism.
Aren't you Christian? I love it when right wing Christians speak about not thinking for themselves and conforming. To mouth breathers like you, the only only way you are a true American is if you are white, straight, Christian, and own guns.
When you stop following a book written thousands of years ago based on myths, get back to me.
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Hi Luissa: Maybe you clash with traditional Christian rightwing.
If you'd like to discuss the meaning of Jesus and the Bible from a secular gentile
liberal perspective, I'm happy to discuss this in logical terms.
Jesus basically represents Justice. So if you believe in establishing Equal Justice for all people to "save humanity from suffering" that's the same process as salvation from sin.
From "biased conditions" that cause conflict, division and human misery/death/destruction.
All conflict and war comes from UNFORGIVENESS of past conflict in a vicious cycle.
So Christ Jesus represents "restorative justice" or "justice and peace" that breaks
this cycle and unifies humanity to bring "world peace."
Christianity is believing in Charity, grace and forgiveness/compassion to bring healing and salvation to all humanity.
So if you believe in rising above loving your neighbor as yourself, but loving all people "without condition" which is even greater than human love that is conditional,
that is what it means to fulfill the message in the Bible by the love of Jesus or Justice. To bring us closer to God representing universal love and truth greater than all of us combined.
I believe this process of establishing Universal Justice includes ALL people of all faiths,
even nontheists/atheists or secular gentiles who are not under any religious laws.
In the Bible there are two folds, so one branch is the believers under sacred laws of the church; and the other is the secular gentiles under natural laws which our state is based on. Whichever authority you believe in following, the universal spirit of Justice for All
which Jesus represents, fulfills BOTH the secular laws of the state and sacred laws of the church.
Unified, the people become the body of the church.
The people become the body of the government or the state.
So this is what it means for the laws to be fulfilled in Jesus or Justice as lord or authority over all humanity. Under Equal Justice, then the people are unified as one, whether you call this the unified church body as one humanity, or government being of the people united.
When all humanity is at peace, all church and state bodies will be in harmony, like the United States that are one country but different sovereign states without conflict. The whole world will be like that, all nations, all tribes and churches, all denominations at peace. Retaining our individual identities and free will, but unified in spirit without war or conflict.