Rashputin:
Thank you. Really. You proved my original point without even realizing it:
“Jesus was awesome, but SO many supposed ‘Christians’ need to take his message to heart. React with love and understanding, not hate and lies.”
I think it was probably best said by one of the greatest men to exist in the past century:
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
Go back up and read, then use the brain God gave you. I never claimed I was Christian and only quoted scripture because the very capable Kipling asked me to.
Conveniently, you ignored the substance of my post and resort to analogies concerning seals balancing beach balls and dismissing original thought as ‘leftist fairytales’ simply because you don’t agree with it.
Your words are dripping with scorn and hubris, and Jesus would be sad for you. Here you are calling yourself a TrueChristian™ yet you so obviously think yourself better than someone else because they have a different viewpoint.
“It’s also additional proof that you’re unfit to even tie the shoelaces of people who struggle to live by the high moral standards of Christianity.”
“Either stick to your favorite rap singer as an authority or go learn something about Christianity…”
Really? Really. You jump to conclusions and insults, then when presented with reality you immediately write it off as ignorant leftist BS.
I’ve read the 3 versions of the Bible, the Torah, Qu’Ran, Book of Mormon, and many Sutras from the Buddhist philosophy. When you look with an open mind and heart (isn’t that what Yeshua was all about and how people are told to get in touch with the Holy Spirit?) you’ll find that underneath all the doctrine, most major world religions have the same basic message:
There is a God. Be a good person, in your heart and actions, to yourself and the world around you. Be humble, honest, and don’t hurt anyone else. There is something after we die. If you’re bad you’ll go somewhere bad and if you’re good you’ll go somewhere good.
I think there is a great deal of value to come from reading religious scriptures and they have the ability to deliver a powerful and just moral message.
Kipling:
Again, thanks for welcoming intelligent discourse on the subject.
As for the parts of the Bible that I consider to be parable rather than literal in part or whole…
Creation story from Genesis
Adam & Eve and the Garden of Eden
The Great Flood & Noah’s Ark
Soddam and Gomorrah
Jesus’ physical ressurection
The list goes on. So..pretty much all the ‘magic’ stuff.
