Re: Religion Thread: That's Me In the Corner...
I think Kep has eloquently addressed this. It might help for you to open your mind and entertain the possibility that not all people who don't believe start from a position of belief and then look for disclaimers. If they don't believe, the Bible may not come into the equation, superficial or not. My personal experience is non-believers give way less thought to why they don't believe than you do. For many it is a non-issue that they don't think about at all. I expect if you discuss God with non believers the way you try to here they probably are fairly reactionary. You apparently spend a great deal of time thinking you are empathizing but doing so from your own point of view. I am a believer who does a fair amount of thinking about my faith and I find your assumptions to be no where near what I think.
How does this:
In my area there are way more acts of generosity, etc from secular organizations than churches or faith based groups. On the other hand there are all sorts of silly movements spawned by Faith based organizations to tell people how to live their lives (the Christian version of Sharia law).
translate into Christians don't give? I have no idea what 'propaganda' you are reading but you are arguing apples and oranges. What I said was In my area most of the organizations doing the bulk of good are secular. That doesn't mean Christians aren't giving. It means people do not need to be Christian to be motivated to do good for their fellow human.
FYP. You have an insular, constricted view of the world.
Every once in a while I forget that I should say this before I post.
That about sums it up.
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How does this:
In my area there are way more acts of generosity, etc from secular organizations than churches or faith based groups. On the other hand there are all sorts of silly movements spawned by Faith based organizations to tell people how to live their lives (the Christian version of Sharia law).
translate into Christians don't give? I have no idea what 'propaganda' you are reading but you are arguing apples and oranges. What I said was In my area most of the organizations doing the bulk of good are secular. That doesn't mean Christians aren't giving. It means people do not need to be Christian to be motivated to do good for their fellow human.
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