I assume that you're not being serious, given your "excellent" relationship with Formaldehyde.
The all new, totally accepted, bigotry thread - "Blame a Christian"
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I assume that you're not being serious, given your "excellent" relationship with Formaldehyde.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
How so? The only logic that readily offers itself is that Useless "taking issue" with the thread implies some sort of bigotry on his part, but that's obviously ridiculous, so presumably I'm missing something?
Buddhism is a way of life in the west perhaps, where it's exactly deluted down to the point that everyone can proclaim to be a "Buddhist" while it's still compatible to their other beliefs (be it another religion or crazy New Age stuff).
That you have to deny that Buddhism is an actual religion speaks volumes about your claims that it is compatible with Christianity. It's not, because your attempt to show it involved stripping it of everything that's incompatible with Christianity.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
Buddhists reject the claim that any day is more or less sacred than any others. A basic tenant of Christianity is the claim that the Sabbath is holier than the other days of the week. How would you go about reconciling these contradictory claims?
useless
Social Justice Rogue
I'm still waiting.
kochman
Deity
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Ummmm... I guess I miss some of the basic tenants of Christianity.
As Lone Wolf said...
There are so many offshoots of Christianity that to say things like that, especially when you clearly don't have a firm grasp on the subject to begin with, makes little impact in a conversation.
Anyhow, if you think that religions can be boiled down to their views on days of the week, I suggest you really go back to the drawing board.
Ziggy Stardust
Absolutely Sane
It hasn't of course. The issue with our local Christians is that a subset of them have engaged in comical discussions on the subject of evolution for instance. They've been so vocal and hilariously wrong they're like a neon sign which blots out any reasonable or sensible comments from other Christians. Others have used such grotesque emotionally charged statements in abortion debates they just had to catch the attention and were engaged by numerous posters (including yours mostly truly) so their significance and presence has become highly overrated. Not helped of course by their claims that a True Christian [tr] would feel the same way.
Ah, now you yourself are making the mistake of drawing a parallel between Christians and those believes. I see you're being careful in your sentence to specify "believes" but since it follows a comment on Christians I'm afraid you've fallen into the same trap which is apparent in the Women and Islam thread.
I recognise you're being implicit about the whole deal, since you've spend enough time in here to know you'd be caught out otherwise, but still, you're making the reference.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
What about the Third Commandment?
Exodus 20:8 said:
I mean, I know that not all Christian sects regard the Commandments as iron-clad laws, but I've never actually encountered one that regards them as actually disposable.Deuteronomy 5:12 said:
I don't think that religion can be boiled down to anything- reductionism is your game, not mine- I was just offering an example of a contradiction between Buddhist and Christian thought.
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Jewel Runner
Nothing is a basic tenet of Christianity any more
True that. Did you know that even among the so-called Orthodox some would deny the place of Moscow as the Third and Final Rome from whence the Gospel and the power of the Emperor will spread to the ends of the earth?
Now that being said, Sabbath-keeping has never been a huge part of Christianity as a whole. Some sects have put especial focus on it, whether continuing the Old Covenant Saturday Sabbath (like Adventists and Ethiopian Orthodox) or holding that Sunday has become a new Sabbath (like Puritans and some of their theological descendants).
GhostWriter16
Deity
Or we could just look at what Paul says "One man esteems one day over another, another keeps each day alike, let each be convinced in his own mind..."
Ziggy Stardust
Absolutely Sane
This is not Dr. Paul is it?
GhostWriter16
Deity
useless
Social Justice Rogue
Dr "Victims of an honest rape" Paul
The half that often contradicts the first half?
Ziggy Stardust
Absolutely Sane
Yeah that's the one. Dr. Paul.I meant the Paul who wrote half the New Testament.
Or should that be the New New Testament.
GhostWriter16
Deity
Wait, what?
Well that's right, but when you said "Dr" Paul, I thought you were referencing Ron Paul
Ziggy Stardust
Absolutely Sane
I was.
