NCclimber 0 #26 December 6, 2006 QuoteQuoteReligion is man's effort to make himself pleasing in God's sight. In other words, if I keep doing what I consider to be the right thing I'll get to heaven. -------------------------------------------------------- QuoteThat's a bit egocentric - are you God? Nope. That's mankind's purpose for religion. Christians, on the other hand, know that they wouldn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of making it into heaven without the finished work of Christ. Oh. When you wrote "I", I thought just maybe you meant "I" and not "all of mankind". Silly of me. Christians, of course, don't "know", they have faith (belief without any proof). There are those who try to understand what someone is trying to say and form their responses based on that understanding. Then there are those who tend to look for minor pedantic inconsistencies to exploit against the speaker. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pirana 0 #27 December 6, 2006 I wanted to vote both for a good way to teach values and a joke. It can be either depending on how it is practiced. My take is religions start off with all good intentions, but get morphed into nothing more than just another politicized institution once the people in charge think they have all the answers. Teaching respect is all good and well, imposing dogmatic beliefs on the other hand is pure evil." . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
