heh. My 12th grade thesis paper which was something like 30 pages long was on religious cults and fanatical religions...taking religion to the extreme. I got an A on it for my in-depth view of when religion goes bad
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Heck, I'm a Christian and we're celebrating Halloween. OMGWEARESINNNNERS. lol. People need to learn when they've crossed a line from intelligent discussion on religion to pushing it in someone's face. That never works.
It was actually a sad conversation. She's always had a tendancy to jump head on into something, and this is no different. She's just a few Bible studies short of becoming full on crazy-fundamentalist. We talked about Gibson Heights and she started in on something about Protestants being only one step away from Catholics on the road to hell. She didn't word it like that, but that was the gist. Fire and brimstone rhetoric just plain scares me.
I don't understand, at all, people who claim to be Christian but judge other people.
I mean, at all.
Do THEY not read the Bible? Wasn't that one of the things that made Jesus the MOST angry? Didn't it anger him so much that he went into a temple and started destroying it? Didn't it?
Anyway, my view on faith is quite similar to yours, actually. I think that God communicates his presence to people in the way that will make the most sense to them, based on their culture, values, etc. In my case, God decided that Jesus, and the concept of salvation through God-as-Human would make the most sense to me. And indeed, it does. In other people's case, He picks another route. I know that makes me somewhat of an agnostic, except that I believe that MY path to Heaven is through accepting Jesus Christ as my savior. I do not believe that is the ONLY path to Heaven, though, and I certainly can't tell you what your path is. Only God (or, from a Christian point of view, the Holy Spirit, I suppose) can tell you that.
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and if it's any consolation, I'm sure I'll see you in Hell. :-)
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That's exactly how I feel.
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LOL! This made me crack up.
Heck, I'm a Christian and we're celebrating Halloween. OMGWEARESINNNNERS. lol. People need to learn when they've crossed a line from intelligent discussion on religion to pushing it in someone's face. That never works.
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We talked about Gibson Heights and she started in on something about Protestants being only one step away from Catholics on the road to hell. She didn't word it like that, but that was the gist. Fire and brimstone rhetoric just plain scares me.
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I mean, at all.
Do THEY not read the Bible? Wasn't that one of the things that made Jesus the MOST angry? Didn't it anger him so much that he went into a temple and started destroying it? Didn't it?
Anyway, my view on faith is quite similar to yours, actually. I think that God communicates his presence to people in the way that will make the most sense to them, based on their culture, values, etc. In my case, God decided that Jesus, and the concept of salvation through God-as-Human would make the most sense to me. And indeed, it does. In other people's case, He picks another route. I know that makes me somewhat of an agnostic, except that I believe that MY path to Heaven is through accepting Jesus Christ as my savior. I do not believe that is the ONLY path to Heaven, though, and I certainly can't tell you what your path is. Only God (or, from a Christian point of view, the Holy Spirit, I suppose) can tell you that.
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