05-28-2016, 09:01 AM
First of all, I've corrected my misspelling, knod > nod.
We've gotten a little off-topic, but I think that's okay as long as it doesn't go on for post after post.
We live in an age of increasing partisanship. It isn't only the evangelicals who are becoming more extreme, but the Catholics and many Protestant denominations. Many of the most extreme Christian ideas are shared by people of those other denominations, though they may be less vocal about them. To an outsider -- i.e., a non-Christian -- all of Christiandom can look extreme. I believe that Jesus was a great individual, and that it was the Apostle Paul who set the religion in the wrong direction; but what's done is done. For whatever it's worth, my religious views are based on the Seth Material (the readings of a psychic named Jane Roberts). Roberts said some interesting things about Christ.
Oh, let me add that if not for the fear/tears rhyme, I probably would have called the Bible a "book of rules".
We've gotten a little off-topic, but I think that's okay as long as it doesn't go on for post after post.
We live in an age of increasing partisanship. It isn't only the evangelicals who are becoming more extreme, but the Catholics and many Protestant denominations. Many of the most extreme Christian ideas are shared by people of those other denominations, though they may be less vocal about them. To an outsider -- i.e., a non-Christian -- all of Christiandom can look extreme. I believe that Jesus was a great individual, and that it was the Apostle Paul who set the religion in the wrong direction; but what's done is done. For whatever it's worth, my religious views are based on the Seth Material (the readings of a psychic named Jane Roberts). Roberts said some interesting things about Christ.
Oh, let me add that if not for the fear/tears rhyme, I probably would have called the Bible a "book of rules".