Oh, my stars and garters!!
I’d love to see the Original Rant fine tuned against what SeaHawk is precisely objecting to.
As I’ve dealt with in infinitely too many threads already, I consider that a Christian faith is in no way incommensurate with the use of reason. (Cardinal, I’ll have some comments for you in the Spong thread over in GD on this subject when I finish here.)
First, the fun and games: Insofar as I know, no Christian and no Celtic Pagan is of the opinion that Jesus is the son of Og, the Irish deity (sometimes referred to as Ogmios). So that portion of the rant (Son of Og God) is absolute rubbish.
Second, it has been my contention for some time that if Christians bothered looking at what Christ had to say, they would be repulsed by the idea of enforcing an external moral code based loosely on the Bible on other people. Instead, many of them, particularly of a conservative evangelical bent, are of the opinion that God expects them to do so, on pain of “a decline in national morals that would cause God to remove his protection from us.” However, when they say this they are speaking of specific actions, particularly with regard to abortion, tolerance of others’ beliefs, and sexuality, not of the ethics taught by Christ.
To that extent, SeaHawk has a strong point, and one with which most people here agree, IIRC.
To the idea that it is in some way “rubbish” to believe that “Jesus is the son of God,” I’d suggest that it is important to find out precisely what is meant by the statement. If someone is seriously asserting that YHWH had sexual intercourse with Mary in some way, then he has a point. But if the understanding is that my opinion is that Jesus functioned in a role that we have come to know as the work of the Son of God, and therefore deserves that title, how is that “rubbish”?
Needless to say, the views of Bibliolaters on questions more relevant to scientific enquiry are hardly those required of Christians.
I look forward to SeaHawk’s further posts in which, hopefully, he will show the respect to his fellow posters to make his meanings more clear, with regard to both content and language use, and hope to discuss what his problems with Christianity as an overall belief system and with specific expressions of it might be.