You’ve made it plain that in your eyes I suffer every mental illness from delusion to insanity. What sort of answer do you expect? Neener-neener? Takes one to know one? Yes you are but what am I?
Pretty much a more literate version of that, yes. It’s your style.
Since it is supposed to be the body that dies not the soul,the soul could not be lost, and why a good Father would put harm in it’s child’s way just doesn’t make sense to me. One can believe they are in the spirit but they can also be wrong. A farmer won’t put a child in front of an angry bull,so why would a good father put a child in front of a monster that he knew for sure would end up killing his child?
Perhaps the person who you quote was wrong?
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I disagree that Hitler was Christian and I also disagree that his evil “trumps” the even greater evil of Stalin and Mao.
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were both Christians. As for Douglas Adams, he wrote a science fiction parody. Hardly the stuff to build your life upon.
“We recognize no Sovereign but God and no King but Jesus!”
-John Adams, April 18, 1775
What’s your point?
So Ralph Waldo Emerson said something which turned out to be untrue. Again, what’s your point?
And what makes you think he wasn’t Christian ? He acted like one. He used the rhetoric of one. He had the support of many Christians, however unpopular it is to admit it.
And Stalin and Mao had more time; I see no reason to believe that they were more evil, they just had longer to inflict that evil
Why, he wasn’t a christian because no ‘true’ christian would act the way he did. :rolleyes: That’s the quality of answer I’d expect you’d get from religious apologists.
Don’t know much about politicians, do you?
You really like to lump people into groups and judge them by your opinion of that group. People don’t fit into little neat boxes. What do you think of people who consider themselves followers of Jesus who do good and nice things, Mother Theressa comes to mind?
Did you actually read what you linked to ?
She was scum. I suggest you read more about what she actually did and was like.
As for others, some people, not many, are good enough to overcome the moral handicap of being religious, and are lucky enough despite being religious to actually succeed in being good when they try, despite being religious. Or they do good for reason that have nothing to do with religion, and choose methods of helping that having nothing to do with religion, in which case they do good because they are not acting according to their religion.
Yes, I did. I suspect that you stopped after the first couple of pararaphs, though.
The Straight Dope mailbag article said that Hitler occasionally claimed to be a Christian. It also said that he dabbled in paganism, and that he expressed a desire to stamp out Christianity. Now, perhaps some might say, “So what if he wanted to eradicate Christianity? He was still a Christian, and he acted like one!” I think that most people would find such protestations unconvincing, though.