This is an honest question.
Christianity sends mixed messages: there is compassion and love, but there is also perdition and hate. There are some people on Y!A R&S - Schneb, Contemplative Chanteuse and thegreatwhitehype come to mind - who are decent, positive members of the human race with no hatred in their hearts. There are many Christians here who spend their whole time threatening hell and condemning anyone different.
Why should this be? Which one is it? Why does the belief of some people manifest itself in bigotry and the belief of other people manifest itself in charity?
Please don't tell me that if you accept Jesus in your hearts, you will struggle to live like he wants - clearly that's not entirely the case, and it doesn't mean anything to me anyway. Do you think that a kind, charitable person is that way regardless of his/her god-belief? If that's so, is religion truly immaterial in living a good, pious life?
2006-07-07
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