Is anyone else dumbfounded by the christian/creationist replys here on Yahoo..?

Question

There are so many various and conflicting interpretations for christianity on here, and some of the illogical, ignorant, bigoted, and self serving, self centered comments are truly remarkable.

What is the cost of this ignorance and spreading of lies..?

Answer 1

it amazes me each and every time - no wonder man is in conflict since the start of times...

Answer 2

The literal sense of the Word is still the Word. If someone has a literalist interpretation, that is where the error is. Also, another error is taking church letters like Paul's for real scripture.

"The books of the Word are all those which have the internal sense; but those books which have not the internal sense, are not the Word. The books of the Word, in the Old Testament, are the five Books of Moses, the Book of Joshua, the Book of Judges, the two Books of Samuel, the two Books of Kings, the Psalms of David, the Prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi: and in the New Testament, the four Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John; and the Apocalypse. The rest have not the internal sense" (Arcana Coelestia n. 10325 or Heavenly Doctrine n. 266).

Answer 3

I am 54 and devoted Christian. I don't agree with the creationist ideas. I don't believe that God would set out clear evidence to a 5 billion year old earth just to fool someone.
However I also feel that the most important things in life are not money, beauty, education and intelligence. I try hard not to ridicule people that hold onto beliefs that I find very odd. I believe that we will both end up in Heaven and both laugh over the "small" things we disagreed on.

Answer 4

I don't know of but one description of Christianity.
1-You must believe in the virgin birth.
2-You must believe that Christ died and was crucified for your sins.
3-You must confess your sins.
4-You must believe that Christ was the true Son of God.
5- You must believe that Jesus Christ arose on the third day.
6- You accept him as your Savior and invite him into your Heart, Soul and Spirit.
7- Get into the Word to seek Christ will and to build your relationship with Him.
This is the plan of Salvation. Plain and simple. You can discuss different translations of the Bible. Each verse may mean different things to different people. The Lord leads your understanding of His Word to what is needed at the time of the reading. There is no conflicting word in the Bible. Just different feelings of what it means to the person that reads it.
If you go to any live event and ask ten different people what they saw.You would get 10 different aspects of how the event took place and what happened. This is not conflicting answers.It is different perspectives.
Jesus Loves You.

Answer 5

The comments are really no different that the illogical, ignorant, bigoted, and self serving, self centered ones posted by the evolutionists here .

What is this "damage" you refer to ? Is it anywhere near the damage evolutionists have done ?

Answer 6

In a word?
Yes.
Christians have problems talking about us non-christians as being evil and controlled by Satan, but they scream Christian persecution every time someone like me tells the truth about their religion. They can say I'm condemned to burn in Hell because I'm a filthy sinner, but I'm not supposed to say Christianity is a dangerous mind cult that leads to delusional behavior. It's ok for them to envision a world rid of the non-Christian heathens, but I'm not supposed to envision a world where people have figured out what a stupid belief system Christianity is, and it goes away like the belief that the world is flat went away.

My way of life supports free speech and the free exchange of ideas. As I said, even though I believe that Christianity is a cult, people have the freedom to be part of that cult. But I'm tired of being shoved around by Christian bigots who would oppress my freedom to talk about reality the way it really is. Christianity sucks. It's a piss poor religion, and I'm tired of dealing with these in-your-face assholes who mistakenly believe that they are God's chosen people.

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Answer 7

I've spent many years debating theists of every stripe - but those were in places where the theists were ready to debate and think about their positions.

Here on R&S is what I must sadly conclude is the true face of the real religious person-in-the-street: vindictive, gloating, hate-filled, unexamined and brimming with schadenfreude.

Not in all cases, I grant, but common enough to make me realise that no accommodation is possible. If this stuff isn't stopped, we'll be back in the trees before long.

CD

Answer 8

Your Narcissism is overwhelmingly Hilarious. Labels are for cowards. Judging people is a complete waste of your life, because as you judge others you will find the very thing you complain that you see in others, you are doing too. The problem there is that it takes about 20 years or more depending on the extent of your ridiculous narrow minded ego to learn the lesson. I know, I was there. I'm the founding charter member of narcissistic ego tripping jackass narrow minded jerkweeds that never end. Please heed my warning and open up your mind, or the very thing you complain about will be what rules you. God does not play and he exists. Settle it or learn the hard way, it's up to you.

Answer 9

Shall we look at the inconsistencies of Science. One group says Neaderthal and Sapiens coexisted and mated (the Clan of the Cave Bear group) and one group says Neaderthal were existinct LONG before Sapiens came along.

By the way, IS or IS NOT PLUTO A PLANET

I was TRAINED by SCIENCE TEACHERS it WAS!

Was this a LIE spread by SCIENCE!

Do SCIENTISTS LIE!

Now we are being told by the Scientists that their is a LIFE POSSIBLE PLANET 30 Light Years away. And how do they know this, by WAVE UNDULATIONS.

Hey, is there or isn't there LIFE on MARS, it's only 40 million miles away! We got dozens of probes there.

Answer 10

Nope, I think that there are alway religious loons, I'm never amazed by thier stupidity and hypocrisy - only saddened. the cost is people suffering and getting murdered

Answer 11

Well, not exactly dumbfounded, as I already know it is how they are - it is how they have always been. They are divided amongst themselves and yet think to preach to and judge others... sad really. It irritates me to no end though, because evidence of their many errs is before them and they refuse to see or admit.