Don't you think Christianity has made us a little kinder and gentler nation??

Question

My son in law made a left turn from the left lane directly in front of a car going the same direction (He does this quite often). The other driver followed him into the park lot and told him if he had not recently become a Christian he would have beat the heck out of him. So you see, we be good.

Answer 1

NO

Answer 2

That statement was correct fifty years ago, perhaps.
Oh, there were problems back then, of course. Racism was horrible. But then, it is still horrible...only now, each race has the same right to be horrible to the other. Women, they say, had no "rights"...we have more rights, now...but, as we put our tired feet up at the end of a hard day, since it now takes both paychecks to support our family...how many would not pay dearly to go back to a time when we had the right to our husband's support...the right to stay home and nurture our kids, instead of watching them be raised by strangers?

I don't see how all this "progress" was worth taking God away from America's kids. You know, I'd be willing to bet that there are some parents in Columbine, or Virginia who might agree with me. And these are just the tip of the iceburg, Hun.

Sooner or later, your son-in-law might make that left turn in front of the wrong guy...

Answer 3

It has made me a kinder and gentler person for sure.

Before I was a Christian I was a drunken, doped up, street fighting thug. Since I accepted Christ, I went to college, got a degree, got a great job, married a lovely woman and am the very, very proud daddy of two beautiful girls.

Answer 4

No, not really.

What about the christians voluntarily enlisting in the armed forces - are they gentle and kind?

How about the christians who gang up and attack people of other religions - are they good people?

The paedophilic catholic priests - would you stand up during his court case and declare him well intentioned?

Christians delivering crack-addicted babies and abandoning them for another hit - excellent people for sure, aren't they?

The ones who would happily kill their children because were told to - wonderful citizens, don't you think?

I don't christianity has done anything for any country. Individual people make the difference, not christians as a whole.

Imagine you could find all of these traits in a christian and the complete opposite in an atheist; which one would you judge as the better person?

Answer 5

Did he have to make it known? Just live the life and others will learn by your example. He took a chance as well, he could have encountered a man with a gun following someone into a parking lot. It is God that is Good. He protects us from evil.

Answer 6

If politics has murdered hundred of thousands of people, religion is responsible of thousands upon thousands of deaths. One little incident proves nothing. Read God Is Not Great -- How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens... a real eyeopener, and on the NY Times Best Seller list all Spring.

Answer 7

The moral compass of the present christians are built not on the christian tradition but rather on the secular outlook of the then christians. Have not christianity been influenced by islam and the secular values, they would still have been living a morality based on medieval era.

It is when the christians started to abandon the strict interpretation of the bible and the clutches of the church that they reach their full potential of humanistic values.

Answer 8

Adams signed the Treaty of Tripoli (June 7, 1797). Article 11 states:

"The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion."

From Jefferson's biography:

"...an amendment was proposed by inserting the words, 'Jesus Christ...the holy author of our religion,' which was rejected-----'By a great majority in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and the Mohammedan, the Hindoo and the Infidel of every denomination.'"

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"The U.S Treaty with Tripoli 1796" this document was signed by many of the founding fathers including John Adams & George Washington our first President.

Article 11 :. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.





"Christianity...[has become] the most perverted system that ever shone on man....Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and imposters led by Paul, the first great corrupter of the teaching of Jesus." --- Thomas Jefferson

Answer 9

He must have been nuts before he became a "Christian". Most organized religions have a basic acceptable standard for behavior. I do not think you can credit Christianity for any perceived vision of "kinder and gentler".

Answer 10

That's a very nice gesture. Now I am wishing that our World Leaders would follow the same pattern.

Answer 11

Absolutely nothing in the history of humankind has caused more turmoil,bloodshed and war than organised religion.The day we outgrow the need for these myths is the day we all take a big step forward as a people.