There are bad things religion has also taught (all kinds of intolerance), but holy wars is a bad point of contention.
I assume you mean the Republican party. If that were true, why did the Republicans nominate McCain? To the best of my knowledge, he's not an evangelical.
Of course it is because millions of people were killed. Do you think we would have had said holy wars if religion didn't exist?
The inquisition would've gone something like this:
DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAGNETS? NO?! Here's a metallic pear up your rectum.
DO YOU HAVE BLUE EYES? YES!? Sit in this iron maiden for a little bit
We would have had the wars, but they would have been for some other reason .. land, nationalism, magnets, blue eyes, etc.. Religion was the vehicle for those acts of aggression, not the cause. The fact that it could have been replaced by any other random belief/idea is further proof that it wasn't religion in and of itself that caused the wars.
We would have had the wars, but they would have been for some other reason .. land, nationalism, magnets, blue eyes, etc.. Religion was the vehicle for those acts of aggression, not the cause. The fact that it could have been replaced by any other random belief/idea is further proof that it wasn't religion in and of itself that caused the wars.
Bullshit. He plainly said *these* things are good so I'll give religion credit for those, but with *these other things* (which were bad but also done in the name of religion) I'll baselessly assert that the perpetrators weren't "True Believers" so religion can't be blamed.
From 1980 to 2005 in the Southern Baptist Church, baptisms of people between eighteen and thirty four in other words, their next generation of leaders fell 40 percent, from 100,000 in 1980 to 60,000 in 2005.
He's (conveniently) Baptist. Whether Evangelical or not, he sure as hell bent over backwards to appease them during his campaign. He's for teaching intelligent design in schools, he's said the constitution declares this a Christian nation and he's against gay marriage.
Gee, a politician that bends over backwards to appease his base. Shocking!
Gee, a politician that bends over backwards to appease his base. Shocking!
Hey, you're the one who asked why he got nominated. The real point of my original post was: why are Evangelicals the base of the party when they make up such a small part of the population?
Religious people only selectively see what they want to see within their religion. If they are good people and believe their religion is all good, then that is what they will selectively see. When they see an ugly wart on their religion they fail to process that and write it off as something else.
The thing is, Christianity as a religion is defined by the Bible, however many times it has been re-written or added to in the case of Mormons for example.
But the Bible, like damn near all religions thus far to date, are filled with hate, death, war, rape, slavery, and other morally questionable activities.
Part of the reason that there are sooo many different sects of Christians and why they used to all fight and war with each other.
Maybe they aren't such a small part of the population.
Do you think they shouldn't be allowed to vote?
They believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ. This is one of the craziest things that religious people do; I've heard evangelical friends of mine be shocked that I would call a Catholic "Christian." Every crazy little sect has its own rules about who's "actually" Christian, who's going to heaven, etc. It's not sane. What about "mainstream" Christianity is less crazy than Mormonism? Here's that brick wall of misunderstanding: They're all equally arbitrary, fictitious, and made up by some ambitious (or crazy, or both) men.But they aren't Christians. They are Mormons. They make the distinction and so should you. Any similarities are just that, similarities. You can't have two opposing religions and call them the same thing.:
That's an interesting question. Is it true that you were raised as a Nazi, and in fact hate America?
You should be a Fox News interviewer. You're very quick at ignoring questions asked of you, and responding with absurd character attacks disguised as rational discourse. "I'm just asking questions!"
Form a cogent question for me and I'll try to respond.
Please point out an absurd character attack that I've made.
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They believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ. This is one of the craziest things that religious people do; I've heard evangelical friends of mine be shocked that I would call a Catholic "Christian." Every crazy little sect has its own rules about who's "actually" Christian, who's going to heaven, etc. It's not sane.
One man says sad state, I say progress.
I can understand maybe being an outsider you wouldn't see the differences, you probably don't study it at all. It was already pointed out that Mormons made their own holy book. They have beliefs contradictory to Judaism and Christianity. Same with Catholicism. Catholicism has beliefs that are explicitly declared wrong by Jesus himself. The whole point to the term Christian was that it was applied to Jews that followed Jesus. If these other religions contradict the teachings of Jesus you can't call them Christian. That's not sane. A study of cults and the bible make this very clear so it's completely understandable if you've never studied any of it. They are completely different religions.