Enough complaining.
Tell me what you love about it!
Tell me what you love about it!
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Things You Love About Christianity
- Thread starter JustGeorge
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VVhich are your favorites?
Its fading popularity in USA.
Not in the spirit of the thread,
so this all I plan to post here.
Not in the spirit of the thread,
so this all I plan to post here.
rocala
Well-Known Member
As a Londoner I have to say St Paul's. My favourite abbey is Iona but Westminster comes a close second. There is a beautiful old church by Dover Castle called St Mary in Castro which I really took to.
PureX
Veteran Member
It places God inside us. And then challenges us to seek that divine spirit within, and embody it. To become one with it as we walk through this world.
An amazing message and an amazing challenge that comes with an equally amazing promise: that if we will do this, we will be healed and saved from ourselves. And eventually the whole world would be healed and saved from us.
That's some very powerful stuff!
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Sand Dancer
Currently catless
There are beautiful cathedrals. I like the Sermon on the Mount as well. I like Jesus' priority of the least being first.
I love some of the mythology and the symbolism I can read into it.
I also love how there's a very strong thread of love, tolerance, and forgiveness that runs through its theology.
I also love how there's a very strong thread of love, tolerance, and forgiveness that runs through its theology.
It gave my Grandmother purpose in her later years.
She took on the responsibility of buying and arranging the altar flowers each Sunday.
Made her happy to have purpose. Life becomes dreary when you lack one.
Its contribution to the concept of separation of religion and state, where a secular sphere is delineated from a religious one.
(This is not the only thing I like about it, but it's a major one.)
(This is not the only thing I like about it, but it's a major one.)
I'm not sure that's attributable to Christianity itself, or something imposed onto it.
But I do agree
I love the mysteriousness of Jesus of Nazareth and that he teaches a spiritual way of life. When it comes to Christianity itself, what I love are things about Eastern Orthodox Christianity. It emphasizes liturgical worship and theosis. Additionally, it teaches that a true theologian is the person who prays and worships. What that means is that theology is not really an academic discipline, rather, it is what you learn from a person who knows God.
I have found several parallels between Orthodox Christianity and the teachings of the Śiva-purāṇa, so far.
Soandso
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Same! Modern music wouldn't exist as it does now without the influence of church music - especially from black churches. As for architecture, Christianity has some of the most beautiful places of worship on earth
Tamino
Active Member
The stories of Jesus being an irreverent anarchist, pointing out the hypocrisy of the powerful and siding with the poor and the weak.