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A follower of Christ and/or a recognized member of a parish or church.What is your definition of Christian?
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A follower of Christ and/or a recognized member of a parish or church.What is your definition of Christian?
So then, who exactly are these people who identify as Christians but in name only (by which I think you mean they aren't REAL Christians).A follower of Christ and/or a recognized member of a parish or church.
A lot of people do.So then, who exactly are these people who identify as Christians but in name only (by which I think you mean they aren't REAL Christians).
Okay, I got it. Would you agree that these Christian Atheists are pretty rare? I actually knew a guy like this when I was younger. He was Agnostic, but was an extremely ethical person, and felt that attending a church regularly was the best way to find a quality wife. But other than him, I've never come across anyone else like this in real life.A lot of people do.
It's coined as Christian Atheism.
It involves people who like the services, the songs, the church environment , and just practice it out of tradition rather than belief.
Christian atheism - Wikipedia
One factor: Islam's dietary rules made it hard for Muslims to proselytize in non-Muslim areas.Christianity is the majority religion today, and has been for 1700 years (or so).
Something has to be special about it... or not?
From the christian perspective, the answer is easy - it was god's plan all along, so of course christianity is the winner.
If you don't believe in it, then there must be other explanations. What are they?
Darwinism is the description of.what occurs in nature.Are you a Darwinist? Because what you write would simply make Christianity the fittest since they survived. Evolution isn't moral you know. So suck it up buttercup.
John
People need to stop using the term Darwinism. The TOE today has has been upgraded from Darwin's time. Darwin didn't know anything about genetics or DNA. He had no concept of things like punctuated equilibrium. Etc., etc....Are you a Darwinist? Because what you write would simply make Christianity the fittest since they survived. Evolution isn't moral you know. So suck it up buttercup.
John
Darwinism is the description of.what occurs in nature.
To justify supernatural claims you would.need something else.
With all due respect, I don't think you are quite aware of the amounts of wishful thinking and denial in there.Right. So if I forego any argument from the supernatural, then everything is natural, such that Christianity is the fittest worldview since it's survived and thrived while others did not or are not.
Who would deny that the USA is both the most Christian of nations, and has also been the economic and scientific engine of the world, the military policeman par excellent, for a long time. Survival of the fittest I think they say.
What was it Mel Gibson said in The Road Warrior: "You wanna survive? You talk to me."
John
With all due respect, I don't think you are quite aware of the amounts of wishful thinking and denial in there.
Sorry, not buying that.I'm fully aware that there's a tone of those things if we use your epistemological prejudice as the criteria for factuality. How cool it would be if we had a truly objective criteria for factuality; one that doesn't depend on either of our prejudices.
John
"Christianity "Christianity is the majority religion today, and has been for 1700 years (or so).
Something has to be special about it... or not?
From the christian perspective, the answer is easy - it was god's plan all along, so of course christianity is the winner.
If you don't believe in it, then there must be other explanations. What are they?
I think it's more common than you think.Okay, I got it. Would you agree that these Christian Atheists are pretty rare? I actually knew a guy like this when I was younger. He was Agnostic, but was an extremely ethical person, and felt that attending a church regularly was the best way to find a quality wife. But other than him, I've never come across anyone else like this in real life.
That's not evidence that they don't believe.I remember so many times I went to church everybody's a devout Christian inside talking about God and all that, and then once the service is over it's like a switch gets flipped, and all of a sudden the topics quickly switch to basically football and going to the bar.
No. But its an indication that nothing is really being taken all that seriously.That's not evidence that they don't believe.
I remember so many times I went to church everybody's a devout Christian inside talking about God and all that, and then once the service is over it's like a switch gets flipped, and all of a sudden the topics quickly switch to basically football and going to the bar.
Christianity has enjoyed the greatest marketing campaign in the history of man, nearly two millennia long and still going. Paul was the first to market Jesus in earnest, then Constantine at the point of a sword. The Catholic church arose and its chapels then basilicas and cathedrals began cropping up everywhere like a fast-food franchise to promulgate the religion. Waves of crusaders, missionaries, conquistadores and inquisitions spread and enforced the faith. The Gideons put a Bible in every hotel room. Schools taught religion and led students in prayer. With broadcast media, the televangelists began marketing Jesus. There was an ad for Jesus in the last Superbowl.there must be other explanations. What are they?
Christianity has enjoyed the greatest marketing campaign in the history of man, nearly two millennia long and still going. Paul was the first to market Jesus in earnest, then Constantine at the point of a sword. The Catholic church arose and its chapels then basilicas and cathedrals began cropping up everywhere like a fast-food franchise to promulgate the religion. Waves of crusaders, missionaries, conquistadores and inquisitions spread and enforced the faith. The Gideons put a Bible in every hotel room. Schools taught religion and led students in prayer. With broadcast media, the televangelists began marketing Jesus. There was an ad for Jesus in the last Superbowl.