Quote Originally Posted by Alexi
Quote Originally Posted by Линдзи
Look, I'm a Christian too. But I don't live in some crazy parallel universe where Christianity in general is some ultimate religion of peace. Christ's principals are soundly compassionate and peaceful, but Christianity as a religion has hardly been the vanguard of decency in this world, especially back in the day. At the end of the day, Christians are just people, and people do @@@@ things. They do really amazing and wonderful things, but they do @@@@ things as well.
True. Even for people who are more secular than religious, teachings from Christianity have a lot to offer. I just hate it when people become too righteous, doing or saying stupid things, and hiding behind a faith. This includes Fundamentalist Christians, Islamic Terrorists and *ahem* followers of other faiths
Yep yep. Frankly, I don't think any religion is actually PEACEFUL, per se, since they are, by definition, being practiced by human beings. The principals of the religion can be peaceful, but the religion itself cannot be. Does that make any sense?

I'm not trying to cut religion down here - I'm a pretty religious person, actually. I'm just recognizing the problems inherent to any human system.

Quote Originally Posted by Cannon
Look, I'm a Christian too. But I don't live in some crazy parallel universe where Christianity in general is some ultimate religion of peace.
Christianity IS a religion of peace. Heretic barbarians of the middle ages do not define Christianity. Christianity is defined by the teachings of Christ. People who behave otherwise in the name of Christianity are not Christians, but heretics.
Yeah, but by dint of being human, people cannot follow 100% of Christ's teachings 100% of the time. None of us share His perfection. You're a Catholic, you know about the doctrine of original sin, right? We can't all be heretics, just because we're not perfectly following the word of Christ. So where is the line drawn? Christians are constantly getting inappropriately pissed off at people, because they're human. Sometimes they act on that anger. That's not peaceful or Christ-like. Luckily, there is forgiveness.

Honestly, I'd rather acknowledge that Christianity is not a religion of peace than believe that it's impossible to be a non-heretical Christian.

Quote Originally Posted by Pravit
Uh oh. This is starting to get a little more incestuous than usual, cousin. But as long as I don't find out that my crush is actually my twin brother, things will be okay.

Yuck, Star Wars. I never could understand the craze.
I was referring to that post where you were like "Yay! Misanthropy! Let's all jump on the bus!" Then later Mike was like, "A real misanthrope would not ride a bus with other people. He would (something about a dog and a car, etc., then something about you becoming his son, although you'd need to have a sex change for it to happen)." The thread was titled "Why don't you like Americans", I think.

Oh, don't worry, my dear cousin, I do remember that. I knew what you were talking about. I was merely commenting that I think Star Wars is dull (which is not to say that our Star Wars-esque discussion was boring, simply that the films themselves put me to sleep). Except Darth Vader, he was a-okay. I'd totally join him. Boring-ass Jedis, you can have them. I want a scary mask.