Anyone may be saved. God said so, and He’d know. The statistical likelihood of salvation, however, differs between groups and dispositions. That’s a personal choice.
Christianity has existed for ~2,000 years not because of the sword or the pen, but because its ideological views more closely align with objective reality than any other religion. Where other ideologies require the sword or the pen, Christianity ‘touches the heart’ because the body innately recognizes its behaviors as ‘most beneficial.’
10 comments
Whether or not Christianity would have required the sword, realiter, Christians most certainly have been very much willing and eager to use it once it established itself in power. As for “the pen”… Christianity is based on an extensive corpus of scripture, including the written correspondence of its most influential early missionary, and it has used education and administrative expertise as tools of spreading and perpetuating itself and its power since at least the Carolingians, so whatever the hell this is even supposed to mean, it is even more counterfactual.
PS:
"The statistical likelihood of salvation, however, differs between groups and dispositions. That’s a personal choice.”
“Christianity has existed for ~2,000 years not because of the sword or the pen, but because its ideological views more closely align with objective reality"
“Where other ideologies require the sword or the pen, Christianity ‘touches the heart’ because the body innately recognizes its behaviors as ‘most beneficial.’”
Protestants and Catholics spent nearly 300 years killing each other over the question of which was the best way to touch people's hearts. And in the end, with casualties estimated as high as 8 million deaths, they declared a draw, so it was all for nothing.
Christianity has existed for ~2,000 years not because of the sword or the pen, but because its ideological views more closely align with objective reality
Until recent years, the reality that was the decades-long Troubles in Northern Ireland, which proves your opinions wrong: Catholic IRA vs. Protestant UVF.
Can you cay ‘Ian Paisley’ OP…?!
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
To post a comment, you'll need to Sign in or Register . Making an account also allows you to claim credit for submitting quotes, and to vote on quotes and comments. You don't even need to give us your email address.
