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Originally Posted by mercuryrising  God is Love. And when love is a verb, it is Christ. What does it mean to have faith in God? To me, it means making love the priority over how much money I have or how right I might be. Maybe it's flimsy reasoning, but when my daughter hugs me, I know why it is the foundation of my life. |
Merc, I get that for YOU Love is Jesus and vice versa. This is not the case for all. Much of what's being debated here seems to be the literal versus the interpretational or alagorical meanings behind the dogma associated with the Christian Bible.
I don't know too many rational people who will argue that Jesus of Nazareth (or Jesus the Nazarene - two different things) existed as a historical figure. I also don't think there's too many here that disagree that the message Jesus preached (so far as we can tell more than 2,000 years after his death) based on writings that have survived were those of love and compassion. Show me someone who thinks that Love and Compassion are "wrong" emotions or "bad" and I'll show you someone who's not in touch with ANYTHING spiritual.
That being said, the original question was not, "What's your beef with Jesus?" It was "What's your beef with Christianity?" I'll take that to mean what the "religion" of Christianity has been made to be by hundreds of generations of Human Beings attaching their own personal interpretations of what Jesus MEANT by his message as well as those who seem to think that they somehow "know" they're right.