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Originally Posted by Liminal Chris  I think is message is aimed at a different audience: the HARDCORE Christian. As you have stated in the quote, you gave up religion. You don't fall in this category anymore. You aren't the Pope is infallible, Gays are evil, Jesus is my lord and savior, listen to my priest/pastor as a master, slave-type. I think his audience is people who probably are not reading these boards because they aren't driven to seek out new ideas and ask questions.. |
Then the problem is with infinitethoughts and his labeling of the thread. That is why I asked what His intent was before I replied. Did he really want to know where I found truth and what sect I belonged to and did he really mean to imply that the number of Christian sects indicted the falsehood of worshipping Christ?
Since the posts were making fun of the names of the churches, I expected Him to be more diligent in naming his thread. If he had named his thread "I want to be the liberator of religious nuts who may not know that other religions aka spiritual belief systems exist....the existence of which proves them all false...with the use of sarcastic puns and vague counterposts" then I wouldn't have responded. As he said, it's all in the labels. The label said Christian, which to me does not mean blinded fool any more than it means free spirited thinker. It is one who follows or is trying to follow Christ who, by the way, hated religion also. That's what persecuted and crucified Him and what He came to save us from, to let us know we can all now go to the source, that God is our father and even the very hairs on our head are numbered, and on and on.
Yes, Jesus is my Lord and Savior and I have opinions or "beliefs" (kinda scared to use that word or even "thought" because a thought might lead to a belief and then what) about the Pope and homosexuality and the role of submitting to your pastor or the leader of the sect but you don't really know if I am one or those or not. Obviously you have a belief about what a Christian should believe.
If you mean to imply again that because Jesus is my Lord that I could not also be drawn to Steve's website because of his integrity and accomplishments and sincere desire to help others grow, while at the same time respecting the intent of his heart in areas where we differ, well then, that's another of your beliefs.
I just get the impression that infinitethoughts thinks that I don't understand what a belief system is and how it can influence the way we process new input or thoughts and that awareness of our own can make us less prone to manipulation or of doing things we don't understand but I do understand. I just think he is blind to his own belief system that God could not possibly be trying to speak to the world through Jesus and some people have heard Him and still respond to the label of Christian.