PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let's be civil.
Angnostics, and Atheists - assume we are talking about the diferences between two myths.
Christians - turn the other cheek.
Religious non-Christians - read if you are interested.
I tried to talk about what I knew in this thread HERE and I received a surprising number of PMs saying.
"Thank you. That was really helpful. I understand why some folks believe this and others believe that." etc?
Let?s explore this some more if anyone is interested. You don?t have to be Christian. We could be comparing the Norse Eddas and Finish Kalevala. I am not looking to convert, proselytize or any other sort of thing. This is simply to be descriptive, not normative. You don?t have to believe any of this. We could be talking about Klingon and Vulcan ideologies. I am not saying Kilngons are right, or the one true religion, I am just trying to codify their beliefs and compare and contrast them to Vulcan beliefs. So, lets all try to be civil, and no one insult another?s beliefs or egg another on. We do that all to often in other threads.
I find that a number of non-Christians have no real idea what Christians believe, but some non-Christians have an incredible wealth of knowledge about the theology. And, amongst Christians, there is, unfortunately, an incredible about of suspicion and lack of knowledge regarding different denominations.
Lets look at one source of the trouble, not to point fingers, but to show how animosity has lingered for over 500 years:
I think we can almost all agree the Catholic Church had become corrupt in the 1500?s.
Well, do you throw the baby out with the bath water or just sort of reform it a bit?
At issue is Will the British Empire be Catholic or Protestant?
Mary Queen of Scotts is the Monarch, and a Catholic.
John Knox is a Protestant, and believes that Mary does not even have the God given right to the Monarchy, which would then open the way for a Protestant Monarch.
He sites the ?curse on the woman? from Genesis 3:16
?Unto the woman He (God) said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.?
Well, obviously to John, this means we can?t have a woman ruling over men; therefore no woman can ever be a legitimate Monarch. All these ?good? Christians on both side proceeded to kill the heck out of each other for years, and to this day many Protestants believe Catholics are not Christians, and vice versa
Cliff's Notes
The question is not who is right. The question is where is a neutral web site that almost has a graph with denominations on one side and beliefs on the other axis.
Angnostics, and Atheists - assume we are talking about the diferences between two myths.
Christians - turn the other cheek.
Religious non-Christians - read if you are interested.
I tried to talk about what I knew in this thread HERE and I received a surprising number of PMs saying.
"Thank you. That was really helpful. I understand why some folks believe this and others believe that." etc?
Let?s explore this some more if anyone is interested. You don?t have to be Christian. We could be comparing the Norse Eddas and Finish Kalevala. I am not looking to convert, proselytize or any other sort of thing. This is simply to be descriptive, not normative. You don?t have to believe any of this. We could be talking about Klingon and Vulcan ideologies. I am not saying Kilngons are right, or the one true religion, I am just trying to codify their beliefs and compare and contrast them to Vulcan beliefs. So, lets all try to be civil, and no one insult another?s beliefs or egg another on. We do that all to often in other threads.
I find that a number of non-Christians have no real idea what Christians believe, but some non-Christians have an incredible wealth of knowledge about the theology. And, amongst Christians, there is, unfortunately, an incredible about of suspicion and lack of knowledge regarding different denominations.
Lets look at one source of the trouble, not to point fingers, but to show how animosity has lingered for over 500 years:
I think we can almost all agree the Catholic Church had become corrupt in the 1500?s.
Well, do you throw the baby out with the bath water or just sort of reform it a bit?
At issue is Will the British Empire be Catholic or Protestant?
Mary Queen of Scotts is the Monarch, and a Catholic.
John Knox is a Protestant, and believes that Mary does not even have the God given right to the Monarchy, which would then open the way for a Protestant Monarch.
He sites the ?curse on the woman? from Genesis 3:16
?Unto the woman He (God) said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.?
Well, obviously to John, this means we can?t have a woman ruling over men; therefore no woman can ever be a legitimate Monarch. All these ?good? Christians on both side proceeded to kill the heck out of each other for years, and to this day many Protestants believe Catholics are not Christians, and vice versa
Cliff's Notes
The question is not who is right. The question is where is a neutral web site that almost has a graph with denominations on one side and beliefs on the other axis.