Recently bling said
"I am personally responsible for Christ being tortured humiliated and murdered on the cross.*
That takes lot of explaining and time."
This doesn't make any sense to me, so let's discuss it. To me, it seems pretty simple. Being Christian, bling would be like the many admirers and followers of Jesus and weep at the spectacle. He wouldn't be cheering the torturers on. Regarding myself, I also wouldn't campaign for the torture of anyone today, so I definitely wouldn't campaign for it in first century Palestine. Why assume that I would? That sounds hideous. I'd be the sort to avoid such a gathering of religious nutters. We see extremist Muslims engaging in the same sort of behavior today. This isn't my kind of scene.
That it takes a tremendous amount of explication to convey the idea isn't surprising to me. If it's a required belief of Christianity, it seems like a huge and unnecessary cognitive obstacle. I'd like to how people who believe it explain it in more detail.
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"I am personally responsible for Christ being tortured humiliated and murdered on the cross.*
That takes lot of explaining and time."
This doesn't make any sense to me, so let's discuss it. To me, it seems pretty simple. Being Christian, bling would be like the many admirers and followers of Jesus and weep at the spectacle. He wouldn't be cheering the torturers on. Regarding myself, I also wouldn't campaign for the torture of anyone today, so I definitely wouldn't campaign for it in first century Palestine. Why assume that I would? That sounds hideous. I'd be the sort to avoid such a gathering of religious nutters. We see extremist Muslims engaging in the same sort of behavior today. This isn't my kind of scene.
That it takes a tremendous amount of explication to convey the idea isn't surprising to me. If it's a required belief of Christianity, it seems like a huge and unnecessary cognitive obstacle. I'd like to how people who believe it explain it in more detail.
People who can't participate in this thread:
JimL, Tassman, shunyadragon
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