At 12:15 AM Tuesday 11/6/2007, Charlie Bell wrote: >On 06/11/2007, at 12:51 PM, Dave Land wrote: > > > > I have called myself a Christian, but I despise the disease that > > crawls among us and advertises itself by that name. > >As Gandhi said when asked what he thought of Western Civilization: "It >would be a good idea..." and that's how I see modern religion, >especially Christianity. > > > I do not believe that Christianity is mainly > about morality. I believe that plenty of people > > over the centuries have tried to portray it as such, but the "morality" > > of Jesus was something that most self-proclaimed moralists would decry > > as bleeding-heart liberalism today. > >Yep. > > > > Make no mistake about it: Jesus would be just as unpopular with most > > people who call themselves Good Christians™ today as he was among > > those who called themselves Good Jews™ back then. > >Certainly he would be unpopular. He'd certainly not recognise his >teachings in the megachurches or the hatred of the Right as espoused >by Coulter or Falwell or whatever. And the greed and shortsightedness >of conservatism,
I take it that "conservatism" has about as much relation to being truly conservative as "religiosity" has to actual religious belief and how those who believe should live their lives and relate to others? Terminology Maru -- Ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
