Therefore, if we're debating on belief systems and their overall benefit or cost to humankind, I have to say that a Christian belief system is very benign or beneficial. That would have to be intrinsicly true.
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I would agree for the most part, it's just that part of the Christian belief system "Everything God says and does is holy" causes problems, such as when people use it for political reasons and create needless amounts of death. It doesn't matter it the person claiming to speak for God believes or not or even is a True Christian, because the True Christians believe him and go out and create all the needless death.
There's also the whole dennying equal rights to women, gays, and a whole lot of silly laws that don't make sense anymore.
By the time a Christian reaches age 21, assuming s/he attended a 2-hour sermon every Sunday without fail, he/she spent a total of 91 days in church.
Could those 91 days have been better spent? Considering all the myriad books I've seen that purport to "Teach you XXX in 24 hours," you could have learned so many new skills instead of analyzing the same book, every week, for years on end.
Failure to recognize opportunity costs = just plain FAIL.
Have you ever stopped to consider if UCFSports is right? If he is, then he gains the kingdom of heaven. If he isn't, than he loses nothing!
But what if you're wrong!! What do you lose?
Think about that.
BCD, if God is all merciful,all loving and all forgiving, and is real, we lose nothing either.
@szena
While it is true the Bible teaches submission to state authority ("Give to Caesar what is Caeser's"), part of the Roman Empire's success was assimilating new cultures (in other words, creating a common Imperial identity). Part of this was based on assimilating religions i.e. you can worship whoever the hell you like as long as you pay homage to the Roman pantheon and the Emperor too. The mostly polytheistic provinces had no problem with this.
Now, Christianity is quite obviously incompatible with this, meaning the provinces got slightly annoyed when they lost the right to worship their own gods. In no way am I suggesting the conversion to Christianity single-handedly caused the collapse of the Empire, but it sure didn't help the ailing monolithic state.
bitch pwease.
the only religion beneficial to mankind is probably Buddhism, the kind they do in Tibet.
The pope is a rich, selfish asshole cramming out the bible.
the dalai llama is a humble, thinking, wise, and nice man.
see?
Confused?
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