Are LIBERAL Christians just a bunch of latent atheists and heretics?
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I DONT KNOW SO HERE IS A QUOTE THAT WILL SOOTHE YOUR BUSY, OVER-INDULGED MIND:  (george carlin)\n\n\n...rather than becoming just another mindless, religious robot, blindly believing that everything is in the hands of some spooky, incompetent father figure who doesn't give a shit, I decided to look around for something else to worship. Something I could really count on. And immediately, I thought of the sun. \nSun worship is fairly simple. There's no mystery, no miracles, no pageantry, no one asks for money, there are no songs to learn, and we don't have a special building where we all gather once a week to compare clothing. And the best thing about the sun... it never tells me I'm unworthy. It doesn't tell me I'm a bad person who needs to be saved. Hasn't said an unkind word. Treats me fine.\n\nSo I worship the sun.
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You are the victim of a godless university system.  In the US especially, liberal professors make it their goal to destroy the faith of Christians.  Most succeed.\n\nSomething to consider:  If the Bible was written only by humans, without help from God, how is it that 1/3 of the Bible is prophecy?  (History written in advance.)  And no, these are not so vague that you could make anything fit them.\n\nAlfred Edersheim was a 19th century Bible scholar. He was Jewish, and researched the various Messianic prophecies, and discovered that the Jewish Messiah was in fact Jesus of Nazareth.\n\nHe wrote a book called "The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, and in it, he listed 456 separate Messianic Prophecies that Jesus alone fulfilled.\n\nNow, some philosophers may attempt to discredit these by saying that Jesus learned these, and adapted His life to fit them.  But, how does one manipulate where he was born?  Who would willingly face a gruesome torture and death if He were not truly who He said He was?
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I reworded it to say liberal Christians.
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I think the term is indeed applied to liberally. It seems that everyone is a "good Christian" if they attend church. I find this extremely funny, as most of those "good Christians" in church, live anything but a Christian life the other 6 days of the week.
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I think you are wrong. True there are some Christians who try every chance they get to cram down your throat their version of their religion. And is it also true that in other religions that same type of narrow middle zealots exist. So the problem really is one of the zealots not getting along and not the billions of us left in the world who do get along.
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...except for the fact that liberals are Godless.
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I'm Christian. Women are viewed in a better light, and liberalism is more acceptable (we don't ALL have to believe everything in the Bible literally).
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Unfortunately, a lot of people who claim to be Christians are pretty stupid.  A lot of them don't know what they believe, let alone why they should believe it.  This is, in part, a product of the culture in which we live.  The pluralism and relativism that dominate much of American thinking tend to preclude intelligence.  Despite the increasing focus on academic credentials in our society, it is still highly anti-intellectual.  Whatever lip service is given to critical thinking skills in schools, I've heard very little of it in the class room.  So... in essence, I would say that, because there are a lot of stupid people in the world and because Christians are people, there are a lot of stupid Christians.\n\n...or is this question sarcastic and you're just being a narrow-minded bigot who doesn't know a thing about Christianity?
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I doubt it. There is a long tradition of Christian intellectualism (just ask the Jesuits). Read contemporary theological commentators like Spong and Borg and try to suggest that they're in possession of low IQs. Personally, I'm religious and hold a doctorate, something not generally awarded to idiots. Of course, I also know some very intelligent atheists...as well as a few prize-winning morons of that persusion. There are both bright and ignorant people from both camps, believing and non-believing.
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This is a GREAT question,(for me anyway)because it touches on two points that have been driving me crazy lately. The first is the intolerance some people display towards Christians. I have a hard time understanding how someone can call themselves a liberal and state that they stand for tolerance and understanding but then down people who are practicing Christians. It's a double standard and hypocritical to boot. Every issue in this country seems to gravitate to ridiculous extremes-there's never a sensible and practical middle ground. Though I believe firmly in seperation of church and state (which our forefathers took months to painstakingly state in the constitution, and with very good reason)I cannot think of one good reason why a child quietly saying grace over his school lunch should be so offensive to some that he should be expelled from school. It's not like he was standing on the tables preaching or anything. Just silently thanking God for the food he had that so many in the world are forced to do without. It's absolutely shameful. Such people are not liberals in any literal sense of the term, but rather small people with set ideas and closed minds-inflexible in their thinking and intolerant of other points of view. You don't like the term progressive regarding such people and neither do I. I call them "Left Wing Conservatives" because their thinking is just as rigid and inflexible as their right wing counterparts. They have an agenda, and they follow it thoughtlessly. \nI think this stems from an innate human need to feel superior and special in some way.  Many, many people find something that works for them and, out of this need, become convinced that their way is the ONLY way. Stupid, yes, arrogant, yes but that's how it seems to work.\nThat being said, let me lob one at the other extreme and say that I'm really tired of hearing certain elements of the Christian Right raving about how oppressed and persecuted the poor helpless Christians are. Let me explain something to you folks-Christianity is by far the majority religion in this country. It is also the richest and has the greatest representation in our government. The Christian Right has more politicians in their pocket than EVERY OTHER religious group in this country combined. People opposing you from passing legislation to impose your religious beliefs on others regardless of what their own beliefs may be does not constitute oppression. What they are doing is resisting YOUR attempts to oppress them.  Again, ridiculous extremes. When in all of history has the group with the largest numbers, the most power, and by far the most money been considered oppressed? It's crap! \nThe extremists on both sides are the problem.  They shout the loudest because that's the only way they can get people to listen to their idiocy. Neither side has a monopoly on intolerence and self righteousness. My solution: Take 1% out of the military budget and build a huge city on some piece of land that no one cares about-White Sands Arizona would be my vote, but other wastelands such as Detroit or Hoboken would work as well. Build a big wall around it and then move all the extremists from both sides in there where they can shout, stomp and do whatever else to each other all they want while the segment of the population with enough sense to pound sand gets on with the business of improving the country. It'll be a better world without 'em. But maybe that's just a little extreme....
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Liberals do not like the "under God" line in it.  After all.... they think they are gods and do not want to be reminded that here is one and they are not him.  Then, they might have to humle themselves before Him.\n\nSue
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Most of the liberals are secular or atheist, or believe in weird kind of religion.
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Yes because most right wing Christians are pussies who worship Bush as opposed to God. They are fine with war as long as it is not their blood being shed. Most of them are wimps who wouldn't fight anyway.
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Clearly not. Left wingers don't believe in God; so their religion is their left wing ideaology, and their high priest taking care of morals is the university professor of philosophy. God help them, and us, because they are in power.
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No.  they'll feel that it's an obvious liberal Democrat ploy to discredit the evangelical christians that form the base of the Republican party.
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Well, I'm an extreme left-wing liberal Atheist, and some of my BEST friends are extreme right-wing conservative Christians/Catholics.\n\nIt's pretty simple, we don't talk about it.\n\nAnd if we do, we listen to each other's opinions and move on.  We don't try to change each other's minds or disrespect our beliefs/non-beliefs.
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You Right-Wing Anti-Freedom Fundie Christians will believe anything you read. For all you know that website was created by a conservative trying to make all liberals look bad. Not all liberals are so rebellious, just like even though you're extremely self-centered, prejudice, and judgemental (some Christian), I realize that all Republicans aren't as bad as you.