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Why? If you are meant to question education, why not question pastors/vicars/preachers/televangelists/people of the cloth/faith healers/popes/bible thumpers/bis

Why? If you are meant to question education, why not question pastors/vicars/preachers/televangelists/people of the cloth/faith healers/popes/bible thumpers/bishops/fire and brimstone merchants and Archdeacons? why the double standard?

whiddershins 9y ago
The whole point of Christianity is faith. At least that's a very widespread interpretation with an educated basis. If you aren't factoring that in to your comment, it comes off a little like you are trolling or being facile. Accepting the literal truth of the resurrection of Jesus Christ as a point of faith is arguably the only working definition of a "Christian."
- jimjimjim 9y ago
  sigh, not trolling. why not question everything? If you have faith, why do you need to have churches? why don't churches start "red teams" to debate the Word. so that people can be reassured by the certainty of the teachings to bolster faith?
  - babyrainbow 9y ago
    >why not question everything? Because the point of belief is not finding truth (Doubt it ever was), but finding peace, comfort and may be a sense of community and togetherness..
    - secstate 9y ago
      Right. And the point of science is the exploration of demonstrable facts. Belief and knowledge are two separate domains, and never the twain shall meet.
  - whiddershins 9y ago
    The content of religious texts and the nuance of interpretation is debated heavily by tons of religious people. It's simply that if you believe more or less in the texts but don't have faith in that one fact, your beliefs are more in line with Jews or Muslims who believe Jesus was a prophet, but aren't so sold on the literal resurrection/savior/son of god/messiah aspect.
  - anigbrowl 9y ago
    A lot of hardcore evangelicals are actually not in favor of churches and prefer bible-reading peer groups, although these serve a similar function and are just as conformist, or more, than churches. I don't feel like digging up references for this right now. Follow some fundamentalist Christians on FB if you want to have a look into a very different reality tunnel.

whiddershins 9y ago

The whole point of Christianity is faith. At least that's a very widespread interpretation with an educated basis. If you aren't factoring that in to your comment, it comes off a little like you are trolling or being facile. Accepting the literal truth of the resurrection of Jesus Christ as a point of faith is arguably the only working definition of a "Christian."

jimjimjim 9y ago
sigh, not trolling. why not question everything? If you have faith, why do you need to have churches? why don't churches start "red teams" to debate the Word. so that people can be reassured by the certainty of the teachings to bolster faith?
- babyrainbow 9y ago
  >why not question everything? Because the point of belief is not finding truth (Doubt it ever was), but finding peace, comfort and may be a sense of community and togetherness..
  - secstate 9y ago
    Right. And the point of science is the exploration of demonstrable facts. Belief and knowledge are two separate domains, and never the twain shall meet.
- whiddershins 9y ago
  The content of religious texts and the nuance of interpretation is debated heavily by tons of religious people. It's simply that if you believe more or less in the texts but don't have faith in that one fact, your beliefs are more in line with Jews or Muslims who believe Jesus was a prophet, but aren't so sold on the literal resurrection/savior/son of god/messiah aspect.
- anigbrowl 9y ago
  A lot of hardcore evangelicals are actually not in favor of churches and prefer bible-reading peer groups, although these serve a similar function and are just as conformist, or more, than churches. I don't feel like digging up references for this right now. Follow some fundamentalist Christians on FB if you want to have a look into a very different reality tunnel.