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While some Christians might subscribe to the sort of faith you describe, there are a great many whose picture of God is perhaps a bit more nuanced. There's an
by wcarey 16y ago
While some Christians might subscribe to the sort of faith you describe, there are a great many whose picture of God is perhaps a bit more nuanced.
There's an enormous, detailed, thoughtful tradition of systems thinking in Christianity. That tradition began with Paul, whose letter to the Romans is a systematic attempt to understand the relationship of Jesus of Nazareth to the established Jewish beliefs of the time. It continues (notably; these are my favorites) with Aquinas, Augustine, Luther, Calvin, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Barth, Bonhoeffer, and von Batlhasar.
Far from uncritical belief in a threatening assertion, the theological tradition has produced several (some mutually exclusive!) systems of belief that appeal to reason as well as faith.
- stretchwithme 16y agoyeah, there are many complex ways of talking people into things
- stretchwithme 16y agoand just because people have nuanced explanations now doesn't they didn't start believing in the first place due to all the hellfire and repetition. A lot of this takes place when we are kids. Conditioning is often around for a long time.
- Turing_Machine 16y agoRight. Nuanced is the precise word. It appears that what the author actually encountering is resistance to off-topic proselytizing. Donald Knuth and Larry Wall, to name two, make no secret of their Christianity and it doesn't seem to have harmed their reputations to any significant degree. :-)
- stretchwithme 16y agoyes, people can be logical in some areas and not in others. just because some one is religious doesn't mean they can't use their minds and do great work