kate4christ03 wrote:well wolf it seems you know nothing of christianity.
A false assumption, seeing as you know very little about me.
Quote:First off Christ's dying on the cross has no affect on our physical deaths. According to scripture its appointed unto all men to die (physically). His death on the cross was a sacrifice for our sins, so that we could have eternal life (in heaven with God). So if it appears that christians are obsessed with Christ's crucifixion, be aware we are just as obessessed with him rising from the grave!!!!!!!!!!! Because without these two things noone would have a chance at eternal life
But that's my point. Wouldn't it have been far better off to make things better for us in this world, than to have lots of suffering? That kind of thinking helps to promote a horrible, let them be attitude to things that quite a lot of right-wing Christians take on.
They don't care about helping people. They don't care about the suffering of others, because it can all be made better in the afterlife. That's no way to live.
Remember, it's this promise of a better afterlife that drives radicalised Muslims to blow themselves up on buses.
It's nihilist and not something Christians should focus on. In fact, many Christians don't focus on it. They focus more on the life we have. Christ's death on the Cross to many Christians I've met is an irrelevant part of their faith. It is his teachings that are far more important.
Saying I know nothing about Christianity is, if you would pardon my language, pure bullshit.
I went to two private schools, both of which were very heavy on ensuring I had a Christian upbringing. The first one insisted I said grace before every meal and worshipped God nearly every morning. In fact, the Scriptures teacher (yes, our class was called Scriptures) was so incompetent the only thing he taught us was Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Joseph, Moses, the four Gospels and Acts... every damned year.
If there's anything I can still remember, it's the Creation story, Joseph and his coat, Moses, Jesus and the Pentecost.
The second school was... actually, the second school was supposed to have been founded by a Bishop and you would have thought it was more religious than my first one, but because of its acceptance of pupils from all faiths (including all variations of Christianity) and countries, it was far more lax. It was also damned near impossible to force every child to say grace before their lunch, so they didn't bother.
