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Not when it discriminates and demonises another group of people, no.

Jesus didn't involve himself in politics.

Has Christianity even been about Jesus since Nicea and (later) The City of God?



Of fucking course it is discriminating you twit. Do you even know what the word means? You are making note of a characteristic of a set and making note of that as different than other sets, and then making some inference that set A is somehow better or worse than set B. For example: "eating babies is immoral; we should make note of this discrimination and act accordingly." What you mean to say is that the discrimination is justified.

Edited, Aug 11th 2008 10:38am by Pensive

You have no idea what that excerpt means do you?

Do you? It's not like we can ask the *******. Jesus has only a few things to say about church and state relations (in canonical materials). They are there, such as Jesus blessing the centurion and such, but for most church-state relations, we have to look to the saints.

For non canonical materials, (among other things) Pagels has actually presented the gospel of judas as a political commentary on martyrdom in early christian history, and how it shaped the political landscape of the time. Fascinating, really.

Edited, Aug 11th 2008 10:43am by Pensive

Like anything written in the bible, it's almost all up for interpretation, however, one point made there, is that religion and politics are separate issues. Varus was trying to dispute Joph's comment about Jesus not involving himself in politics.

And your faith of Christianity is better because...? Unless you're Roman Catholic, you're nothing more than another protestant break away from the "first" Church. And if you are, is Joph a bad Christian?

Edited, Aug 11th 2008 12:29pm by Uglysasquatch

Sorry to break your bubble, but you're not "humanity", mein scheissekopf Freund.