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I've notice that this particular kind of retardery on the internet where people bemoan the church for narrow-minded thinking while making simple minded accusations against anyone with beliefs based in any religion and not considering the inherent hypocrisy of that stance.
Even I couldn't accuse the church of 'narrow minded thinking'. They believe in virgin birth and ressurection for goodness sake! Theres nothing narrow minded in that for sure.
I do however bemoan the fact that they happily base their lives around something that flys in the face of all known evidence to the contrary, and then expect to be taken seriously by the rest of us when they hold forth with opinions about sex/marriage/morals/life/rainforests/the universe and everything in between. And not only that, but whilst holding up their 'rule-book' as the definative and final word on any subject you can name, they simultaneously deny aspects of the same text that don't suit them.
I have, in a certain way, more respect for the rabid evangelical creationist than the moderate Christian.*
Whereas the rabid fundamentalist is quite happy in their astounding ignorance and lack of curiosity, to follow the bible as the literal 'word of God', all those half ***** believers who go to church once a week to keep up appearances and are the people I mentioned above who pick and choose wich bits they want to believe
this week, are the worst kind of hypocrites.
I'm not sure wether they are deluding themselves into believing that God wont notice their coveting their neighbours wife or their blaspheming, or that they are sitting in church totally comfortable with pretending to believe in the Virgin birth
as well as pretending to understand Darwinian Evolutionary theory.
I'm truly curious to know what moderate Christians believe in. And why.
If, Annabella, you are unable to see the difference between
my stance, wich is based in the 'scientific' realm of evidence and observation, and the Popes (or whichever religeous leader you care to name), wich is based in superstition and the supernatural, then thats fine. But I would appreciate it that if you are going to respond, that you do so after having a bit of a think first, and not just coming up with a crappy
"people bemoan the church for narrow-minded thinking while making simple minded accusations against anyone with beliefs based in any religion and not considering the inherent hypocrisy of that stance.. "load of bollox. My whole
point is that beliefs based in religion are by definition, simple minded, or at the very least completely lacking in basic curiosity or logic. Whilst that may have been acceptable to the population at large in the not so distant past when the Church
was the law, I find it impossible to understand in the 21st century when there has been so much progress made in the many fields of science to fully explain with
real proof,
real evidence how evolution or cosmology or chemistry or genetics actually function. And yet theres millions of people around the world who still refuse to acknowledge what is right in front of them, but still insist on clinging to a medievel superstition that tells them that 'God done it'.
*Written for effect. I have no respect whatsover for fundamentalists of any stripe.