varusword75 wrote:
Aripya,
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The Bible also tells people to do certain things. The majority of which get ignored by modern practising Christians.
You're projecting. It's obvious you don't know anything about practising christians. It's also obvious you don't know anything about christianity as a religion.
Sad that you have to go to such lengths to attack christians in a transparent attempt to compare them to muslims.
Hmm... one year of University Bible studies and Archeology (Ancient, Middle Eastern) during which I compulsorily read the whole Bible, along with learning to draw comparisons between (admittedly translated into English) Quumram texts, old long known apocrypha and The Bible. Extensive lectures on the same, as well as exercises in interpreting ancient, Old and New Testament era texts for a modern audience, and interpreting incomplete texts, with the help of other existing evidence.
Being one of the faculty, even though one of the lowly undergrads, asked to proof-read and critique the reasoning of a paper by one of my lecturers that used some Qumran texts to provide added context to some of the New Testament passages in the Bible, that put forth a surprising but amazingly cogent argument that the apostle Paul was a spy for the Romans, and was used as an agent to help integrate the Jewish people into the Roman Empire. Being part of the circle of people contacted by the Vatican over said controversial paper. Participating in being disturbed by being contacted by the Vatican over this paper, since none of us contacted
them. One semester on Islamic studies. No other direct studies of Christianity, except for three years on an Art major (including architecture) that largely covered reading Christian art and architecture.
Fourth year on Middle-ages and Medieval Christian philosophers.
I'm sorry. I can't be a practising Christian, I know too much about its creation and history.
St Augustine was a ******.
And I'm such a ****** for alowing Varus to bait me.
Edited, Aug 31st 2010 2:00pm by Aripyanfar