The concepts above of what a religious person is, especially a Christian, are infantile, superficial, and from the outside looking in.
I am not religious, nor a Christian, George, (the way secularists see a Christian to be and the way relgious people expect a Christian to be). I have written this before many times.
And, even if I were religious, I wouldn’t be doing good deeds to get others to convert to my religion, like Chris wrote above. How stupid. For every two white-shirted Mormons walking the streets proselytizing, there are 50,000 Christians worshipping God on their own, and 5,000 Christians doing good in their neighborhoods because there is a NEED. (My stats are ball park, at best, but you get my drift.)
Furthermore, Chris, if you think your time spent in religion, which obviously went rather unwell, authorizes you to correct someone according to your version of what it means to be “religious”, you think like a person looking back on an accident they walked away from without lifting a finger. Keep walking. Stop talking in support of your religious friends. Your “eye” on the needy is not worthy to tie their shoes before they walk out of houses and do something about it.
In a word, when someone chooses to “go it alone” in the world, they usually don’t “go anywhere” except the places that benefit themselves. This is the meaning behind this thread, not trying to turn atheists into religious. Just to get them to see the value of such people in the world.
Now, George (since you asked), your Bible quotes are really nice. (Being a bit facetious here.) I follow them often and everywhere. My days are filled with smiles to old people and young people, and quick conversations (when I can) to those I meet who get within my “circle”, as I think of it. I often take long looks, rather than the modern world’s preoccupied “passing glance”, at people’s faces (especially the elderly) to muster compassion and purge apathy, from deep inside me. (Try it sometime.) But, here, on Project Reason, where most of the posters are militant atheists promoting the purging of religion from the world, and the existence of human thought devoid of the spirit of God as the TRUTH—well, let’s just say, all bets are off. These people deserve what they get. And, most importantly, such people look at good and decent “Christians” as dubious, ignorant, superstitious, and IN NEED OF BEING EDUCATED BY THEM. So, being a good and decent Christian on Project Reason would not only be an exercise in futility, but also an exercise in swimming with the sharks. They call me a “chew toy” even now, after I slap them around thoroughly and often. Imagine what they would think if I became all lovey-dovey.
You, as an example, immediately thought yourself a superior “thinker” to me, and arrogantly announced your sometimes need to “chew” on believers in God.
So I stopped you in your tracks and knocked out your teeth. And, this is, too, the power of the spirit of God.
Something tells me, if Jesus was here (he actually said he still is, through his spirit), he would read the posts on Project Reason and say: “You generation of snakes! How can you, being evil men, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart.” (Not, “peace be with you”.)
I guess the question becomes: “What is the heart of Project Reason now, since atheists have taken over, and secularism is a distant second?”
Is it to promote the “good” of humanity? Or is it to promote the “good” of atheism?
