HelenM

Practically speaking though, do you think that people with 'a watered-down view of Christianity' perpetuate the things about Christianity that you find objectionable?

I thought it was 'fundies' who did that. People with 'watered-down' Christianity tend to be more left in their politics - or at least least dogmatic if they are right-wing and they don't tend to go in for aggressive evangelism - in my experience.

What do you think, Don? What are people with 'watered down Christianity' actually doing i the world which bothers you?

I don't see them as being particularly sustaining of fundamentalism because fundamentalists see them as non-Christians anyway. In fact fundamentalists probably see them as more 'the enemy' than outright nonbelievers in some ways, since these 'wrongly-believing-Christians' are going to confuse and deceive others with half-truths...

Oh, I suppose they might perpetuate theism by making it seem more reasonable...but again, what iare the practical problems of that, given that it is 'watered-down'?

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Helen

echidna

Don, I’m sure you don’t deny that there are some positives associated with the more liberal edges of humanist Christianity.

Why must you change these liberal Christians to your worldview ? I think many / most of them are quite happy for people such as yourself to choose atheism.

Different worldviews suit different people and some prefer more spirituality than others. Because you follow a more secular belief system, does this make them wrong ?

Does this make atheism the only acceptable worldview ? For myself, acceptance of others and a strong degree of pluralism is an important part of humanism. Intolerance of worldview can be interpreted as being non-humanistic.

No this doesn’t mean I have to accept violence and coercion as humanistically acceptable BTW, but I think you’ll find nor do liberal Christians, and nor do enlightened atheists.

Yours in agnosticism.

Aaron

On liberal Christianity and fundamentalist Christianity:

You can either destroy both, or destroy neither- as long as one is alive and healthy, the Bible- one of the most depraved books ever written- has its lifeblood, and as long as the Bible stands, either can make a comeback. All of the cancer must be cut out.