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| get drunk and be somebody, interfaith marriage, female comics, anger, ha ha, drunk naked, australia, experiential names, mcsweeney's, open publishing, drunk college girl, orgin of symmetry, journalblog journalspace, uncensored, woomera, melbourne, igor, judaism, 1999, | This is my point on the issue of behavior (includign my own) and faith. Leaving specifics of liberal and conservative aside, and acknowledging that any deeply held belief impacts one's behavior, the central point is not about 1999 cricket world cup human behavior, but the nature of God. It's only human arrogance and desire to manipulate the power of faith for personal power and gain that have convinced so many people otherwise. Posted by: veruca | Dec 21, 1999 cricket world cup 2004 11:26:06 AM veruca: I don't intend to use this comment section for a full fledged theological debate. I'm uncertain 1999 cricket world cup from your post, though, whether you are troubled by Christianity itself (as in a set of beliefs) or more so the concrete manifestations of it in human institutions (the church) over history? I'm troubled by both. I think Christianity is nonsense, and I think it's harmful. |
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| In terms of this: "Christianity has always been to a very great extent about regulating behavior, about distinguishing right behavior from interfaith marriage wrong behavior." I'll agree with you on the historical point that this is what the church has often emphasized, but I'll also disagree that this is the actual core interfaith marriage of the faith itself. Christ's sermon on the mount is largely about how simply following "right" behavior is insufficient; the deeper concerns are what's interfaith marriage in a person's heart and their relationship towards God and others. This quality of the heart, I would argue, is more the concern liberal Christians have about how their conservative bretheren respond to homosexuality, women, etc, than simply behavior in and of itself. On the opposite side of the coin, the primary gospel conflict between Christ and the Pharisees, that lead to his death, is over his criticism of their over reliance on minute regulation of behavior, which made them and their behavior the center of religion, rather than God--precisely the opposite of Christ's message. |
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