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Well yeah for the most part you are right. I believe in god and stuff but i also know that there may not be any truth to my belief.

As far as “true christianity” goes you will never find it. Christianity is too subjective to have one concrete truth to it. There are some generalizations that apply to a large amount of it but the only core belief that most share is that Jesus was the son of god. And some of them don’t even think that may be true. The reason the more moderate and liberal of us don’t speak against it is because we don’t feel we should have to apoligize for the beliefs of what is more or less a small but heavily publicized group. Now i know you aren’t asking for an apology but that is the way most of us see it. Myself personally i speak out against it as much as possible. I am sick and tired of these fuckheads being associated with my faith and generally getting publicity. It’s like how a lot of americans think all muslims hate jews and christians and are terrorists. Some crazy factions get airplay and all of a sudden everyone thinks they represent the faith and all of its believers as a whole.

Nah, I doubt it’s their intention to claim every single last Christian believes in the ramblings of above nutjob. I’m an atheist, and I sure as hell don’t.

That said, it would be nice if more moderate, liberal Christians spoke out a little more loudly against fundamentalist idiocy, because if there’s one thing the fundamentalists are good at, it’s shouting extremely loudly about how they and their worldview couldn’t possibly be wrong, and more to the point, how their worldview represents “true” Christianity.

All that said, if this George Grant is the leader of Coral Ridge Ministries, that’s really creepy and scary; how scary depends on the size of his congregation and how successful they are at progressing their agenda.

@Smuggan: Christianism? I’m a Christianist. I believe in the existence of Christians.

Sorry, just poking fun. But yeah, I think that’s true. But it will probably come back. Religiosity, or at least religious adherence, seems to have a pendulum effect. And the dumb-ass loud angry fledgling parrot atheists are certainly up to doing their part to push it back in the other direction, sadly.

…I’m not having a great day, I should try not to take it out on the internets.

Despite my experiences I know better than to think all Christians are as such. But I certainly take issue with that sort of system, indoctrination, the idea of faith as a virtue, and dogma as a whole.

…not that you made any point to the contrary, just ranting.