Lan Barnes wrote:
On Sun, March 25, 2007 11:29 pm, Bob La Quey wrote:
On 3/25/07, Christian Seberino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You didn't answer the question..unless you think Christianity teaches
one
to be sexually repressed, superstitious and unreasonable? Can you show
me
where in the New Testament it says that? I'm not sure your own comments
are, to use your words, "conclusions of reason".
Chris
The problem Chris, is not the New Testament.
The problem definitely _is_ the new testament. Read Paul's epistles. He
was anti-sex, anti-woman, and a huge blue-nose. Sheesh, it's all in the
book, plain as the nose on your face ... why should I even have to argue
it?
You didn't read closely enough. He is nothing like the way you attempt
to portray him. But then again, you are obviously quite jaded against
Christianity, the Bible, and anything else of that color.
'Course anyone who choses to get his/her life wisdom from the rantings of
a 2,000 year old minor apostate rabbi deserves pretty much what he gets.
And BTW, before you dump a well deserved load on the Puritans, please
don't ignore the thousand years of Catholic (East and West) anti-sexual
woman-hating tradition, a tradition still in force today.
Catholicism is not Christianity. *Among* their teachings, they have the
teachings of Christianity (if you're ever priviledged enough to be
around when it happens to make it to the surface).
The beginnings of Catholicism took Christanity and bastardized it. They
mingled it with paganism in such a way that they could appear to offer
the best of both worlds. The true Christians of the day were too scared
for their lives to rock the boat. After all, before Constantine, they
were being fed to the lions, and sawed in two, and various other
torturous deaths. I'm sure they didn't want to expose the fraud being
presented just so they could go back to the senseless martyrdoms.
Catholicism hasn't changed much. But among the Catholics, there have
been Christians. There have been a few who were priviledged enough to
see the Scriptures for themselves (the priesthood desired to keep the
people away from the Bible, kind of like Lan). Martin Luther was a
Christian even though the Catholic leaders at the time apparently were not.
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