Tom Delay: Political hack, or nutjob? You decide.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Prudence

And I guess I don't have a problem with him believing that. He's welcome to think that his brand of Christianity is the answer -- even the ONLY answer. Neither he nor anyone else is welcome to require me to live as if his or her brand of Christianity was the only answer.

Welcome to believe that his beliefs are definitive, of course. However, I still think that someone who believes that their own beliefs are definitive has a distorted view of reality. Nevermind that Delay wasn't even talking about his own beliefs, but rather Christianity in a more general sense. Now there's a REAL perception problem if one calls "Christianity" definitive. If no two people can agree in full as to what Christianity teaches, then how can one rightly declare the whole of the religion definitive?

I have my own beliefs, shaped largely by my identity as a Jew. However I'm not so deluded as to think that there is no chance that I'm wrong. I believe I'm right, but that doesn't make it definitive, let alone the only definitive answer.