Religious Freedom

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Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

Unless you reject that this was a teaching of Christ as passed on by Paul. But once you do that, the Bible becomes worthless as a vehicle for passing on the teachings of Christ.

This basically sums up my feelings of the bible. Not that I believe in a Jesus as God or God's son either. If you look only at what Jesus is quoted to have said (which could be highly inaccurate, as Jesus himself didn't write anything down), then he has extremely little dogma. He professed himself to be son of God and to have insight into his kingdom, but I'd hardly call him a religious leader. Perhaps a leader of faith? Didn't he replace all laws before him with, and I paraphrase, "Love God with your whole mind, heart, and soul, and love your neighbor as yourself"? Sounds simple and dogma-less to me. If I could find it within me to believe in god, I could get on board with that.

The reconversion efforts have been high today from my mom, who thinks she can restore my faith in God by asking how everything got here and what the point of my life is without God. This discussion gets us nowhere, of course, because the theory of evolution makes about as much sense to her as lions flying helicopters would. I did find it comical that she thought she could get me to admit the bible is true by getting me to reject the Q'uran. Nice try, Mom.