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Old 08-17-2010, 10:15 AM   #53 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by levite View Post
And some of the Christians I've met actually manage to do a pretty impressive job of sorting through all the bullshit and actually living lives that Jesus (who, if he wasn't the Messiah, was still really a pretty damn good guy) would be proud of.
I was born and raised non-religious, and I don't believe in deities, but from what I know about core Christian teachings based on Jesus, and about the historical Jesus, I truly wish more people would live accordingly—the world would be a better place. The world would be a better place if more Christians were...more Christian.

I sometimes I wish I were Christian so I could defend my faith against these idiots. I do think Christianity has values worth defending.
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