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Originally posted by CSflim
The point is, that all religions make various statements of FACT.
Christianity (in its undiluted, non wishy-washy form) says:
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I'll take exception to that. There is no good evidence that Jesus intended any sort of credal faith in starting his movement. To say that Christianity is undiluted when it is credal is to fundamentally ignore the history of the early Church. I understand that fundamentalism, post-reformation orthodoxy, and biblical literalism seem like they are the real Christianity, but the truth is that they are not. What does Christianity say in its undiluted form? Why not ask Jesus?
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...a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. ‘Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?’ He said to him, ‘”You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.” This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.’
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That, that is an examples of undiluted Christian teaching. Original sin is a construction of Aquinas, The Godhood of Christ and the virgin birth are Nicean additions, the five fundamentals come from the 1900s... So , i ask you to cease making statement about what True Christianity is about...becuase you have shown a propensity to singluarly focus on a specific strain, while deligitimating others. Why? I don't know...but it troubles me. You obviously have no love for fundamentalist belief, so i'm forced to believe that you are simply using a strawman, using the guilt and fear constructs of fundamentalist belief to try to force people out of mainline to liberal views, and then turn around and use those same constructs to attack fundamentalism.
All you are proving is that fundamentalism is hard to defend logically...