what's the general tpot vibe on christianity? asking for, um, a friend
- am christian18.5%
- jesus is aight42.8%
- seems sketch28.1%
- v bad10.6%
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i think the view of it i acquired when i was like 10 and atheism discourse was a hot topic was extremely oversimplified. reading stuff like c.s. lewis is giving me a more nuanced picture of the best of what christianity has to offer
i'm thinking back to the oldschool stuff like "the bible says being gay is bad" and just being like... why did any of these people trust *english translations* of the bible??? obviously to really understand the will of god you have to read the bible in the original aramaic or w/e
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Hm, I think most old religions do in fact contain lots of despicable exhortations. The only way religions survive is by continuous adaptation to their environment, finding ways around legacy impositions that become unacceptable.
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it's a major problem that most sides of the key debates don't send their best representatives, they send their hottest takers. Takes a long time to figure out who to listen to about any given topic
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this is a leading failure mode amongst atheists too. They spar with the worst representatives of a theology and conclude incorrectly it's all a big nothingburger.
Atheists usually be doing the equivalent of interrogating Donald Trump about principles behind the US Constitution
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