The history of the Christian faith is full of collisions between the people who believed and the people who did not. Adhering to the faith when it is unfashionable, unpopular, even dangerous is the true test of whether you joined a church or a social club.
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Replying to @baseballcrank
Yes, but the history of Christianity changes based on how we interpret writings as our knowledge advances. There's a vast difference between a very fundamentalist religion and one that is more 'liberal/progressive' in their teachings, but both would claim to believe in Christ.
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Replying to @NumbersMuncher
Adhering to Scripture, tradition, & two millennia of learning is not fundamentalist, it just takes religious sources as the starting point rather than a malleable tool to fit where we want to go. Like MAGA folks who decide on a leader, then rewrite their principles around him.
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Replying to @baseballcrank
I can't agree with that simply because since the Bible was composed/compiled ~1,500 years ago we have learned so much about the history behind it. That doesn't mean you throw it away, but that you learn from the teachings within it and understand that it's not literal history.
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Replying to @NumbersMuncher @baseballcrank
I think there's more power to the teachings of Jesus when you focus on the lessons he taught and treat everyone with kindness, forgiveness, and love. To me fundamentalism is trying to view everything through the lens of a literal Bible, which is just not a tenable position to me
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Replying to @NumbersMuncher
If you're asking the Church to walk away from the words of Christ in the Gospels and the letters of Paul, you're asking it to walk away from its very reason for existing.
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Replying to @baseballcrank
The thing is that Paul was a man just like everyone else who was trying to push his narrative on how a church should be founded. Again, that doesn't mean that there's no value in his writings, but Paul was writing his own worldview as a man - not as God.
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Replying to @NumbersMuncher @baseballcrank
I sort of nodded along like different strokes for different folks until this one, which is where things really start to go off the rails.
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(unless you're just interpreting Christianity as a philosophy like stoicism except it claims a God, in which case fine, but I'm not sure any Christian denomination embraces this (except maybe Episcopalians?))
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