11-26-2012, 11:18 PM
"Then on top of this we have a barbed wire PC thinking that says something like this:-
(I'm sure plenty will disagree with this view)"
It's obvious that plenty will disagree, as you say. So when you say something, and the argument is "that's only your opinion": while that's true, it's also true that people are going to act on their opinions if the opinions actually mean anything to them. People are going to go out and do things that might very well end up affecting many others in direct and indirect ways. Online, I've seen how people argue over topics only for the sake of venting anger or showing off. And it's the same with political news interviews and things like that. And one big reason for this is that if you actually cut through the shit and and take serious action, somebody will kill you or lock you up. Online and on TV and radio, people can play-act at being radical all day; it all blends in with entertainment, and it's just a show like pro wrestling.
"(and for me as a Christian)"
Anti-Christians, and Churches and people like Saint Paul, they take what we have of the story and teachings of Jesus (regardless of what you believe about the Gospels) and they spin it all around, and make it accessible for the very society Jesus said led to all the hell fire/gnashing of teeth stuff.
The very people that control and influence Jesus' teachings for us are opponents of those teachings. And we know that's part of this "conditioning"; the teachings of Jesus take the Old Testament, and say cut through the shit to the heart of humanity... and then they build a New Testament around the heart of those teachings using a bunch of the same old shit.
(I'm sure plenty will disagree with this view)"
It's obvious that plenty will disagree, as you say. So when you say something, and the argument is "that's only your opinion": while that's true, it's also true that people are going to act on their opinions if the opinions actually mean anything to them. People are going to go out and do things that might very well end up affecting many others in direct and indirect ways. Online, I've seen how people argue over topics only for the sake of venting anger or showing off. And it's the same with political news interviews and things like that. And one big reason for this is that if you actually cut through the shit and and take serious action, somebody will kill you or lock you up. Online and on TV and radio, people can play-act at being radical all day; it all blends in with entertainment, and it's just a show like pro wrestling.
"(and for me as a Christian)"
Anti-Christians, and Churches and people like Saint Paul, they take what we have of the story and teachings of Jesus (regardless of what you believe about the Gospels) and they spin it all around, and make it accessible for the very society Jesus said led to all the hell fire/gnashing of teeth stuff.
The very people that control and influence Jesus' teachings for us are opponents of those teachings. And we know that's part of this "conditioning"; the teachings of Jesus take the Old Testament, and say cut through the shit to the heart of humanity... and then they build a New Testament around the heart of those teachings using a bunch of the same old shit.