It occurred to me that two enormous obstacles have been placed in the way of Christian belief. The first is the monstrous ignorance of history of most contemporaries, that makes it next to impossible to explain that the New Testament is a collection of contemporary, reliable historical documents; and second, the very concept of "belief system", ( Read more... )

Actually, your idea of Hell [a kind of jail designed, in a legalistic framework, to scare people off bad behaviour] is not the Christian one - nor the one of Hinduism or most other religions. It may be ascribed to Islam, if you REALLY REALLY don't like Islam and want to take everything it says in its worst possible light. Christianity, especially ( Read more... )