Hey,c'mon.This is Free Republic you're on.Talk like that is what you'd expect from the DUmpster Kids.
Please consider the possibility that Christianity (in all its forms) is a false religion...
Hey,c'mon.This is Free Republic you're on.Talk like that is what you'd expect from the DUmpster Kids.
No it is not. I am proselytizing, which is politically incorrect. PC says that all religions are equally "true" (ie, they're all wrong anyway, but they teach nice life lessons). I am a true religious fundamentalist in that I believe there is one true religion and everything else is unauthorized and wrong.
Are you aware of the rabidly anti-Protestant rhetoric coming from Catholic FReepers that basically repeats all the caricatures of "inbred, illiterate, bigoted morons?" Do you ever chide them? What about the anti-Catholic posts by Protestants? Should they all be scrubbed? And then of course there are the mormons, who sustain a continuous attack on their religion by almost all other FReepers (and for the record, I think mormonism is wrong too, but the attacks on it especially from Protestants is particularly hypocritical).
Shoot, we've got a British Israelite now telling the story of how the "one true religion" was "restored" after having disappeared for a zillion years. We've even got (or had) a Swedenborgian who proselytizes here!
Judaism isn't just a stage in the development (or "revelation") of chrstianity. It is a religion in its own right, with a clear and certain claim on Truth that no other religion has. Even chrstians don't dispute this; instead they ridiculously assert that while Judaism (and Noachism) was true once, it is no longer. Meanwhile, while everyone agrees that Judaism was the True Religion at one time, no one can agree on what replaced it! Do you know how ridiculous it is to see all these various chrstians cutting each other to shreds, disproving each others' claims, while still maintaining an absolutely stupendous and utterly irrational loyalty to their particular version, whatever it is.
Meanwhile, while chrstians continually remind everyone of how much they love Jews (and many of them do, especially American-style Biblicists), they don't seem capable of laying aside their prejudices for ten minutes to make a simple investigation. That is absolutely absurd!
Do you love the Jews only because they were a stage in the development of chrstianity or because it was authorized by A-mighty G-d Himself at Sinai? If you love them at all, you can certainly take a small amount of time to investigate Jewish religious claims. Certainly you have all investigated religions multiple times in your lives, perhaps even really bizarre ones. Whence comes this invisible wall that prevents you from considering the possibility that Judaism, the religion that used to be true, still is? Use a little logic!
You'd be surprised how peaceful it is to no longer have to wonder if "my version of christianity" is "correct."