nobody is saying Christ is an abuser but you seem to be assuming that acknowledging that the disciples had traumatic experiences means people are somehow using that to condone abuse So what point is A.N.M trying to make here?
I have no idea if you are a Catholic or not. I am not having a go at individual Catholics, but the RCC has shifted priests from one parish to the next, knowing that they are guilty of abusing young people, and thus allowed them to reach new victims. The church, as an institution needs to clean up their act.
The Evangelical churches - more fringe than mainstream but still, they are also guilty of taking it upon themselves to be 'lording it over the flock' and pushing a narrow interpretation upon people with the implications that you are not really following Christ unless you see it their way. Again , this is just giving ammo to the aggressive atheism that Dawkins preaches.
No, sorry , you don't have to live by Deuteronomy to be a Christian, in my view.
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Date: 29/7/11 08:44 (UTC)So what point is A.N.M trying to make here?
I have no idea if you are a Catholic or not. I am not having a go at individual Catholics, but the RCC has shifted priests from one parish to the next, knowing that they are guilty of abusing young people, and thus allowed them to reach new victims. The church, as an institution needs to clean up their act.
The Evangelical churches - more fringe than mainstream but still, they are also guilty of taking it upon themselves to be 'lording it over the flock' and pushing a narrow interpretation upon people with the implications that you are not really following Christ unless you see it their way. Again , this is just giving ammo to the aggressive atheism that Dawkins preaches.
No, sorry , you don't have to live by Deuteronomy to be a Christian, in my view.