I often wish that cultural Christians would just drop the act and become atheists or buddhists or whatever. I get tired of them saying, “I’m a Christian too, but I just don’t believe...”
Lunatic... perhaps she should try reading Lewis’ Mere Christianity to understand what Christianity is all about
“agnostic (n.)
1870, “one who professes that the existence of a First Cause and the essential nature of things are not and cannot be known” [Klein]; coined by T.H. Huxley (1825-1895), supposedly in September 1869, from Greek agnostos “unknown, unknowable,” from a- “not” + gnostos “(to be) known”
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=agnostic
ignoramus (n.)
1570s, from an Anglo-French legal term (early 15c.), from Latin ignoramus “we do not know,” first person present indicative of ignorare “not to know” (see ignorant). The legal term was one a grand jury could write on a bill when it considered the prosecution’s evidence insufficient. Sense of “ignorant person” came from the title role of George Ruggle’s 1615 play satirizing the ignorance of common lawyers.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=ignoramus&searchmode=none
“AGNOSTIC” sounds so much more sophisticated than “IGNORAMUS”, though the meaning is the same (less your ‘nuances’).
There’s a church for people like that - the Unitarian Church. Everybody can believe what they want and still come together for church suppers. Mixed marriage couples, like Jewish-Catholic, can raise the kids nominally Christian and the service won’t offend the Jewish parent because the church doesn’t insist on the divinity of Jesus.
If you take out CHRIST .. there is NO CHRISTIANITY .. THERE’S ONLY ...IANITY.
Hmmmmm ..????? That sounds similar to INSANITY to me.
Without Christ .. there is no life.
What a load of drivel.
Liberation Theology at its best.
The KGB plan is in full flower.
The Man said something like, he comes to “fulfill the law”.
Too late, “Christians” like this will find that the Law, or as they would say, Karma, has a nasty habit of coming around and biting you in the ass.
Self deluded people like the author of this article, do ~NOT~ trust in Jesus, but instead in their blindness seek (and arrogance) seek to “work” for their salvation.
You did notice her attraction to “social activism” and where “godless” works lead to??
The only time you heard God mentioned in a Unitarian Church
was when the janitor fell down the stairs.
The difference between knowing the truth and believing it. Head-knowledge vs. heart-knowledge.
When I was a kid a a speaker at a camp I attended referred to this as “missing Heaven by 18 inches”.
Tragic.
bmp
All these people think they are onto something so original and radical. In reality it is just a rehash of Desist movement so popular in the 18th century. These people never heard of Voltaire, Jefferson, and Hume? Jefferson did a cut and paste job on the Bible. John Adams was a Unitarian. Frederick the Great was at best a Deist and was hostile to Christianity in his private thoughts. The French Revolution renamed Notre Dame to The Temple of Reason. The foundational problem with this movement is they have taken for granted the Judeo-Christian value system. If you throw out the baby with the bath water then why should an individual consider dignity and empathy as “good”. That is what Nietzsche was trying to get at in his writing.
"If you take 'Christ' out of 'Christian', all you have is 'I-A-N'; and Ian cannot save you."
Funny quip. But true.
Start by building a church that has free wifi, serves Starbucks in the basement, and performs “praise music” via rock band.
Don`t worry about it, there will be a place for both believers and non believers.
Just can’t let go of the world...