I get an equally good chuckle from listening to those who believe (like Hitchens) that there is no God as from those who think *their* Religion is “the only way” or “the true word of God”
Wacky Sam says: I get an equally good chuckle from listening to those who believe (like Hitchens) that there is no God as from those who think *their* Religion is “the only way” or “the true word of God”
Sounds like Wacky Sam and Albert Pike, the grand poobah of Freemasonry, have a lot in common. In his “Morals and Dogma, Pike chides the religious convictions of “sectarians,” he especially singles out Christians when he says:
“We (Masons) do not tell the Hebrew that the Messiah whom he expects was born in Bethlehem nearly two thousand years ago.”
Neither do we Masons tell “the sincere Christian that Jesus of Nazareth was but a man like us, or His history but the unreal revival of an older legend.”
There you have it, with a mere brush of the back of his hand, Pike dismisses the fundamental Christian belief that the promised Messiah of the scriptures was Jesus of Nazareth. While at the same time sneaking in his own Masonic beliefs about Christ, i.e., Jesus of Nazareth was not God, he was a man like us, and that Christianity is actually but a continuation of the ancient Pagan mysteries – which ancient mysteries he promotes elsewhere throughout his book.
Makes me wonder, is Wacky Sam a Freemason? Does he think we Christians are terribly “sectarian” (as universalist Pike calls us) by believing that Jesus of Nazareth was not a pagan mystic, but was the promised Messiah born in Bethlehem, the Son of God?
Well, Christians think that ours is the only way, because we believe that Jesus told us so and because we believe he rose from the dead, ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of the Father. Our faith flows reasonably from these beliefs. So it is reasonable.