Wouldn't it be great if people ACTUALLY followed Christ's Words?

[mopaul]

i'm an atheist, raised as a christian, and as far as a creed to live by, you can't do much better than Christ's teachings. so simple. so easy to understand, yet, so corrupted and forgotten.

if only.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Word!

:D

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

2. Yeah, but Vengeful Jesus, with the bloodshot eyes and bolts of lightning

coming out of his mouth, is much more cool! Really gets 'em in the seats at your local megachurch!

[mopaul]

6. jesus will return soon & wipe out all the non believers!

wrong

[Karenina]

26. Oh yeah?

[Canuckistanian]

7. He was an ardent capitalist and warmonger.

The money changers at the temple? Well, they were just trying to rip HIM off.

And, even though there were no assault rifles in the 1st century, he was for them.

[Tikki]

Jesus Is Hate......

......we've come so far from when.... Jesus Is Love.....



Tikki

[mmonk]

3. They don't listen to Jesus

they just worship him as an object and make up their own religion that keeps all their hatreds and greed intact. That's why they rarely quote him, but instead concentrate on things Paul said.

[Shadowen]

22. Ever read Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett?

Truly an awesome book on the nature and power of belief...and lack thereof.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. Yes

Since Jesus said to worry first about your own shortcomings, and not to judge, there's no room to tell somebody else how to live and how to believe....these are wise bits of advice, I think.

[jody]

5. Agree, Christ's main teaching is central to most religions.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

8. Love your poster

I'm bookmarking this thread.

[niallmac]

10. That is so cool. Can I get the poster? n/t

[jody]

13. Yes, please go to the link below and scroll down. I've given away

over forty to various groups, particularly troubled youths.

:hi:

The Golden Rule

[kestrel91316]

15. Hey, you forgot Wicca in the poster!!

The Law of Threefold Return: whatever you send forth, good or ill, returns to you threefold.

AND

The Wiccan Rede: An it harm none, do as you will.

[jody]

20. Not my poster, but you make a very good point. In addition,

the first Secular Humanist Manifesto contained a statement that might be construed to support the Golden Rule, "In the place of the old attitudes involved in worship and prayer the humanist finds his religious emotions expressed in a heightened sense of personal life and in a cooperative effort to promote social well-being."

[Orsino]

9. They would be completely dominated and persecuted...

...by those who don't. Sorta like the actual state of affairs.

[Roland99]

11. I agree! I'm an atheist and I know I follow Jesus's words more than they.

They being the pseudo-Christians so vocal in our political climate today.

[AuntPatsy]

12. You would think such would take precedent when following

ones religious doctrine when they call themselves christians, "Christ Like" Could you honestly imagine christ himself declaring that it didn't matter that children were being slain when men fought their personal wars saying instead, "go get em troops, no mercy unto the enemy"

If we are all Gods children who decides who's the enemy? Surely not anyone associated with the true God, at least one would assume, I for one as a parent would never advocate my children killing each other no matter the circumstances. But then again, thats just me.

[sam sarrha]

14. i think i will vote for the Buddha on this one.. it is obvious to me that

jesus ran into a Buddhist traveling along the Silk Road from india it goes thru Damascus to Cairo and south to Mecca and north to the caspian sea.. the cross roads are actually right at Palestine where jesus grew up.

how could someone living in the Judaism of the time, where people stoned to death their neighbors and family for what today would be ludicrous reasons, come up with a completely different "Loving Father god" and a philosophy of unconditioal Love and compassion..

he met a Buddhist.. they had been around 500+ years at the time.

but aparently he didnt get all the pages of the book.. but a good start

[mopaul]

17. yes, jesus traveled to the east, or so i'm told

he was away for several years, but the location is fuzzy.

[niallmac]

16. I couldn't agree more.

Well I could but I'd probably rupture something. As I understand how things work in fundie town there is a school of thought that explains aways the peaceful words of Jesus (I like to call him by his first name) by saying that his words are for 'after the end times' . Pretty weird I thought. Don't know if anyone else has heard that. Don't think I dreamed it.
Sermon on the mount seems like pretty good stuff to live by.

[Cha]

21. Your sig line has sage

advice. I like to watch certain CSI shows but the corporate media is so DEAD on my tv.

[niallmac]

24. Exxxxxxcelent.

Get my news here mostly.

[mcscajun]

18. Another "collapsed Catholic" here agrees with you...

...let them drop this thing about the Ten Commandments, forget about Paul altogether, and concentrate on The Beatitudes more.

The world would be a more interesting place, to be sure.

They really just should call themselves Paulians rather than Christians, IMO.

[Cha]

19. Then they wouldn't be the

Fuckin' Hypocrites that spew "family values" and then say CHARGE IRAQ to murder innocent Iraqis based on the LIES of the head HYPOCRITES.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

23. Bingo!

Whenever people start ranting and raving about situations (Gaza strip) for example, I ask, 'who would Jesus kill/bomb?" It's amazing what it does. For me, it puts me in touch with the simple answer which is no one. Ever. I try to use the question in everything I do. If the thought crosses my mind to lie, cheat or steal, 'who would Jesus lie to, steal from or cheat?" pops in my mind and the issue is settled.............

[opihimoimoi]

25. Trouble is: No on recorded what He said during his life time....

The Bible guys wrote their stories 50 to 70 years after he died..

Things change during 50 years.....some times "lost" even.

[WildEyedLiberal]

27. They don't see that they are the Pharisees

They are the Pharisees to a fucking T. Isn't it amazing how self-righteousness tends to blind people?

For the record, I'm a practicing Catholic, obviously not happy with a lot of my own church leaders, but I don't hate Christianity, far from it. I just think that the teachings of most modern churches have drifted so far from the actual intentions of Jesus it's sad.

[DerekG]

28. I don't think Christ's teachings are that simple

The Christian ethos commands that one embrace nonviolence, surrender wealth to the impoverished, abscond from familial obligations, and suffer for Love.

This lifestyle would tax all of us, let alone the rightists.

[mopaul]

29. i've never had to kill anyone, i'm impoverished,

but i don't remember the part about suffering for love, or absconding family.