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Miracles happen every DAY.
"forgetting childish things like miracles, "
Jesus walked on water, we went to the moon . Just because we're gotten used to them, doesn't make them any less miracles.
posted by
Tamara99
on August 21, 2004 at 6:48 PM
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Christianity incorporates universal myths..
...and pieces of other ancient religions.
A History of God, by Karen Armstrong is a great way to see this and a great way to discover the true human impetus behind translating God into the humane. She has another book about fundamentalism, Islam and Christian, also good. And...she has faith. She is a believer. Do you know what faith is? It is accepting history and science, forgetting childish things like miracles, and believing that throughout all of humanity, from primitive and on, we have always had God, and the more we know of the world, the universe, the closer we get to God. Faith is believing in God even as you sit at the deathbed of a loved one, even as you see the horrific footage of war, even as you suffer the worst life can offer. Maybe God cannot even see our pinprick little planet, maybe God cannot intervene because of the constraints of physics, but God is there. And maybe we are here to find that out.
posted by
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on August 19, 2004 at 8:32 PM
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Myths are not something...
Christianity has created. They are created by people who don't believe enough, by people who pretend to understand but don't.
posted by
nevertheless
on August 19, 2004 at 9:16 AM
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This is the way I view the story of the The Garden of Eden. If you live the good life and make correct decisions, you can live in a good place with a good life. Make bad decisions and you will end up cast out of this good life. Its a story of making decisions. Now, Adam and Eve made a bad decision-they paid for that bad decision. They didn't get welfare,section 8 housing or any other government privelege for doing wrong.
posted by
ThomasFranklin
on August 18, 2004 at 8:57 PM
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Christianity can't shake the weird stories and myths because that's what pull people in. The like the strange, miraculous stories. The myths pull people out of their boring, piggish, provincial lives and let them soar (at least until you have to pay your tithing.)
But I'm all for more sensible religion, believe me.
posted by
aardvark
on August 18, 2004 at 11:39 AM
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