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Originally Posted by DixieGal
I'm sorry that you have such a bad view of Christianity. I know from my own experience that there are some among us Christians who use their religion as a battering ram instead of gently offering to share our religion, finding points of common beliefs that we can discuss. Can you not find a way to accept some of us as people who only want to do good in the world?
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Dixie,
Personally I have tremendous respect for the teachings of Jesus, as reported by the Bible. All good stuff - a great deal in common with what Plato had said 500 years earlier, in fact.
What I have a problem with is what Paul did, which was to transform Christianity from a religion following the
teachings of Jesus, to a religion in which Jesus himself
became a "divine being". (Yes, for those who don't know their history, it was Paul, not Jesus, who "invented" Christianity as we now know it). That, to me, converted a decent and devout man's teachings of moral philosophy into (and I mean no disrespect in saying this) "superstition", and that I cannot accept.