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Originally posted by Melusine:
[QB]Even though I'm getting very tired of the typical Dramnek mode of answering your posts, Cerek  , I do see his point that it's unfair the only standard by which God judges whether you go to Heaven or Hell is whether you accept Christ as your saviour and ask sincerely for forgiveness. (though I must admit it's hard to read through all the prejudiced acidity in those posts of his... [img]tongue.gif[/img] )
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Whenever and wherever people have attempted to criticise Christianity they have always had to endure the attack that what they are criticizing is a caricature and that their view was malevolently distorted, one-sided and prejudiced.
If you wish to remove this piece of apologetics of its legitimacy you must follow the theologians who quite simply say, “We are the ones who say what Christianity is”,
Of course Christians cannot agree on what Christian is.
This does not of course mean that you must prove each Christian wrong, there is a certain unity in the faith, but it is not in content of Christian ideas of statements but it does exist in their structure, the same basic structure of statements.
Every theological affirmation is irrational in some way and always breaks off reflection at a certain point.
And Every Christian appeals to authority and “Faith”
From the POV of the critic, Christian ideology is simply an accumulation of empty formulae, which can be filled with whatever contents you wish.
I am not simply speaking “prejudiced acidity”, but if people find those ideas hard to deal with, they will of course attempt to rationalise it as such.
“The criticism of religion ends with the doctrine that man is the highest being for men, thus with the categorical imperative to overthrow all relationships in which man is a debased, enslaved, abandoned and despised being”
-Karl Marx