re: #224 elbruce

Nah, I just think that what kind of dogma-flag you fly has less of an effect on whether you’re actually a good person than you may think it does.

Would you be able to get behind the notion that some people practice their religion poorly, or have a poor or twisted grasp of it? And that that can happen to any religion? If so, then you’d have to agree that every religion (as well as other kinds of belief systems) that has millions of followers would statistically have to have some people who claim it who aren’t very good people, due at least to their misunderstanding of what they claim to believe.

Nobody has ever come up with a belief system that easily, instantly and effectively serves as safe inoculation against being a jerk. Not being a jerk takes hard work and introspection regardless of what name your invisible friend goes by.

If you believe that 100% of your religion is good people solely by virtue of being in your religion, then you’re one of the jerks. So really, you’re doing a great job of serving as a sort of visual aid in regards to this discussion.

I don’t know where you are going with all this.

You made the remark that the Christian right were ‘part if the nastiest part if humanity’. The remark is absurd.

You did not need to take a shovel and start digging.