: “It’s short, unimportant and uninteresting.” That will show him! (
From Bruce Alderman:
To be honest, I think the ugliest thing about Christianity is the pervasiveness of preachers and apologists who try to scare people into the faith, and who seek to reduce their flocks’ exposure to other viewpoints. …
The entire post is worth reading.
There’s a great deal of good material in the blogosphere if you can just find it. I don’t promise truly “daily” quotes of the day, but when I find them, I like to post them.
[...] 2009 by John Meunier Bruce Alderman shares his view of the worst thing about Christianity (ht: Henry Neufeld): To be honest, I think the ugliest thing about Christianity is the pervasiveness of preachers and [...]
Thanks for the link!
This is why I quite like the Baha’i faith: their messiah-figure rather explicitly stated that this sort of socially-restricted thinking is bad. Did Jesus ever do the same?
(This is not a rhetorical question – I can’t remember anything relevant from the Gospels, but that’s probably just a sign that I need to re-read them again.)