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Thread #158823   Message #3759552
Posted By: GUEST,Musket
19-Dec-15 - 05:31 AM
Thread Name: BS: Disrepute (Mother Teresa sainthood)
Subject: RE: BS: Disrepute (Mother Teresa sainthood)
In short Joe, if you can't accept boutique Christian as a label, don't go calling people born again atheists.

I live in a country where religion went out of fashion years ago for most of us. My parents stopped going to chapel during the war and never went back. They taught me what I taught my kids, how to think not what to think. The term "born again" implies we may have been superstitious at some time. Most of us aren't, never have been nor see the intellectual argument for identifying something nobody can or ever has answered.

Seeing scrutiny of a social service as an attack on your faith, on the basis the service was in the name of your faith is silly and deflects from the issue. It's very simple. Please defend her tactics and outcomes if you wish, but to weigh any positive aspects of your creed into the argument for her work just puts your creed in the firing line too. I'm sure you and others use the institution of your church to do good deeds. I don't think you are doing it any favours here.