God's Warning

[webboffin]

probably true

 

[Sundragon2012]

27th February 2003 at 04:23 PM Susan said this in Post #27

Knowledge is evil. Knowledge led to the atomic bomb, remember?

Christianity is about the only philosophy of living that can be used to edify ignorance. Any religion that needs ignorance to cultivate itself is intellectually and philosophically bankrupt and is therefore unfit to guide mankind.

 

Namaste,

Chris

 

[LewisWildermuth]

Today at 11:59 AM Sundragon2012 said this in Post #42 (http://www.christianforums.com/showthread.php?postid=690124#post690124)

Christianity is about the only philosophy of living that can be used to edify ignorance. Any religion that needs ignorance to cultivate itself is intellectually and philosophically bankrupt and is therefore unfit to guide mankind.

 

Namaste,

Chris

Now to be fair Sundragon2012, this is a problem that all religions have, not just Christianity.

And even in Christianity the anti intellectual movement is very small when compared with the whole of Christianity.

-=edited to add=-

They just scream loudly and get more press sadly.

 

[Orihalcon]

ignorance is bliss. you can stay blissfully stupid while i watch the wallet inspectors come by.

 

[lucaspa]

26th February 2003 at 08:34 AM Micaiah said this in Post #13 

However, those who look at Creation and ignore the evidence for a Creator are described as suppressing the truth n Riomans 1.

If that's the case, then the warning is to atheists.  But since evolution is not atheism, then it's not in trouble. Darwin never thought evolution was evidence against a Creator.  In fact, he even used the word.

"To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the Creator, that the production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants of the world should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual."  Origin pg. 449.

"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved."  C. Darwin, On the Origin of Species, pg 450.

It would appear that whatever "warning" YEC_12 is talking about doesn't apply.

 

[lucaspa]

27th February 2003 at 04:23 PM Susan said this in Post #27

Knowledge is evil. Knowledge led to the atomic bomb, remember?

And to treatments for cancer, diagnostic tools, research tools (such as radiolabeling of compounds) that led to still more medical treatments, power for satellites and space stations, etc, etc.

Susan, knowledge is neither good nor bad. It's how we use the knowledge.  And that is outside of science.

 

[lucaspa]

3rd March 2003 at 09:41 PM webboffin said this in Post #33

So far:2 Japanese cities full of people. Unknown amount of soldiers in nuclear testing. A tribe of aboriginies in Australia and possibly John Wayne and probably 3 billion + in the coming future.

Nice to know we are safe with knowledge 

And did the atomic bomb spare us another world war that would have killed millions like WWII did?  After all, when the Soviet Union was falling apart, the standard political ploy would have been to launch a foreign war to unite the people and make them forget about their domestic problems. But the Soviet Union couldn't do that because of the nuclear weapon threat and the assured destruction of not only the Soviet Union as a political entity but of all the people and wealth. So the leaders let the Soviet Union die and preserved the lives and possessions of themselves and their people.

When you look at issues like Susan brought up, they are not as simple as people would like them to be.

Even the 200,000+ lost in Hiroshima and Nagasaki probably saved millions.  Those bombs were so shocking that they finally convinced the Emperor to assume control and the militarists to end the war.  Otherwise, there would have had to be an invasion of Japan that would have cost millions of Japanese dead.  It's not all black or white, but a 256 shade gray scale.

 

[lucaspa]

3rd March 2003 at 11:04 PM Didaskomenos said this in Post #37

"He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end by loving himself better than all."

I like this one.  Substitute "the Bible" for "Christianity" and it describes the consequences of Biblical literalism perfectly.

 

[Didaskomenos]

Yesterday at 11:19 AM lucaspa said this in Post #48 (http://www.christianforums.com/showthread.php?postid=697234#post697234)

I like this one.  Substitute "the Bible" for "Christianity" and it describes the consequences of Biblical literalism perfectly.

That's precisely where I'm coming from. I wield this quote not so much against Christianity in its ideal form (which I hold as Truth), but the conception of Christianity as an institution consisting of a set of human observations of that Truth. In other words, the kind of "Christianity" which I love less than "Truth" is "that which is whatever I believe it to be," which in turn tends among evangelicals to be based on their literal interpretation of the Bible. The "Christianity" which I equate with "Truth" is merely a label for the Truth, "that which exists regardless of the accuracy of my conception of it."