@Strange-Nickel said in #29:
> Youre describing new age religion.
Am I? Or am I describing all sorts of organised religion?
I suppose you can interprete my post both ways, depending on your view point.
Just look at the various of different branches of Christianity. Protestant, baptist, catholic, Mormon etcetera.
How many of them actually follows their religious scriptures to the letter?
And how much in those religious scriptures is actually necessary to read before being a Christian?
> all schools of thought rational or otherwise are comprised of doctrine. To avoid dooctrine is to run from rationality and run into bad doctrine.
I agree on the first part, the latter part I am a little confused as to what you mean.
My #10 is to be read as a sceptical point of view, meaning question everything, and then draw your own conclusions.
Which goes against what people can read in a Bible.
Since it doesn't ask people to be sceptical.
So when you say I am "preaching", I strongly disagree.
Advocating scepticism isn't preaching.
> Christian theology comes from the testaments of those who claim to have had first hand experience with the divine. A christian has to weigh the evidence and decide to accept or reject it.
This was my point in the latter half of my #10.
When people start to follow testimonial accounts of the people, who came before, then they ain't only believing in the scriptures, but also in the people who wrote them.
A different type of belief, I am aware, but a belief none the less, and one that deserves to be questioned and not to be followed blindly.
> Proof in this context is an entirely subjective interpretation of the evidence.
I personally disagree that the Bible contains evidence in any way. My reasonings is that the Bible is based on hearsay. So if people believe in hearsay, they are putting too much faith in human credibility to be factual, in not only their reportings, but also in their memory capacity and their capability to understand what they see.
Proof is never subjective.
So if people need proof to believe, then they are not a believer.