[coolwhip27]

With religion and its problems we face a choice whether to throw the baby out with the bathwater. I'm inclined to throw fundamentalist Abrahamic religions away. I've also been turning away from New Age though I'm much more sympathetic to it. Religion certainly has good elements and I wish we could isolate them from the bad but I'm not sure it's currently possible. One thing religious people say that's accidentally true is when we give up worshipping Christ we have a tendency, just a tendency, to engage in religious thinking about other things. I call this pseudo religion. We see pseudo religion all the time with science worship and political ideologies.

But what is it about Christ besides that one story written thousands of years ago which makes it special? I’m just saying, the whole idea of Christ being higher than all other religious concepts is simply just one narrative. So of course once you stray from one narrative you’ll find plenty of others. Like if I believed the spaghetti monster was the highest of all for 100 years and I started believing in underwater Dinosaur, there would be some residue left over from believing the spaghetti monster for so long. I’m not trying to attack you if that’s what you believe. But this is how I’ve come to understand it for myself

 

[NoDevils]

But what is it about Christ besides that one story written thousands of years ago which makes it special? I’m just saying, the whole idea of Christ being higher than all other religious concepts is simply just one narrative. So of course once you stray from one narrative you’ll find plenty of others. Like if I believed the spaghetti monster was the highest of all for 100 years and I started believing in underwater Dinosaur, there would be some residue left over from believing the spaghetti monster for so long. I’m not trying to attack you if that’s what you believe. But this is how I’ve come to understand it for myself

I added more to my above post. I'm not really an apologist.

Many beliefs about Christ such as his manner being noble and kind aren't explicitly in the Bible. Specific interpretations about how the church should address homosexuality in the congregation also aren't in the New Testament. People are passing religious beliefs across time and space through spoken word, artwork, and other aspects of culture that aren't necessarily backed by theological tradition or canonical texts.