Comments on: How Do We Know What Is Applicable?

By: Big C

Big C — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:42:35 +0000

Hey I am getting through the first 15 minuets of the show where Ray works in a devils den – I mean a christian book store … my bad yo. Anyway I coined a phrase many years ago to cover the majority of “current” christianity, teen christianity, and “those” bookstores and it is this: “Pop-christianity”. I saw it majorly with the wwjd EVERYTHING, and the “cool” tshirts that mimic and infringe on known trademarks and copyrights, and basically everything that is popularly sanitized for christians. I thought you might find this term relevant to your everyday interactions. Thanks for the interesting show.

By: Raborn

Raborn — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:19:42 +0000

Sid,
I can’t comment completely right now (just stopping in for a minute), but I wanted to say that I love this observation you made:

If Christianity were less legalistic, they’d have little desire to impose morality and
instead inspire morality.

You are very right my friend I actually believe that this is what Father has called believers to. The fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil leads to our judging others and constantly pointing out their shortcomings. Eating from the tree of life causes us to live our lives in love, and allows our lives to actually be the Gospel instead of constantly trying to preach at people.

By: sidfaiwu

sidfaiwu — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:56:04 +0000

Hey guys,

This was another great episode. Thanks for the compliments. You had me blushing. I guess it wasn’t enough to cover my hacking activities though .

I really hope you are getting through to some Christians. If such attitudes became the norm for Christianity, you’d see opposition to the religion nearly vanish. Most secularist don’t have a problem with religion per se, but with the imposition of it’s ‘moral’ laws and practices on all of society. If Christianity were less legalistic, they’d have little desire to impose morality and instead inspire morality. That I like.

From my perspective, what you are describing as the Holy Spirit in this episode is what most would call one’s conscience. It motivates us to act in love (though it’s in competition with our selfishness). It comes naturally to almost all humans regardless of their religious beliefs. Why the need to believe it comes from God? Why attribute only that one instinct to God? Selfishness is instinctual as well. Why is simply loving all people insufficient?

FYI my pseudonym is pronounced FAY-woo (with a hard ‘a’ sound).