I downloaded Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris to my ipod this week. Sam is an atheist and the basic premise of his book is that God is a fairly-tale and all believers are simple-minded people who've fallen for the grand delusion. While I disagreed with most of his reasoning, he had a few points that we (Christians) need to consider. For example, he begins the book with this commentary...
Since the publication of my first book, The End of Faith, thousands of people have written to tell me that I am wrong not to believe in God. The most hostile of these communications have come from Christians. This is ironic as Christians generally imagine that no faith imparts the virtues of love and forgiveness more effectively than their own. The truth is that many who claim to be transformed by Christ's love are deeply, even murderously, intolerant of criticism. While we may want to ascribe this to human nature, it is clear that such hatred draws considerable support from the Bible. How do I know this? The most disturbed of my correspondents always cite chapter and verse.
What do you think of that?
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
A Sad Commentary?
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3 comments:
In Luke 4 the Jews tried to murder Jesus just because he told them 2 Bible stories about how God loved and worked in the lives of people who were not Jews.
Try telling someone in the traditional church of Christ that God loves, works in the lives of, and even saves Baptists and you will get the same response
I appologies for that last comment. It wasn't very nice. :(
Don't feel bad Gary. The truth usually hurts. I have strange feelings everytime I pass another Church of Christ building anymore. I shudder to think of the number of lives lost in the name of christianity!
Bill D.
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