Etiquette



DP Etiquette

First rule: Don't be a jackass.

Other rules: Do not attack or insult people you disagree with. Engage with facts, logic and beliefs. Out of respect for others, please provide some sources for the facts and truths you rely on if you are asked for that. If emotion is getting out of hand, get it back in hand. To limit dehumanizing people, don't call people or whole groups of people disrespectful names, e.g., stupid, dumb or liar. Insulting people is counterproductive to rational discussion. Insult makes people angry and defensive. All points of view are welcome, right, center, left and elsewhere. Just disagree, but don't be belligerent or reject inconvenient facts, truths or defensible reasoning.

Saturday, June 25, 2022

What good is it?

In response to the Roe overturn yesterday, a young lady on Twitter asked an interesting question that has stuck with me:

“Has anything good ever come out of Christianity?”

A simple, out of the mouths of babes, kind of question.  I have to admit, I’m hard pressed to think of anything.  Maybe feelings of solace, for those who feel otherwise hopeless in this life, and think they have nowhere else to turn??  But other than such mental comfort, what real good has Christianity ever produced?  On the contrary, it’s showcased a lot of not-so-good role modeling.

If you stand back and look at it, the religion has remarkably survived, even thrived, on hearsay (word of mouth) and rather flimsy circumstantial evidence.  Objectively, there is no direct evidence of any of its claims, including that of the rather bipolar God it portrays.

To me, the whole biblical narrative is rather depressing.  Jesus being treated really badly by his contemporaries.  Stories of rape (which is, btw, how Jesus’s life got started) and other sexual perversions.  Threats of Hell for non-believers and what it takes to self-preserve (attain Heaven); self-preservation being a basal instinct.  Seriously, what is there to like about the religion?  Seems kinda useless to me, but… (yes, that’s just me).

Here's the question: Can you think of anything good that has ever come out of Christianity?  I’m listening.

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