Christianity - Bronze and Iron Age Solutions for Information Age Problems

[MineralMan]

Yes, indeed. Have a real-time problem? Why not look back a few millennia and into a completely different culture for your solution?

You'll be sure to find the right answer. You Betcha!

[trotsky]

1. Hey be fair now.

You can also just make something up and then say that Jesus totally would have agreed. That works too.

[Major Nikon]

2. Metaphorical Jesus has all sorts of advantages

From supply side, to prosperity, to anything else you can dream up and it's right there for your convenience. Rather than having to actually supply facts and reason to support your assertions you just play the Jesus trump card and not only are you absolved from the responsibility of argument, you have a position that is nonarbitrable.

[MineralMan]

5. Metaphorical Jesus Smokes Marlboros!

[Pope George Ringo II]

8. He can't be a god because he doesn't smoke the same cigarettes as me.

[MineralMan]

10. But see, you can follow his lead...

Buy a carton today!

[msongs]

13. then tell him to get off your cloud lol nt

[Pendrench]

3. Hi MineralMan - You make a very good point.

As times and circumstances change, certain beliefs that we hold dear many no longer be valid.

But as someone who considers themselves to be a Christian, I hope that my core beliefs will continue to hold some value:

Love and respect for others

Care for the poor, the hungry, the suffering, the lonely, or anyone in need

That being said, I also fully realize that such beliefs are not exclusive to Christians or to followers of any religion.

Anyway, just my thoughts on this - thank you for posting!

Wishing you well and peace.

Tim

[MineralMan]

7. As you say, those ideas are standard in most cultures.

They are also almost universally ignored by most societies. More's the pity.

[Pendrench]

12. Agreed

[Igel]

17. Well, that's because

they're bronze and iron-age solutions that are totally pointless in an Information-Age society.

I mean, that's the attitude people had 1000 years ago, we're more evolved than them.

Except that while a lot of things have changed, people haven't much. They just pride themselves on assuming that they must be the pinnacle of creation (or a telic version of evolution). That means insights, even those 3000 years old, are still valid.

[NeoGreen]

4. Ideas are not worthy just because...

...they are tenacious.

They remain worthy only upon recursive and skeptical inspection.

[MineralMan]

6. You have convinced yourself...

[NeoGreen]

9. Only after scruplous reflection. (nt)

[MineralMan]

11. Of course!

[NeoGreen]

14. I knew it!

[MineralMan]

15. LOL!

[guillaumeb]

16. The problems are essentially the same.

They are behavioral issues common to humans of every era.