Divided opinion over faith based belief? Heavens to betsy, what's next, being blinded by the light of the mighty irrefutable truth?

Like, the church's contribution has, rather than moderating the inexcusible behavior of peadophiles, or greedy grasping immoral profit takers, or when population control was an evidence based absolute, or when it was shown that homosexuality may well have its foundations in the genetic code?

The church's role? To excuse, hide, dismiss or escape into illusory certainty!

This is what to expect Peter, when dogma and ideology replace reason and inescapable logic!
Alan B.

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tares and wheat will co exist until God says its all over. Those who have faith in Jesus Christ will be saved while the tares will be destroyed. Why people who don't believe try to pretend to completely beats me. Surely their are better paying jobs such as the green religion.

It probably has escaped you runner and understandable for you, one doesn't need any religious affiliation or thought police to believe in a Creator and divine justice! In fact, it may well help?
Alan B.

' It probably has escaped you runner and understandable for you, one doesn't need any religious affiliation or thought police to believe in a Creator and divine justice! In fact, it may well help?'

It has not escaped me AlanB. I actually agree with you. Only someone who denies any sort of rationality denies a Creator, LawMaker and Designer. You need to be totally ignorant to not see these things. There is however only One qualified to forgive sins. Either He was a fraud, liar or truth teller. The fact that He came back from the dead proved the later.

Arthur knows..

No matter which of the three Queens we choose to serve Mr Sellick, Excalibur must be returned to the lady of the lake, in our final quest for Camelot..
All is vanity and a striving after wind!

Christianity, of all the world's religions, provides for the most personal relationship between the individual and the deity. ("For where two or three gather together in My name, there am I with them.” Matthew 18:20).

Chritianity doesn't need a church, or a clergy. Armed with a Bible, the Chritianian can commune with his God independent of the official structures. Those structures grew because people weren't in a position to arm themselves with a Bible or to understand its meaning. People craved and crave leadership and The Answer. But Guttenburg and (almost) universal literacy have changed all that...or could change all that.

That a fundamentalist clergyman disagrees with a progressive clergyman ought to be neither here nor there. The church and its structures should be just about providing a venue and the wherewithal to allow the believers to congregate, commune and celebrate their shared core beleifs. A place where individual understandings of the faith can be debated, shared and pondered. Not a place where some 'learned' professional pronounces from on-high what people should believe about their religion.

The church is dying because its just another power structure in a world of competing power structures. Giving it back to the congregation is the way the movement can achieve salvation (pun intended).

Dear Mhaze,

«Christianity, of all the world's religions, provides for the most personal relationship between the individual and the deity.»

Where did you get this comparison?

In Hinduism, one worships a deity usually alone in the privacy of their home, constantly repeat its names, offers flowers and fruit at its feet, circles a light around it and dusts off its statue. How more personal can you get?