On Sep 21, 2009, at 2:09 PM, Chris Frandsen relayed:
Bottom line—We profess to be a Christian nation. It is appropriate
to ask, “What would Jesus say and do?” I imagine he disagreed with
the actions of those cheating tax collectors and adulterous women he
befriended. Yet, we have no record of him calling them names,
swearing at them, or making degrading comments. Amazingly, we even
have evidence that Jesus loved his enemies.
Some think this is a Christian nation, others think it's a secular
nation whose majority religion happens to be Christianity, and there
is much to debate in terms of what exactly constitutes a Christian.
And some believe that Christianity implies morality and ethical
behavior, and that its absence is necessarily immoral and unethical ..
and some believe otherwise. Some even believe the opposite.
That being said, there's a lot to be said for cultivating civility,
whether the motivation to be civil is religious or otherwise. And as
someone who is as far from "church going Christian" as it's possible
to be and still live on this planet, I have to say that Jesus set a
good example, and there's solid reasoning behind his teachings that is
far above the petty little sects fighting over miniscule differences
in apocryphal doctrine. ;)
Can't we all just get along?
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