christianity

Does it really matter that organized Christianity believes that a guy woke up from the dead?

Is something like r/atheism, freethough, or christianity indecent because it can and does offend people?

And the Bible says Christians are pitiful and Christianity pointless if Jesus isn't God.

For what it's worth, the apostle Paul thought that turning Christianity into a secular philosophy (as opposed to supernatural theology) would be a mistake.

A hundred years ago it would be close to 100% christianity.

None of it, none of Christianity made sense to me.

Fascinating but I would love to know how common christianity was in this area.

I've recently been rediscovering Jesus from a new perspective, having grown up with a typical American Christianity and abandoned it as a teenager.

It's great if Christianity is working for you.

For example, if Christianity had not need to deal with Gnosticism, or with Arianism, then the network of beliefs and explanations would have been a noticeable different one.

I, for one, abandoned my religion simply because I came to the conclusion that the teachings of the religion itself (evangelical Christianity in my case) weren't true.

>I would love to know how common christianity was in this area.

The story of the persecuted Christians falling asleep in the cave is also known in Christianity as "The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus" or "The Seven Holy Youths of Ephesus"[1].

They were Irish, but the unionists agreed (along with Great Britain) that Ireland should be ruled by the King and be under British rule, and subsequently they all adopt the "British" sect of Christianity (Anglicanism).

I've been finding that a lot of people from all kinds of backgrounds see the Jesus story and "Christianity" from this other perspective, where his teachings are universal and very subversive as you describe, and quite unlike the christian religion that we see.

I mean, I thought the resurrection of christ was the whole point of anything describable as Christianity?

This is the first thing I've ever read that makes a kinda sorta coherent argument for Christianity.

We don't call the Spanish conquest of the Americas a Christian one even though they were Christians who ultimately converted everybody to Christianity.