Because you can insult the truth because truth doesn't change. However lies can not stand being probed they fall apart if you do. Why the Quran gives death to people that insult islam.
Ya this wasn't even his quote lol. I got mixed up this is Sartre. I mixed it up with "if there were no God it would be necessary to create one" actually by Voltaire.
The quote you used can be read 2 ways, too. I like that Voltaire quote, though. I remember, when I was young, I wasn't sure. I had no definition of God that made sense to me, so I didn't know if he existed or not. But, I needed him at that time. So, I decided that if he didn't exist, then I was going to create him. He would now exist in my world, my perception, my existence. I figured that the real God, if he existed (again, at the time I wasn't sure) wouldn't mind and would just be there.
We need God, but I'm convinced we need him for good reasons.
Repent of our sins is not in the bible. This is false teaching, of another Gospel. Repent and turn to Christ is in the Bible. It means Repent of your unbelief in Christ Jesus and turn to him for salvation. Faith salvation is biblical. Works salvation is not.
I truly think we’ve gone too far in that direction, to our detriment.
That isn't charity. Charity is voluntary, taxes enforced at the but of a government gun is the opposite of charity. In fact we have a word for it, theft.
The Christians made its popularity rise not just in everyday life but whole organizations dedicated to deeds of Charity.
Wow think of all the Holy Orders created in Christ's name. Domic's Friars. Francisicans, Jesuits, Monks Little Sisters of the Poor could go on forever.
One should read the Old Testament again. The Israelites were ordered not to harvest the corners of their fields and orchards so that the poor would have food. They were also told to give charity and aid to strangers in need, because they themselves had been strangers in need at one point.
The Parable of the Good Samaritan in the New Testament was a slight against the Pharisees because they had become so obsessed with being Ritually pure that they forgot the very words of God.
Charity in Christianity sprung from the charity that the God of Abraham intended, not from anything inherently different between Judaism and Christianity.
The line there is drawn between person-person charity and government action. The reason free societies can work is because they're supported by a strong civil society in which people do actually help each other out - without the state getting involved.
Exactly, a social safety net still does exist in free societies, its just provided by family and community willingly rather than by some far off government. Face-to-face charity works for the most party, there's a system of accountability. People who abuse small-scale family help get known for such as the help dries up. Also, with face-to-face the receivers of such help often feel gratitude and obligation to move their life to a point where they no longer need the help.
When that help starts coming from an anonymous governing body, it turns into an entitlement with no accountability.
Charity is sacrificing of yourself to help those in need. Voting for a socialist system to take from somebody else to feed tot he poor is not Charity at all.
Every aspect of communism is one of the seven deadly sins disguised as virtues for the ignorant.
Yeah and all that charity led to the pants-on-head retarded shit we see in places like Sweden to this day.
I truly think we’ve gone too far in that direction, to our detriment.
It’s “love thy neighbor” not “import thy neighbor from Somalia”
Because you can insult the truth because truth doesn't change. However lies can not stand being probed they fall apart if you do. Why the Quran gives death to people that insult islam.
So does the Old Testament.
False. Cite examples.
Ya this wasn't even his quote lol. I got mixed up this is Sartre. I mixed it up with "if there were no God it would be necessary to create one" actually by Voltaire.
The quote you used can be read 2 ways, too. I like that Voltaire quote, though. I remember, when I was young, I wasn't sure. I had no definition of God that made sense to me, so I didn't know if he existed or not. But, I needed him at that time. So, I decided that if he didn't exist, then I was going to create him. He would now exist in my world, my perception, my existence. I figured that the real God, if he existed (again, at the time I wasn't sure) wouldn't mind and would just be there.
We need God, but I'm convinced we need him for good reasons.
I think you are a very deep thinker. That's quite something to come up with! If you want some better arguments check this out.
https://youtu.be/ZB9bMFjHlYo
I feel that Voltaire was a deitist but simply hated the Roman Catholic Church. He seemed impressed with Quakers.
Repent of our sins is not in the bible. This is false teaching, of another Gospel. Repent and turn to Christ is in the Bible. It means Repent of your unbelief in Christ Jesus and turn to him for salvation. Faith salvation is biblical. Works salvation is not.
That isn't charity. Charity is voluntary, taxes enforced at the but of a government gun is the opposite of charity. In fact we have a word for it, theft.
He was talking about Europeans hundreds of years ago specifically
Charity is not a solely Christian thing.
The Christians made its popularity rise not just in everyday life but whole organizations dedicated to deeds of Charity.
Wow think of all the Holy Orders created in Christ's name. Domic's Friars. Francisicans, Jesuits, Monks Little Sisters of the Poor could go on forever.
One should read the Old Testament again. The Israelites were ordered not to harvest the corners of their fields and orchards so that the poor would have food. They were also told to give charity and aid to strangers in need, because they themselves had been strangers in need at one point.
The Parable of the Good Samaritan in the New Testament was a slight against the Pharisees because they had become so obsessed with being Ritually pure that they forgot the very words of God.
Charity in Christianity sprung from the charity that the God of Abraham intended, not from anything inherently different between Judaism and Christianity.
Think of them while you remember they could not read. Think of them while you read John 18:36.
Take your thinking and apply it to the rise of Islam.
It rose quicker than Christianity did so what does that say?
The line there is drawn between person-person charity and government action. The reason free societies can work is because they're supported by a strong civil society in which people do actually help each other out - without the state getting involved.
Exactly, a social safety net still does exist in free societies, its just provided by family and community willingly rather than by some far off government. Face-to-face charity works for the most party, there's a system of accountability. People who abuse small-scale family help get known for such as the help dries up. Also, with face-to-face the receivers of such help often feel gratitude and obligation to move their life to a point where they no longer need the help.
When that help starts coming from an anonymous governing body, it turns into an entitlement with no accountability.
You mean Greed and Avarice?
Charity is sacrificing of yourself to help those in need. Voting for a socialist system to take from somebody else to feed tot he poor is not Charity at all.
Every aspect of communism is one of the seven deadly sins disguised as virtues for the ignorant.
This is true! So true.