Quote Scorpia:
People are deluded into thinking all Christans are bloodthristy and oppressive. What about all the ones you meet on the street? That little old lady who goes to church? What about anabaptists? What about jehovah's witnesses, who refused to do so much as bear arms? They are obviously not going to hurt anyone. And if you're going to go on about how Chritians bully other or oppress people, well, I have seen less of that and more people doing such things to religious people, enough to make me sick
scrotum wrote:We are not talking about what people think about Christians, or how Christians even act in public areas, its their concern.
You may ofcourse talk about whatever you like, but this is not the topic, so i´ll try to direct you to what we where talking about.
Scorpia makes a fair point, I think. Christians are often mis-characterized as a group on the basis of the actions of a few, sometimes extreme, examples.
Scrotum also makes a good point in that this does seem to be a bit off topic. The thread is asking why some books are part of the Christian canon and others aren't.
scrotum wrote:But we are on the other hand speaking of the fact that the Christian religion demands ignorance from its followers. As well as condeming everyone that does not follow it (this is your own religion). Open the bible one of these days, you might be surprised.
I would also suggest that this is not on topic.
In addition, the first statement is simply untrue. The history of Christianity is incredibly vast, varied, and complex, but there are certainly multitudes of learned people among the ranks of Christians, both present and past. It seems to me you are criticizing your own strawman caricature of Christianity.
Isaac Newton, Galileo Galilei, Martin Luther King Junior, the late Pope John Paul II, Paul Tillich, Reinhold Niebuhr, Jimmy Carter, James Maxwell, etc. etc. one could easily list hundreds or thousands of names of scientists, theologians, philosophers, political thinkers, etc. who are or were Christians.
We can certainly continue to argue about who is more oppressed or who did more oppressing over the centuries, but none of this is on topic. Please direct such discussions to another more appropriate thread or start a new one.
