On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 08:07:41AM +0000, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at
22:54:00 on Wed, 13 Feb 2013, Arthur Figgis
remarked:
And despite years of compulsory daily worship at primary school, I
don't know what Christians _believe_
That's a bit hard on yourself. What they believe in is living a virtuous
life as laid out in the gospels.

That's obviously not true, because they also believe a bunch of stuff
not in the gospels. And what that stuff is varies from sect to sect,
such as:
* whether priests are necessary;
* if they are, whether women can be priests;
* if they can, whether they are as priestly as men;
* whether gay people should have human rights;
* whether evolution happened

All of which makes it pretty clear that what they actually believe is
whatever was once convenient for their leaders (but which, eg re gay
people, may now be thoroughly inconvenient for their leaders but they
can't change it because admitting that someone was wrong a few hundred
years ago is even less convenient to the powers that be).

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