Religion
In reply to the discussion: Corruption, Duplicitousness, and Lying are Important Christian Values, Apparently. [View all]Bretton Garcia
(970 posts)And destroyed billions of lives. So I suggest we should be able to mention them.
And consider. Any allegedly sophisticated forms of Christianity, by failing to condemn the simple forms, give those fantastically destructive forms permission, and support. In effect, silent sophistication, if it exists, probably acts as an enabler for the horribly simple and deadly.
Or will you argue that deadly religion is the more sophisticated form?
You seem to have just gone from saying that 1) lying cannot ever be central to Christianity,.to 2) tacitly allowing that much lying is there. And 3) therefore, good?
I expect that you will be telling us gradually, that almost all forms of what preachers said was evil, are good. To your sophisticated Christianity. Soon. But at the very least, that would suggest that the great simple mass of Christians and churches, was deceived.
Your defense of religion, no, matter how lying or probably murderous, is noted.
As a very, very serious problem.