Personally, I don’t have any problem with religious people. I know there’s a sequence that makes the claim that “atheism = untheism + anti-theism”, but I guess that has never been my interpretation, otherwise I’m an untheist. And I’ll defend religious people from skeptical attacks when they are stupid, or perhaps not skeptical enough.
But...my own opinion, I don’t want rationalism to become Christianity without the mythology, it’s not the mythology that I object to. I object to the servility, and the docility (this was once considered a virtue according to theologians) that Christianity inspires, and has grown as a part of what Christianity has become over centuries. Christianity has a very long history, it’s not wise to be naive to it. I’d suggest reading Nietzsche’s Antichrist to understand some of what is going on.
Christianity has a very long history, it’s not wise to be naive to it.
The LDS Church is different enough that much of Christianity does not consider us to be Christian. We believe that most of the history of Christianity occurred in a state of apostasy, or not according to the truth that is in God. Therefore we reject almost all of Christian theology as commonly understood and have the claim to have again the revealed word of God. We flat out claim to be “the only true and living church” on the earth and believe that all others are in some state of being wrong.
I am sure having a belief in Christ and some knowledge of the Bible would help one to understand LDS theology. However, in many ways it is easier to understand by ignoring all other Jewish and Christian theology as it is quite different.
Personally, I don’t have any problem with religious people. I know there’s a sequence that makes the claim that “atheism = untheism + anti-theism”, but I guess that has never been my interpretation, otherwise I’m an untheist. And I’ll defend religious people from skeptical attacks when they are stupid, or perhaps not skeptical enough.
But...my own opinion, I don’t want rationalism to become Christianity without the mythology, it’s not the mythology that I object to. I object to the servility, and the docility (this was once considered a virtue according to theologians) that Christianity inspires, and has grown as a part of what Christianity has become over centuries. Christianity has a very long history, it’s not wise to be naive to it. I’d suggest reading Nietzsche’s Antichrist to understand some of what is going on.
The LDS Church is different enough that much of Christianity does not consider us to be Christian. We believe that most of the history of Christianity occurred in a state of apostasy, or not according to the truth that is in God. Therefore we reject almost all of Christian theology as commonly understood and have the claim to have again the revealed word of God. We flat out claim to be “the only true and living church” on the earth and believe that all others are in some state of being wrong.
I am sure having a belief in Christ and some knowledge of the Bible would help one to understand LDS theology. However, in many ways it is easier to understand by ignoring all other Jewish and Christian theology as it is quite different.