Belief v. achievement
Interesting. Hadn’t thought of that before.
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March 24th, 2013 at 4:05 pm
He has some good points in that post.
March 24th, 2013 at 6:18 pm
Christians are inferior? Hmm. I guess that one will just never sink in with me. But I do know that the writer invoked REVEREAND MLK.
I think the writer misses the point that when one is a Christian, he is Christian first and places God above all things. So he misses the mark in trying to make his point. Simply declaring yourself a Christian is much different than being one. Yet without any basis to make such a call, he seems to be able to discern the difference. So on the end, the writer is both guilty of faulty logic and the use of scratch theology, as a thin veneer of ideas used to bolster a supposedly intellectual thesis. Christianity, above all, is not substitute for anything. It is unto itself.
March 24th, 2013 at 10:40 pm
Brilliantly said Steve.
March 25th, 2013 at 4:44 am
I think You guys, Steve and Dan, Might have missed the point as I read it.
He meant when you ask someone to describe themselves, What do they start with: Something they do or have done, Or something they are a ‘part’ of.
Obviously, there is some exceptions to this. You ask the pope to describe himself, And you are going to get both ‘answers’ in one.
March 25th, 2013 at 9:53 am
The irony, Steve’s making the author’s point by being a prime example of someone defined by his believes, not his deeds.
March 25th, 2013 at 11:51 am
@Mu,
The author is a blogger and economist, both examples of someone who shares their beliefs for a living.
I do get his point, however. And agree to an extent.
March 25th, 2013 at 5:29 pm
Ah the triumph of humanism…
Christianity isn’t something you are “part of”, it is something you “are.” Believing and doing are (should be) superposed and inseparable.
You don’t help the needy because you believe it is a “good thing”, you help the needy because it is what being a Christian, being Christ-like, -is-.
By stating one is a Christian one is -declaring- one’s deeds, as one’s entire life is consumed by the doing of them. Christianity is your trade, your calling; plumber or doctor is merely your wage-earning job, which, as merely one of your deeds, is also done in a Christ-like way.