Reply #66: I am a Christian [View All]

[m berst]

There are a few posters IMHO who do in fact bash Christians and I call them on that and we have had some excellent, if heated, discussions. Not on this thread, however, since religion has no place in a discussion about science. Right now H2Oman has started a great thread about the role of science in society and the role of religion, and the relationship between the two.

As a rational person I am disturbed about the interjection of irrational arguments that pose as religious arguments into the arenas of public education, politics and science. As a Christian - and I am very conservative theologically even though I am extremely liberal politically - I am concerned for the damage this is doing to the church. It just makes a mockery of the faith in my opinion to see it used to promote creationism.

Yes, there are people who mock all Christians, but I would remind you that we are not being fed to the lions, and that Christianity - although mostly in a very corrupted modern mass media and politicized incarnation - has saturated secular society in this country.

There are different kinds of truths. The great eternal moral truths of Christianity are debased and devalued when we attempt to make of them something that they are not. Christianity is not a club, it is not a team, it is not a movement, it is not a political philosophy and it certainly is not a scientific discipline.

Christianity lives in your heart - quietly and peacefully - or it doesn't exist at all. It is expressed in tolerance, forgiveness, compassion, charity and in a willingness to use the gifts that God gave you, including your ability to reason, and to let your faith show in the betterment of the lives of those around you.