I love Jesus but I consider myself agnostic. Weird huh?
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Well, no, but given how brainwashed Christians are against the faithless and questioning, one can see how that might be thought of as strange. Truth is, Christianity and agnosticism are quite compatible -- it's called fideism. Martin Gardner coined the term and defined it as "I believe because it comforts me."
"Then, nearly 2,00 years after one man got nailed to a tree for saying how good it might be to be nice to people for a change,"
- Douglas Adams, staunch atheist.
Not weird at all. Jesus hated hypocrisy and selfishness. He scorned elaborate rules to 'prove' one's purity and stressed that love was the proof of godliness. He encouraged his followers to feed the hungry, clothe the naked and comfort the afflicted. Not once did Jesus encourage his followers to seize political power and force people to worship in one particular way.
Doesn't sound like the Jesus the fundamentalists promote, does it?
Yeah, not weird at all. I'm an Agnostic as well, but I certainly wouldn't mind if it turned out that Christianity had been correct. Or any religion, in fact. Better than nonexistence. And yeah, there's nothing wrong with "Hey, guys, it'd be TOTALLY AWESOME if you could, like, hate each other a LITTLE less, m'kay?"
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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