Gefragt

It felt like that.😅

But the truth is that the stress wounded my intestines.

Oh I had my first one earlier than that!

(Don’t do PhDs, people)

He’s selling his country to Russia. From Scylla to Charybdis…

Criticising those who criticise liberals for acting morally superior and not taking action to feel morally superior and not have to take action to feel morally superior and not have to take action to feel morally superior and not have to take action.

Read a book about Christianity if you want to learn the teachings of Christianity. To read the Bible directly without being accompanied by someone knowledgeable (or a good book) is like reading Plato without having any idea of what philosophy is. You’ll misunderstand, not because you’re not smart, but because you have to have keys that you can’t discover by yourself.

My bank account is not the Word of God, but it’s a quite reliable document.

Where did I say that they are not reliable? I just say that, even if you believe that the Bible is a sacred text, you should read it critically. Our work, as Christians, is to search in the human words of these texts the message of life that God wants us to read. And he gave us tools to do that, our reason is one of them.

That’s what I said when I spoke about superficial knowing. In most of Christian denominations, the Bible is not the Word of God in the strict sense: when we call the Bible the Word of God, it’s a metonymy (with, again, the notable exception of the American evangelicals and those, in other traditions, which are unfortunately inspired by them). The Word of God is Jesus-Christ (John 1:1), and the Bible is the only certain way (but not the only way) to hear it. That’s why Luther translated the Bible: the Word of God is heard when someone read the Bible accompanied by their community, in prayer. Then, God speaks through the words of the Bible. But God’s free, he can speak outside of it.

Reading the Bible may be the best cure against Christianity there is.

If it’s a cure against biblical literalism, it’s just the proof that you’re intelligent. But reading the Bible alone doesn’t give you a lot of clues about Christianity, which is not reducible to the Bible.

there is always a counter scripture

I answered that later in my message.

Bible literally means book

No. Bible means books.

But yes I am aware it contains scripture from different sources spanning across bronze to iron age

Of course there’s no writing in the bronze age, and it goes to farther than iron age, the most recent books are from the beginning of the 2nd century of the common era, 7 centuries after the end of the iron age.

I don’t think Morten Dahlin is a Lutheran

I don’t know him enough, but I thought he was a member of the Church of Denmark, which is a Lutheran church. If he’s not, the first paragraph still applies, and the second probably too but with other names, as the precedence of Christ’s teaching is quite widely recognized, the only notable exception being American evangelicalism.

I see it, religion is actively harmful, and you are enabling it.

You’re entitled to your opinion, but from what I saw in your message your knowledge of the Bible and Christianity is quite superficial. Sorry if I’m harsh too, but you should read more before being that much definitive in your opinions. You may be right, but you should recognise that you may be wrong too.

I’m sorry I can’t have this discussion in Danish, I’m still a beginner.

You can think that all the Bible is nonsense, it’s your right and maybe you’re right. But if someone calls themselves “Christian” they have to abide by the teaching of Jesus Christ, or you’ll be called hypocritical. It’s this hypocrisy I underlined.

The Bible is not a book, it’s a library with a lot of different authors and context of writing, and ideas, and publics and goals. There’s a lot of contradictions in it. That’s why we Christians prioritize some texts over others, and every denomination tends to prioritize other texts. We Lutheran use, like Luther said, the life and teachings of Jesus to do that (“was Christum treibet”). Again, you can think it’s stupid and again, you may even be right. But don’t call yourself Lutheran if you contradict the basic beliefs of Lutheranism. Or again again, it’s hypocritical.

Salige er de, som stifter fred

for de skal kaldes Guds børn.

Matthæusevangeliet 5:9

For the, the main source of proto-fascism is nationalism. The form of governement is secondary.

I am a citizen of two countries: a republic and a monarchy. Both are advanced European liberal democracies.

One has a strong far right, refuse to acknowledge its own regional languages because of the threat they pose to the national unity and has a very strong head of state that can decide a lot of things alone, without being responsible before the Parliament.

The other has almost no far right, a very numerous immigrated population, recognizes three national languages but officially communicates in two other languages spoken by its two biggest immigrated communities, has a weak head of state and a strong Parliament.

Which one is the most “proto-fascist”? The first.

Which one is a monarchy? The second.

You

He would spell it “oibre”.

You loose interest quite easily, don’t you?

That’s why Worf’s in white, so that people can see the glory of his farts.

Not to defend him, but that’s exactly what Francis didn’t care about.