Sorry to take so long responding to you. Yes, the issue of how Scripture is used and misused (however you want to define those terms) is a big one. And I am sure that Bush and Company would not see their actions as "failures of Christianity."
The context of the original comment was a discussion in which the poster argued that Christianity should be done away with since it had done such evil in the world. I think it is impossible to weight good v. evil in this debate, precisely because the evil tends to be big and the good small in scale.
I think one of my favorite sayings comes into play here: "An idea is not responsible for the people who hold it." I read a great many wonderful ideas in the Gospels, and the fact that others use the same texts as bludgeons (erroneously, in my view) does not change that.
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Date: 2005-01-05 10:12 pm (UTC)The context of the original comment was a discussion in which the poster argued that Christianity should be done away with since it had done such evil in the world. I think it is impossible to weight good v. evil in this debate, precisely because the evil tends to be big and the good small in scale.
I think one of my favorite sayings comes into play here: "An idea is not responsible for the people who hold it." I read a great many wonderful ideas in the Gospels, and the fact that others use the same texts as bludgeons (erroneously, in my view) does not change that.