Timeline for The Ethics of Finding Comfort in Religion: Balancing Personal Benefits and Societal Harm
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| Apr 20, 2023 at 22:38 | comment | added | Mark Rosenblitt-Janssen | @raygrant: You are screwing around with words. You just said "salvation is not cheap" and waved away the problem of personal choice (the issue at hand) by comparing to something completely unrelated: the crucifixion. It is unrelated because their choice didn't create that history. Whatever you want to believe about the historical act itself is itself an escape -- if you choose to believe that it grants you salvation from your own choices, for without choice, you are NOTHING. | |
| Apr 20, 2023 at 22:28 | comment | added | user64825 | There is nothing wrong in finding "comfort" when coming into the Presence of God, where there is not only solace, but instruction in social justice (righteousness), and most importantly, redemption from misconduct (sins). The error comes when religion is simply used as a crutch alone, or social club, or cultural fashion. Christianity as taught by Jesus, in no way, condones a "no fault" escapism. Salvation is not cheap! It cost Jesus His life on a cruel cross, after being incarcerated unjustly by "us." Social injustice is not normalized in Judeo-Christian theology, (Read Micah). | |
| Apr 20, 2023 at 22:12 | history | answered | Mark Rosenblitt-Janssen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |