Reply #87: Spong is amazing

[BoneDaddy]

PP kudo's on JS spong, he is a wonderful, rational Christian.

I tell ya, after reading these posts by some of your detractors, I get disappointed as some of the so called atheists bash religion and christianity, in particular. They, in their supreme knowledge, make the same mistake as the fundamentals do... they get caught up in trying prove/disprove the mythological trappings of Christianity.

Of course bad things have been done by Christians and of course good things have been done by Christians. This all or none, black or white approach to a philosophy of living is no different than the mind set of the whacko fundies in the world, except their "religion" is their set of beliefs, their guiding principles, their mythology. It's like the old saying goes "by not making a choice, you are making a choice" The same rules apply in that "by not believing in a specific mythology, you are believing in a mythology...just one of a different kind". Their gods, instead of an entity of ethereal presence, are replaced by the gods of logic and rationality.

I subscribe to the middle road and to our biology which dictates a need between the abstract (philosophy, religion, spirituality) and the rational.

The teachings of Jesus have little, really, to do with the mythological trappings and more to do with an evolution of consciousness. Jesus as with Buddha, Lao-tzu and other great spiritualists and mystics understood the deep connection and interconnectedness of life. They taught a new way to live in societies that were dominated by war, suffering and tyrannical leaders. What the stories of Jesus speak to is not some elite club, but to how to consciously live.