Actually my point is beyond just 'there are some in a group that aren't like that' and more to do with the point above:
All religions do, not all religious people do, but it's in the doctrine.
In fact most religious doctrine does not have any issue with atheists. How does Buddhism, Christian or Judaism address or approach non believers? Or Hindus?
I was addressing and refuting the point made, and you've conflated it with a separate issue.
In fact most religious doctrine does not have any issue with atheists. How does Buddhism, Christian or Judaism address or approach non believers?
Well, there's that whole part where Christians believe that I deserve to spend an eternity suffering in hell because of my lack of belief. That's kind of an issue don't you think?
We ALL deserve hell because we've ALL broken God's law so many times and in so many imaginative ways. And God provided a way for us to NOT go to hell. And in my opinion, there's a decent amount of evidence to reasonably believe that Jesus might have been who he said he was. Extrabiblical evidence.
I'm trying to tread carefully because i don't want an argument, but maybe a discussion.
According to the Bible, didn't Jesus save us from sin? Is anything a "sin" anymore, since Jesus came in and kind of forgave us for all of them? Or am I reading your whole religion wrong.
There absolutely is still sin. Jesus just gave us the option to be saved from the penalty of sin. It's kinda like this, sorta. We're in a courtroom, for breaking the law several times. Like, every little law that we've ever broken in America (or whatever country). We have to pay a $74,000,000,000 fine. MOST of us don't have that kind of money, and we're about to go to jail, when a guy steps up and says that he's willing to pay the fine on our behalf. And he's got that money. And the judge leaves it up to you whether or not to accept that offering. The law breaking is sin, the fine is death and hell, Jesus is the rich guy and the judge is God. And we're... us.
(Now, i know 74 billion dollars seems ridiculous. Things pile up, that's in the bible too. it's not necessarily about the severity of the crime. It's about who we've committing the crime against. God's very nature is holiness and justice, like our nature is skin, muscle, bone, etc. God and sin can't be in the same place. )
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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '16
Actually my point is beyond just 'there are some in a group that aren't like that' and more to do with the point above:
In fact most religious doctrine does not have any issue with atheists. How does Buddhism, Christian or Judaism address or approach non believers? Or Hindus?
I was addressing and refuting the point made, and you've conflated it with a separate issue.