Religon in Dating

Originally Posted by kat

A year or two ago I was going somewhere with a guy I met but when I found out he was a Christian, that pretty much ended it right then and there.

You should've tried to convince him that Jesus was a Buddhist. There's a whole philosophy that goes on to describe the connections in Christianity with that of Buddhism (at least, as far as some of the things Jesus supposedly said). And as far as I know, most Buddhists are OK with the idea that Jesus was a Buddha

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Morality is more important to me than Religion. As long as you have the same general ideas of right and wrong that I do, it's fine. The only group I'd consciously not date are super-Christians that praise God every 5 seconds. And now a days there's more and more Christians that are pretty liberal as far as Religious preference, so I'm fine dating one of them.

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Well, that's what nondenominational means. Your doctrine is the Bible. Simple.

A Bible that was compiled to represent and support specific doctrines while neglecting others, I might add. That's one thing that gets me about Christians. They depend on the Bible as if it's the origin of doctrines, but neglect to mention that the scripture which makes up the NT was chosen by those who were the majority denomination at the time (and became majority, I might add, by means of killing off the followers of other denominations and destroying the gospel/scriptures they used). Let's not pretend the NT compilation is an unbiased account of the history of Jesus.

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Uh, they were the only denomination at the time. It was about 300 AD. Plus, it's not like they wrote the book, they just anthologized other books that had been written a couple hundred years ago.

No they weren't. There were lots and lots of various sects of Christianity after His death, each with their own interpretations on His life and His purpose here, etc. Check out the book "The Gnostic Gospels" by Elaine Pagels. What we call "denominations" today are baby-step differences compared to the differences between demoninations that existed after His death.

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