\u201cI would add sin is a religious concept, I don\u2019t believe in religious concepts and I sure as heck am not required to follow your faiths views.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\nAnd what makes you think that I need to dismiss every historical reference to Christ, God, Providence, and the Supreme Judge of the Universe just because you want to be your own bottom line and you\u2019re offended by the prospect of being accountable to something greater than yourself?<\/p>\n
Anytime you hear someone say, \u201cYou can\u2019t force your beliefs on me\u2026\u201d you\u2019re hearing someone who wants to pretend that the world is nothing more than a collection of personal preferences and truth is whatever it is you want to believe.<\/p>\n
Is the tomb empty?<\/p>\n
If it isn\u2019t, than it doesn\u2019t matter. But if it is\u2026<\/p>\n
Then nothing else matters.<\/p>\n
All your whinin\u2019 about Christians being hypocrites – they didn\u2019t die for your sins.<\/p>\n
And stop looking at distortions of Christianity and labeling them expressions of Christ when you know that they\u2019re not.<\/p>\n
And drop that garbage about all religions being the same. They\u2019re not. Every religion gives you the ability to earn your \u201csalvation,\u201d however you want to define it. Christianity says you\u2019re a spiritual corpse and the only thing you contribute to your salvation is the sin that makes it necessary.<\/p>\n
And stop thinking you\u2019re making your point by being vulgar or sarcastic. Look, however the Resurrection resonates with you, you need to remember that when you sneer at it, you\u2019re not just rolling your eyes at the church down the street or some posts you saw on social media. You\u2019re spitting on the single greatest act of compassion in human history – God loving you so much that they actually invented a word to capture the physical, emotional, and psychological agony of the cross – excruciating (literally \u201cof the cross\u201d).<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what He did for you.<\/p>\n
If you want to believe yourself to be a lucky accident just so you make up your own rules and insist that you\u2019re a victim of a totalitarian system anytime someone points to the Bible or the Declaration of Independence or the motto on the back of our currency – that\u2019s your baggage.<\/p>\n
You\u2019re not looking for the Truth, you\u2019re looking for an excuse. And remember this: Anytime you say something stupid like, \u201cWhat\u2019s true for you isn\u2019t true for me,\u201d if that\u2019s the case, according to your own logic, I can call you a liar and not be wrong.<\/p>\n
Bottom line: In your mind, truth is what you want to believe, no one can force their beliefs on you, and you don\u2019t want people to be fair, you want them to be quiet.<\/p>\n
But…<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not the way the universe works, that\u2019s not the testimony of history, and you don\u2019t have a point, you have a problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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On occasion, I’ll see a question posted in Quora and I’ll feel compelled to respond, just because the comments and responses are often devoid of any real attempt to push back against what amounts to a bogus conclusion.<\/p>\n