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American Christians, which of the following makes me a heretic in your eyes?
A. questioning Biblical inneracy?
B. studying the psychology of religion?
C. studying the evolution of religion?
Or
D. studying the evolutionary psychology of religion?
I already know the correct answer to this, so please get it right. (They are not all heresies.)
People you are really not trying are you?
@ no chance... LOL
People you are really not trying are you?
@ no chance... LOL
@ Antie Pantie. I'm sorry to disagree with you, yours was a nice answer, but to Southern Baptists I am a heretic, not that it bothers me to any extent I just want to find out how many of them actually study their own theology.
@ Smudgewa... No, I am educated atheist. I believe in studying the oppositions argument and knowing it better than they do.
Sorry it's 4 in the morning here in the UK and I have just missed a complete word out of my previous reply, put it down to a senior moment. I should have said I am AN educated atheist.
@ BenOni I did not ask you to care about what I believe I asked you to tell me what made me a heretic. Please get into the habbit of actually reading questions.
@ secretsa.. Sweeping generalisation on my part using the term American Christians. To you I will say sorry, I stand corrected and I should have said American Protestants.
@ sda4etc. It would be nice if you actually read the question, You answer is so far off point as to be absolutely ridiculous. You are really bad example to others.
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- secretsauceLv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
A "heretic"?
What year is this ... 1612?
As an American Catholic, I don't find any of those four to be "heretical."
Yes, I understand your point ... that many American fundamentalists seem to act as if
(a) they represent all Christians; and
(b) it really is 1612, and everyone from Darwin to Dawkins should be be forced to "recant" (as many seem to do to Darwin posthumously), if not given a taste of the fate of Giordano Bruno.
But trust me, they do not represent all American Christians. Not by a long shot.
If you have an issue with fundamentalists or creationists, please say 'fundamentalists' or 'creationists' ... the word "Christian" is not synonymous with either of those words (despite what fundamentalists and creationists tell you).
- Anonymous9 years ago
Charles Darwin failed miserably in his quest to validate his argument on Evolution.
God created the Heaven and Earth as the Holy Bible declares (Genesis 1:1). Don't put faith in theories. Have faith in God.
Charles Darwin did not use good logic in his famous book, "The Origin of Species."
W.R. Thompson, a Canadian entomologist(entomology-study of insects) of international repute, wrote in his introduction to the centennial edition of Darwin's Origen, "Darwin did not show in the Origin that species had originated by natural selection; he merely showed, on the basis of certain facts and assumptions, how this might have happened, and as he had convinced himself he was able to convince others.
Chapter 4 of the Origin, entitled "Natural Selection; or the Survival of the Fittest," occupies 44 pages in the 1958 mentor edition. In this chapter Darwin used the language of speculation, imagination, and assumption at least 187 times. For example, pages 118 and 119 contain the following phrases; "may have been," "is supposed to," perhaps," "If we suppose," "may still be," 'it is probable," "will generally tend," "may" "will generally tend," 'If," 'if...assumed," "supposed," "supposed," "probably," "It seems, therefore, extremely probable," and "We may suppose." Is this really the language of science? No, it is not.
Of Darwin's speculative arguments Thompson wrote, "....Personal convictions, simple possibilities, are presented as if they were proofs, or at least valid arguments in favor of the theory....The demonstration can be modified without difficulty to fit any conceivable case. It is without scientific value, since it cannot be verified; but since the imagination has free rein, it is easy to convey the impression that a concrete example of real transmutation (change of one species to another) has been given."
Source: Thompson, W.R., Introduction to The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, E.P. Dutton and Co., New York.
Have faith dear friends in God, not theories.
Genesis 1:1
Isaiah 45:18
Colossians 1:16
Hebrews 11:1-6
Genesis 2:1-3
Exodus 20:8-11
Psalm 14:1
SDA
- SmudgewardLv 49 years ago
As a fair weather atheist I'll have to go with using the word/term inneracy, you trying to make us turn Christian or what?
- Antie PantieLv 79 years ago
None of these are heresy... Asking questions, studying religion, and evolution is not heresy... Heresy is when you declare something about Christianity that is a lie to be the truth...
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- Benoni "Light"Lv 79 years ago
I don't care what you believe or what you do with your time. All due respect You aren't anything in my eyes. I don't know you.
Source(s): Christian - CatSamuelLv 59 years ago
Actually, it's your polka-dotted underwear. HERETIC!
Source(s): Don't deny it. We all know. - 9 years ago
If god gives you a brain and doesn't want you to think, there lies the problem.