Amber Peall believes atheists can also be Christians.
Amber Peall believes atheists can also be Christians. Naturally, I disagree. Christians, by definition, must believe Jesus Christ was (1) the son of the Abrahamic god, (2) died for your sins and (3) was resurrected. All of this is predicated on the idea that there is a god to begin with.
Now, I will admit there is something called a "Christian Atheist" out there but the definition seems to be all over the place. One definition is people who choose to live by their western Judeo-Christian values but don't believe in the Judeo-Christian god while another definition is the people who do believe in the god, Yaweh, but don't believe he has any role in their lives. Now, normally we'd call that deism, but hey, what's in a word?
Personally, I believe the two concepts are mutually contradictive to each other. One cannot be both an acting Christian and an atheist.
Agree? Disagree?
Now, I will admit there is something called a "Christian Atheist" out there but the definition seems to be all over the place. One definition is people who choose to live by their western Judeo-Christian values but don't believe in the Judeo-Christian god while another definition is the people who do believe in the god, Yaweh, but don't believe he has any role in their lives. Now, normally we'd call that deism, but hey, what's in a word?
Personally, I believe the two concepts are mutually contradictive to each other. One cannot be both an acting Christian and an atheist.
Agree? Disagree?
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Just seems like so many misunderstandings to think a Theist can also be an atheist. Let alone the Christian bit.
Exactly that, Cindy Sharp. My grandfather was a secular Jew.
I think it's a silly thing to do, but people can call themselves whatever they want.
Ari Malek, I think most Christians in Britain are like that too...
I would also throw out there that the majority of atheists aren't Atheists either, but rather agnostics. Being an Atheist takes serious effort, it seems to me, and most people don't care to examine things that strenuously.
Thanks for the ping, Cindy Sharp.
The ruling was made by the Church but had 4 votes (out of 23) to let her remain in the ministry.
So at least four council members of the United Church of Canada believe that you can be Atheistic & Christian (and a minister, no less).
thestar.com - ‘Sad day’ for United Church, says atheist minister Gretta Vosper | Toronto Star
I think there must have been a man, who was born in what is now called Israel. That time the Roman empire. Let say his name was Jesus. There were a lot of people who listend to his stories, stories about a god, about life, about living together, etc.. Story telling was the way to make your point, and he was good at that. Better than the people in church. So he was a threat to the establishment. More and more people heared about him and wanted to listen. They also told what they heared. Time for the powerfull people to eliminate him. A normal way in that time is crusifixion, so that happend. About 300 years later a Roman emperor hears about this man, listened to al the stories (which will be a bit different after 300 years) and accept this man 'Jesus' as the son of god. Christianity is born and starts to spread. Stories are written down and is accepted as a holy book. Just as the other holy books from other religions.
Do not get mad at me. I think there has been a Jesus, but no god. Now during the time I wrote this story, several people have been saying that they are the Messiah, Jesus, or even god. Now we just laugh at them and say they are stupid.
But what will they say in 2000 years from now?
I am an atheist, but think Jesus has been a real person, just like you and me, only with a terrible good historical story. What do you call me?
Amber Peall, I did say there was no such thing. One cannot, at the same time, both believe and disbelieve in a god. This isn't Schrödinger's deity.
Christianity has no ethnic properties. It does have cultural properties, and a lot of people are atheists or secular with a Christian cultural heritage. They are not Christian atheists, because Christian includes in its definition that a person is a theist. You cannot be a theist and an atheist at the same time.