Do the majority of christians know the history of there religion? Or is there only bond to christianity been created by blind faith?
If you are christian, have you learned only from the BIBLE or have you really studied the historical time line in regards to christianity?
I have done in depth research on the subject and find it really very interesting. What I find most disturbing is that the majority of the people that are vocal about religion have no clue about what there faith really is. They talk on and on about how God is good and how they love God and Christ without ever realling envoking anything but there own ignorance.
I am a practising Catholic so there is no need to shower me with the sermon of being a heathen.
Since there is a more intelectual crowd here it is my hope that there are those of you out there that know your religion instead of just having faith in it.
So, if there are those of you out there that want to talk about the Christain religion and why and how it changed throughout the ages without getting caught up in it's fanatic trappings, feel free to do so here.
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The Catholic church does not promote the shroud at all, just because they dont just hand it out to anyone who asks does not mean they are hiding it.
But all your assumptions about paint and cameras aside from contradicting yourself have been shown to be false. Look at the facts with an open mind, if it is or it isnt an actual burial cloth then it is still somehting that needs to be analyzed because we DONT KNOW HOW IT WAS DONE AND CANNOT REPRODUCE IT.
We can create a little thumb drive with an encyclopedias worth of data but cannot reproduce a painting or a photograph?
Religion should be about truth, honor, loyalty, kindness. After all the point is to maintain what is good. If it were merely about culture then there really is no point in having religion if it is actually a social and cultural distinction.
Question One: "Do the majority of Christians know the history of there religion?"
The origin of the "Christian bible" was created by two European kings, in the 700's, who sent crews out into the known world, to beg, borrow, copy, and or steal, everything associated with all religion.. then they had their scholars assemble what they could fathom of what they compiled, into a book, which they commanded all their subjects to read, under penalty of death for failure to do so... Essentially it was, and is, a how-to book on basic healthy living...
They knitted unrelated stories using filler which made unrelateds seem to read as one...
Check it out, and you will see the bible if full of fillers between unrelated segments...
Generally Christians don't have a clue that those two kings wrote their precious book...
The so called "faithful" reject that fact, because it doesn't fit their beliefs... Essentially they shove it under the carpet, and try to ignore and forget it...