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Title: THe Evangelical Manifesto
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snakechic
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(Date Posted:08/28/2008 17:55:34)

Response to this document?...or the idea of it. (its been around since May)

http://www.anevangelicalmanifesto.com/img/divider.png

I've never been all that comfy with the term 'manifesto' or the idea of a 'set of tenets' no matter where they originate from.

Here's are a couple of critics..http://http://theamericanscene.com/2008/05/09/the-manifesto-that-isnt
and
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121029045957979237.html?mod=taste_primary_hs[/url


Seems the term 'fundamentalism' is causing a little discomfort around the 'evangelicals' movement ? The thing does sound very defensive.  hehehe..
maybe all that rhetoric and comparison to Islam fundamentalism has paid off?


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In exchange for obedience, Christianity promises salvation in an afterlife; but in order to elicit obedience through this promise, Christianity must convince people that they need salvation, that there is something to be saved from. Christianity has nothing to offer a happy person living in a natural, intelligible universe. If Christianity is to gain a motivational foothold, it must declare war on earthly pleasure and happiness, and this, historically, has been its precise course of action. In the eyes of Christianity, woman(man) is sinful and helpless in the face of God, and is potential fuel for the flames of hell. Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.

-- George H Smith, Atheism: The Case Against God

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RE:THe Evangelical Manifesto
(Date Posted:08/29/2008 05:43:14)

Not to mention your very own atheist fundamentalism ! LMAO
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RE:THe Evangelical Manifesto
(Date Posted:08/29/2008 13:15:10)

Oh..dear!
My link to 'the evangelical manifesto' was incorrect. Appears that I had my pointer in the wrong place..

so here it is again...http://http://www.anevangelicalmanifesto.com/
for those who want to read it.

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In exchange for obedience, Christianity promises salvation in an afterlife; but in order to elicit obedience through this promise, Christianity must convince people that they need salvation, that there is something to be saved from. Christianity has nothing to offer a happy person living in a natural, intelligible universe. If Christianity is to gain a motivational foothold, it must declare war on earthly pleasure and happiness, and this, historically, has been its precise course of action. In the eyes of Christianity, woman(man) is sinful and helpless in the face of God, and is potential fuel for the flames of hell. Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.

-- George H Smith, Atheism: The Case Against God

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RE:THe Evangelical Manifesto
(Date Posted:08/29/2008 16:24:51)

Or you could try here: http://www.anevangelicalmanifesto.com/


(Message edited by fartypants On 08/29/2008 16:25:57)
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