One Astronomer's Noise

I read an interesting blog post on Steel City Skeptics, passed down the Twitter from Anadart.

It’s an interesting take on the full meaning of Christianity. And it brings up some good questions about labels. Most Christians, in my experience, are decent, tolerant, good people. They choose to take the parts of the Bible that work out in the modern times along with modern morality. However, I think that shows that the Bible is no longer needed as a guide for our morality, since we just cherry pick the best parts anyway. That avoids the danger of the fundies choosing to take on the parts of the Bible that are no longer so morally correct, such as stoning homosexuals.

I think it’s hard to say that either the fundamentalist Christians or the moderate Christians are distorting the “true” religion. It is so multi-faceted and sometimes inconsistent, it is difficult to choose what is “true” other than what is accepted by the mainstream. The conclusion of the blog post doesn’t sit well with me, since that only describes part of what the Bible is about. However, in order to accept the entire scripture, that’s an important part that shouldn’t be ignored. That can lead to trouble.

At the end of the day, don’t judge someone’s morality based on what label they choose.