http://media.damnfunnypictures.com/dfp/ChristianityExplained001.jpg
A Picture, with a message. It’s an interesting point to make, one that a lot of Christians out there will go mental to see on a blog like this. However, we have to remember that this is how a lot of people see us, how the religion is percieved by some. How do we change this image?
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Dear SK,
that is a tough one, as everything that was said on that page is an accurate part of the Christian faith, and in fact is not even put in inflammatory terms in the sense that there is no distortion or poetic license.
I think that you will always have a job on your hands convincing a non Christian about some of the more bizarre aspects – apparently people from Asia who are Buddhists find the symbolic cannibalism quite extraordinary and grotesque, and I can’t blame them. I mean, the catholics actually say that the bread and wine ritual is a literal transformation into flesh and blood – sorry, I don’t know the terms – and I can’t imagine why anyone would think that that was a good idea.
Personally I don’t think that you need to think about changing the image unless your vocation is going to lead you into conversion, but the Church hasn’t done too badly converting people either, where I live virtually none of the church goers are white and English- the more recently converted (100-200 years as opposed to 400) are your bread and butter. Their aboriginal religions were much gorier, so the blood and sacrifice stuff that is so essential to Christianity must have been pretty easy to swallow, as it were.
Caroline
Caz,
I’m guessing that’s how the idea is pitched. Yes it is a symblic “eating and drinking of blood and flesh”, based on the idea from the story of the last supper. That too, was symbolic. Most religions use symbology in some way. The whole bread and wine thing is to present this idea of a “unified body”, with a unified forcce driving it forward.
I think I will attempt to write a post about this too, and my take on it. See if I can clarify a few things.
As you’ve already gathered, Caz, I’m not your typical fundie.
SK
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