When Christians Disagree
We should expect Christians to disagree on a wide range of things. We are human and that means we can be mistaken and we can prefer our own way.
Disagreements among Christians is NOT evidence for the falsity of Christianity. Scientists disagree on all sorts of things. Just take a look at the numerous theories about the origin of the universe. People will always interpret evidence differently.
The reason I’m writing this is more specific. At this time there is a very public disagreement between two very well known Christians. I don’t have to include their names because in six months there will be two different Christians having just as an emotional debate.
We need to remember that these disagreements are never just in house. The world watches how we deal with our disagreements, even more so with social media.
It is okay for us to have differences of opinion. I would even say that it is healthy. What is not good is when we get nasty.
I understand when a person is confident in their convictions but that doesn’t give them the right to publicly attack the other person or be disrespectful.
No one should do this but Christians should especially avoid this behaviour. It turns off non-Christians. It injures the body of Christ. It disappoints God.
We do not have to avoid a conversation but we should think carefully how we will present ourselves and how we will treat others that we differ with.
The disagreement between Christians on the most basic concepts of their religion is indeed evidence that Christianity is nonsense. None of you can show that your version or any version is true. If there is a true version, do tell how we would find it out.
Not one of you can do what your supposed messiah promised. You must invent excuses why you cannot, and those excuses don’t contradict each other either.
There is no reason to think Christianity is true at all.
“I understand when a person is confident in their convictions but that doesn’t give them the right to publicly attack the other person or be disrespectful.”
yes it does give them the right since the truth is what we should all support. And it is not “disrespectful” to do so. The only person who would claim otherwise is someone whose only defense of their baseless claims is that no one dare be allowed to challenge them.
C.S. Lewis advocated for lying to others about the differences in Christianity. If you depend upon lies, and your god is claimed to hate lies and liars for any reason, you have a problem.