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[quote=Anonymous] Because of my experiences, I have a real love/hate relationship with Christianity. I've had some wonderful moments in church where I felt really close to God. And I've had moments where church felt like some crazy manipulative cult. I struggle with my faith, but I believe in God and Jesus. I've learned, however, to be very wary about certain type of Christians. Overall though the positive things about Christianity outweigh the negative things. And I really admire Jesus. No person lives up to the ideals of Jesus. But these are still great ideals worth striving for. To love your enemy. To love your neighbor as yourself. To reach out to the poor and the marginalized. To see that each individual has intrinsic value in the eyes of God. Jesus's message is still very radical and subversive.[/quote]

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I know of many Christians who feel this way - they really love the ideals Jesus stands for.  My feeling is that you can love the ideals without worshipping the man, or any man. You can admire Jesus greatly without expecting him to provide you with eternal life.

People don't need all the trappings of organized religion to hold to Jesus' simple, timeless ideals. In fact, organized religion can become corrupt, like any group devised by humans.  Also, we now know that these ideals are intrinsic to human development and can be found to some extent in other animals and in human babies who have no understanding of organized  religion.

The worship part seems like a vestige of the past, when humans were routinely subjugated by rulers whom they were expected to worship and to a time when we thought gods lived right out of sight in the sky above us.[/quote]

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