OK, sorry. It wasn't terribly clear though - I thought you were still replying to my "do you consider the Amish to be Christians?" question.
Personally, I tend to agree with you that it's what you do that should be important. And I think if you look at the actions of the vast majority of Christians in this country, they do their faith credit. On the other hand, so do most people of other faiths (or agnostics/atheists, for that matter).I have my own views on what it means to be a christian, and am brutally aware that I fall well short of that benchmark. However, I have some good role models both within and without the dance world so I just keep plugging away.
I do think it's a mistake to look for "ideal" Christians and say "Look! X is a great man, and he's a Christian, how can you be against Christianity?". Because if you do, you have to accept the right of others to say "Ah, but Y is responsible for the deaths of 1000s of innocents, and he's a Christian". Overall, I suspect the balance is not in favour of Christianity.
But to paraphrase Larry Niven: "there's no cause so noble that you won't find tyrants espousing it".
Alcohol free I assume?My group should be fun, one very strong agnostic and a research scientist who is a Muslim. Some excellent pints made by both.
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