Tenet.
And I disagree. The central tenet of Christianity is "Jesus died to 'save' people from the hell he'll send you to if you don't believe this".
With the belief that he didn't stay dead and him being the son of God being the next most important ones.
The average Christian believes that the Bible says whatever their priest/pastor tells them it says, even if they have read that part and not seen it.
I mean, how else do supposedly "Bible-only" sects believe in concepts like original sin, the serpent being Satan, the idea that Biblical "kinds"...
When asked to define what he means by God he'll start an incoherent ramble that sounds more like pantheism than anything else.
He doesn't believe in a personal god; but he literally said that he thinks atheists should still indoctrinate their kids into Christianity because, being an...
Yes, people writing derivative works are usually familiar with the ones they're referencing (but see again that part where Jesus rides two donkeys because the author of Matthew misunderstood the older text), but that doesn't mean it goes both ways.
The Book of Mormon references the Bible a lot...
"I finally actually read the Bible" is actually one of the most common reasons people give for why they left Christianity anyway.
Half the people who claim to "believe the Bible" would fail a quiz about what the Bible actually says.
No, he is not. He is the type of person who is good at sounding smarter than he really is to people who aren't familiar with the subject he's talking about at the time.
He does that deliberately. He panders to Christian nationalists because there isn't much of an American far-right without...
The fact that a non-combatant would have to do anything specific to be spared illustrates the violence of the invaders, not the faith of the traitor.
Also, the author of that story had never even heard of Jesus.
I'm not sure he's in the top thousand, and very sure he's not in the top hundred.
I think Johannes Gutenberg deserves far more credit for increasing both literacy and access to the Bible.
Luther might be the second-most important person in those areas to Germany specifically, but Gutenberg...
To elaborate on that point more, people in "invisible minorities" actually sometimes have to put up with more, because casual bigotry from people who wouldn't knowingly harass someone directly is a very real thing.
(I accidentally liked this while trying to quote it and still feel icky about it.)
With anti-LGBT+ bigotry being more prominent than racism at the moment, this is an even more absurd question than it would have been in other times and places.
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