> I feel bad for the Christians who really take Christian values, rather than > various fundamentalist interpretations, to heart
But it is next to impossible to define "Christian values" as the bible and much of the dogma issue by the variety of churches of the millenia have been so self-contradictory.
Who is to say that those "fundamentalist interpretations" aren't the right ones? Interestingly I was listening to a podcast of In Our Time the other day about Thomas Hobbs (http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs_display?folder=10596650&since=9&Display=Display) who believed that the only way to live sanely was to defer in all things to one person put in the position of ultimate authority (king/pope/whatever) who would provide the answers to just such questions.
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> various fundamentalist interpretations, to heart
But it is next to impossible to define "Christian values" as the bible and much of the dogma issue by the variety of churches of the millenia have been so self-contradictory.
Who is to say that those "fundamentalist interpretations" aren't the right ones? Interestingly I was listening to a podcast of In Our Time the other day about Thomas Hobbs (http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs_display?folder=10596650&since=9&Display=Display) who believed that the only way to live sanely was to defer in all things to one person put in the position of ultimate authority (king/pope/whatever) who would provide the answers to just such questions.