Originally posted by divegeester
Yes anger. On page one of this thread a poster asked you why you were continually "slamming Christianity", you replied that "it was welling up in you are you were going to go with it", presumably meaning that you are experiencing the emergence of a latent urge to "slam Christianity".
I agree with this observation and self-revelation; the nature of ...[text shortened]... uddhist related material.
Perhaps there is something in your past that is driving this.
I then went on to explain in the next sentence it was, as I repeat often, the idolatrous, bible worshiping, science denying, historical fact denying FUNDAMENTALISM that is the focus of my attention. Anger is an emotion, not necessarily involved at all in direct factual confrontation. I do sometimes feel anger but recognize it as just an emotion, unlike factual truth. I do not feel or encourage hatred, just put forth historical and scientific facts, as generally recognized today by most rational non-fundamentalist persons. Fundamentalism by its very definition does not like facts.
Fundamentalism misrepresents the historic person, whomever he was, of Jeshua most closely reported (after 40 years or so), from Jeshua's reported brief emergence best seen in the Gospel of Mark, the earliest and significantly less over the top view of this man.
The biblical texts are historically conditioned and put together over a long period of time, including a large council virtually forced (they were locked up) to sort out the many various gnostic and other sources by a manipulative Emperor Constantine. To say so is not an act of anger, it is simply stating known truth.
That human person was apparently giving a message of focus on loving-kindness and healing, and giving hope and comfort that there was a spiritual power stronger than the oppressive Romans of the day. He also apparently challenged strongly the nit-picking, rejecting judgmental religious groups of his day, who despite there religiousness, were far from his version of "God". I have no issue with this apparently caring teacher, though he died just like every other man or woman in history.
The literal godman, "sacrificed for our sins", and "resurrected" (a theme of numerous groups at the time) is from a modern perspective, a ludricruous and idolatrous construction, built over the centuries after Mark and used for religio-political power. Christianity as mythic truth still has much to offer, as has liberal theological and ethical exegesis got value - but not on the basis of humanity-denying "original sin", usually based around a sexual theme.
Fundamentalism in all its socially and psychologically destructive forms needs to be strongly and rationally confronted. That is not the equivalent of anger and hatred at all. To seek to prevent the further spreading of such can be seen as a positive thing.