If you are a Browncoat and a Christian....sound-off....NO AGENDA...just curious.
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Actually, I don't like "posing" as christian (allthough I am one). Raised by an agnostic father, I grew up with the saying: if someone has cleaned a room, you shouldn't put a sign up "cleaned". If people see that it's clean, that's enough, but if they don't, the sign is just embarrassing.
Esther
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Originally posted by BelugasMom:
Fascinating thread............I'm not a Christian, so I'll shut up and go away now.
B]
Hey, let's start our own thread! I'm a cristian, but I like it much more to exchange thoughts and arguments on Believe, God and peoples views on the universe, than about myself. (By the way: there are some interesting exchanges on the "Is Mal an Atheist?" thread ...) - and talking to non-believers is always more interesting to me ('cause the arguments of the other side, I know myself ...
)Stay shiney!
Esther
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I am a Christian and a browncoat.
I see nothing in Firefly and Serenity that is something that I have been taught to argue against.
And anyway, even if there was, there is a way that you can be both and not be mocked. You can find a way to make anything fit in with christianity.
I know some christians who can accept the theory of evolution. Just not as an absolute.
They say that the theory is fine and perfectly possible, but that God made the 'verse and just started life off. Not made the finished article, but the beginning.
Like Mal seeing Serenity in the shipyard. The story started there. It was nurtured and bloomed into what we know as Firefly and Serenity.
Anybody who disagrees with any of this violently can do so. But no matter what you do, "You can't take the sky from me".
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Originally posted by Esther:
Actually, I don't like "posing" as christian (allthough I am one). Raised by an agnostic father, I grew up with the saying: if someone has cleaned a room, you shouldn't put a sign up "cleaned". If people see that it's clean, that's enough, but if they don't, the sign is just embarrassing.
Esther
Love my captain!
Let me see if I get this quote right
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. - Margaret Thatcher
I think being a Christian is much the same way. It's gotta show in your actions. As does any faith or creed you cling to.
"We had ties that could not be broken, except by the passing of time. Like a rock. A broken time rock. And you're very special to me, my broken time rock people." - Nathan Fillion
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No agenda, just opinion.
Though we may seem concrete, our bodies are a mere accumulation of energies. As for the meaning of abstract, let me claify. I meant abstract thinking, not neccessarily abstract being. People of faith may consider their deity to be concrete with their abstract thinking. Ultimately it is blasphemy to consider God as concrete, flesh, tangible. Man can only liken himself to the IMAGE of god. If we wish to touch ourselves, we cannot hope to do so by touching a mirror image or a picture of ourselves. But we can feel the feelings we had in the picture or sense the feelings we have in the mirror. Sometimes it just takes a moment to look at ourselves to truly understand. We touch the abstract part of ourselves in an abstract way.
And what you say is very true. There has to be some affirmation of a deity for most men to believe. Even my culture has "concrete" affirmations of the works of God, (mostly animals sent to show man when they cannot understand what "God" is saying)
It is the arguing that shows the lack of faith humans really have. There should be no need to defend whatever god you believe in. Just like guts, faith is enough.
I salute the faithful. Let your faith fly true.
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Hey, NVGhostwriter,
let's leave the nonagenda-people and start a discussion 
No, really, I started a thread "Abstract and concrete about God" down at the troll country, where I made some comments to your comments. Whoever would like to join is wellcome...
Esther
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I might be brave enough for troll country today. Just let me get my shots first.
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Oooops, didn't know that troll country was kind of the readlight district around here. I thought it was for things, that didn't fit anywhere else. (sorry, this is the first time I ever participated in a thread/community/fan site). But then again, shouldn't Christians be, where the low, poor and despised are?
Esther
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