“The biggest mistake that the Christian world EVER made was to turn Jesus Christ into some sort of gentle, meek, all-forgiving figure of love and care who never lifted a finger against anyone.”

It’s like they just ignore the story of the moneychangers in the temple, not to mention the verse about how He came not to bring peace, but a sword. It especially burns my ass when “Christians” twist “love thy neighbor” and “turn the other cheek” into “standing down is the proper response to any and all aggression, unwarranted included, and defending yourself is wrong.” I DON’T think that’s what Christ had in mind.

I went to Catholic school for 8 years, and although I know plenty about the other major faiths in broad strokes, I know shockingly little about the history and key figures of my own, thanks to said rote memorization teaching (one brother forced us to memorize all 27 books of the NT). I’ve been working to remedy that lately.

Also, Bergoglio the heretic needs to go ASAP.

First time I saw a Dr Turek video I thought the title was saying ‘Dr Turok’ and I remembered the dinosaur game that my brother used to play on Nintendo and ps3

Yeah I remember that game. The very first game in the original series came out way back when I was still a kid. I’ve never played the series, but the idea of a dino-hunting game always seemed pretty cool.

In school, we were just told to memorize events and parrot them on paper and that’s it. That is one of the worst subjects to apply this testing method. Of course you have to remember things, but putting them to context and be able to extract meaning is a skillset that my teachers were severely lacking.

Indeed. This is the absolute WORST way to teach the Scriptures. Rote memorisation does not provide a solid grounding in the faith. So when an atheist or an Islamic dawah preacher comes along to attack the faith of someone who just learned about Jesus and the Bible at Sunday school, without any real apologetic grounding, that person’s faith shatters.

In my personal journey with Christ, I have found that questioning and seeking and arguing are far more effective means of deepening and widening one’s faith. That is “iron sharpening iron”, as it were, and it works. The more that one seeks to question and attack the Bible with the goal of seeking the truth, the more powerful and more profound the arguments become within and for it.

The biggest mistake that the Christian world EVER made was to turn Jesus Christ into some sort of gentle, meek, all-forgiving figure of love and care who never lifted a finger against anyone. This is such an idiotic misrepresentation of Jesus that it makes my blood boil whenever I see or hear it. The true Jesus was a HARD man who preached a very, very hard Gospel. He was a warrior in the truest and most profound sense of the word. He was – and is – compassion incarnate, with love for all that come to seek Him. But He was, and is, also the one Earthly being that evil truly fears. Those who choose to follow Him, and enter through the narrow door, must pay a terrible price for doing so. But what we gain is well worth it.

Children in the West need to hear a lot more about the price that has to be paid, and the maturation that comes with it, and a lot less about the soft-n-cuddly fluff and nonsense that they are taught these days.

It’s one of those times where I wish I knew history and religion, because I have no clue about the references he is giving. I don’t mean general sources like the Book of Enoch or any other chapters, but rather, the verses and the meaning of words and translations.

In school, we were just told to memorize events and parrot them on paper and that’s it. That is one of the worst subjects to apply this testing method. Of course you have to remember things, but putting them to context and be able to extract meaning is a skillset that my teachers were severely lacking.