It would lead to more alienation of Christians. The liberalization of Christianity has to come from within Christianity itself. Abolishing Paul's writings would serve no purpose as liberal Christianity already views Paul as a man writing in a particular time and place with a particular bias, whereas for conservative Christians, who view Paul as absolutely authoritative, such abolition would only feed their persecution complex.Stas Bush wrote:So we need to assess this Paul problem from a secular viewpoint - would his abolition do more good or bad? More alienation of Christians, or more liberalization of Christianity itself?
As a Christian, could Paul's writings simply be thrown out?
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It's not as if Christians haven't done plenty alienating other Christians on their own. See: Protestants, Puritans, Baptists, etc.General Trelane (Retired) wrote:
It would lead to more alienation of Christians. The liberalization of Christianity has to come from within Christianity itself.
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