Chapter one part three - Offensive theology undermining authority and teaching love

It is not important to me what religion someone labels themselves as but what religion they think and practice.  I am not writing this book to convert someone to a new religious label.

 I am going to make a case that if there is what some people commonly call a heaven and a hell ones admittance to heaven and hell might not determined by what religion one labels themselves as but what religion one thinks and practices not however as salvation based on what set of good deeds someone did or even what knowledge they have but their underlying attitude toward sentient individuals.

I will also make a case that interfaith marriage is not necessarily morally wrong if by interfaith one means two different individuals marrying who label the name of the religion they practice with different labels.

Additionally I will make the case that changing what religion other individuals labels themselves as should not be the primary goal of sharing one's faith.  The primary goal should be providing information that may provide opportunity for someone's underlying attitude or attitudes toward other sentient individuals to improve more easily if they should so choose.  This improvement in attitude may result in learning how to practically make decisions that are more loving based on an objective standard of love that is relativistic based on each individuals perspective including the perspective of God if such a being exists or each god if many gods exist.

I will make the case that a god may exist who communicated with individuals called prophets and that the words that this God communicated to prophets maybe found in a transmitted copied and recopied form in a book frequently called the Bible as well as possibly other books.  However I will not use the Bible alone to make this case, nor will I claim the copying process that led up to today's bible is perfect nor will i claim a canonical set of books, but I will make claim of a process taught that each individual can use to make a reasonable evaluation of alleged prophecy from God that maybe used to evaluate some writings claimed to contain prophetic words.

In light of this sense I will try to make a case based on the Bible to justify many of the points I make throughout this book but it will not be an absolute definitive proof by which a individual of finite knowledge can know the truthfulness or falsity of my claims with 100% certainty.

This book will look at things primarily through a Christian worldview, an agnostic worldview and a national anarchist worldview although not as the one and only worldview labeled as each of these religions.  For two different claims can labeled as dogmatic tenets of the Christian faith by two different individuals labeling themselves as Christian maybe contradictory.  And one tenet of one person's Christianity may actually agree with a tenet of another person's Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Statism, Anarchism or yes even Atheism.

Copyright Carl Janssen 2017