Comments on: Christianity without God?

By: Response to Elizabeth’s Little Blog at Making Chutney

Response to Elizabeth’s Little Blog at Making Chutney — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:51:02 +0000

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By: Christianity Without Christ? Another Response. « Elizabeth’s Little Blog

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 03:45:41 +0000

[…] Christianities , Christianity So, I read It’s All One Thing’s response to an April 2005 post on Making Chutney and so I went over and read Making Chutney’s original post and got, I […]

By: Elizabeth Gish

Elizabeth Gish — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:57 +0000

I wanted to make a very long response to this post but in the interest of not taking over the comments section on your blog, I posted a long response on my blog. If you are interested, here it is.
http://internelizabeth.blogspot.com/2006/06/christianity-without-christ-another.html

By: chutney

chutney — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 20:14:12 +0000

Your idea of a “cultural Christian” intrigues me. I’m gonna have to chew on that. I’ve taken to calling myself “post-Christian” sometimes, because most everything I do still refers back to that (in spite of my best efforts). Hmm…

By: TransparentEye

TransparentEye — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 17:15:01 +0000

That was certainly my position going into the class. I have more sympathy for Spong’s view now after reading the book with the class (I use “sympathy” rather than “empathy” because I can feel for Spong’s predicament, though I do not share it). I would say that Spong is culturally Christian, but definitely heretical.

I’m in a somewhat similar position regarding my Jewish identity. I now identify as a “Jewish-American” rather than “American Jew” to emphasize that I am a member of the Jewish ethnic group, while I no longer observe the Jewish religious traditions except on family occasions.

I think on an intellectual basis, it’s better to make a clean break rather than to try to fit into a religion. But on a social basis, that can get lonely.