Casey McIntyre raised money to pay off millions in other people’s medical bills. Which brings me to the resurrection of the Temporarily Visible Third of the Invisible Magic Friend, who temporarily sacrificed himself to himself to save you from himself, because you’re such a rotter. So you just get down on your rotten knees and worship him because he doesn’t expect any thanks from the likes of you.
I say this in a totally non-judgmental, non-proselytizing way.
https://mega.nz/file/J3EwRbqZ#nNimfEHkQCxp9lnJF0l7b2Yhx65iSmy1-6ArHWVDsWE
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67459257
Platitude of the Day 
And if Casey McIntyre hadn’t completely accepted Jesus and everything that comes with that, she’ll be burning in hell with all the murderers and thieves.
Christianity – it’s not what you do that counts.
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Did you feel it just then. I think I did. I’d just been thinking about making my wife a cup of tea when I had a shiver of something. A bit of a tremble down my spine. Now some gullible people might think that it was a bit of something freely given by a supernatural entity without me even knowing it was happening. A bit of grace apparently.
Or maybe it was just that my wife was busy and I thought she could do with a cup of tea, so I thought I’d make one for her and then realised that was actually the right thing to do seeing as I was doing nothing more important. There wasn’t really any supernatural “grace” involved and it wasn’t amazing, it was just someone doing something for someone else when it was needed.
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Another profoundly conceited TFTD where Chine unintentionally demonstrated just how superfluous and screwed up the fundamental tenets of Christianity are.
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Mrs. Stonyground and myself, being retired, have spent a fair bit of time this year helping people move house. Sometimes close family, my daughter and her partner and, just recently, my brother. But also a friend who is actually a Christian. That she is a Christian is really of no consequence. I don’t see myself as some kind of saint just because I help people out when they need it.
As an aside, when I bought my Korando SUV five years ago, I never dreamed how useful it would prove to be, along with a camping trailer it has been a godsend, or should that be a factory in South Korea send?
Stonyground.
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Chine McDonald is surely mistaken in claiming that most people make gifts in the expectation of getting something in return. Millions of people give money to charity, possibly for a variety of motives (compassion, conviction, a sense of injustice, even a guilty conscience), but mostly not because they hope to get something back as a result. And even Christians are divided between those who believe that God’s grace alone will grant them eternal life and those who believe that doing good works will also help (NB: they’re both wrong).
Casey McIntyre’s gesture was indeed generous and well-motivated. But if the US didn’t have such a screwed-up health system, in which even the simplest medical treatment is hugely costly, then her gesture might not have been needed.
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I thought that modern Christians tended to play down the idea of the atonement nowadays due to it being, to modern minds, a rather primitive and revolting concept. The tendency of the fish symbol to usurp the cross in their imagery being a symptom of this. It has been a while since I read the New Testament so I might be wrong but I seem to think that it is only the Gospel of John that mentions the idea of Jesus dying for our sins.
Stonyground.
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Good point.
The half-dozen or so ‘genuine’ Epistles of ‘Paul’ appear to date from the 50s CE. Paul was obsessed by the death and resurrection of Jesus, and believed that this event had saved our souls from the evil spirits that ruled this sinful Earth. The first Gospel, bearing the name of Mark, was written at least 20 years later, and maybe more. It takes a lot of its theology from Paul’s Epistles.
So why didn’t Mark, and the Gospels that derive from it (Matthew and Luke) lay much more emphasis on Jesus dying for our sins? Mark’s other main source was the ‘Hebrew Scriptures’. So maybe he thought the traditional role of the Messiah in bringing about the Kingdom of God on Earth was more important.
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