An interesting thought…
The following is taken from an interview/debate between Unitarian minister Marilyn Sewell and atheist/author Christopher Hitchens. The whole transcript for the interview/debate can be found here.
Sewell: The religion you cite in your book is generally the fundamentalist faith of various kinds. I’m a liberal Christian, and I don’t take the stories from the scripture literally. I don’t believe in the doctrine of atonement (that Jesus died for our sins, for example). Do you make and distinction between fundamentalist faith and liberal religion? Hitchens: I would say that if you don’t believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ and Messiah, and that he rose again from the dead and by his sacrifice our sins are forgiven, you’re really not in any meaningful sense a Christian.
Oh Snap.
Thanks goes to Rick Warren for sharing the source for this on his twitter.
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