10 for 10
Posted by Todd Rhoades in Current Events on Apr 26th, 2011 | 19 commentsMy friend Steve Miller writes:
This Easter atheist Ricky Gervais asked you to read the Ten Commandments and score your performance.   He states his tally is 10 for 10; not an easy feat you would think for a non-believer, but he does provide some morality based reasons for scoring himself so high.
Borrowing a bit from Ghandi’s famous “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians†line of reasoning Gervais goes on to state:
“It’s not that I don’t believe that the teachings of Jesus wouldn’t make this a better world if they were followed,†the 49-year-old actor stated. “It’s just that they are rarely followed.â€
Gervais’ original message (includes some f-bombs, thankfully being a good Christian apparently has nothing to do with strong language usage):
Why I’m A Good Christian by Ricky Gervais
Christian Post’s response article by Eryn Sun:
Atheist Ricky Gervais – A Better Christian than Christians?
What do you think?  Would you score Ricky this highly?  How would you score yourself?
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Now I understand why I was not allowed to grade my own papers while in school.
lol
Maybe if we looked beyond who Gervais is, his religious beliefs, his style of humour and actually tried to get a handle on what he’s saying about the all-too-common problem of Christians who don’t actually follow Jesus.
Then maybe we wouldn’t be seeing blog posts by Christians who are hung up on who Gervais is (including his use of language), his religious beliefs (so, he’s an atheist; does that mean he can’t call Christians out on their hypocrisies?) and his style of humour.
Are you the former JW Mark Hunter?
Maybe…
Well if you are it is a real pleasure to get to type to you. It has been exciting and inspirational to see you pop up on various evangelical blogs. Unless you know where someone has been it is difficult to understand where they are at; reading your posts I think people don’t quite understand how the JW church specifically wounds folks and makes them skeptical of trusting organized religion and its leaders. If I can offer you any advice it would be to ask God to help you trust strong confident leadership again.
Well, it’s an interesting point. At the moment I’m learning to trust God, through Christ, by the Spirit.
In the church I am a leader and I’m part of the team that’s shaping and planning the future of our church within our community.
However, I do this with a massive dose of scepticism, as you’re probably aware, of organised religion and its leader…This means I’m less interested in creating strategies for sustaining an institution and more interested in seeking where Jesus and his kingdom is.
Too bad for Gervais we can’t achieve righteousness by keeping laws and doing good works. However, he is correct that Christians should look more like Christ and less like Pharisees and everyone else.
excellent observations!
Ricky Gervais is gay?!?
Excellent point, I missed that.
Todd/Steve – Ricky Gervais isn’t gay.
from wikipedia:
Gervais currently lives in Hampstead,having moved from Bloomsbury, with his girlfriend of 29 years, producer and screenwriter Jane Fallon.
Well I feel stupid. The article I read stated he lived with his partner of 29 years John Fallon. Please except my humble apologies. And notice my personal score on the big 10 has just dropped by a point (number 9: false witness.)
That is my mistake not Todd’s. For the record fornicating doesn’t help you score a perfect 10 either, but still I blundered that one bad.
It is a sobering wake up call for all believers of Jesus Christ! Gervais may hide a fear that Christian God might be true and so, he would be wrong. As of now, he is confident, ironically! But then I may be wrong about him.
Every christian is not responsible for the historical bad choices of all christians.
Perhaps we should say that because Gervais is an actor, he’s guilty of the ridiculous behaviors of Charlie Sheen and Nicholas Cage and Mel Gibson.
In his article he obviously doesn’t adhere to consistent interpretation rules. One of the biggest issues people will always have are people who profess Christ with their lips but do not worship with their lives. Sometimes I wonder if we should adhere more to outing professing Christians who do not adhere with their lives better. Largely we seem to only want to do that with people who make the news not ones who live next door.
Great point, Peter! Humbly noted!
Funny how this guy who don’t believe in anything puts this forth.
I wonder if this article would have been as well received by the world if he had titled it, “Why I’m A Good Muslim”?