Newton Joseph

ONE SIZE FITS ALL
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Christianity should be an insult to any thinking person, BUT Christianity has nothing to do with THINKING. Religion ( Christianity) is a conditioned response to life’s experience in certain prescribed ways that make it pathological in the sense that one size fits all (rigid)

Magus55

What ever happened to your statement about insulting ones intelligence is the worst thing someone can do?

Starboy

Well yes it is, especially when it is you insulting your own intelligence by using lowered standards for your own religion that you would not lower for other religions you do not believe in. It is more than an insult; you are lying to your self. You might as well mug your self with a baseball bat while you are at it.

Starboy

Magus55

Despite your bitterness, you are incorrect. I'm not lying to myself, anymore than you are by not believing in God. Your obsession with claiming theists are lying to themselves is quite unbecoming, and completely unsupported. Maybe you need some counseling?

Valdemar

Which Theists, Magus?

This is really important. You didn't say "Christian" you said "Theist."

So which ones? Only the Christian kinds? You said EXACTLY what Starboy was pointing out! Amazing!

TySixtus

If anyone needs counseling, it's the people who believe in the Magical Sky Man, who loves you, but unless you do EXACTLY AS HE SAYS HE WILL BURN YOU IN HELL FOR ETERNITY!

Whay a nice deity Yahweh is.

Anyway, back to the OP. God even needed the sacrifice of his own son to appease his bloodlust, and make him stop sending souls to hell. Something about 'original sin'? Nevermind the atrocities commited by him in the OT. He's just misunderstood, right? What a joke. What's funny, Magus, is that you don't even try to defend what your god supposedly did all those years ago. Why? Because you don't have a leg to stand on.

When people did what god wanted in the OT (which usually involves killing of some kind) 'they are misinformed' or 'it is only a story.' When it happens in NT, 'God is speaking to us! Glory!'

Ty

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Ronin

Yet, as is commonly argued, there are so many varied religions and viewpoints found within each religion as to make them non-rigid.

I have found many intelligent thinkers with a religious worldview.

I happen to not agree with their religious claims and have yet to find adequate support for them, however, they have given the topic a great amount of thought.

How does one avoid a conditioned response to life's experience in certain prescribed ways?

xorbie

It's not an insult to me. Care to try again, without resorting to the use of " " in place of an actual argument, with an actual point? I find that arguments such as those found in the OP are more of an insult to thinking person than Christianity. Not to say that I can't be convinced otherwise, but this certainly isn't going to cut it.

Here's a little nudge in the right direction though - you might want to consider why something which is inherently irrational (which I assume you claim Christianity is, if not then I'm not sure what your point is) is an insult to any thinking person. Many people consider love fairly irrational. Is love an insult to any thinking person.

Gawdawful

ONE SIZE FITS ALL? Uh-uh! Those one size fits all hats never fit my big noggin. Stupid pinheads.

Wait, that's not what this thread is about.


Sorry.


I still have a big head.


Warren the Okie