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I do not doubt the sincerity of anyone's beliefs, but I strongly suspect that if the same people who firmly and sincerely believe in Christianity had been born in rural India rather than the USA, they would just as firmly and sincerely believe in Hinduism (or Islam). In my view, if God exists, he will treat those people exactly the same as Christians when the time comes to judge their worth. If salvation can only come to those who were raised in the correct faith, the system is fundamentally unfair - and fundamental unfairness is the anthesis of the alleged perfection of God. In my view, if you are going to go monothestic and be fair to everyone in the world, you gotta end up with something like Bahai. I also have specific difficulty with the "Old Testament vs New Testament" God argument put forth by Evangelical Christians. If God is eternal, all knowing and perfect, then there is no way he could ever have let himself be the raging jerk of the Old Testament. The Old Testament must be allegorical, because there is no other way to reconcile the behavior of that angry jealous murderous old "god" with the attributes of the One God as discussed by Jesus Christ. Yes, I know that there are Christian apologetics who try to reconcile that problem away, but their arguments are entirely self-referential. In other words, these arguments are only going to satisfy you if you desperately want them to be true. Like several other people, I want to emphasize that I am not trying to make anyone else lose their faith. I am just explaining some of the thought processes that led me to lose mine. Frankly, it's God's fault - he made me as a rational being that feels the need to try and reconcile all this stuff.
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Raised catholic. Agnostic now. I'm pretty sure that the details of all the the various religions are wrong (especially the ones that claim that their interpretation of their own writings somehow proves that their religion provides the EXCLUSIVE way to salvation), but there may be something greater out there that is beyond our comprehension and may have created this universe and may have a plan for us that we don't understand. I just don't know and I don't expect to know in this life and I'm pretty sure that no one else can tell me, either.
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FTFY
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Harden. Anyone who votes for anyone else should be deported to St. Helena Island.
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Fox News, Sexual Harassment, Ailes, O'Reilly, Hannity and minions...
Predicto replied to Riggo-toni's topic in The Tailgate
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Tiny hairline fracture actually. Probably 2 weeks. Nice win tonight without Curry, Klay, Draymond and West.
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Hundreds of kids outside my window for the past hour, chanting "Hey Hey NRA, how many kids did you kill today?"