Shamrock said, May 05, 2010, 10:44:14 pm

Oh and walt. You need to look up Atheism. It comes from the word atheos. Which is ancient Greek.

wow, that fact sure enriched this topic and lightened me up about the fact that I feel persecuted

So why would I choose to read a book that has one guy who isn't an asshat when I can read books written by people who aren't asshats and they don't send me to an entire eternity of fire and brimstone if I don't do exactly what he write about?

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Although I will tell you what I do believe. Not because it's not all historically true and all literal, it means that the teachings don't have a positive underlying context. Whether you're a christian or not, one could easily accept Jesus as a prophet with a reasonably desirable message. One needs to be open to whatever enriches their lives. When you read it, make an effort to try to discover the true underlying message beneath every song (Psalms, Proverbs), every story (Judith and other old testament prophets), and every conversation (again, Paul's epistoles).

Yes, but I can also point to text of philosophy older than Jesus that lack stuff like, incest, and eye for an eye, stoning, fire and brimstone and hell, but still have the same concepts as Jesus.

So why would I choose to read a book that has one guy who isn't an asshat when I can read books written by people who aren't asshats and they don't send me to an entire eternity of fire and brimstone if I don't do exactly what he write about?

Let put it another way, I do things because I feel they are right. Christians do things because they are scared of defying the invisible terrorist in the sky.

@ my previous point. So you are saying that god isn't perfect then? I didn't put words into you mouth, you claim to be a Christian, I'm responding to the teachings of Christianity from both Catholic priests and Christian pastors. If you do not agree with your leaders that is your problem not mine.

Christians do things because they are scared of defying the invisible terrorist in the sky.

considered holy.

All your posts prove my point further, you're not capable of following a train of thought without insulting the other person. Not you, and many others either.

You will continue to automatically lose people to talk to when you disrespect them or their beliefs like that, and on top of it you don't apologize and mock them further saying you don't care if they get offended

you're not capable of following a train of thought without insulting the other person

You are an idiot.

Guild sure has changed from back in the day when people actually cared to educate their userbase, instead of just removing people left and right, and setting an example is no longer a requirement