What Would an Evangelical Christian Country Be Like

Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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Bagginski said:
Ah, but the “inerrancy” fantasy! …Which has allowed those same (& many other) pastors to “prove” that the criticisms are bogus & that their (‘non-interpretations aren’t interpretations, but WHAT IT’S ALWAYS MEANT IN EVERY LANGUAGE & EVERY TRANSLATION

In this fantasy, nothing in the thing CAN be wrong cuz TWoG & God miraculously force it to always say and mean the same things…that they say it means. The Bible says so.

ALL OF IT hangs - not on ‘proof of gawd’ or ‘moral imperatives’ - but on whether the ‘blanket immunity’ to reason & real experience can have any basis at all…and so far, all I’ve seen is demagoguery, bombast, & apologia. And a complete failure of the theory in practice.

Absent any sane, non-self-recursive look at the matter, it’s just an other Procrustean bed, ready to lop off whatever can’t fit…we believe it as a literal description of reality (if we do) at our very great peril
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I have read the bible, and the torah, and the koran...Not as a believer, but more as a way to know when i'm being bullshitted and lied to.
Anyone who can read the contradictory passages, the false logic, the contrasting writing styles, the cruelty committed by a just and loving god, the hypocrisy, and think that innerancy applies to any of them is already pretty much insane.
You don't argue with insanity, you just humor it if it isn't dangerous, or isolate it if it is.
 
bursto

bursto

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Roger A. Shrubber said:
Every organized religion in the entire world has always done more harm than good, and i doubt that will ever change.
I personally don't have any use for any of them, i can think for myself, and don't need the advice of a "biblical expert".
I do and will vote against anyone who claims to be guided by religion. I will vote for a "godder" if the alternative is a worse one, or to avoid a republican getting elected, but i consider a religious democrat to be dangerously close to a republican...not to be trusted, they've already given their allegiance to an organization that they will place higher than their government service.
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you guys do definitely have a lot of radical nutjobs over there. So i understand your view, but God and Religion are two different things
your right about religion causing wars an strife, through out history, but that was mans greed not God's fault
 
bursto

bursto

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MtRainDog said:
Why did their lifespans shorten over time? Did they run out of Elf blood?
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i think God got bored of us hanging around 1000 years running a muck not listening to him so he changed it to 100ish
imagine how much weed you could grow if you were around pre flood, if you lived for 1000 years
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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CunningCanuk said:
Religions exists because too many of us can’t accept how insignificant we are in the universe.
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not sure I agree.
not sure I’m up to formulating a rigorous counterargument either.

Though I recently read a book Inside The Neolithic Mind that made a pretty brave argument that religion and animistic cultures are neurological in origin. Perhaps we are wired to see nature as the stage for supernatural agencies.
 
bursto

bursto

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just remember that because i think the bible has credible information in it, doesn't mean im anything like the nut jobs you guys have over there
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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bursto said:
totally possible pre flood and pre the change made to our life span by god, that is written in the bible
thought you guys didnt have the steam for a discussion, on this

ive tryed to pull the bible apart myself its pointless
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the trouble is that you’re using the book to defend what’s in the book. That doesn’t work well.

bursto said:
[I’ve tried] to pull the bible apart myself[;] [it’s] pointless
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Soak it first; it’s pretty thick.
 
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