Original Sin?
February 5th, 2018 at 9:06:54 PM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 | Oops, it was my response that wasn't very intelligent. It is your black and white view that is ridiculous. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
February 5th, 2018 at 9:26:43 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
It's not B/W, I have a nebulous view of religion. neb·u·lous indistinct, unclear, vague, hazy, cloudy, fuzzy, misty, blurred, blurry, foggy, unclear, vague, or ill-defined. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
February 5th, 2018 at 9:53:25 PM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 | If you are so nebulous about religion why do you pontificate as if you know anything? “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
February 5th, 2018 at 10:32:22 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
I know enough to pontificate, it doesn't take much. All Xtion churches are based on the same core myth, the details of each church are only important if you totally buy that the myth isn't a myth. If you do try and make the myth a reality, you get what you have in the Xtion church. 2500+ branches of the same religion because nobody can agree on the fine points. Are there 2500 opposing reasons as to haw a plane can fly? No, there's only one. But because the core story of your religion is a myth, anything you make up can be pronounced as the truth, who can argue it's not true. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
February 5th, 2018 at 11:21:32 PM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 | You really are nebulous about religion, I would go so far as to say ignorant. Not to mention hopelessly prejudiced. You might to look at Christianity's history and discover for how many hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years there was one Church. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
February 6th, 2018 at 12:10:37 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
As usual, you miss the point. Who cares about the history or if there was one and now there are 2500. It's all the same theme to an outsider. The central myth is the same, the minutia you invent to surround the myth is irrelevant. If there was a god, what a petty and ego centric god he would be if he cared about all your silly invented customs that you religious people think are so important. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
February 6th, 2018 at 5:47:45 AM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 | Here we go again, your back to your black and white view of religion where nuances, details, and the truth don't matter to you. You just keep going around in circles. You falsely critize religion and when called out you say your understanding about religion is hazy (that is being very generous). Then you go back to making false claims. We are right back where we started. Its emblematic of our discussion in general. What would you call someone who cared about the silly customs of his children? Would you call that person ego centric? “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
February 7th, 2018 at 6:43:56 PM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 | Dalex - as you can see Evenbob has bowed out of the conversation. This might allow us to continue our conversation if you would like. I hope we can. I think it is a tendency in all of us that when challenged in our views or forced to think a different way we just clam up, give up, or stop the conversation - but it doesn't and shouldn't be that way. I'm under no illusion that conversions are coming from this forum, but I do hope that we can all learn, think more clearly, and even change some of our thoughts in regards to people who might have different viewpoints. Anyway, here's hoping! I included our last posts so we don't have to go back through the latest digression.
“It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
February 11th, 2018 at 4:05:15 PM permalink | |
petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | Are dead sea scrolls fake? https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/17/us/bible-museum-fakes/index.html The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
February 11th, 2018 at 5:00:51 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
This is questioning the pieces this museum has, not the originals. That's how it reads to me. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |