Originally posted by robbie carrobieI think "don't know" is an honest reply. Something
I am not talking about your life FMF, i am referring to your explanation. You claim belief in a deity, we ask if it has a name, nothing, its character, nothing, you claim that you have found spiritual freedom, yet when we ask how Christianity is supposed to stunt a persons spiritual growth, nothing, an empty vacuous region.
most (all?) theists should aspire to.
Originally posted by robbie carrobieso i should try to impress you because I am insecure and a subscriber to some religious dogma that differs from your self erected pebble monolith? really? but that doesn't make any sense, I have no issues with my off the shelf prepackaged religious dogma and i find that its perfectly rational and practical if applied in real life making the rather plastic and transparent false value of insecurity which forms the basis of your charge of trying to impress you rather well. . . . .plastic and transparent, like a polythene bag washed up on an empty beach. Seriously I harbor no pretensions of wanting to impress anyone.
So what have we got now... spiritual shipwreck ... marooned ...an empty void ... vacuous ... vague ... empty ... lamentable ... marooned (again) ... angrily fist waving ... marooned (third time) ... pebble monolith (third or fourth time?] ... plastic and transparent ... false ... plastic and transparent (again) ... like a polythene bag ... empty beach (three times? Four?)
Originally posted by wolfgang59dont know? even if someone knew zilch about recorded religious literature they could still make some kind of evaluation based on an examination of the creation, much as one can tell something of a painter from the works that he produces.
I think "don't know" is an honest reply. Something
most (all?) theists should aspire to.
Originally posted by robbie carrobieI am not a religionsit, if that's what you are getting at.
I am not talking about your life FMF, i am referring to your explanation. You claim belief in a deity, we ask if it has a name, nothing, its character, nothing, you claim that you have found spiritual freedom, yet when we ask how Christianity is supposed to stunt a persons spiritual growth, nothing, an empty vacuous region.
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Originally posted by FMFyes the title thread, someone help me. . . . . just conjures connotations of a marooned shipwrecked person and all that beach and monolith and pebbles stuff. Wonderfully evocative, spiritually speaking.
[b]so i should try to impress you because I am insecure and a subscriber to some religious dogma that differs from your self erected pebble monolith? really? but that doesn't make any sense, I have no issues with my off the shelf prepackaged religious dogma and i find that its perfectly rational and practical if applied in real life making the rather plastic and ...[text shortened]... . plastic and transparent (again) ... like a polythene bag ... empty beach (three times? Four?)
Originally posted by FMFPerhaps it was a little naughty of me FMF and I apologize if it has caused so some pain or distress, one must have good reason to abandon a faith after 28 years, never the less, I still hold and will defend the teaching of the Christ as being sublime and his personal example as being the ultimate example for all kinds of people in all kinds of situations. I need to go to work.
Then asking me for a "name" for God is a bit silly of you, surely?