-Removed-Originally posted by divegeester
"FFS it's in an in game msg. Just tell the twat to eff off."
Virtually all your posts in reply to the Christians in this forum are "cynical, pessimistic and judgemental about other's motives and means." I looked at your forum posts. You're argumentitive towards Christian posters in virtually every thread. The quote above tells me you're really just a hypocrite.
And you call yourself a Christian? Quit fooling yourself.
Originally posted by josephwObviously not.
For heaven's sake wolfgang, can't you tell when I'm being facetious?
The humour was lost on me.
Why would you want to make facetious
remarks in a debate about your religion?
And for clarity: which were the serious
comments and which the facetious?
facetious (adj.)
/fəˈsiːʃəs/
treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour
Originally posted by josephwOh my. There are countless conceptions of God beyond the Christian one. I know full well you have your own partisan preference but this surely cannot divest you of the ability to accept that there are numerous literature-based faiths and versions of God, tracing back to only Abraham there are three major ones and even then there are an almost uncountable variety of sects, cults, and denominations spread across just those three. And you must surely also accept that I cannot maintain Christian faith without believing in the credibility of the Bible ~ and that this loss of faith does not mean there is "no God". Surely?
And no God.
Originally posted by wolfgang59Marriam-Webster—used to describe speech that is meant to be funny but that is usually regarded as annoying, silly, or not proper
Obviously not.
The humour was lost on me.
Why would you want to make facetious
remarks in a debate about your religion?
And for clarity: which were the serious
comments and which the facetious?
[b]facetious (adj.)
/fəˈsiːʃəs/
treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour[/b]
Full Definition
1 : joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish
2 : meant to be humorous or funny : not serious
"Why would you want to make facetious remarks in a debate about your religion?"
I didn't. The remark was directed at what you said. Besides, I'm not the one making facetious remarks about my "religion". I don't have a religion. I have a faith, and it isn't funny. It's serious. Religion is a joke. Must be why so many in this forum make so fun of it.
Originally posted by josephwOn the contrary, your religion is Christianity and your faith is Christian faith. You cannot set Christianity apart from other religions by simply declaring it not-a-religion by way of sophistry, as much as you might believe doing so has some lexicographical validity.
I don't have a religion. I have a faith, and it isn't funny.
Originally posted by FMFYou said: "No. I stopped believing in the Bible's credibility. No Bible, no Christian faith."
Oh my. There are countless conceptions of God beyond the Christian one. I know full well you have your own partisan preference but this surely cannot divest you of the ability to accept that there are numerous literature-based faiths and versions of God, tracing back to only Abraham there are three major ones and even then there are an almost uncountable variety ...[text shortened]... credibility of the Bible ~ and that this loss of faith does not mean there is "no God". Surely?
And I merely added "no God" to it.
In reply to your post above, God to you is a conceptualization based in human imagination. So essentially you have nothing to contribute to any discussion about an actual living being called God.
You say it's "instinct" that tells you there is a God, but you have no knowledge of who or what God is, and you have never offered any idea or concept of God anywhere in this forum that I know of. Yet you seem confident that no one else knows anything either. That's your loss.
Strange how you can exploit the virtues of all your knowledge of the world and it's religions, but still you don't know a thing about God. That's really sad considering you know so much about how much no one else knows anything about God!
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Originally posted by FMFChristianity isn't a religion.
On the contrary, your religion is Christianity and your faith is Christian faith. You cannot set Christianity apart from other religions by simply declaring it not-a-religion by way of sophistry, as much as you might believe doing so has some lexicographical validity.
btw, what time zone are you in now? I'm going to bed. Night! 😴
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Originally posted by josephwActually, I do know a fair bit about " the world and it' religions", and Christianity's concept of God in particular.
Strange how you can exploit the virtues of all your knowledge of the world and it's religions, but still you don't know a thing about God. That's really sad considering you know so much about how much no one else knows anything about God!
Originally posted by josephwI will let you know just as soon as you present a concept to me that gives me a convincing reason to think know something. But as long as you are peddling some Iron Age mythology with a 2,000 year old cult-of-personality latched onto it (a combination I have had a long hard look at), I think your proseltyising is going to continue to be empty handed. 😉
...you have never offered any idea or concept of God anywhere in this forum that I know of. Yet you seem confident that no one else knows anything either.