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Reverent agnostic. Occasionally pleasant. Highly neurotypical.

Joined December 2024
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Bugs Hall lives like some kind of Christian who thinks Jesus or Paul said anything about embracing poverty and living as if there's no tomorrow, as if we're in a world that's passing away.
‘Little Rascals’ star resorts to GoFundMe ahead of having 6th child: ‘I really need some help’ trib.al/2qGNkTK
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Note that the distinction doesn't resolve why God's purported revelation appears indistinguishable from interpretation and ordinary religious development.
There is a distinction 👇
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What are some good stereotypes that an average joe could shatter with a little motion?
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RAIN! MURDER!🎶
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A most droll rejoinder to this is that God communicates through His church as though the difficulty were merely identifying who claims to speak for Him.
See, we're in a reality that doesn't seem particularly interested in explaining itself to us. At a certain point it's okay to just accept the mystery.
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Remember this when Christians tell you the Gospel is good news. They have rather substantial qualifications to what they mean by Good. Their views are such that they call it infantile thinking to suppose that God's goodness is incompatible with commanding genocide.
Quite frankly, as grown, thinking men, we never really shed the infantile equation of good with nice or comely, and evil with grumpy or vindictive. YHVH, throughout the Old Testament, was a good God, but not a "nice" one. One may argue that YHVH's acts of cruelty in the OT served
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That vague sense of impending doom that wisps around you when you go straight edge.
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Mother Miriam, in response to a caller mentioning a situation at their parish seems unfair: How is it fair that we're not going to hell?
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Make out with a pretty girl on a beach in northern Michigan while the summer sun is setting. It's not proof but it is evidence.
Do you have evidence that God exists?
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Axios! Many years!
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You can get to the God on the left without too much difficulty depending on how you interpret and frame what's depicted on the right.
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It is funny that Satan offered Jesus all the kingdoms of the world and Rome decides to capitulate to that very temptation with Boniface VIII issuing Unam Sanctam and declaring even the kings of the earth are under his authority and this submission is necessary for salvation.
Peter: “THEY’RE BOWING TO WHAT?! 😝
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I sometimes wonder if Christians trying to save others from hell might find it more conducive to persuasion if their arguments actually consisted of claims for which they provided some reason to believe and with conclusions that actually followed from them.
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See, we're in a reality that doesn't seem particularly interested in explaining itself to us. At a certain point it's okay to just accept the mystery.
german poet heinrich von kleist went insane after learning about immanuel kant’s philosophy. he cancelled all his life plans, lost faith in God, shot a woman, and then killed himself in 1811. “my sole & highest goal has vanished, now i have none,” he wrote after discovering kant.
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Not sure what this means but it seems alright, I guess.
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I wonder if going to hell is like when you wake up and find you're 75 pounds overweight, unsure how it happened, and your wife says no one did this to you. Bit by bit, you freely surrendered to your fat appetite. You are now confirmed in your fatness. Abandon all hope.
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The trickiest thing about talking to people is trying to understand what they're saying while trying to make it understandable what you're saying.
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Written by a committed Christian. Imagine if this had been the prevailing view in the earliest days of the Jesus movement.
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My reiki master tells me I urgently need to decalcify my pineal gland. Might be time to start asking some uncomfortable questions. We trusted them.
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This makes me so sad. This makes me so sad. So many children abused, murdered, stricken with cancer, etc. They weren't protected.
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