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For those who want to know, f the flying spaghetti monster does not come al dente, I’m not on board. :D

Nice piecemealing of scriptures based on your idea of Systematic Theology. I want nothing to do with that hegemonic hermeneutic as it is the basis of dominion ideology and supremacist at its core. It emerged from Slaveholders' religion: Euro-Ameri-centric in an effort to colonize other cultures...

Exactly what I admitted to in my original post. Just like everybody else including you. You may adopt a more establish theology but it is yours nonetheless. We ALL create our personal projections of the Divine. We ALL are arbiters of our own "religious" truth. Why is this so hard for you to...

The theobro mentality:

I no longer worship. I'm a hypocrite because that's not completely true; worship is in our DNA and is universal among all humans and cultures. Our desires create the object of worship. Apart from that contradiction which is within all humanity, here is why I don't worship God. 1. God exists...

You tell me.

Um, yes the Bush video. And the court ruled after the fact he was liable as a sexual predator. FWIW, locker room talk about raping women is not locker room talk. I've done locker room talk but never "bragged" about sexually assaulting anyone. That goes beyond dirty jokes or even regular...

Remember one of the first points I made coming back yesterday? Nothing is at one with itself, not even god. This certainly includes me too. Humanity cannot but live in dialectic. Even democracy is a political structure that can't be at one with itself. Mathematics has Incompleteness...

Gotcha. Appreciate your perspective. I just didn't want you to think I thought highly of him because I truly don't. :)

LOL! Makes sense!

Yep, but absolute truth cannot be known in either philosophy or theology. Truth can be suspected but can't be verified or tested. I've never read Dawkins much less study his thoughts. I've only heard soundbites and from what I gather, he is a real ummm....piece of work. I have no respect for...

No doubt there are other standards as well: culture, law, societal norms, etc. Also, it isn't always based on feelings because sometimes the feeling of self-preservation might come into play in making a decision that could be of harm to someone else. There is no binary code by which to judge...

The treatment of others, particularly those who are oppressed. I don't need a Bible to tell me that murder or raping a child is wrong. Atheists don't either.

But the lens we receive things, the filters we process them, the evaluations we make and the conclusions we come to are based on our relative opinions. The ontological argument (IMO) doesn't work for me because it presupposes God as being. I see better argument though the cosmological lens...

Bill Grady as my college professor to and about HAC preacher boys: "If you think you will charge hell with a squirt gun, the devil gonna stand there and pee on you."

Tell us how you really feel! LOL! 🤣 Of course I'm a heretic. You say that like it's a bad thing. Everybody is a heretic to somebody. I'm sure you are a heretic to a Catholic, JW or Mormon. I'm curious though, would you mind showing me where I've displayed a "root of bitterness"? Seriously...

You might be right (FYI, this is an Adventist argument). I'm not Jewish nor follow Judaism so it might be worth looking into. From my perspective, it doesn't matter and Ex. 20 doesn't confirm a literal 6-day creation: it uses it as an analogy which is the purpose of art (poetry). When the...

Keep the swearing out of the forum, thanks. - Ransom

YMBAH if...you have a leftover bus goldfish you named Binaca...