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Originally Posted by Ao Saves
When I say "true agnostic", I mean someone who embodies fully what it means to be agnostic.
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You embody fully what it means to be agnostic? Your life must be a sorry one indeed. When you get up in the morning, do you spend hours staring at an empty cereal bowl because you're agnostic as to whether you prefer cornflakes or Frosties?
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Originally Posted by Ao Saves
I have read parts of the New Testament, but the parts that appeal to me - and the parts that appeal to everyone, I think - are not the parts that I see being touted here.
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We "tout" the whole of God's Word; we don't mutilate His Message.
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My question is not "How can I become a Christian?" because to me, that's not something I need to do in order to live a fulfilling life. My question is, "Why do you express so much animosity toward people who are simply trying to understand?"
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You're asking the wrong question. Start asking us how you can become a Christian, and we'll be able to reach an agreement.
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Originally Posted by Ao Saves
So did Mother Teresa.
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And she's now burning in Hell. Praise Jesus.
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Originally Posted by Ao Saves
You misread, then. I don't know it very well, but what I do know talks about love, compassion, forgiveness. This is the core of every major religion, whether it be Judaism, Christianity, Islam, or Hinduism. Even Wicca is founded on the golden rule, "Do no harm".
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Can every major religion get you into Heaven? No. Only we can do that. Don't look at the supposed similarities between religions, look at what makes them different - the fact that we can offer Salvation through Jesus Christ, and all others fail.
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It offers no promise of salvation, only a self-important elitist condemnation of what is ultimately a preference for a different kind of hat.
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Friend, that hat can doom those who wear it to an eternity of unbearable suffering in the Lake of Fire. We condemn Beelzebub's hat for a very good reason.
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ALL religion, in design and intent, is at its core a means to bring people together, to unite people and comfort them, not divide them and incense them to slaughter.
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Stuff and nonsense. Our religion was designed by God to redeem sinners and give them a chance of salvation; all others were designed by Satan to mislead nitwits into voluntarily choosing eternal damnation.
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If you believe your religion is there to prove that you are better than everyone else, that it is an excuse to condemn, attack, or harm those who do not share it, then you are no better than Hitler except in the scope of your crimes.
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Friend, we follow God's word. Are you saying that Jesus was no better than Hitler?
O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it--for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.
God being truth, justice, goodness, beauty, power, and life, man is falsehood, iniquity, evil, ugliness, impotence, and death. God being master, man is the slave. Incapable of finding justice, truth, and eternal life by his own effort, he can attain them only through a divine revelation... he who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter, but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.