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Like I care. If someone can't doesn't read carefully enough to make an intelligent response, whether that someone is a Moderator -- OOOOHHHH -- really doesn't concern me.

Skala, sweetie, if you and Hammster and griff would read a little more carefully and think just a second or two before hitting the "Submit Reply" button, you really would do us all a favor. Precisely, as pshun2404 recognized, I was referring solely to the OP's position that there is "a...

Well, if you didn't, you are apparently an exceedingly careless reader.

I had the exact same thought, although perhaps "flushed" would be the more appropriate verb.

Of course I would. My IQ happens to be in the 99.7th percentile (hold your applause), and I was an unusually serious and studious child, and I couldn't POSSIBLY (I realize in retrospect) have made an intelligent decision of this magnitude at 16. There simply isn't the time to have considered...

Your own logic is obviously flawed. There is no "singular, objective, unchanging truth." The inter- and intra-denominational squabbling that has characterized Christianity for the past 2,000 years refutes your position about as convincingly as any untruth could be refuted. The idea that there is...

Well, OK, but you are awfully young to be arriving at such conclusions. I agree that most Christians, including myself, are "agnostic theists." I don't see how a sane person could be anything other than agnostic, whether an agnostic Christian, agnostic Hindu or agnostic atheist. I always...

I have followed the Near Death Experience phenomenon and the "alien abduction" phenomenon closely for the past 30+ years. Both phenomena have "inconvenient facts" associated with them that defy easy explanation. It is striking that in a genuine NDE (i.e., one where the experiencer was...

I would disagree 1000%, if that were possible. The revelation of God is in the person of Jesus and the working of the Holy Spirit in one's life and the lives of others. Your final paragraph is staggering to me. There is a grain of truth in that I don't doubt that some members of the tribe...

Amen. :thumbsup: Yeah, you really need to read Thoreau if you haven't already done so. "Walden" will resonate with you as well. BTW, Willie T., I'm damn near as old as you.

I share your concerns. Try reading the essay "Life Without Principle" by Henry David Thoreau. He was not a Christian, at least by the standards of most participants on CF, but he expressed similar sentiments 160 years ago. Part of the problem is that few people think they are rich; except at...

As one who actually works in the court system, I share your view. Elliot appears on TV on November 7th to criticize Obamacare ... less than one month later Elliot announces he is being audited by the IRS for 2009. To me, it is a huge leap in logic to fill in the "..." with "and, as a result."...

Any number of profound religious thinkers and mystics have suggested that the divine must be approached intuitively and that in most people the intuitive faculty is blocked by the inability to break free of the dualistic (this or that) thinking that guides us in our everyday lives. One of the...

There are a plethora of scholarly resources in this vein. Just search "Bible + homosexuality" on Amazon and you'll find several, to wit: What the Bible Really Says about Homosexuality by Daniel A. Helminiak Does God's word in the Bible really condemn homosexuality? Top scholars--like the late...

Thanks much, Cjwinnit ... I was beginning to think my little thread had evolved into nothing more than yet another tedious Obama-is-a-Muslim or abortion-is-murder debate. Of course, I'm doing better here than I did with the same OP on the "Christian Affairs" forum, where the thread was closed...

None of the "proclivities" you mention go to the core of whom a person is. To one degree or another, all of the proclivities you mention are matters of choice. "Being gay" IMHO is more in the vein of "having blue eyes." I have had a number of gay friends, and in no case did being gay seem to...

Rush Limbaugh is a cartoon figure. His responses to every event are 100% predictable and could be ghost-written for him by anyone with an IQ of 90 or higher who has listened faithfully for a year. He, and others like him on both the right and the left, serve no purpose except to keep their...

No, religion is not a lie. The term "lie" suggests that one knows the truth but chooses to say something different. No religion knows The Truth. Religion attempts to deal with ultimate questions, such as "Why is there anything at all, rather than nothing?", for which the correct answers --...

The "Christian" perspective in support of the war is that of the right-wing "Christians" whose "Christianity" is little more than hawkish American nationalism masquerading as religion and who have substituted worship of the American military (and its corporate suppliers) for worship of God. To...

The "Christian" obsession with homosexuality has little if anything to do with homosexuality per se. "Homosexuality" has become a code word or litmus test for whether one supports the right-wing political agenda. There are any number of scholarly treatises that explain what the Bible means by...