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It means that whether a person dies prematurely by a suicide bomber, or whether your god (nature) catches up to him and he dies naturally of old age, my God is going to consign that person to either Heaven or Hell.And what on earth do you mean by that?
The Catholic church claims it is literal, not metaphorical theophagy.consuming his flesh and drinking his blood? that's not metaphorically eating Jesus? or do you not think Jesus is a god?

You've chosen an interesting belief. Please forgive me if I choose differently than you - in favor of reason over cruelty.It means that whether a person dies prematurely by a suicide bomber, or whether your god (nature) catches up to him and he dies naturally of old age, my God is going to consign that person to either Heaven or Hell.
Oh. Good to know.It means that whether a person dies prematurely by a suicide bomber, or whether your god (nature) catches up to him and he dies naturally of old age, my God is going to consign that person to either Heaven or Hell.
Different how? We have food, we have sacrifice.
AV you are living proof that it helps to be stupid if you want to be religious,It means that whether a person dies prematurely by a suicide bomber, or whether your god (nature) catches up to him and he dies naturally of old age, my God is going to consign that person to either Heaven or Hell.
Believe me --- "religion" has nothing to do with me being stupid.AV you are living proof that it helps to be stupid if you want to be religious,
I'd rather be stupid than a fool.unfortunately for you, you were not as stupid as you should have been,
What religion?but trying to make your religion make sense has finally sent you over the top,(as we all knew it would)
I wasn't aware certifiability and altitude had anything to do with each other.it can now safely be said with some certainty that you have reached the dizzy heights of being certifiable,
Not quite --- I'm still in the "progressive sanctification" stage.your God has finally got you where he want's you,
He's still working on me, to make me what I ought to be.
It took Him just a week to make the earth and the stars ---
The sun and the moon and Jupiter and Mars.
How loving and patient He must be --- cause He's still working on me.
Interesting you would use that analogy --- it's not beneath us to do just that ---the next step will be the dribble,
only a true religious nut can dribble properly, so drink plenty of water and keep practicing.
1 Samuel 21:12-13 said:12 And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
13 And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
I think that is evidence of my salvation.
God doesn't want me to be "ignorant of science", Brainiac, or He would have erased what I already learned.So God wants you to be ignorant of science...
You still don't understand that, do you?... but still try to tell scientists when they get it "wrong", and tell science to "take a hike" when it disagrees with you. Is that it?
For some reason I'm reminded of those Batman imitators from the beginning of The Dark Knight.God doesn't want me to be "ignorant of science", Brainiac, or He would have erased what I already learned.
Instead, He simply changed the focus of my attention.
[I know --- I said He turned one light off --- but that doesn't mean He erased my knowledge of science.]You still don't understand that, do you?
Even though I've explained it over and over, and even used instances where Jesus did the same thing.
For some reason, I believe you --- and I didn't even see The Dark Knight.For some reason I'm reminded of those Batman imitators from the beginning of The Dark Knight.
God doesn't want me to be "ignorant of science", Brainiac, or He would have erased what I already learned.
Instead, He simply changed the focus of my attention.
[I know --- I said He turned one light off --- but that doesn't mean He erased my knowledge of science.]
You still don't understand that, do you?
Even though I've explained it over and over, and even used instances where Jesus did the same thing.
God doesn't want me to be "ignorant of science", Brainiac, or He would have erased what I already learned.
You claim you read lots of science stuff, but again, judging by your posts they must have been little more than strings of words to you. You seem to have missed the important subtext to what science is, what science does and how science is done.Instead, He simply changed the focus of my attention.
I understand a lot about your grasp of science, AV. Perhaps more than you would like.[I know --- I said He turned one light off --- but that doesn't mean He erased my knowledge of science.]You still don't understand that, do you?
Suuuuure you do --- like: it answers to a Higher Standard, or it's proponents are a gift from God?I understand a lot about your grasp of science, AV. Perhaps more than you would like.
Suuuuure you do --- like: it answers to a Higher Standard, or it's proponents are a gift from God?
Just look around you. The lighting in your home. The computer keyboard you are typing on. The furnace that heats your home in Winter. The telephone. Your car. Your refrigerator. Your washing machine. The medicine in your medicine cabinet. All based on science, which you claim is "unproven and unsupportable." Go live in a cave, if you really believe what you say. Or does God's Lone Prophet not have the courage of his convictions?
"A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart."
-- Confucius
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something."
-- Plato
"To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish."
Euripedes