Subduction Zone
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This paints your version of God as being rather immoral. An infinite punishment for a finite crime is always immoral. We don't execute children for stealing candy from a grocery store. There are positive aspects of Christianity and negative ones. It appears that you were coerced into it from a false sense of shame.Interesting. Did you know I was a confirmed Baptist at age 9. They dunked me in water and told me I was going to heaven. I recall the whole church had to come up and shake my hand for "getting baptized" and then they had a big after service dinner in the basement. But all that really happened to me was I came out of the water a wet sinner. It wasn't until someone sat down with me and explained to me from the "Bible" that I was a sinner who deserved every second of an eternal hell but Christ came and suffered in my place upon the cross and then proved He was who He claimed to be by rising from the dead, that I really received Christ into my heart and He became the Lord of my life. However I recall telling God that if His book could ever be shown to in any way be false I would toss mine in the trash. That was over 41 years ago and I am still looking. But the book is where we have to start to become a true follower of Christ. It's not in our religious ceremonies or rituals or what some priest tells you is true. It has to line up with the teachings of Christ or it is false. He said if you continue in my word then are you my disciples indeed.
The Barbarian as consistently twisted facts and events in order to attack the word of God thereby demonstrating he is not a "disciple indeed." Just because he may claim to be Roman Catholic is to me no different then when I was 9 and claimed to be a Baptist.
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