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  1. Town Heretic

    Why Did God Create Humanity?

    The inferential there isn't difficult if you have a modest familiarity with one of the religions you're intent on dismissing. The illustration in the second sentence is almost a complete quote from the Bible, John 15:13, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his...
  2. Town Heretic

    NFL 2015: mid-season through the Super Bowl

    Well, watching the Vikings defense I'd have to say some sort of choking was involved...darn Vikings.
  3. Town Heretic

    I'm entitled to my opinion, and you are also . . .

    Story of my life...tioned by complete strangers.
  4. Town Heretic

    I'm entitled to my opinion, and you are also . . .

    See, that sort of remark that will one day spell the end of public education.
  5. Town Heretic

    NFL 2015: mid-season through the Super Bowl

    Hot-dang, to paraphrase the Bard. I'm 8-1 going into the afternoon. Philly and Tampa...never surprised when Sanchez leads a team to a loss and Winston played remarkably well in what's looking like it will be a pretty decent rookie year.
  6. Town Heretic

    Sorry to hear the first two, though unsurprised. Sod, sure. Add chrys and Eeset and you have the...

    Sorry to hear the first two, though unsurprised. Sod, sure. Add chrys and Eeset and you have the obsessive trifecta. I'm starting to find my feet here, along with a few new interesting characters. Looks like my football legs are back under me today, so far.
  7. Town Heretic

    I'm entitled to my opinion, and you are also . . .

    Hadn't considered it, but I do have my pets eating Christian Science Diet on the advice of my veterinarian, who is both a Rotarian and a lifelong member of the Assembly of Gods...or Assemblies of God, I forget which.
  8. Town Heretic

    What Mythological Creature Are You?

  9. Town Heretic

    Why Did God Create Humanity?

    Like saying a toilet is a funny place to put your car keys. Sure, but until you pull keys out of it I think maybe the humor is in your assumption. That's not God. That's the inevitable confluence of being and imperfection. What strikes me as peculiar is how noble and worthwhile many an agnostic...
  10. Town Heretic

    Why Did God Create Humanity?

    You don't have to if you understand the paraphrase that followed and illustrated the principle. Absolute, unadulterated love of the sort that transcends even self-interest. All rhetoric is pulpit rhetoric, comes to it. You asked a question. I speculated. I didn't suggest an absolute knowledge...
  11. Town Heretic

    Can Good Christians Be Capitalists?

    Money isn't evil and God never said that it was...it is making money an idol, placing it above the obligations God gives us that can make it an evil thing for men, just as gluttony can turn eating into an evil. Were the possession of things and wealth inherently evil God would never have given...
  12. Town Heretic

    How do people honour God/s/esses,(spirits...)etc. in your belief? (Altars specifically)

    I honor God in the living of my life, in finding joy in His joy and doing my best to approach my neighbor in love...by being mindful, by keeping an ongoing conversation with Him of recognition, petition and a sharing of gratitude and joy.
  13. Town Heretic

    Questions of curiousity rather than debate

    I didn't say you had to assume anything, though I spoke against the negative. That said, if the love of God drives you to harm others you're doing it wrong and need a better instruction manual or understanding. About where God was in the midst of those horrible acts. Human enough, imperfect...
  14. Town Heretic

    Questions of curiousity rather than debate

    We have a real native genius for pattern finding and imposing...like seeing faces in wood grain and animals in clouds. It should be scary for any rational being. If you aren't motivated by your fundamental biological imperative to survive you should probably be in therapy. I don't mean you, I...
  15. Town Heretic

    Questions of curiousity rather than debate

    I wasn't at that point attempting a particularly Christian answer though I am a Christian. I'm also a rationalist. And my answer was that empiricism has to fail. The moment you begin to seriously attempt to cobble a standard that begins to become self-evident. Can't be done. But at that point...
  16. Town Heretic

    Toughest Question Yet

    I thought I had both hands wrapped around a brutal truth, until I met another truth that forced me to release the first and alter the course of my life.
  17. Town Heretic

    A little bird gave me a few catch ups on the old watering hole...if I leave my front door...

    A little bird gave me a few catch ups on the old watering hole...if I leave my front door unlocked and a man enters by it and kills me I bear no responsibility for his act or my own murder, because what he did he had no right to do. What I did I had every right to do.
  18. Town Heretic

    Toughest Question Yet

    Very, very happy to hear it. I remember when I was an atheist and someone asked me why my answer was always three words: children's cancer ward. I can't answer you in a way that is likely to be meaningful for you, but at any rate and to examine it to satisfy the point for my part here, why do...
  19. Town Heretic

    Questions of curiousity rather than debate

    I remember once a fairly aggressive anti-theist friend of mine asked for evidence of God. He meant by that some empirical, objectively demonstrable evidence. I asked him what standard, if met, would objectively settle the question. It's a conversation killer when you stop and think about it...
  20. Town Heretic

    Why Did God Create Humanity?

    So that's two things you don't have a handle on, God and non-sequiturs. Good to know. Else, the first is a speculation informed by the latter. Or, working back to front, if love in perfection is sacrificial then man by his nature is the ideal object upon which or by which love perfected could be...
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