Tells a lot about you that you're so willing to guess my ethnicity, which was a very far-off assumption by the way.
Non-sequitur.
Well I thank you for informing me of your opinions but the rating buttons are subjective aren't they?
The word 'faith' is as abused as the word 'skeptic'. Most people that call themselves "skeptics" are in fact not skeptics at all and are actually strict dogmatists that lie about themselves. Many people that claim to have "faith" don't even know what faith means.
Correct, they're giving examples of it.
I never mentioned loving or hating sexuality, now you're putting words in my mouth.
It's rather more than self evident, you must live out in the amazon jungle if you haven't seen it all around you by this point.
Even if you were arguing with a...
Ok, lets move on to your opening statement:
Well, you just did above, not only that but you blame the calling out of sex obsession on religion rather than your own pathology. This is exactly what we should expect in a world flooded over with porn culture.
My only word on the matter is that sex obsession is not healthy yet so many people seem to think that it is a good thing. Sex serves a role, relationships and marriages should be based around more valuable things.
This is not even a religious opinion, it's basic nature. However, the karmic debt...
After reading through some of your posts in this thread, I am certain that you are an apologist for terrorism. Your agenda is to defend and legitimize terrorism and demonize Islam (like Notanumber) using delusional propaganda.
I have a question for you Raymann, are you an undercover Wahhabi?
Then Brahman too goes bye bye. You know that I'm not talking about devas and deities.
If you're truly an atheist then you've let go of Advaita and Adi Shankara forever and that's fine if you want to demote yourself from Advaita.
I think Advaita Vedanta is crap myself, obviously you don't think...
I've only been using it in reference to the adjective, as stated in post #139, where I also specifically said that I was not referring to the Noun. This distinction, barely makes a difference between gnostic and gnosticism are related by nature - historically, semantically, etymologically...
A person who is a Gnostic, doesn't have to associate with any group of people or any religion. It is a knowledge that transcends religion(s), it's the point of a Gnostic.
Whether someone follows a form of GnosticISM is a different topic entirely.
Negative and positive atheism - Wikipedia...
Nope, "Gnostic", period. No confusion. You're the one here who just uses words without knowing their meanings or history. Learn some more and then we will talk :)
The extent you go in your apologetics to defend it, goes to show your favoritism. Only if it's not something you like then you glorify it, that's the way you are. Protestants :rolleyes:
Then why use the term "Gnostic Atheist" when it is entirely incorrect, just use "Strong-Atheist" and call it a day.
It's of spiritual experience, of the transcendent type, to be more semantically true. To be Gnostic is to actually commune with the divine, call it God or Brahman, whatever...