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    Faith

    Looking through the claims made through it to see if they're true like with anything else.
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    Faith

    I would begin examining what he claimed about the deity to see if it was even possible for it to exist and so on.
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    Faith

    If they make a claim about their deity which is contradictory with other claims about their deity and they say both of these things are true then I would say their god does not exist. In other words, the claims based on their faith are BS.
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    Faith

    Yes. All claims are open to examination and critique to me simply by virtue of existing. If someone benignly thinks that the Moon is made of cheese then that opens them to treatises and refutations being written against them and their claim. Knowing truth is it's own good end to me, doesn't need...
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    Faith

    In my opinion: yes.
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    Faith

    It depends.
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    God's Non-absence

    I would agree, basically "evil" to me is not always moral. I do not have that connotation every time I call something evil or good. When I read of evil in the philosophy and theology I look into it is used in that broad way so it probably removed that connotation from me, to necessarily say evil...
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    Faith

    In my opinion all claims can be rationally examined and critiqued, a group of claims being called "faith" does not exempt it from that, and if they are exempt from that I don't think a rational person should be bothered with them.
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    God's Non-absence

    "What or who" depends. Someone may have cut the legs of their dog off, or perhaps the dog was born without them, a defect in it's generation.
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    God's Non-absence

    I am not equating them, evil to me is a deprivation of due good although in very different senses which should not be equated. There is natural evil, for instance: a tsunami destroying plant-life is evil in a sense as it causes non-being in those plants. There is moral evil which is caused by...
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    Which one is a Cult? A or B?

    Time is divided into intervals and I travel through them to the past and the future as a Christian. I am in the past when I go to Mass and am made present to the Crucifixion and the Offering Christ made for all, I am really there and joined to the past, so there I have travelled to the past. I...
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    God's Non-absence

    "Due good" can differ depending on the thing, and I need to work on defining that more precisely, for I am unable to do so with the exactness it deserves now. For instance I would say a healthy dog has four legs, and if they lacked two then that would be evil, and a deprivation of what the thing...
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    UPenn transgender swimmer continues dominant season with more record-breaking wins

    Is there a reason why such a thing interests you? I do not see what can't be discussed currently. But perhaps you don't either.
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    UPenn transgender swimmer continues dominant season with more record-breaking wins

    What would you want to talk about concerning it if such was the case?
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    Which one is a Cult? A or B?

    "Theological sense"? Why so? What is the theology that makes that make sense to you.
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    God's Non-absence

    I am not sure what you mean by "the substance of good." Either way, harm (speaking of knowingly chosen human acts) deprives of due good like starving one's children deprives them of health. I think I told you before (although due to certain events on these forums the view has changed slightly)...
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    Which one is a Cult? A or B?

    Both are cults. A cult is "a particular form or system of worship," from the Latin cultus meaning "care, labor; cultivation, culture; worship, reverence."
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    Elective Disease

    Gun wound guy wins out.
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    Paul's Opinion or the Holy Ghost?

    1) Yes. That is: it is both his judgment and the Holy Spirit. That is what the Church believes. St. Paul argues about teaches in the beginning of the letter how judgments are done, and says that true spiritual discernment comes through having the intellect of Christ, which he manifestly had. Not...
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    Vegetarian, good for the body 'and' the soul?

    That is one of the things which inspires me to it as well and helps form my perspective on the matter. This is also the reason why many of the Saints are at peace with animals and nature or even begin to cease eating meat. One of the Church Fathers mentioned this being like the recreation of...
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