RE: Outsider's Test of Faith (OTF)
November 26, 2013 at 5:03 pm
(This post was last modified: November 26, 2013 at 5:27 pm by Lion IRC.)
(November 26, 2013 at 11:51 am)xpastor Wrote: It's obvious how Lion IRC is making a fool of himself. The more important question is why.
...Most likely he is manufacturing an excuse for not attempting the Outsider's Test of Faith.
...A few people have asked where is the quiz. There is no quiz.
I'll be happy to take your test. I like tests.
Do I write the questions myself?
(November 26, 2013 at 7:12 am)xpastor Wrote:(November 25, 2013 at 11:14 pm)Lion IRC Wrote: Read it carefully. It says causally dependent.It does not say cultural conditions are the cause of your religion but rather that they are in large measure the cause of your adopting that particular religion....
The city where I live is NOT the CAUSE of my religion.
My parents are not the CAUSE of Abrahamic monotheism.
Still not getting it are you?
The point is that if I lived in in Ur/Iraq or Bethlehem/Palestine in that case THEN I might be accused of adopting the culturally relevant religion.
But Jews in New York and Jews in Palestine live in vastly different cultures and yet they have the same ancient neolithic religion.
I didn't 'adopt' Abrahamic monotheism.
ABRAHAM did!
He is the cause and he is about as far away from me in distance and antiquity as you can get.
In terms of post modern culture - media, music, cuisine, Internet, commerce, zeitgeist, etc. - I am culturally closer to the atheists around here, than I am to Isaac or Ishmael.
