RE: What do moderates think Jesus died for?
January 14, 2019 at 3:35 pm
(This post was last modified: January 14, 2019 at 5:03 pm by Bucky Ball.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignosticism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptions_of_God
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnosticism
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/...gods.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kami
https://www.americamagazine.org/content/...-unknowing
"Pew’s domestic survey—“When Americans Say They Believe in God, What Do They Mean?”—found that although 9 in 10 Americans say they believe in a higher power, only a slim majority believe in the God of the Bible.
Pew’s massive Religious Landscape Surveys published in 2007 and 2014 had already shown that the share of Americans who believe in God with absolute certainty has trended downward in recent years to about 63 percent, while those voicing doubts about God’s existence has grown."
https://magazine.pewtrusts.org/en/archiv...o-you-mean
Mother Teresa: (published letters)
"I call, I cling, I want ... and there is no One to answer ... no One on Whom I can cling ... no, No One. Alone ... Where is my Faith ... even deep down right in there is nothing, but emptiness & darkness ... My God ... how painful is this unknown pain ... I have no Faith ... I dare not utter the words & thoughts that crowd in my heart ... & make me suffer untold agony.
So many unanswered questions live within me afraid to uncover them ... because of the blasphemy ... If there be God ... please forgive me ... When I try to raise my thoughts to Heaven there is such convicting emptiness that those very thoughts return like sharp knives & hurt my very soul. I am told God loves me ... and yet the reality of darkness & coldness & emptiness is so great that nothing touches my soul."
Was she an atheist ? Looks like it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptions_of_God
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnosticism
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/...gods.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kami
https://www.americamagazine.org/content/...-unknowing
"Pew’s domestic survey—“When Americans Say They Believe in God, What Do They Mean?”—found that although 9 in 10 Americans say they believe in a higher power, only a slim majority believe in the God of the Bible.
Pew’s massive Religious Landscape Surveys published in 2007 and 2014 had already shown that the share of Americans who believe in God with absolute certainty has trended downward in recent years to about 63 percent, while those voicing doubts about God’s existence has grown."
https://magazine.pewtrusts.org/en/archiv...o-you-mean
Mother Teresa: (published letters)
"I call, I cling, I want ... and there is no One to answer ... no One on Whom I can cling ... no, No One. Alone ... Where is my Faith ... even deep down right in there is nothing, but emptiness & darkness ... My God ... how painful is this unknown pain ... I have no Faith ... I dare not utter the words & thoughts that crowd in my heart ... & make me suffer untold agony.
So many unanswered questions live within me afraid to uncover them ... because of the blasphemy ... If there be God ... please forgive me ... When I try to raise my thoughts to Heaven there is such convicting emptiness that those very thoughts return like sharp knives & hurt my very soul. I am told God loves me ... and yet the reality of darkness & coldness & emptiness is so great that nothing touches my soul."
Was she an atheist ? Looks like it.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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Militant Atheist Commie Evolutionist