(October 29, 2023 at 1:54 am)Barry Wrote:(October 29, 2023 at 1:07 am)The Valkyrie Wrote: Hi Barry,
I've noticed your passive-aggressive responses to others and your attempts to speak down to them in a way to make them seem smaller to you and to make yourself feel more important.
I've also noticed you play the victim when people don't play your game. It's a common religious trait, one you may grow out of. This is why you have accuse me of "verbal abuse", something that is not in any of my responses (yet) and also can't happen in written form.
Also, referring to someone by their preferred name is an, "I will, IF". It's a matter of courtesy, something many of the religious lack, I know.
I've corrected you. Have courtesy. Many here are FAR more tolerant than me.
Science doesn't know the full story.
You're quibbling over terms.
No, you don't know. You have CLAIMS that you "BELIEVE".
Look up, "The Big Bang Theory".
No, not the TV show.
I'm not going to be strung along by, "please explain", rvery time you want to draw out a pointless discussion because you're looking for a "gotcha" moment.
Everyone in the world with even a modicum of scientific education knows the basics. Those who don't are simply lacking in a decent education.
I do apologise for referring to "dark age beliefs".
You are correct there. They're predominantly Bronze Age.
Thanks for playing.
Hi Valkyrie
Your name is very long, I wasn’t being disrespectful. As for your “verbal abuse”, I apologise for that comment, I confused you with Angryboda who has been very abusive. I’m not offended by “dark age beliefs”.
So peace be with you.
As for the Big Bang, 14 billion years ago. It was discovered by a Catholic priest scientist. What caused it? Things don’t just happen. My answer is either God, or some previous action from God. What do you say?
I have a “decent education”, much higher than 95% of people, but being educated doesn’t stop anyone from being wrong. Or unlikeable. I know I can be guilty of both. Academics can disagree. Very eminent scientists are Catholic and atheist.
I won’t respond to your psychoanalysis of me. You may know more than I about such matters.
I don’t mind all the abuse directed at me. Christ was crucified for speaking the truth. Almost all his apostles were martyred.
I’m trying to get the Catholic Church in Australia to change some of its ways, and have been abused and criticised for that.
The last 4 popes have called for a “New Evangelization”. But nothing is being done. That is my personal mission and my main target is the 90% of Catholics in my own parish community who don’t attend Mass and are in effect atheists.
I have time to chat on this forum because nobody in my own parish is listening. The priest and his “leadership team” are too busy “rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic” to consider making any changes.
God bless you
Barry
I’m betting you’ll dance around this question
If like you say
Things don’t just happen.
Where did your god come from?