(February 5, 2012 at 12:56 pm)Welsh cake Wrote: Not the response I was expecting. You are aware you'll carry around an immense burden in the cognitive dissonance of believing in a benevolent deity that allows evil and natural evil to occur, right? That's not healthy for you in the long-run.Glad I can still surprise you after all this time
. I'm not aware of and cognitive dissonance with having a benevolent, all creator deity belief and the fact that evil is necessary for a definition of good.If the burden of my reality ever gets too much, I'll be sure to let you be the first to know though, I appreciate the concern, genuinely
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
