RE: Thoughts and questions from God Delusion
September 5, 2012 at 1:22 am
(This post was last modified: September 5, 2012 at 1:28 am by Jackalope.)
(September 4, 2012 at 7:05 pm)greneknight Wrote: Simple. Just show me a SINGLE belief of mine that is silly. I am a Christian but I haven't got a single silly belief that's comparable to a belief in fairies, elves and pixies.
Didn't you say in another thread that...
Quote:I don't believe in a personal God and my idea of a God is that he's a mere metaphor for goodness
I'm not sure that the above wasn't just rhetoric, please forgive me if my assumption that it's not is incorrect. Meanwhile, I'm going to run with it.
Now, I'm the kind of person that prefers to take someone at his word, and you say you're a Christian, and I'm cool with that. However, the above quote doesn't sound like any kind of Christian doctrine I've ever heard (I'm trying really, really hard to NOT invoke a "No True Scotsman" here, really).
Frankly, I'm not sure what I would call it. Perhaps some form of deism? I don't know.
So I guess, given the above statement, I'd say the silliest thing you've said is that you're a Christian.
I jest. You actually seem closer to an agnostic atheist than some self-described atheists I've run across. Either way, regardless of what you believe or self-describe as, you seem all right to me. We get a lot of "personal interpretations" of Christianity around here, and yours is one I can identify with. ...even if I don't understand it.
Kudos to you, sir - here, have a rep point, on me.