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Theists: what does your god want for you?
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RE: Theists: what does your god want for you?
This whole problem, where believers cherrypick what they like about their faith (Note Catfish' sig.), is that there is stuff that they all find weird or repugnant ("those who will not follow me, bring them before me and kill them"), so that goes into the "do not open" drawer of their mind. Then there is the stuff that they can agree with ("do unto others"), so that they polish and put on top of the box of their mind.

In short, I would say that most religious people would reject keeping every word of their dogma, and have, instead, created their personal dogma, filtering what they agree with as good and holy, and what they disagree with as irrelevant or "ignore that man behind the curtain".

It's like trying to get through a badly written book that you feel that you need to finish - it's crap. Let it go and move on.
“I've done everything the Bible says — even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff!"— Ned Flanders
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RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by Rayaan - March 14, 2013 at 2:41 am
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by fr0d0 - March 15, 2013 at 8:25 am
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by fr0d0 - March 15, 2013 at 1:15 pm
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by fr0d0 - March 16, 2013 at 6:36 pm
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by fr0d0 - March 16, 2013 at 4:20 am
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by Tonus - March 15, 2013 at 10:15 pm
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by fr0d0 - March 15, 2013 at 3:18 pm
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by Cato - March 17, 2013 at 12:18 am
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by fr0d0 - March 17, 2013 at 3:50 am
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by fr0d0 - March 17, 2013 at 4:28 pm
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by catfish - March 17, 2013 at 11:25 pm
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by fr0d0 - March 17, 2013 at 8:47 pm
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by Silver - March 17, 2013 at 10:37 pm
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by EGross - March 21, 2013 at 5:27 am
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by Silver - March 23, 2013 at 8:00 pm
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by Tonus - March 22, 2013 at 2:45 pm
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by Silver - March 23, 2013 at 7:48 pm
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by Silver - March 23, 2013 at 11:51 pm
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by catfish - March 24, 2013 at 11:28 am
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by ciko83 - March 27, 2013 at 7:17 am

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