(March 17, 2014 at 1:27 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: ...Or maybe he's just become so batshit crazy that he doesn't know what he's doing any more and is likely to cause harm to himself? The second scenario wouldn't explain the church excommunicating him, though the first would. I, too, am very interested in what the details are and wish I knew the two stories Nate referred to.
Perhaps he's suffering from dementia brought on by old age and his "church" thought it to be demonic possession, just like how they treated mental illness back in the good old days of Christianity? And so, being possessed by demons, the "church" thought it best to send him away? Just wild speculation.
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist