RE: 3 Questions For Believers (A work in progress.)
June 24, 2014 at 8:41 am
(This post was last modified: June 24, 2014 at 8:43 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I think that the catholics make a great example of what I'm trying to figure out. They have holy relics and shrines and trinkets and pieces of saints skulls and bags of toe-knuckles.....
-all of this is what they found when they went out looking for a god on the advice of their book.
Now, I'm not willing to call the religious experience of every deeply devout catholic insincere (and I don't imagine that you would either) but both of us view this sort of stuff with a comic glint in our eyes. Am I right? This is a font of comedic commonality between us? Clearly we both see that people can go out looking for a god, and find that god - and still we may not be willing to grant them that god in all it;s particulars..no matter how compelling their experience. Does your own advice and method on how to find christ actually defeat the criticisms you might make of the catholic journey? If so, how so? Is there not a way to succinctly demonstrate the dividing line between the two (there has to be?)?
-all of this is what they found when they went out looking for a god on the advice of their book.
Now, I'm not willing to call the religious experience of every deeply devout catholic insincere (and I don't imagine that you would either) but both of us view this sort of stuff with a comic glint in our eyes. Am I right? This is a font of comedic commonality between us? Clearly we both see that people can go out looking for a god, and find that god - and still we may not be willing to grant them that god in all it;s particulars..no matter how compelling their experience. Does your own advice and method on how to find christ actually defeat the criticisms you might make of the catholic journey? If so, how so? Is there not a way to succinctly demonstrate the dividing line between the two (there has to be?)?
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