(May 31, 2015 at 9:33 pm)ronedee Wrote:(May 31, 2015 at 9:14 pm)Losty Wrote: You're kidding me right now right? I never claimed to know you or to "feel your pain". You just dismissed something that is very real to me with an "oh I've been burned too". That is so rude.
That's nice that you don't need my definition of love but you presented a question and gave no definition for me to use so I was forced to use my own.
It's funny you should ask about what if god is love. Love is a word and a concept. Both are invented my human beings and exist only within our own minds.
Well then..... if Love is real, so must be God!
This is pathetic. These are the kinds of statements that I hear people joking around about all the time, but never actually see them.
Why not whip up another false dichotomy for us?
Here's an example: Islam is a religion on this planet, so it must be divinely inspired.
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' -Isaac Asimov-