What IS good, and how do we determine it?

[Catholic_Lady]

@ Catholic Lady:

What I'm trying to get at is - if you had never heard of xtianity in your whole life, let alone cat-hole-icism ( ), what would possibly lead you to think that Jesus was a god at all (leaving aside the very real question over his historical existence) and how would you make the connection to the Abrahamic god? What are you using as a source for determining what your god wants and how it thinks and feels?

As someone who had never before even heard of Christianity? I honestly don't know. I cannot imagine never having heard of it before, since I grew up with it. I don't know what my reaction would be or what, if anything, would get me to believe in it if I was hearing about it for the very first time in my life. It's kind of something that has developed for years as I've grown and the more I learn about it the more I'm convinced by all of it. Like I said in my last post, it was never just one magical source, so I don't think any one thing, if anything would get me to believe in it under your hypothetical circumstances. I see it as something that would take years to develop, and I can't even explain everything that would have to go into it for the belief/understanding to happen.

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Just to clarify, I wasn't referring to abstinence only programs, I was referring to abstinence itself. Assuming you have all the right parts intact, not having sex is the only for sure way to avoid pregnancy. You can't get pregnant if you don't have sex.

Tell that to Mary. 

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