Christians - Aware you worship a virgin?

[chatpilot]

Thanks tack I too am glad that I was able to catch myself before reaching the point of no return. It is sad to see so many people get lost in religious extremism to the point where they are no longer rational nor able to think independently. I've met many who were like that in my former days as an evangelist.

[Edwardo Piet]

As Hitchens put it: Christians have an unhealthy obsession with sex in the same way the an anorexic does with food.

I like what Stephen Fry has said...

Only it's more directly at just the Catholic church in this case,

I am talking of this - in my opinion gem of a - quote:

"That's the strange thing about this [Catholic] Church: it is obsessed by sex, absolutely obsessed. Now, they will say we with our "permissive society" and our "rude jokes" are obsessed; no, we have a healthy attitude, we like it, it's fun, it's jolly. Because it's a primary impulse it can be dangerous and dark and difficult - it's a bit like food in that respect, only even more exciting. The only people who are obsessed with food are the anorexic and the morbidly obese, and that, in erotic terms, is the Catholic Church in a nutshell." - Stephen Fry

Of course, 'God' is a literary device used to 'magically correct everything "wrong" in the story'... so i suppose they rationalize it like that?

Yes... you go wrong when you use logic.

God trumps all with his awesomely profoundly high levels of "specialness". Duh.

EvF

[LEDO]

chatpilot let me ask you this. Do you believe the author of the book of matthew existed?
Ledo I don't deny that they're could have been many who had the title "son of man". History has a tendency to repeat itself and I fully accept your definition. How many of those with the title Claim to be God incarnate on earth or part of the holy trinity?

Jesus claimed to be part of the Trinity? I seem to be missing that quote in my Bible.

[tackattack]

chatpilot let me ask you this. Do you believe the author of the book of matthew existed?
Ledo I don't deny that they're could have been many who had the title "son of man". History has a tendency to repeat itself and I fully accept your definition. How many of those with the title Claim to be God incarnate on earth or part of the holy trinity?

Jesus claimed to be part of the Trinity? I seem to be missing that quote in my Bible.

I stand corrected. While there are subtle references in the Gospel according to Matthew, the Great Commission: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" (Matthew 28:19); and in the Second Letter of St Paul to the Corinthians: "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all."(2 Corinthians 13:14) . This helps develop a trinitarian understanding of God. But this is personal bias and there are also "Binitarianism (one deity/two persons), Unitarianism (one deity/one person), the Oneness belief held by certain Pentecostal groups, Modalism, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' view of the Godhead as three separate beings who are one in purpose rather than essence."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity#The...he_Formula