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What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
(March 1, 2018 at 12:03 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: ...
Why are leftists obsessed with what we, eat, drink, drive, smoke, and carry our groceries in?

Too much empathy.

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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
Quote:Why are leftists obsessed with what we, eat, drink, drive, smoke, and carry our groceries in?
Because they have an actual impact on society and the world  far outside the individual. Thou none of those are like homosexuality . Why are  righties so concerned with the  maintaining  the war on drugs and the so called impact of violent media. So those who live in  glass houses .

(March 1, 2018 at 12:16 am)DLJ Wrote:
(March 1, 2018 at 12:03 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: ...
Why are leftists obsessed with what we, eat, drink, drive, smoke, and carry our groceries in?

Too much empathy.

Wink
That too . To bad for wooter none of the above are like homosexuality .
Seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy -- myself.

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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
(March 1, 2018 at 12:03 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:
(February 28, 2018 at 11:33 am)Abaddon_ire Wrote: Why are the religious so obsessed with being the bedroom police? (or wherever you might prefer such activity)

I really can't feature that. They have this thing that sex is only for procreation. Missionary position attained, sah, for the regulatory 5 nanoseconds, sah. No actual pleasure was induced, sah. All activities were conducted in grim silence, sah.

It is an unmade Carry On film.

Why are leftists obsessed with what we, eat, drink, drive, smoke, and carry our groceries in?

Why don't you ask Michael Moore who is a lefty and a christian?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
(February 28, 2018 at 11:33 am)Abaddon_ire Wrote: Why are the religious so obsessed with being the bedroom police? (or wherever you might prefer such activity)

I really can't feature that. They have this thing that sex is only for procreation. Missionary position attained, sah, for the regulatory 5 nanoseconds, sah. No actual pleasure was induced, sah. All activities were conducted in grim silence, sah.

It is an unmade Carry On film.

For the same reason why Oceania had a Junior Anti-Sex League.
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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
(March 1, 2018 at 12:03 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:
(February 28, 2018 at 11:33 am)Abaddon_ire Wrote: Why are the religious so obsessed with being the bedroom police? (or wherever you might prefer such activity)

I really can't feature that. They have this thing that sex is only for procreation. Missionary position attained, sah, for the regulatory 5 nanoseconds, sah. No actual pleasure was induced, sah. All activities were conducted in grim silence, sah.

It is an unmade Carry On film.

Why are leftists obsessed with what we, eat, drink, drive, smoke, and carry our groceries in?

Why are right-wingers such stuck up callous douche bags who don't give a fuck about the poor and unfortunate?
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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
(March 1, 2018 at 9:03 am)Hammy Wrote:
(March 1, 2018 at 12:03 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Why are leftists obsessed with what we, eat, drink, drive, smoke, and carry our groceries in?

Why are right-wingers such stuck up callous douche bags who don't give a fuck about the poor and unfortunate?

Can we really be picky about individual schismatic sects and denominations when Jesus Himself failed to put any constraints on their numbers or what they are allowed to believe or practice?
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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
(March 1, 2018 at 12:25 am)Tizheruk Wrote:
Quote:Why are leftists obsessed with what we, eat, drink, drive, smoke, and carry our groceries in?
Because they have an actual impact on society and the world  far outside the individual. Thou none of those are like homosexuality . Why are  righties so concerned with the  maintaining  the war on drugs and the so called impact of violent media. So those who live in  glass houses .

(March 1, 2018 at 12:16 am)DLJ Wrote: Too much empathy.

Wink
That too . To bad for wooter  none of the above are like homosexuality .

Oh and also the contents of other peoples pants . And were people will take a shit .
Seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy -- myself.

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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
I'm a bit late to this thread and the topic seems to have drifted, but there are 3 intellectual issues that make the Christian narrative hard to accept, and were major stumbling-blocks for me when I was a believer.

1. Young Earth Creationism (despite what Old Earth Creationists and theistic evolutionists claim, this IS exactly what the author of Genesis believed and tried to convey to his readers.)

2. Global flood. Again, this is what Moses (or whoever it was that wrote Genesis) intended his readers to understand. There is zero evidence for such a large flood.

3. The infamous Talking Donkey. I don't care what anyone says, a donkey's vocal mechanism is incapable of producing the sounds that human speech requires.
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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
(March 1, 2018 at 6:53 pm)wheatpenny Wrote: 3. The infamous Talking Donkey. I don't care what anyone says, a donkey's vocal mechanism is incapable of producing the sounds that human speech requires.

and talking snakes...
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Oh, yeah, I forgot about the snake. That too.
Jeff a.k.a. wheatpenny

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