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RE: But God loves us.
May 29, 2021 at 8:20 am
(May 29, 2021 at 7:56 am)The Valkyrie Wrote: (May 29, 2021 at 7:13 am)brewer Wrote: Keep it up and they'll take you to camp.
I have my own special camp for them.
It's way out in the Outback and so much fun you're guaranteed not to leave.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
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May 29, 2021 at 9:55 am
As a Catholic student, the concept of an all-loving God was something I was required to memorize and believe. But from kindergarten through high school, and up to the time I became an atheist, I never saw any examples of God's love in reality.
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May 29, 2021 at 10:29 am
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
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RE: But God loves us.
May 29, 2021 at 10:35 am
God loves us, but he has AIDS.
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"