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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    You can actually write the word Yahweh without getting killed. This isn't a language with no written vowels.

    to be fair, there is actually no word Yahweh in any language......in Hebrew there is only YHWH.......and the earliest forms of written Hebrew had no vowels at all.......they came later as dots and marks beneath the consonants....
    Isaiah 6:5
    “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    You can actually write the word Yahweh without getting killed. This isn't a language with no written vowels.
    AM I,I AM's,AM I
    AM I, I AM's,AM I.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Crocodile View Post
    It doesn't matter if he knows what you want or not. There's the request and the prayer is an offering. It humbles you and the crosses and humility you hold empower it.
    Why would an omnipotent and omniscient God care about any of that?

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    RINO is the term for that rare Republican who puts country above party.

    Right wing = lie, lie, and lie some more.


    "When I am president I'm going to be working for you. I'm not going to have time to play golf" Donald J. Trump, world class snake oil salesman and compulsive golfer August 2016

    The definition of "racist" as "anyone who is white" is itself racist.
    Quote Originally Posted by Colin Powell
    It’s now ‘me the president’ instead of ‘we the people’

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crocodile View Post
    I've never been looking, duh.
    So you accept that you're a loser.

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    RINO is the term for that rare Republican who puts country above party.

    Right wing = lie, lie, and lie some more.


    "When I am president I'm going to be working for you. I'm not going to have time to play golf" Donald J. Trump, world class snake oil salesman and compulsive golfer August 2016

    The definition of "racist" as "anyone who is white" is itself racist.
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    I do not think bible thumpers should berate atheists, and it is incomprehensible to me why some atheists get totally stressed out - even angry - on message boards about Christian spirituality.

    Not everyone thinks all knowlege and truth are available to us through reason and direct observation.

    Its fine if anyone wants to assume assume metaphysical questions are meaningless and the only ontological reality is accessed through direct observation. That kind of logical positivist approach is fine for those who are drawn to it

    On the flip side, a lot of people feel there is a transcendent reality beyond the realm of experimentation and induction, and the metaphysical and existential questions of this life can be accessed through Christian theology, Confucian philosophy, Hindu Brahminism, native American religious traditions, Daoism, et al.

    Outside of offensive proselytizing, I do not know why anyone gets stressed about any of it

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    Quote Originally Posted by rjhenn View Post
    Why would an omnipotent and omniscient God care about any of that?
    Maybe he has really low self-esteem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    I do not think bible thumpers should berate atheists, and it is incomprehensible to me why some atheists get totally stressed out - even angry - on message boards about Christian spirituality.

    Not everyone thinks all knowlege and truth are available to us through reason and direct observation.

    Its fine if anyone wants to assume assume metaphysical questions are meaningless and the only ontological reality is accessed through direct observation. That kind of logical positivist approach is fine for those who are drawn to it

    On the flip side, a lot of people feel there is a transcendent reality beyond the realm of experimentation and induction, and the metaphysical and existential questions of this life can be accessed through Christian theology, Confucian philosophy, Hindu Brahminism, native American religious traditions, Daoism, et al.

    Outside of offensive proselytizing, I do not know why anyone gets stressed about any of it
    It doesn’t bother me what people believe, unless they try to force their belief on me through laws. Some of my best friends are Christians

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    I do not think bible thumpers should berate atheists, and it is incomprehensible to me why some atheists get totally stressed out - even angry - on message boards about Christian spirituality.
    Probably because religion causes problems in the real would. Same reason it upsets people that Fascists are a thing.
    Good thing I'm borderline black-pilled so it doesn't bother me too much.

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    As a follower of Zen and the Tao I have no use for faith.....True/Not True is the everything with us.
    This illegal illegitimate regime that runs America is at fault...not me.... they do not represent me and I have long objected to their crimes against humanity.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    It doesn’t bother me what people believe, unless they try to force their belief on me through laws. Some of my best friends are Christians
    That is what I like about you - a healthy live-and-let-live philosophy!

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    Quote Originally Posted by StoneByStone View Post
    Probably because religion causes problems in the real would. Same reason it upsets people that Fascists are a thing.
    Good thing I'm borderline black-pilled so it doesn't bother me too much.
    A lot of people use the bible or the Koran as cover -- a fig leaf -- for their strictly political and utilitarian goals

    That's not religion. That is a naked political or nationalistic agenda hiding behind a religious fig leaf

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    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    Not necessarily, it is not a commodity, you can want it cause you feel you need it, but that doesn't mean you will have it
    Some people feel a little queasy, maybe nervous, or apprehensive, about being a small organism on a mud ball as it whirls through space. You know, some people feel that it's a whole lot better to think "God has a Plan" ... rather than "Holy Shit, Now What!".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr.Mason View Post
    No,YHWH is God
    (shaking head) Mason. You know that if you pronounce 'YHWH' in ancient Aramaic it comes out 'Trump'. (Sad)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr.Mason View Post
    You're not mocking Jade,you're mocking God
    Well. He knows where I live.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rjhenn View Post
    Everything is just the way that God intended it to be.

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    Yes. For amusement, he must enjoy Humans killing other Humans. What if there are more than one god and they place bets on who will come out the Victor?
    You know, like the Roman Gladiators.

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