Phantasmal (10-15-2021), ThatOwlWoman (10-15-2021)
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Phantasmal (10-15-2021), ThatOwlWoman (10-15-2021)
ThatOwlWoman (10-15-2021)
Cypress (10-15-2021), ThatOwlWoman (10-15-2021)
Or at least in volume. It's no different really than any other large group of people with a similar POV. Just like with Muslims, the vast majority are quiet, faithful ppl just going about doing life, while a few crazies get all the attention and headlines. "Christians" like some of them here are no different really than the Jihadist wannabes wishing they were slaying infidels for Mohammed.
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
Phantasmal (10-15-2021)
The visceral perception of hell as a particular place filled with diabolical torture chambers is a literary device from the Middle Ages, particularly Dante Allegheri's Divine Comedy.
Unfortunately, some of the modern fire and brimstone types take it as fact.
Confucius reputedly said if we do not yet understand life how can we understand death?
I am recalcitrant to pass judgement on what the New Testament or the Tanakh Old (Testament) actually mean.
I do not read archaic Greek, which is the language the NT and Septuagint were written in - and I do not think anyone who is not fluent in archaic Greek should be in a rush to interpret meaning from the holy books. It is a universal law that translations of archaic languages into vernacular English can corrupt the intent and meaning of the original authors. Particularly so since we do not have copies of the original Gospels or sacred texts, and are relying on the veracity of much later hand copies, mostly from the Middle Ages.
The most spiritual members of my family feel that the metaphysical spiritual dimension is incomprehensible to human minds, and on balance that is good enough for me.
Phantasmal (10-15-2021), ThatOwlWoman (10-15-2021)
Jarod (10-20-2021), Phantasmal (10-15-2021)
Phantasmal (10-15-2021)
Cypress (10-15-2021)
PostmodernProphet (10-19-2021)
4,487
18 U.S. Code § 2071 - Concealment, removal, or mutilation generally
44 U.S.C. 2202 - The United States shall reserve and retain complete ownership, possession, and control of Presidential records; and such records shall be administered in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
LOCK HIM UP!
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