Why I Have Become A Christian

[pErvinalia]

Well, if you just give up the conceit that as a "rationalist" you know and understand everything and you're willing to admit that there are things that you do not, cannot, and will never understand and that it's okay not to be intellectually certain about everything, you might have less trouble dealing with your uncertainties.

You really are a fucking troll. That's exactly what I as a rationalist am, and exactly what a religious idiot isn't.

Pride goeth before a fall. Clue: You're not nearly as smart as you think you are.

That's why I keep harping on the notion that no "rationalist" can rationally say anything about God(s) except "I don't know."

And that's why you're a fucking useless troll. We've even had a poll on this to set you straight and you still prefer to believe your own strawmen over the actual data. That's why you are most certainly not a rationalist.

A poll of idiots doesn't mean the idiots are right.

We've asked you to provide the quotes to show that we are all wrong. You haven't done that.

Quotes of what? My opinion? You have plenty of those to choose from.

Oh, so you agree that it is only your "opinion" that we are wrong, and you have no evidence to back that up. Ok, good. We can dismiss your opinion as the steaming pile of horse dung that it is. And you should too, if you want to claim yourself as a rationalist.

You know precisely that there are no quotes to show that.

Sure there are

.

No there's not, Mr Opinion.

I just don't care to wade back through your tripe to find them.

I.e. you're full of shit. Understood.

Your, and everybody else's opinions here on theists and theism are well known.

Yes they are, as accurately reflected in the thread that was started to bring them all together so you could stop being an imbecile and understand what an atheist actually is. It doesn't seem to have worked though. But go ahead and post some of this evidence your bias riddled mind invented.

The fact that you call yourself an atheist is sufficient evidence.

You don't even know what an atheist is. If you did, then you would understand that the vast majority of atheists don't assert that there is no God. But we've told you this before, troll.

But if that's not sufficient, there's this: "I've joked before that I'd like my friends to organise a frontal lobotomy without telling me. I would be blissfully happy after that, I imagine. Just like being a religionist."

Yes, and?? That makes no statement at all about God. What it does do is suggest that anyone who makes a definitive claim about the existence of a god without evidence is likely an idiot. You should agree with me, given you agree that rationalists shouldn't make truth claims which they can not substantiate. Are you having trouble getting your story straight, troll?

Hence why you are a dickhead troll. You have purposely set up a strawman to piss everyone here off, and have then proceeded to beat it to death despite everyone knowing you are categorically wrong and are embarrassing yourself. Do you really have no sense of self-awareness??

I'm intensely aware of myself and everything around me, including your hypocrisy. Ipse dixit quod erat demonstrandum.

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Except that you refuse to provide evidence of this alleged hypocrisy and offer only your "opinion". Now THAT is hypocrisy. Someone who claims to be a rationalist but can't even get the most basic tenet of it right.

[Mark Dreher]

Except that you refuse to provide evidence of this alleged hypocrisy and offer only your "opinion". Now THAT is hypocrisy. Someone who claims to be a rationalist but can't even get the most basic tenet of it right.

Opinions?

I have offered no "opinions."

I offered photos.

[Mark Dreher]

"I have become a little lamb for Jesus"

That makes me, "the luckiest man on the face of the earth".

Thank you.

[JimC]

"Like a lamb to the slaughter..."

[Mark Dreher]

"Like a lamb to the slaughter..."

That, is funny.

To be honest.

Lamb chops.

Mmm..

Tasty.

[JimC]

They need to be marinated with olive oil, garlic, rosemary and lemon juice, then quickly grilled to medium rare...

[Mark Dreher]

They need to be marinated with olive oil, garlic, rosemary and lemon juice, then quickly grilled to medium rare...

Mmm..

Delicious.

With marinara sauce..

Rub, a dub dub

Thank's for the grub.

[Mark Dreher]

Shekinah



The Wisdom of Solomon


Shekinah is the Supreme Spirit

Devoted to the good of all people . . .

She shines bright in the bloom of ignorance,

She is unfading;


She is easily seen by those who love Her,

Easily found by those who look for Her,

And quickly does She come to those who seek Her help.


One who rises early, intent on finding Her, will not grow weary of the quest--

For one day he will find Her seated in his own heart.

To set all one's thoughts on Her is true wisdom,

And to be ever aware of Her is the sure way to perfect peace.

For Shekinah Herself goes about in search of those who are worthy of Her.


With every step She comes to guide them;

In every thought She comes to meet them . . .


The true beginning of spiritual life is the desire to know Shekinah.

A desire to know Her brings one to love Her.

Loving Her enables one to follow her will.

Following Her will is the sure path of immortality.

And immortality is oneness with God.


So the desire to know Shekinah leads to God

And His Kingdom - - a never-fading Kingdom.

With all your thrones and scepters you may rule the world for a while,


But take hold of Shekinah, and you will rule the world forever.


The Wisdom of Solomon

[JimC]

Fuckwit.

[Mark Dreher]

Fuckwit.

What, is your problem?

Give me a break.

You are always "mad at me"

Or "love me".

You know?

That, is a little weird.

You should make up your mind

And "live with it".

You have two paths

And only a moron

Could not see "the end, of one".

Your complete

And utter

"Destruction"

Right down that path.

If you take it.

That fate?

Is clear

And horrid.

The complete reversal, of every thing, you have ever done, in your life.

Everything

Everything

Destroyed.

Not one thing

Left

Nothing.

But horror, embarrassment, misery

And jail.

Ya

You keep forgetting

That one.

Jail.

I see it

Right down, that path.

But

What do I know?

If your entire existence, can be ruined, "with one email"??

I would consider that.

[JimC]

Nasty piece of work, aren't you.

Go fuck yourself.

[Mark Dreher]

Nasty piece of work, aren't you.

Go fuck yourself.

My dear, truly so,

"This is God"

Now, "if you don't know that?"

You are a moron.

And, "you are a genius".

Not

A moron.

[pErvinalia]

I see Jim has finally adopted my approach to dealing with proponents of idiotic arguments.

[Mark Dreher]

I see Jim has finally adopted my approach to dealing with proponents of idiotic arguments.

Why argue?

What, are we arguing, about?

I haven't, a clue.

You already, believe that "God is real".

You do.

So..

What are we arguing about?

Ya.

Nothing relating to God.

[JimC]

Mark Dreher wrote:

You already, believe that "God is real".

You do.

No we don't, fuckwit.