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#131
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As a kid, I was taught that the Bible was mainly true, and that Jesus was this "good guy", who helped the poor, and cured the sick. And while the Old testament is undoubtably horrible, cruel book with an equally horrible and cruel god, Jesus and the NT (apart from the sheer arrogance of claiming to be able to forgive everyone) is a fairly decent story, and a pretty decent moral way to live. So even tho I escaped unscathed from the BS stories presented as fact, I can see that "leading a christian way of life" could be a good thing...(In fact it is a great pity that so few Christians seem to do so). So what is wrong with taking that part of the Bible, rejecting the supernatural, and following teachings of a generally good (whether real or fairytale) guy? "Christian atheist" makes as good as any label for such a group.
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sure I can take the story of Princess Diana and Charles and make it inot a simple story about a big eared man who is in love with a horse that married his own cousin. We can reduce and read anythign into anything, especially the story of Jesus still, as has been pointed out, the title CHRIST has a lot of signifigcance, to totally ignore this is missing a major thing.... But then, Charles got his squidgy and the cousin died.... ![]()
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So, would you call not collecting stamps a hobby or not?
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of course its not a hobby... but I was discussing atheism and the fact that non belief is still a belief, as far as dialetic mundane consciouness is concerned... to esoteric clap trap artists, such as myself.... belief and non belief would be the dual opposites... black, white up, down good , evil Thus belief and non belief are polar opposites.... my discussion was about going beyond either polar opposite... to a third state esoteric clap trap...I know this illustrates what I am saying, more clap trap, I know.... One day as Manjusri stood outside the gate, the Buddha called to him, “Manjusri, Manjusri, why do you not enter?” Manjusri replied, “I do not see myself as outside. Why enter?”
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What is it that atheists believe exactly?
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they believe that there is no god or gods....
![]() the exact opposite of believing in God or Gods... whther you agree or not, atheism is a concept....this third state of mystic clap trap, is beyond concept
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Ah, mystery solved. You simply have an incomplete understanding of what atheism is. Makes sense now.
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Its irrelivant if I do or not, atheism is a construct It could non beleif in purple flying gofers.... it would still be the same thing something which one who relies on intellect will never "get" but there
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A + B = C A = A
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Yes, you do.
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