I wasn’t angry…at all.
With an e-meter, duh…
Yeah, that’s not how that works. Religion isn’t ‘Fire Insurance’. You have your preconceived notions and biases which is fine with me. But you are speaking for you, not on behalf of religious people.
Hence, this is what you think religious people should be concerned about and therefore be paranoid about. There are those subgroups, but the fringe does not define the majority.
Pretty sure it was a joke
Having hope, believing in justice and peace has a nicer ring to it than, “Too bad, shit happens.”. If you want to lead people to personal destruction, take away their hope.
You do know, that applies to you as well.
I don’t know. As someone who was raised Catholic, sin is something we are supposed to be concerned about.
There is a big difference between concern and paranoia.
I would hope most people would be concerned about making mistakes or making bad decisions, learning from it and trying to be better.
History says that is absolutely wrong.
Not if you are a good Catholic. Let’s see, confession, communion, Rosary, Lent, collection basket.
What history? Where have you seen a flourishing society that has no hope?
Okay, do those things and get back to me…
You misunderstand or maybe I misunderstood. Hope does not always lead to good things.
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Well, Jesus did preach to the sinners.
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What about them?
Exactly. God is, has been, and will be for eternity
If your god is telling you to kill people, are you going to heaven when you do? Because there are a lot of people thinking that murder is a one way ticket to a land of virgins.
But, what if life and matter has always existed? Why do you need a God to create something if it’s always been?
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You DO see why this doesn’t nothing but hinder your ‘why don’t people believe in God’ view of non believes, right?
An interesting question is if someone takes whole hog literally a religion that the outside observer can easily identify as ruining the believer’s life, at what point might a mental health authority be justified in hospitalizing and seriously suggesting medication?
If someone quit his job, gave away everything he owned and started to walk around begging like some mendicant friar, some might think he lost his mind and ruined his life. Others might defend his right to live that way and even find it pious. Would hospitalization and meds make him happier or more miserable?