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You would be a frustrating teacher had I signed up for your class. Not only would you force me out of my comfort zone of like minded believers, you would actually get me to test my belief with critical thinking and unbiased experimentation
It sounds like you don’t want actual teaching. You just want someone to reinforce your pre-existing beliefs, right or wrong.
If you want comfort rather than truth that’s up to you, but this is an attitude that reinforces jar’s references to the Christian Cult of Ignorance.
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There is One God. Even if I threw religion and the Bible away, the belief makes perfect sense. Pantheism is weak and indecisive. Polytheism is ignorant.
Such claims really do demand reasoned argument. Where’s yours?
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Monotheism assures me that if I have a problem with a product, the Store Director owes me the rights of a customer. He can, of course, refuse to give me what I demand.
Really? The attitude I see more often is that even daring to complain is fundamentally wrong. So much for the rights if a customer.
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How confusing would it be if I had a room full of "Store Directors" who chose to vote a consensus and I was forced to conform if I wanted to be part of that buyers club?
Three observations here. First you don’t understand polytheism at all.
Second ignorance is quite different from Phat wouldn’t like it.
Third even as analogy this sucks. You don’t usually take complaints direct to the CEO or even a director. Even if you did you don’t deal with only one business, so you would be dealing with multiple people - you don’t blame the hardware store if the baker sells you a stale loaf. You take that complaint to the baker.