CTD writes:
For example, you've been informed that jar is a 'christian'. EvC has its own definition, and Ringo is also a 'christian' by EvC standards.
Now read through this thread, and decide for yourself if anyone else would apply the term to them.
As an outsider (Spinoza Pantheist), I would most certainly apply the term Christian to jar, as to Ringo, well he has never indicated anything to me concerning his belief system other than the simple fact he is far more well versed in the Bible than essentially anyone else here (jar and arachnophilia being the next closest IMO, although there are several others almost as close) and that he actually points out when people are essentially 'full of crap' concerning their unsupported and irrational claims.
I would suggest that instead of acting as judge, jury, and executioner of anyone else's belief system you use some critical thinking to examine your own. Perhaps you could start by actually reading the Bible as opposed to telling everyone else what it says.
Perhaps then such discipline may lead to actually learning other viewpoints, science included. Once that is accomplished, you may actually begin to understand what others, including those in the Bible, are speaking of when they use the term 'blasphemy.'
Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider - Francis Bacon
The more we understand particular things, the more we understand God - Spinoza
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