Let's see. Are you ugly and stupid? And did I point a gun at you? If so, then you might well be the cat. Anyway, my cat isn't ugly and stupid. My cat ...
Transcombobulation? I've never heard something so ridiculous in all my life! Transubstantiation, on the other hand, that's the real deal. And, I can a...
I don't know nothing about Catholicism. Some of what I have said about Catholicism has been corroborated by others, such as T. Clark, whose wife is Ca...
No, I am open to the possibility that its substance has changed as purported, but for me to believe that it has in fact changed, I must have good enou...
I think that this is the weakest argument for transubstantiation that I've seen so far. It is begging the question and attempting to shift the burden ...
Because calling it something else means only that it would be called something else. It wouldn't change what it is, by which I mean the definition whi...
No, that's taking it out of context. The discussion is in the context of what the Eastern Orthodox Church considers "transubstantiation" to mean. That...
The problem is that you are talking about a renaming, when, in fact, what's going on is more than that. This is about truth, as well as language. The ...
If there's good reason to reject what the shitty authority on shit is claiming, then why shouldn't the shit disturbers disturb the shit out of the shi...
No, it's definitely not irrelevant to what you said. You said that I haven't made a clear case as to why the church is wrong. Those were your exact wo...
No, that's your problem. What do expect me to do about that? It would help if you read the case that I've been making and then made a specific critici...
No, we're talking about the body and blood of Christ, as you well know. The words "body" and "blood" are not proper nouns. Don't be so disingenuous ju...
Yes! You are committing a fallacy of some sort. You're treating all nouns as if they are proper nouns. That is ungrammatical. The difference between n...
You've misunderstood. It's not a question of authority. It was a suggestion, not a demand. And, moreover, it wasn't a suggestion that I expected to be...
Sometimes I work 60 hours a day. Sometimes I work upside down with no clothes on. Sometimes I work in the 1950s, before I was born. And sometimes I ge...
Sometimes. The number of hours per shift depends on the day. Sometimes it's seven, sometimes it's nine. But at the end of the week, it should always a...
That shift would finish at 4pm, I think. It is too bad. It's the worst thing since sliced body. The cup is half empty. The end is nigh. I may as well ...
You never seem to get the point. I didn't suggest that we scrap the rules, I suggested that we scrap that rule. What I said in that part was particula...
Yes, it's bad. It means that I have to get up at 6am tomorrow morning and go to work. Now I know just how Jesus felt. Father, why have you forsaken me...
:-} It's not an odd set of rules. It's how language works. X would be the definiendum and Y would be the definiens. Meaning is use. If bread means bod...
For the record, I have no qualms about demeaning his beliefs, or the beliefs of anyone else here. If his beliefs are ridiculous, then ridicule is fine...
Don't be so literal. It was a slight exaggeration, but I think it absurd nevertheless - about as much so as any other example I've given. It's not imp...
Yes, let's not. And let's not try to pretend that a good historian would keep shtum about this, sweep it under the rug, or underplay the serious lack ...
Have you considered that the reason why it is so unique is because it's made up? Like if I told you that 3000 years ago, a giant fire breathing sea li...
Well, if there's going to be snow, then it's not unusual for there to be snow around this time of year. According to statistics, on average, across th...
I said that they don't expect to see it. I have said that, under the assumption that the doctrine is true, I wouldn't expect to see it either. Yet the...
That's the problem. I don't know if you have any recourse left to you that would be sufficient. Testimony, as I said, is not enough. Appealing to the ...
No, Willow, you really have not understood. If you had've understood, then you wouldn't be attributing to me the opposite of what I've been saying, an...
No, you just don't understand my position, which is more your problem than it is mine. How much of what I've said have you actually read? I've explain...
If you weren't exaggerating, then I have no reason to take you seriously, and I see little reason in reading any further. I'm not going to take talk o...
The only illusion that you'd be shattering is the illusion that you would see sense, but I was never under that illusion to begin with. I agree that a...
I don't think that you're adding anything worthwhile to the discussion. In accordance with, involving, or being the primary or strict meaning of the w...
This is false and misleading, and this is not the first time that your historical ignorance has shown itself. Again, look it up. I just looked it up m...
I do not, and have not once in this discussion, denied that mystical experience exists. Many nonbelievers accept that it exists. It's just that we mig...
I admit that I don't know a lot about Buddhism. But I could only take what you say with no more than a pinch of salt. I'd have to look into it further...
Right, but that doesn't mean that Jesus Christ is unique to Christianity and unique amongst the religions, which is what you said. That only means tha...
Let me stop you there. I agree that it's a matter of faith. However, nothing is true by faith, whether you capitalise the first letter of the word or ...
You're right. There's nothing patently absurd about bread and wine magically transforming into the body and blood of a man who died around 2000 years ...
Yes, I reject it for the same reasons, and I also made the point that materialism isn't as relevant as Thorongil, Noble Dust, and perhaps others, thin...
God's teeth, not this again. It's not that I'm not understanding, it's that I'm disagreeing. Whether or not we have enough evidence to discern whether...
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