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This is incorrect, but I'm not going to debate it. This is Christianity kindergarten.

The Trinity is explicitly a mystery. You're not supposed to make sense of it. The hypostases are separate, but each one is fully God. This is not a ma...

That's three contradictions.

So you're making up your own religion?

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I wouldn't knock their contribution, but slogans like I am somebody come from the experience of the oppressed with the devasting effects of a negative...

Wokeism, as it's related to identity politics, is specifically not about addressing economic instability. It's about uncovering sources of social inju...

So on top of being poor, I'm more likely to accidentally shoot myself. :confused:

I'm not sure how wokeness is different from an agenda of conserving grudges, as if we lost the momentum and are now losing all the gains from the Civi...

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Blessed are the cheese-makers, for they shall inherit the earth.

About 60% of incarcerated people in the US are poor people. Maybe better education and job opportunities?

True, and the sacrifice of Jesus has clear magical connotations: sacrifice this human, get good crops. So the sacrifice is celebrated at Easter, aroun...

You're free to sacrifice your life at anytime. There's nothing moral about that.

If you have to do it to survive, it's amoral. It's neither good nor bad.

I wasn't using it as an argument for the non-existence of God. I was saying please, please, please, don't use a dignity-scale as a justification for k...

I was going to say something along these lines. There's a Roman story that some Roman was out farming and some foreigners came over the hill to attack...

Give it meaning, and it will give meaning back to you.

I used to know a Quaker. Awesome guy.

Yes. In broad outlines, the Christian narrative is that God sacrificed his Son to save the human race from something. That alone captures the oddness ...

I just used Catholics to pin down the narrative about the meaning of Jesus' death. If you say Christians believe x, there's going to be an exception s...

The United States was involved in the Atlantic Slave Trade at the level of about 7% of the total. Portugal started it and after a few centuries, was b...

There was a time when black people weren't thought of as having the same "dignity" as white people. Hence, it was ok to enslave them. This is another ...

If a child was not baptized, it wouldn't be buried on sacred ground, and the mother would be told it was in Hell. Horrible.

I don't know, let me check.

It partly comes from primitive intuitions about inheritance. You have your parent's physical features, so wouldn't you also inherit their sinful natur...

It doesn't just freshen your breath, it helps you find a mate!

True. In the Garden of Eden, there was a snake and a couple of fruit trees.

He could have had a tea party in the Garden. Instead it's all snakes and apples. :grin:

That view fits well with the Neoplatonic vision that says reality is a grand round trip out of heaven, down into materiality, and then back again, end...

I don't think that's how Original Sin works. Catholics believe humans are born cursed. That's why they baptize infants. The death of Jesus offers a wa...

Right, so the narrative is that Jesus redeems us from the curse of Adam. Without that redemption, we're condemned. I don't think it's usually assumed ...

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How did they explain the source of human imperfection? It's often framed in the scriptures as the outcome of events in the Garden of Eden. Is that wha...

Commentary from a human: I've been studying how to tell if copy is AI produced. This is not, because I happen to know it's not. But one of the signs i...

Ok. Have a good day.

Goodness. You've read things into my post that weren't my intention at all. I meant the OP as a question about the nature of myths. Maybe I should hav...

That makes condemnation to Hell a little more horrifying. God has no feelings about it one way or the other. We're always happy to call the hospital c...

:grin: Thanks everybody for your answers!

Best leave it here, then, huh?

I'm not holding my breath. I don't think there are any teeth on the cogs.

God became man and allowed Himself to be tortured to death. Do you agree with this? Taking baby steps here.

A Catholic accepts the doctrine of the Trinity, which says the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are one. A Catholic also accepts the doctrine of t...

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I didn't ask if you believe Jesus was the Son of God. I asked if you think Jesus is God. Catholics do believe that. In fact, most Christians do.

It looked to me like you weren't considering the way the Trinity plays into the problem. You wouldn't answer me when I asked you if you think Jesus is...

I agree. My point is that you can't take the responsibility for Jesus' death off of God without denying the doctrine of the propitiatory sacrifice. Yo...

John 3:16: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life" There is a lo...

I wonder if the whole global system is just on auto-pilot with no one really "running" any of it. The Trump administration recently passed a bill that...

I was a correctly formed chocolate chip. Me and my buddies decided to go spelunking in Insulin Syringe cave. We had heard it was dangerous, but that o...