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Wow, this is a great discussion! And so helpful! Honestly, I was a little desperate when I started this thread and now I have a very different perspec...

Yeah, you're right. I have really found a weakness in myself here. I just see red and get intolerant.

Point well taken. When in your mind does an attitude become so offensive to you that you can't feel empathy? Possibly I'm too upset.

Nice answer

I think this is where we move from morals to ethics - with ethics informing the better choice. If we bring in the question of right or wrong, we forge...

Well, let's be careful about what we mean when we say "judge". To me, being "judgmental" means that to some extent you are immune to further evidence ...

Thank you, this was very interesting. I'm an atheist who LOVES theology. What can I do?

Also, I may have over-emphasized Calvinism somehow. I was using "Neo-Calvinist" as a shorthand.

I think the problem for me is that when people are judgmental, they have (in my view) chosen ignorance over open-mindedness and I can't abide that. It...

Honestly, I don't know where to start. I'm not being facetious. I feel like Calvinism starts out as a misguided attempt to solve a conundrum that does...

Huh. So did this feeling of certainty help when they confronted a new problem? For me, feelings of certainty began to dissolve early in life, as I lea...

Theism is LIKE a mental illness insofar as it is technically a delusion, but in reality it's a metaphor. To me, the key to the analysis is that if you...

Thanks for your response. So when I'm dealing with humans, I really feel I'm dealing with evolved animals who took on the habits of a social species, ...