RegularGuy

After re-reading this post I must admit that you did try to answer the OP as honestly as you could. I apologize for my agitation. Regarding your point...

Well, have at it then. Do you think Allah is proud of you for your proud displays?

The world’s GDP is something like $27 trillion I think. No one but the impoverished are getting into heaven given they have turned from their sins. Th...

You really are a psychopathic asshole, aren’t you.

Furthermore, I have yet to meet someone in this society who has repented. If Jesus is coming back, he will most likely condemn us all. You and Virgo a...

We are mostly all wealthy as you said.

Nope. Analogies are inductive. Comparing the natives to the Pilgrims to the words of Jesus is not deductive.

Never mind. Jesus doesn’t love you.

I assume I’m much richer than the rich man that Jesus told to give up his possessions. I’m sure he didn’t have indoor plumbing. Lol I’m bored of you. ...

You’re being pedantic. It is clear from the Gospels what were the words of Jesus and what were the words of the authors. What did Jesus say? Who bette...

Just compare it to the way first century Jesus and his disciples lived while he was preaching. Who then is more like Christ in his lifestyle? The home...

Jesus said you must turn from sin and repent. The Apostles were corrupt, self-serving zealots out to start an organized religion. I don’t think anythi...

Jesus never said this. This is from an Apostle’s epistle. Anyone in the middle to upper classes in a First World country is wealthy.

It probably is, as is most of the tenets of faith of the various denominations. So, back to my original point. What did Jesus actually say about God, ...

I couldn’t disagree more. Wealth precludes the possibility of salvation. I am very comfortable in my home among my possessions as I’m sure billions of...

Wrong. He was saying that just as it is impossible for a person to pass through the eye of a needle, so it is impossible for a wealthy man to get into...

Anyways, the question I was asking in the OP was who better personified the teachings of Christ? The pilgrims or the natives? The pilgrims had the Bib...

Also, each Protestant denomination has its own tenets of faith that they have derived from their own interpretations of the Bible.

Apparently you’ve never heard of the probably hundreds of Protestant denominations who believe that the entire Bible is the divine Word of God, passed...

Jesus literally said that it is easier for a rich man to pass through the eye of a needle than to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Hence, wealthy people d...

The way I read it, he wasn’t making a joke but was genuinely trying to avoid the folly of choosing sides between the occupiers (Rome) and the priests’...

I don’t even know how to respond to your raving histrionics. I could argue that personal property is theft, and keeping people from sharing the land i...

And the various churches all believe that their different and varied tenets of faith do indeed come from Scripture. As I understand it, there are diff...

You are not saying there isn’t Church dogma, are you? Google any Christian church denomination and you will find in their tenets of faith dogmatic non...

I’m not being political. You clearly are. I was being descriptive of contemporary society, and you bring in some far right-wing Murray Rothbard nonsen...

Jesus literally said, “Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, and render unto God what is God’s.” He was talking about paying taxes. :razz:

Jesus and his disciples had a communal purse. They lived off of alms. So, I tend to see your point of view.

Is there anyone else here who wants to be an insufferable self-serving twit? Jesus welcomes all sinners to repent. :smile:

I strongly suspect you’re so defensive because you yourself love your wealth and privilege. I’m sorry Jesus has condemned you, but ease your mind in k...

Do you even know what you are talking about? I’m not talking about religious dogma taken from the Bible that was sanctioned by the corrupt Roman Catho...

Yeah, that song was playing on SiriusXM when I posted that. :up: The only book of Pirsig’s that I’ve read is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance...

I for one am too old to rock and roll, and too young to die.

My apologies. You just seem to be stuck in a paradigm of structured thinking without imagination that really irks me. My hope for you is that you open...

Of course, all of my recommended prescriptions for US society are only meant to slow the race to our ultimate ruin.

I also fully expect the aliens to keep their promise to me to protect me in the upcoming wars. :joke:

Almost all of which has contributed to overpopulation and pollution, not to mention the need for increased energy production in the developed and deve...

That’s all included in what I meant by “progress” as well. There is no technofix to the existential problems we face as a civilization. More technolog...

I couldn’t disagree more wholeheartedly. We had oral traditions that were much more meaningful than the historical record of which King ruled when, wh...

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Still building it in my back yard. And good luck with your alcoholism!

Commodities are traded on exchanges by banks, corporations, and speculators. They buy long with the hope that they can sell it later at a higher price...

Kripke is a rockstar. Why do you think NYU where he taught was the number one ranked graduate school for philosophy? Kripke makes a lot of sense. So t...

Nope. I would venture you know it through your experience, too, if you’re being intellectually honest. Truths are known either through experience (a p...

Of course it didn't. Only a fool would believe that a building would fall like that from small fires.

It's a necessary a posteriori truth knowable through experience.

Because my conscious experience involves sensations of walking and singing. It is prior to the doing.

And besides, ExxonMobil profits never helped anyone I've ever met. Oil is sold on the world markets and the prices are the same for you, me, and every...

Walking is what legs can do. Singing is what a conscious person with a body can do. They do not "arise". Consciousness is a phenomena not akin to walk...

I'm not being ludicrous and inane. You are. You are more than welcome to look up all of my claims. They are consistent, coherent, and logically inferr...

Now you're making sense. The working and middle classes mostly believe the lies, too. But, hey! We got the Super Bowl and Twinkies, right?