Farewell to ya, I guess they don't want us winning any more arguments against the drive by proselytizers. :cool::D It's been a good many years here, my faith has evolved a ton since I started and not really towards the forum's intent. I will share contact details in the private group thread...
Yeah my wife tested today too. She's required to take off work until she gets results since she's a teacher. We're basically isolating but hoping I find results tomorrow.
I think due to demographic reality, mostly by chance many of my friends are Christian. Some of them use it for cultural identification and some go to church but they're overall pretty respectful of my beliefs and show genuine interest in them. It's a pretty self selecting group though, odds are...
Yeah this is especially frustrating because I would have expected churches to adapt like the rest of us after the stress of the first round of lock downs but they tend to think of themselves as special. I am very appreciative of the churches who have played along to help us all out.
As my wife...
Which is why I offer that potentially Christians would look to return to a position of cracking down on people they find morally offensive. That would be an example of a way to go beyond mere stigmatization.
Usually Christians leverage the government to impose their will. If it were simply the question of free association I don't think there's really anything wrong with you choosing to disassociate from others but that typically is only the beginning. Mosaic law calls for the death penalty for both...
I've found that my experience is that its more casual than being implied; like missionaries in various churches I've been to subconsciously send their prettiest girls to meet the young men to talk about joining their church or the tendency for Christians to feign friendship to make you into a...
Looking forward to picking one up but I got some PS4 games to wrap up, odds are I'll take the PS4 off the rack and hide it behind one of my PC monitors and run it on one of those monitors while also continuing to play Danganronpa on a different PC monitor. :D
Sure I think that is plenty compelling!
British Traditional Wicca, the tradition of Gerald Gardner, the effective founder of the religion takes the gender polarity fairly seriously. Later Wiccan traditions have chipped away at it and eclectics have a very mixed to negative opinion of it. Many...
The standard devotional polytheist answer is that all gods exist and that to exist is be a self-sufficient agent with will.
Generally in ancient cultures they were seen as separate gods but were sometimes syncretized together. The Greek/Roman fusions are the obvious ones but the lines get...