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Recent content by dlamberth

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    Do atheists constantly change the goalposts?

    I think this is all true not only for those who left Christianity and became atheist, but I think it also hits home for many of us who went elsewhere for spiritual understanding.
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    Do atheists constantly change the goalposts?

    Evidence of God is a personal experience. In that regard the Bible is about one's relationship with the Divine. It's not meant to be evidence of God. From what I've seen in this forum is the acceptance that Jesus is a historical person. I've not seen anyone deny that reality. With Biblical...
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    Shaped by ancient humans, 430,000-year-old wooden tools are the oldest ever found

    Through the years I'm been on this forum, I watched many attempts by YEC's to throw into question various dating methods. All they have proven to me is how deeply they have absolutely no clue how dating labs operate. I've watched many attempts to "play around with the half life of materials" and...
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    Christian nationalist pastor McPherson: "Empathy is aligned with hell."

    Wasn't all of that not from Jesus but from Paul?
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    Is this the real reality? What do you believe or think?

    In the world I'm familiar with which is geology, science has been able to explain quite a bit. The thing is, what the Earth itself is showing us paints a very different picture than what Genesis show.
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    Serious Denial

    Pretty sad. :mad:
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    Christian nationalist pastor McPherson: "Empathy is aligned with hell."

    I don't see that a gay Christian or even a gay Minister as being secular. Far from it. Both worship Jesus. And one even teaches Jesus. But along the same lines, I'm also unable to see the empathy that a Church might feel for those whom their religion has oppressed and wanting to correct that...
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    Christian nationalist pastor McPherson: "Empathy is aligned with hell."

    I'm just having the hardest time understanding how the experience of an unlimited reach of God with in Humanity is a false Christianity. That's my understanding of your words. Love is pretty expansive. God's reach, which rides Love, is infinite and comes in infinite forms which even includes...
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    Shaped by ancient humans, 430,000-year-old wooden tools are the oldest ever found

    Sediments and the bones of animals found at the various levels.
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    Is this the real reality? What do you believe or think?

    So, Existence itSelf is God?
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    Christian nationalist pastor McPherson: "Empathy is aligned with hell."

    God is every bit as much or maybe even more alive in the world than in the Church. To not bring the world into the Church is from my perspective limiting the reach of God in the Church. And in limiting God in that way limits the capacity of empathy for others that need our help. Empathy is one...
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    Christian nationalist pastor McPherson: "Empathy is aligned with hell."

    Your completely missing the point. The lesson missed is that the Church, rather than preaching Love has a long history of preaching something else that has the effect of oppressing so many, even with death. The list is long. Today there seems to be an effort to correct that wrong among some...
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    Christian nationalist pastor McPherson: "Empathy is aligned with hell."

    One of my favorite medieval women Christian mystics is Marguerite Porete who wrote that there are two churches. The first she called the High Holy Church. That church "preached Love". The other church she called the Little Holly Church. That church, she wrote, preached "rules, laws, and order"...
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    Christian nationalist pastor McPherson: "Empathy is aligned with hell."

    It's called Pro-Humanity. It's about time.
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    Christian nationalist pastor McPherson: "Empathy is aligned with hell."

    From my perspective, Empathy in this case is seeing how badly the Church has treated those of the Gay community. Throughout history the church's influence on laws has led to criminalization and even capital punishment of those in the Gay community. And it seems to me that has led to attempt a...