Whatever, Tony1 ...
Obvious answer #1.
I do trust the guy which is why I don't reinvent the wheel.
Ah, so your biblically-mandated fundamental distrust of people is elective?
How does that explain why that kind of arrogance is pandemic among atheists, witches, pagans, etc?
Are you capable of doing anything other than demonstrating your sacrificed intellect?
It must have some difference.
Would you believe anyone who told you the sky was yellow with chartreuse and orange spots?
Since it's the basis of the worldview, per your proposition, it's relevant. I believe you hit the mark, though: when preaching Christianity, most tell me that the sky is green or red or something almost believable but not quite right. You, however, seem to be telling me about the chartreuse sky with orange spots. Being that you consider annihilation an act of love, and limit your Universe to dualities, I'm not inclined to trust your description of certain things, especially the subjective things.
I'm sorry you can't see the relevance.
I confess that you can't see the point.
That's not yours to confess,
Tony1 ... look at that, you're even trying to manage my relationship with your God so you can make me seem even more Catholic .... If you can't be honest about your faith,
Tony1, then why bother?
It was your digression toward bitterness, but your question of why one would be bitter is only slightly less stupid than George Bush wondering why people are angry with the US. And, since you would rather tilt against your idolatrous visions of a Catholic Tiassa than actually consider why Christianity fails to live up to its potential ... well, we see what God moves you to find important, eh? Which one of you is the idiotic bastard,
Tony1, you or God?
That's what Satan thought when Jesus was crucified.
He forgot that to live forever is not the way to conquer death.
The way to conquer death is to die and then live again.
Faith, faith, and obvious. Given the customized faith you proclaim, that becomes: Horsepucky, Horsepucky, and, And?
Granted, Catholicism is like that, but what do you have against Christianity?
That for all the anti-Catholic hatred Protestants and other Christians might have harbored over the century, the irony of their failure to exorcise the ill spirit of cheap religion is amazing. Protestants left Catholics behind and continued to behave just as reprehensibly; even more so, when we consider that the Protestants compared themselves against Catholocism and believed themselves more genuine, compassionate, and less occult. In centuries past, Catholics burned their opposition. In the modern day, post-Protestant Christians in the US spend their days making
everyone miserable in their pet persecutions. Schlafly and her textbooks; Falwell and the ACLU; Robertson and the feminists; Mabon and the gays; the common thread here is that each of these people and the movements they represent have decided themselves to be superior to all others and have attempted to alter society to their own standards. Each of them behave as if "free religion" means that the Christians are free to exclude everyone they choose from the right to believe as one sees fit. Each of these Christians and their groups treat rights as something exclusively reserved to those of the Christian faith. And that Christian faith, as we see, comes with definitions: you can't be Catholic, Mormon,
ad nauseam.
If it wasn't bad enough that the modern Bible of the Christians is merely a
reduced version of the Catholic bible that was apparently so inadequate, we also see Christians hypocritically behaving as that which they consider themselves superior to.
What do I hold against Christians? Bill Maher noted that he would love to be a Republican, but that he needed
them (Republicans) to do so first. It's not so much that I would return to the flock, but that there are so few Christians in the world,
Tony1, and we, the rest of society, are getting sick and tired of listening to your brand of hatred masking itself as Christianity.
You, for instance,
Tony1, are dishonest, spiteful, and seem to hate your God in the sense that everything you say or do indicates exactly why one does not want to be associated with your God and His ilk. Your approach might sound like the Sufic Path of Blame, but most definitely isn't it.
It's like the bit about the Buddha in the crapper; you don't seem to understand what the idea means--you're just happy to think about someone in the crapper. (What is it with you and defecation, anyway? You seem to like dumping it all over this site.) Look in the mirror and say to yourself, "I haven't learned a thing." If you can believe it, you're doing better than we thought. However, let me put on the table the preemptive defensive strike to your most expected retort:
You missed the point, Tony1, but what else do we really expect of you?
--Tiassa
