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Christianity is only one religion and as it is that those withing Christian say that God created marriage are those who have read into the Bible to pick out something that they can us and do so, I would submit that these people are not Christian. They simply like the name Christian and bestow it upo...

[quote=""praxis""]There's a huge difference between shaking something off (like religion or belief) and leaving it behind by moving forward. It's difficult to imagine forgetting a parent and their demands while they are still alive and part of one's life, but that becomes easier ...

[quote=""praxis""]I've often thought that believers are the most derogatory and disrespectful of their God. Reducing God to God's most failed creation (man) is about as disrespectful as it can get. Even though the people who wrote the bible didn't realize this about themselves an...

[quote=""praxis""] What happens is what happens. What kept me in the closet was fear of what would happen., not with God, but those who see they do his bidding. At that time I rejected everything to do with religion and some of that still stands. People have done unspeakable thin...

[quote=""praxis""] I don't think God gets pissed off. If God was a man he most definitely would get pissed off. Old Testament God certainly did.[/QUOTE] I'm going to respond to this out of my own thoughts. I am not making statements of fact here, because I don't want to evangeliz...

[quote=""praxis""] It's just morbid curiosity, but I distinctly remember you blaming God for having kept you in the closet for so long when you came out as trans. Now you have come out as a Christian, what happens? What happens is what happens. What kept me in the closet was fear...

[quote=""subsymbolic""]It's just morbid curiosity, but I distinctly remember you blaming God for having kept you in the closet for so long when you came out as trans. Now you have come out as a Christian, what happens?[/quote] What happens is what happens. What kept me in the clo...

[quote=""lpetrich""]Interesting way of interpreting color information. But if you want to see what the world looks like to someone who is colorblind, you can try my Color-Blindness Simulators -- it does dog vision. I simulated that as a mixture of two types of human colorblindnes...

This it a talk about a person who is completely colorblind, but has created a device that turns color into sound.

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[quote=""praxis""]

justme;681547 wrote:Screw it. I'm done here.

Why did you go to all this trouble to begin with?

There was always that strain in your posts of a person trying too hard.[/QUOTE]

Not any more and thank you for that incite. I apriciate it.

Screw it. I'm done here.

[quote=""Koyaanisqatsi""] I almost lost me mind a while ago and fell down on my knees and asked God to take all of this craziness with my daughter away and felt the Holy Spirit come over me like a wave of warmth, I haven't felt since my body came off the alcohol some 40 years ago...

[quote=""Jobar""] That's like saying that I can't say what I know about you because I don't know everything about you. Er- no, really it's not like that. If you make claims about what God is, or wants of us, then you can't say you don't know what God is, or wants of us. One state...

[quote=""DrZoidberg""] I appriciate your interest in this and I understand what you are coming from with this Atheist Religion, but with every faith their needs to be an effective anchor where which the adherents look towards for that guidance within the religion and to be the di...

[quote=""Jobar""] He is an entity who can and does at his own discretion, takes steps to influence the world he made for those who have given him the respect and acknowledgement of being who he is. I am not dodging anything because the truth is I don't know. Can't have it both wa...

[quote=""Hermit""] You demand of me that I produce proof of my feelings There is nothing at all in my posts that can be construed as a demand to produce proof. You are of course free to post whatever you like. That's fine. Am I not free to write what I think of whatever it is you...

[quote=""plebian""] There's not room in the head for both Christian faith in God and accepting science, facts and reality. If you accept God your reality will start warping truth around it. It's not a good place to be. And while you're with God there is only one predictable outco...

[quote=""Hermit""] You demand of me that I produce proof of my feelings There is nothing at all in my posts that can be construed as a demand to produce proof. You are of course free to post whatever you like. That's fine. Am I not free to write what I think of whatever it is you...

[quote=""Worldtraveller""]I would argue that Satan was the true good guy in the bible, but he lost the PR war. Maybe it's actually Satan you are feeling. After all, he was the one that encouraged us to actually think on our own, discover knowledge, and become enlightened. Job was...

[quote=""DrZoidberg""] I have already told everyone here that I don't have the answers to everything and I'm fairly sure that is universal. You're confusing nothing with something. You have answers to something, or you wouldn't have taken any action. Nobody has answers for everyt...

-I've acomplished what I set out to do with this thread.

[quote=""Hermit""] That depends on the person. Faith is what it is for the individual that possesses it. No, it isn't and it doesn't. You are now coming up with something even more idiotic - words to the effect of asserting: "It may not be the truth for you, but it is the tr...

[quote=""Hermit""] Your question was generally how do you know if the entity that responds to you is the God you think he is. I answered that the best way I can.a t the time Faith? Personal experience of a god? I am afraid, justme, that is about as unsatisfactory answer as one ca...

[quote=""Hermit""] Your question was generally how do you know if the entity that responds to you is the God you think he is. I answered that the best way I can.a t the time Faith? Personal experience of a god? I am afraid, justme, that is about as unsatisfactory answer as one ca...

[quote=""Worldtraveller""] justme: In theory, since you chose this, how would you know which god(s) to follow? If you explained your experience to a Hindu, they would probably claim it was one of their gods (and why not, really?). The same would go for a follower of just about an...