Sounds awfully superficial to me – if all you have to do is “act” like you’re a Believer in Christ, by putting on sheep’s clothing and pretending as if you’re enjoying the party, then this “church” you speak of is no more relevant than a high school clique of girls who gossip about the teachers and other cliques of high school girls. In other words, it’s all a popularity contest, and it’s extremely disingenuous to claim that Jesus will “love” you as a result, when all He is concerned about is your superficial appearance.
God must be fucking stupid, if He gets taken in by those kind of selfish games.
*“There are a LOT of <religions> where the atmosphere is one of, “This is what you must think about this issue, and here’s the <our holy book> reason why – and disagreement is not permissible.” Brainwashing is an excellent word for it.” * is just as valid.
It’s putting on the Sheppard cloths with the Sheppard inside us. We are not to accept Jesus into our hearts and go and do our own thing (cloth ourselves with other clothes).
I’m pretty sure my posting history says it’s possible. I was just pointing out that the quote you chose only supports idiocy. If you try harder, you can easily find insane posts too.
Here’s an example: Hitler was an idiot to not supply his armies with sufficiently with winter gear for the invasion of Russia for fear that the tacit admission that the campaign would be lengthy would be bad for morale. He was EVIL for wanting to exterminate the Jews, Roma, and other victims of the Holocaust.
It doesn’t have one, as far as we’re concerned. It may have a purpose as far as some unknown entity is concerned, but since whoever that might be isn’t talking it’s just the big, empty place in which we live. More to the point, “purpose” is something which only a sentient mind can devise; in the face of a complete and utter lack of evidence for any putative intelligent designer of the univers, it’s perfectly reasonable and logical to assume that puposeless is the universe. There, that was easy.
As far as science is concerned, no. Anything which cannot be observed–by which we mean interact with or affect us in any way–can be effectively said not to exist. Doesn’t mean it de facto doesn’t exist, it simply means that it might as well not. This is as true of particle x as it is of parallel universes.
Gee, thanx, Cape-spoiler. You may be well resting but that quote you provided leaves me anything but placid. I mean for all we know, kanicbird is a functioning member of society.
So thanks to you I am going to be giving strangers some weird-ass looks in the next few days. As in:
:::Hmmmm…if I shake that dude’s hand will I get Teh Gay or grow horns?:::::
