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I don't believe that there's a guy in the sky. I don't know anyone who does.

But you won't let facts get in the way of your narrative. You *NEED* these falsehoods in order for you to keep your ego afloat. The emotional devastation of realizing that you're chasing windmills will be too much for you.

So what makes you a Christian, then?

That's not patronizing. That's just reading your words are responding to them.

But even if you are making the claim about "relative" there's nothing that should strike me as being odd about it. Primarily, going into the Enlightenment, the only people who were scientists were religious because they were the only ones who were educated.

So that the monopoly would be lost as more people started to have access to knowledge really doesn't surprise me, or shock me, or concern me. I think that scientific knowledge is better for the diversity of perspectives being brought into it.

Yeah. I'm 100% confident that this is the reason that you present false statements as facts. It has nothing to do with your lack of intellectual thought or reflection on the subject matter.

Strangely, it's weird that you call my language "opaque" when you're the one being upset that I'm responding directly to your statements and not responding to the thing you meant but didn't say. I've decided that if you're too stupid to understand me, that's a you problem and not a me problem.

What makes anyone a Christian? Most perspectives involve understanding the centrality of Jesus as a model for how to live. This is often phrased as "following Jesus."

That you think that this has something to do with people in the sky just shows the depth of your ignorance.

All you have to do is believe you've caught one. Reality clearly doesn't matter to you, so just construct your own.

The irony is strong with this one

Oh right, I thought it had something to do with believing in god. Mea culpa. I guess I've been debating the wrong guy all along.

It took you nearly 1000 posts to learn something? I don't know if I should be impressed or depressed. Probably both.

Can I just clarify. You are a Christian, but you don't believe in god. Is this a true statement?

There are lots of meaningful challenges to the claim. This isn't one of them.

This is false.

No one would mistake you for preaching those things. You are safe.

Do you believe that Jesus was the son of god?

Edit: because it sounds like you're not actually religious (which doesn't surprise me in the least), but for social reasons you feel the need to self-identify as such. That would also explain the anger and the "lady doth protest too much" style of posting.

Yes, but probably not using the concepts that you're applying.

Christians dont think their God is in the sky. Outside time and space daddy would be better if you want to be accurate in you jabs.

You should trust your ability to read between the lines just about as much as you should trust your ability to read the lines themselves.

Very few people could be as dumb as you've presented yourself. Consider yourself to be a champion of some sort.

Right, so he was the son of god, but you don't believe that god is a guy in the sky. I'm as confused now as I was in religious studies in school when I was 9.

So you didn't do a very good job of answering my question in 500 words or fewer. You used 24 which meant nothing, by the sounds of it.

This is likely because you haven't learned much since then.

You are welcome to assess those 24 words however you choose. Given your participation in this thread, that assessment is worth about as much as your first three posts.

So your reason for not answering the most challenging question posed to you in this thread is that you don't like the person who posed it?

Meh, only since humanity has been able to go to the sky to check it out. Pretty sure that before we had the ability to send humans into the air, they thought he was sitting on a cloud or something. There are even some pictures around to substantiate this hypothesis.

I've answered the question. It has nothing to do with liking or disliking you. It clearly has to do with mocking you. You're not intelligent enough to understand, and that you would try this tack simply proves it.

Your certainty of many things reveals how few of those things you know.



Confirmed.

Ok, let's not make this about me. Can you just answer the following with binary answers?

1. Do you believe in god?
2. Do you believe Jesus was the son of god?
3. Do you believe Jesus' mother was a Virgin?
4. Do you believe Noah lived to be 600 years old?
5. Do you believe Jesus was resurrected?

Ok, those were a bit easy (hopefully). Now for an essay question.

Do you consider yourself a Christian because you feel that morality is derived from an otherworldly source and is not an innate human quality?

You haven't answered it with any specificity whatsoever. You basically said "I believe what I believe because I thought about it". Yeah, I mean, I thought about a bacon sandwich when I woke up hung over this morning; alas, it did not apparate.

Writing words after a sentence which ends with a question mark is necessary but insufficient to "answering a question".

Oh. Well your zing works well against the humans of the past then.