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If you don't want to consider any of this, or give a reasonable chance of understanding it, quit wasting time here.
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what? I don't see how your statement is related to the portion of my original post that you quoted.
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Post in the atheism subforum.
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do, probably more than any other Christian poster. Had I started this thread in the A&A forum, however, it would have immediately been deleted as Christian proselytizing.
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One of the forum rules here often repeated is to not dispute Christianity within the Christianity subforum.
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Who, pray tell, is disputing Christianity?
The resident proselytizing Mormon chimed in with a series of snarky posts irrelevant to anything I had said in my original post. I pointed out that not all ostensibly Christian epiphanies are what they appear to be and that the Bible itself underscores this point. The epiphany of Joseph Smith, in which the Father and Jesus reportedly informed him that all existing creeds were "abominations," is just a bit biblically problematical. If you think otherwise, please educate me.
I don't say anyone isn't a Christian, either ontologhically or for purposes of these forums. God will decide who was a Christian. At the fringes, I simply say "If that's Christianity, then I believe the term is devoid of all meaning."
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If you wanted to truly understand rainforests, you'd have to get out into them, sense them, and experience them directly. You'd never fully understand them by having someone talk about them, or even reading about them.
The burden is on you to seek and find proof within yourself. No one can prove anything to you. Either get that together or be quiet.
Trying to understand something - but bypassing the most useful way and the only complete way - is foolishness, so take a good look in the mirror.
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That's actually a fair summation of my original post. Did you even read it? (Oh, wait, aren't you the poster with selective Attention Deficit Disorder, who comments on my posts while insisting they are too long for you to read?)
BTW, I happen to have read every word your namesake ever wrote, including the voluminous journals and letters. Henry David Thoreau happens to have been one of my serious interests for decades. To paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen's famous exchange with Dan Quayle: "I know Thoreau - and you, sir, are no Thoreau."
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