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Good idea. Form your basis for belief on a movie. Many people use this and similar justification for what they believe. Makes as much sense as saying "I believe in God but not anything that it says in the Bible about Him -- at least, not the things that I disagree with."
Some call this "cafeteria religion". Pick and choose the belief du jour.
What? How is this a response to my post?
You really did not understand that I was talking about people who see everyone else as evil but themselves as not? Sorry, YOU do not get to decide that about another person anymore than I do.
That sort of thinking is unChristian no matter what form you follow.
Oh, and the Twilight Zone was a TV show, not a movie. It quite cleverly told truths about humanity by using supernatural tales to do so.
Am I the only person who finds both of these attitudes offensive?
It's not okay to call someone else's faith stupid. If you disagree with it, fine. Disagree. But isn't it possible to do so with respect, if not for their beliefs, then for their humanity?
And wow. What kind of person who believes in hell gloats, or appears to gloat, about the idea of another human being going there?
^Exactly my point above, and the poster you quoted, by the way, is a caricature of that thinking. He posts frequently on the Christianity forum, roundly condemning everyone else as doomed. I didn't get the memo that he'd been given this special authority..
Another Muslim nutjob throwing a temper tantrum when she her hatred and lies were challenged? I suppose the kid should be glad his head is still attached. So many of today's colleges and universities are NOT places of education but instead of indoctrination.
Are we to assume, then, that you don't believe in God?
1. Believing in God does not necessarily equal believing in Hell. You know that, right?
2. That poster has already made it clear that Jewish people do not have a "hell" in their religion, which a person with a basic education of the most prominent religions would already know, so your questions seems...not nice.
1. Believing in God does not necessarily equal believing in Hell. You know that, right?
2. That poster has already made it clear that Jewish people do not have a "hell" in their religion, which a person with a basic education of the most prominent religions would already know, so your questions seems...not nice.
But expected of someone who believes that people who don't think like they do will burn in eternal damnation.
I could ask the same thing of that poster because their G-d doesn't seem a think like mine, which doesn't seem a thing like someone who is Hindu, Pagan, or Shinto.
A humanities professor is nothing more than a preacher from the pulpit preaching their view. I've had a number of humanities classes at the college level. just about every one of the professors abused their power as they projected their ideological "truth" onto the class.
I've even had a couple science professors do the same in their attempts to explain "god".
In reality, their opinion is no more valid than the students they instruct. They can ascribe to a religion and project their view, but they have no right to project this onto children as some type of truth that's been discovered by some "expert".
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