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Perhaps you could explain how the community benefits from lying.

And how lying is not an action nor a conduct.

TIA

Calling someone a pedophile is not a game.

Making fake quotes and attributing them to someone is not a game.

You might want to study some ethics.

I suppose that's why so many evangelical Christians here in America will go out and buy Trump's Bible. After all, Trump is a True Christian, right? Why take chances when their very soul is on the line. I don't get your reasoning here. Owning Trump's Bible will make you a True Christian? Reading Tru...

I suppose that's why so many evangelical Christians here in America will go out and buy Trump's Bible. After all, Trump is a True Christian, right? Why take chances when their very soul is on the line. I don't get your reasoning here. Owning Trump's Bible will make you a True Christian? Reading Tru...

But all of that starts with reading, and without reading, can't happen at all. Sacred music could easily stimulate an internal revolution. So could the solemnity of a Mass. (I just read something by Archbishop Lefevbre to this effect). It is very hard to say what precise influence gets to the heart...

Then why defend the rascals?

You're twisting the truth. Truth is what needs to be defended.

Do you actually believe that a lay person can't come up to this level and even more? Then you're quite wrong. I've met those who have not only come up to it, but become world experts in things that priests are supposed to know, and don't. It's not a question if someone can come up to a high level b...

Protestantism has always struck me as a more democratized Christianity, overall. It has its problems also, but it seems like it has a more "grass roots" approach to religion. I tend to admire that more so than hierarchical approaches to faith. "Power to the people" as the slogan...

In fact, one of the early publishers of the Bible, William Tyndale, said to a lazy Catholic clergyman, “If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy who drives a plough to know more of the scriptures than you do.” And for this, he was tied to a stake, strangled and burned. But he made go...

There's certainly nothing special about a man in a frock. He doesn't even necessarily have any expertise at all...just a frock. So a man with a frock who has not read his Bible is no "expert," and has no "expertise." He's just a man in a frock. By contrast, an ordinary man who h...

We don't, actually. You do actually. As evidence, read your own posts. You'll have to quote where I said any such thing. But you won't find it. However, watch your so-called "teachers": if they don't want you to read, they don't want you to get wise to them. You can count on it. It's ever...

Because it's a fascinating topic and I happen to be agnostic in regard to such things.

Then you seem to share an interest in religion with AJ

We don't, actually.

You do actually.

As evidence, read your own posts.

Who knows? He and I seem to have different philosophical interests. I don't know why some turn to religion and others don't. It probably depends upon what sort of education a person is exposed to. I had a more skeptical education. Skepticism was also the direction the Academy in Athens took some ti...

I'm just pointing out a very simple fact: whatever the circumstance, NOT reading for yourself is always way, way worse than reading for yourself. And I think you know that's right. What I know is that you and others who "have read the Bible", put yourselves forth as better, holier than th...