05 Oct 2007, 1:12 am
05 Oct 2007, 1:16 am
05 Oct 2007, 7:02 am
Ragtime wrote:
I'm a mainline conservative Christian; I don't even have a denomination.
That's NOT mainstream (if that's what you mean).
Hence, your appellation.
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More like "Church of Calandale", from the bizarre views you've described...
Hell yes. Got worshipers too.
Just not many.
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Far from simply and lazily deciding to conform, we think out and question each view, and explore it fully.
I like this, but do you all find agreement?
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It just cracks me up how ignorant you people are about me! 
Well, all we have is the crap that you spout here.
If that ain't true, we can't really tell.
05 Oct 2007, 7:03 am
05 Oct 2007, 9:04 am
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Ragtime wrote:
calandale wrote:
greenblue wrote:
You have a funny idea of what a "real" or "true" christian is.
SImple: Those in the Church of Ragtime.
Seriously. So many sects are like this.
Hell, he doesn't buy that Catholics can
be Christian.
Church of Ragtime?
I can't even count the number of Christians whose core views on God and family I totally agree with -- and some of these people I've never personally met, but have only read their views, and I agree completely with what they described. I'm a mainline conservative Christian; I don't even have a denomination.More like "Church of Calandale", from the bizarre views you've described...
And, BTW, I wouldn't in a million years want to lead my own congregation.
However, I am a member of a congregation, and we all hold the same core beliefs, and we discuss them in detail amongst ourselves every week. We're very open about our doctrines and the science/logic behind them. Far from simply and lazily deciding to conform, we think out and question each view, and explore it fully.It just cracks me up how ignorant you people are about me!
Don't enlighten these people too much. Your choice, but I wouldn't go for it.
"The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it" (John 1:5).
05 Oct 2007, 9:06 am
juliekitty wrote:
Wow, what a pair of smug, self-satisfied, self-righteous know-it-alls.
Just because we agree on something?
Don't be such a brat.
05 Oct 2007, 9:07 am
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
calandale wrote:
Hell, he doesn't buy that Catholics can
be Christian.
be Christian.
I wouldn't say that, some of them could be. But praying to the "Saints and Mary" has sure got to count against them in the long run.
Cal misquoted me anyway, but what else is new?
I clearly said that I'm quite sure some Catholics are saved. (Nice job, cal. Wanna try getting one right now?)
05 Oct 2007, 9:09 am
05 Oct 2007, 9:14 am
shadexiii wrote:
The reason that will be given is that they are "right."
This just proves how much you can't hear or understand about God; I've written over 200 pages of detailed Christian explanation on WP, and never once have I said, nor do I believe, that the truth is the truth "because I believe it". Your version of Christians' explanations and arguments on WP is shamefully incompetent and inaccurate -- you can't even quote them correctly. You can't even admit we've made several articulate points. According to you, the only thing we've ever said about God is "He's real because I say so"
. I don't even have to call such a "recounting" of discussions idiotic.
You're therefore quite clearly blind to everything I've written on religion.
05 Oct 2007, 9:23 am
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05 Oct 2007, 10:46 am
juliekitty wrote:
Ragtime wrote:
Just because we agree on something?
No, not because you agree on "something". Because you agree you have knowledge of God nobody else has
We never even implied such, and indeed, I stated quite the opposite.
I'm so sorry about this, kitty cat, but other people are Christians too, who believe exactly as I do in my core beliefs.
05 Oct 2007, 10:51 am
juliekitty wrote:
Ragtime wrote:
What -- two people agreeing on the nature of God and man? Next, you'll be forbidding public assembly.
Don't get fascist on me -- at least not while you're on your indignatory soap box.
Don't get fascist on me -- at least not while you're on your indignatory soap box.
If disliking your attitude is fascist and dictatorial, then call me Mussolini.
Cal saying that my "kind of attitude caused the 30 years war" is an irresponsibly reckless claim, unworthy of his intellect.
To you and him, me thinking I'm right is a high crime.
Insanity, anyone?
(Here's a little secret: Most people think they're right.)
05 Oct 2007, 11:07 am
Agnostics are just as varied as Christians. Since you are ignorant on that, it makes it quite clear that there's no point arguing with a zealot of your caliber. At least have the courtesy to keep your rubbish to the PP&R forum next time, please?
You state your beliefs are correct. I don't care your reason for it, you are basing them on something other than the direct word of whatever god you believe in. As such, it is laughable for you to believe that you are correct, and that there's been no distortion from source to recipient, assuming the original source even was the god you so vehemently believe in.
Guess what: I'm agnostic! Why? Because I'm not so arrogant to believe I know what is out there, or what the desires and wishes are of whatever entities exist beyond our realm of understanding. My goal is to live the best life I can, if that's not good enough for your "God," well, to be honest I don't give a damn. I'll save a spot for you in hell. 
