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Originally Posted by shazeep
 yikes, the contortions we go through just to justify ourselves, what? |
Oh, you mean the soul searching we go through in order to carefully consider our lives' path, and acting upon a realization that I innocently bought into a fraud? Is that what you characterize as, "contortions to justify?"
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Originally Posted by shazeep
:Why does this read as though your consciousness has been contracted, rather than expanded, I wonder?
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Only because you choose to "read" it that way. My consciousness has been expanded thanks to finally accepting the primacy of reason rather than the prescientific worldview based upon superstitions and invented invisible worlds. Consider how the AGE of Enlightenment (roughly the 17th Century) also had much to do with dumping a lot of religion's influence in favor of reason and its corollary--science. I guess you think that century should be characterized as similar "contortions to justify" , eh?
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Originally Posted by shazeep
congrats on dumping the religion and all, but contemplating Scripture should have led you there sooner rather than later anyway.
Oh, you were led by men then, too-my bad.
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Yes, the same kind of men who (last I noticed) also wrote your source of god information, which you obviously spin to suit your own kind of non-literalist interpretations, but still derived from ancient superstitious men.
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Originally Posted by shazeep
And please take this as intended-a presumptuous, faith-preserving, fake insight
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As predicted.