You don't know, that's why you can't/wont answer...

At least Rayelle had the integrity to admit it...



I don't communicate with invisible characters from religious books/texts... How many times have you attempted to communicate with the other 1999 named deities from human history?

Exactly...

If you want to claim that your instruction/practice can obtain a legitimate answer - then prove it...



Well of course you're going to claim how you don't 'need' to respond to my questions - because you know that you can't provide a suitable explanation for what is clearly indefensible behavior... If you could, you would just provide an answer and allow me to evaluate it...



-It's You're*

-I don't claim the title of 'atheist' and never have... More bearing false witness? What good is claiming religious affiliation if you can just do the opposite of the doctrines?

-So now I'm responsible for 'stealing souls'... Do tell how one can 'steal a soul', as if it were a possession... Is this going to be another instancne where you claim you have the answer but you don't need to provide one?

:sarcasm1:

And I regret to inform you that I am not doing anything for any invisible boogeyman from your favorite religious book... You're simply having an emotional reaction to someone asking serious and critical questions about your own preferred ideology... If you weren't having an emotional reaction you would just engage in the discussion and attempt to address the questions being posed... Instead you resort to juvenile ad-hominem tripe...



Sure, just employ this defense:

:canthearyou:

Why are you even responding to my posts if you claim it's all 'psycho babble'?

You quote my posts but can't even bring yourself to actually engage the content... Then you have to propose excuses for why you're not responsible for answering the questions that I pose? Then stop quoting my posts if you don't have the courage to engage the content...




Oh look, here you are condemning me in your own mind already... Exactly what Christ in the narrative said not to do...

These are the fruits of religion... You can act as hypocritical as you want, and still claim special status and rewards...


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"Head, or intellectual belief, is not fundamental and causative, but it is superficial and consequent, and that it has no power in the molding of a man’s character, the most superficial observer may easily see. Take, for instance, half a dozen men from any creed. They not only hold the same theological belief, but confess the same articles of faith in every particular, and yet their characters are vastly different. One will be just as noble as another is ignoble; one will be mild and gentle, another coarse and irascible; one will be honest, another dishonest; one will indulge certain habits which another will rigidly abjure, and so on, plainly indicating that theological belief is not an influential factor in a man’s life. A man’s theological belief is merely his intellectual opinion or view of the universe; God, The Bible, etc, and behind and underneath this head-belief there lies, deeply rooted in his innermost being, the hidden, silent, secret belief of his heart, and it is this belief which moulds and makes his whole life. It is this which makes those six men who, whilst holding the same theology, are yet so vastly at variance in their deeds—they differ in the vital belief of the heart." ~ James Allen

And the funny thing here is this... How many times a year do you sit around thinking about all of the threats and punishments you've subjected yourself for not believing the dogmas and doctrines of OTHER religions?

What? ZERO times a year?

Yet you hypocritically expect others to take your religion-based threats seriously when they clearly do not identify with nor subscribe to your religious theology...

Now why is it that you expect others to feel threatened by your petty, juvenile claims when you yourself do not feel threatened by adherents of OTHER religions making similar claims to you?

You expect others to have/exhibit a reaction that you yourself would not exhibit under similar circumstances...

Hypocrisy...