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Atheists & Agnostics

ItsjustMe

(11,227 posts) Mon Mar 14, 2022, 12:42 PM Mar 2022

If We Are Made In God's Image ...

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If We Are Made In God's Image ... (Original Post) ItsjustMe Mar 2022 OP

My favorite - "Religion has actually convinced people..." SledDriver Mar 2022 #1

He keeps going in that bit IbogaProject Mar 2022 #3

The Zappa quote reflects the Church's idiotic insistence that Christian theology is connected to Karadeniz Mar 2022 #2

There's nothing wrong with magic old as dirt Mar 2022 #4

SledDriver

(2,057 posts)

1. My favorite - "Religion has actually convinced people..."

Reply to ItsjustMe (Original post)

Mon Mar 14, 2022, 12:48 PM

Mar 2022

IbogaProject

(2,787 posts)

3. He keeps going in that bit

Reply to SledDriver (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 14, 2022, 02:00 PM

Mar 2022

"if they can get you to believe an invisible guy is going to want to hurt you after you're dead, they can get you to believe anything."

Karadeniz

(22,471 posts)

2. The Zappa quote reflects the Church's idiotic insistence that Christian theology is connected to

Reply to ItsjustMe (Original post)

Mon Mar 14, 2022, 01:44 PM

Mar 2022

Hebrew writings. Jesus denied this in his wine cask metaphor. Not one parable's message is connected to the old testament. We know early church men added old testament references because they told us so. But, tying in Christian writings to the old testament lends the Jesus biography historicity. And prevents Christians from having an unclouded appraisal of their scriptures' meaning. It's a mess.

old as dirt

(1,972 posts)

4. There's nothing wrong with magic

Reply to ItsjustMe (Original post)

Mon Mar 14, 2022, 02:45 PM

Mar 2022

As an atheist, I believe that God was made in our image.

And each of us is magical.

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