What does it mean to be an atheist?
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kpmarine
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If you take them all as literal: confused.
Nutes and Nugs
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That would be a mad mix wouldn't it?
Nutes and Nugs
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"Once in a while
you get shown the light
in the strangest of places
if you look at it right"
Nutes and Nugs
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lol, You would be like the Wonder woman of all Gods.
BarnBuster
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A Perennialist? Acceptance that the varying claims of different religions have components of and subscribe to the Universal Truth. And I am SURELY not an expert on this sunni!
oh i doubt that, lol my beliefs are what they are i doubt anyone is like me on them, or like minded about it.
holy shit i have a religion!
kpmarine
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If you eschew the dogma, that may work, but otherwise you'll have some conflicts.
theres conflict in everything and we work it out in our daily lives, no different than in religion imho
Nutes and Nugs
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ya, pretty much like certain politics.
You have to open your mind a bit.
kpmarine
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There's a different between choices that have immediate and eternal consequences. You can pick and choose, but you can't say all religions are equally right; many of them conflict.
why cant i? why cant i believe in all religions? lol who says im wrong and what i am doing in my thoughts is wrong?
get my vibe?
kpmarine
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Christianity, as a whole, can't decide whether or not women preachers are allowed. Given the outright divisions between many religions, how can you say that your position makes sense? Maybe I'm just reading you too literally, but multiple religions (and denominations thereof) are directly in contradiction with each other.
yeah literal and religion dont mix i havent thought religion literally in a very very long time, anywhoo dunno just the way i see it contradiction or not
BarnBuster
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They are all "right", collectively, to those that believe in them. The "Belief in the One True _____" is a Universal Truth. Tenants of different religions are the pathways that lead to the "Belief in the One True ______" which then is Universal. IMVVHO
kpmarine
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If it works for you, and you don't feel inclined to enforce it upon others; I will be the last man to fight it. Your particular spiritual preference doesn't make a bit of sense to me, but it does to you; and that's cool if you don't claim it as universal.
kpmarine
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So, for you, it's a bit of everything that makes a meaningful whole?