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NMMNG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 06:57 PM Original message |
"The Doublethink of Liberal Theology " |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 07:30 PM Response to Original message |
1. This article really brings up some tough questions for liberal believers. |
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NMMNG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 07:48 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. It does |
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humblebum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 08:00 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Why be surprised? You are pretty much parroting the same |
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NMMNG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 08:36 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Maybe because they never get adequate answers |
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cleanhippie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 09:06 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Only in response to the ever repetitive claims made by believers. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 08:40 PM Response to Original message |
5. All theology is nothing but trying to rationalize bullshit. |
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cleanhippie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 09:08 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. By are you so intolerant and close minded? |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-11 06:52 AM Response to Reply #7 |
17. LOL! |
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Thats my opinion (804 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-11 04:44 PM Response to Reply #5 |
26. now there is a good example of a well thought out rational statement |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 09:40 PM Response to Original message |
8. This is why I'm Girardian. Mimetic theory admits |
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ChadwickHenryWard (692 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-11 06:18 PM Response to Reply #8 |
35. If the parts of the Bible where god is violent and petty are not valid sources for knowledge |
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Sal316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 09:45 PM Response to Original message |
9. There are 3 responses to challenges to one's faith structure. |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 09:49 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. There are two kinds of people in this world: |
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Sal316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-11 12:32 PM Response to Reply #10 |
22. ..and those who oversimplify... |
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laconicsax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 09:53 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. You mean like the faith that allows people to hold wildly contradictory beliefs? |
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Humanist_Activist (603 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 09:54 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Faith starts where critical thinking stops... |
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NMMNG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 10:23 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. No |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 11:32 PM Response to Reply #9 |
15. That is the most dishonest example of intellectual cowardice I have heard in a very long time. |
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Thats my opinion (804 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-11 04:48 PM Response to Reply #15 |
27. Better if you speak for yourself. I can accept that as who you are. |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-11 05:56 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Better stop trying to shut me up. |
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Sal316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-11 06:25 PM Response to Reply #15 |
29. So, it has to be all A or all B. |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-11 04:12 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. It is all A. Not a question of what it HAS to be. |
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Sal316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-11 06:14 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. You hold the mirror image of fundamentalism. |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 03:02 PM Response to Reply #33 |
37. Insisting on facts is not the mirror image of fundamentalism. |
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Sal316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-11 07:35 PM Response to Reply #15 |
30. Actually, let me correct myself. |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-11 04:22 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. You come pretty close to conceding that the Bible, Koran, Talmud etc. have no real meaning. |
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Sal316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-11 06:17 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. No, I'm not. |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 03:20 PM Response to Reply #34 |
38. The counter-indications of divinity are numerous... |
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ChadwickHenryWard (692 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-25-11 07:22 PM Response to Reply #30 |
36. That's some very interesting history you have there. |
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laconicsax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-11 12:21 AM Response to Reply #9 |
16. Oh, and about that tension... |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-11 06:54 AM Response to Reply #9 |
18. Holding wildly contradictory beliefs is a sign of lack of abstract thinking ability. |
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NMMNG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-11 06:56 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. It's also Doublethink in the classic Orwellian sense |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-11 08:30 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Yup. |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-11 09:33 AM Response to Reply #18 |
21. Where do you get that from? |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-11 12:53 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Religion forces a person to either suffer from cognitive dissonance or... |
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Sal316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-11 01:31 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. Nice fallacy. |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 10:49 PM Response to Original message |
14. I finally had to admit that my beliefs... |
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Thats my opinion (804 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 06:48 PM Response to Reply #14 |
40. watch your logical inferences. |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-24-11 12:54 PM Response to Original message |
24. Liberals are teh evil! |
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Thats my opinion (804 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 06:42 PM Response to Original message |
39. When you stop using reason |
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cleanhippie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 07:03 PM Response to Reply #39 |
41. Let me ask you something. |
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