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billions must remilio

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Some say that God is a "great oneness," but I like to think that the Holy Spirit SWIMS through creation, scoops us up, and marvels for but a moment at our iridescent translucence; a single immortal moment of wonder in the darkness, wonder neither of us will ever forget

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@TheIdiocrat @justalexoki ???

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@justalexoki wrote this guy a long earnest essay and this is what I got for it🤷‍♂️but to be honest i did it for my own edification as much as it is for his

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@TheLastNeocon The things one chooses to believe are the things that are up in the air. The things left mysterious and ambiguous. Miracles yes, but consciousness as well. https://t.co/NSKwMljcKA

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@TheLastNeocon Then its a good thing Christ doesn't ask that of you! You don't actually have to believe things contradicted by hard empirical evidence! Once again Jesus is a big fan of empirical evidence! He knows and promotes throughout his stories that evidence is in fact a path to truth!

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@TheLastNeocon Girard doesn't "believe in blood sacrifice," he accurately described the mechanistic process by which blood sacrifice yields tangible, empirical, material benefit to its practitioners, as well as the mechanism by which Christianity breaks that wheel. He was not religious himself!

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@TheLastNeocon The long and short is that you can have a shallow understanding of something and still have it work for you, but a deeper understanding is better. Why is more important than what. As to the quoted, a valid argument makes a belief not crazy ;-) https://t.co/FVrPS2BKfl

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@TheLastNeocon Combining threads and points:

I'm not trying to convince you that Christianity isn't strange or unusual (i.e., crazy), because it is, just that (pasting essay as picture to avoid giga-thread)

https://t.co/gUioaB3QWK

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@TheLastNeocon P.S. I'm still waiting on the dinosaur bones!

https://t.co/AB3NKcULBa

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@TheLastNeocon plate tectonics" with respect to the Girardian scapegoat and its repudiation by Christ? Show me the data!

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@TheLastNeocon crucified to know that we humans crucified each other. We still do. But there is a way out, and we know that way by its fruits.

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@TheLastNeocon I fucked up the threading but no, those claims are not and will never be a matter of "historical fact", but I choose to believe them (!!!) because a) they make for a better story and b) truth is demonstrably stranger than fiction
https://t.co/HoxvyyMlyR

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@TheLastNeocon something eternally true about being a human being? Something compelling perhaps? Might that something present a (compelling) opportunity for a person living in the present?

I would argue "that something" is in fact very good news. You don't need to know a specific Jew was

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@pr0fiteer @TheLastNeocon *direct evidence; implicative indirect evidence for God is everywhere, suffusing everything

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@pr0fiteer @TheLastNeocon Oh God is discernible alright, just not via evidence. What I've been trying to communicate is that the insistence that evidence is the only useful way to believe something is a symptom of epistemic adolescence. Read the Dostoevsky parable and tell me what you think!

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@TheLastNeocon good or bad or both? Why? We know that space and time are relative and simultaneity is an illusion, but a God alike to your inexplicable Nagelian "that which it is like to be" is beyond the pale? You must be able to answer these questions if you want to stop the see what I means

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@TheLastNeocon If you think this reduces to that you are not trying very hard. The mysticism is on page 1! I agree what you describe is ridiculous - and yet is it compelling? Yes, some people choose a literal interpretation of Bible Stories, but must they? Is the blood sacrifice portrayed as

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@TheLastNeocon "this is not giving me a good reason to believe at all"

Like I said, its not intended to make you believe, just to understand with greater clarity what *others* believe so you don't get hit constantly with "see what I mean"

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@TheLastNeocon plate tectonics" with respect to the Girardian scapegoat and its repudiation by Christ? Show me the data!

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@TheLastNeocon miracles because they personally knew Jesus, and their lot in life was to tell stories about him and organize a brand new Church. As for YEC, you have correctly discerned bad fruit from false prophets! That being said, would you mind sharing your "dinosaur bones and