Easter

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(04-02-2016, 01:20 AM)Vlad Wrote: If you are a true believer then asking if you believe there's a heaven does not require you explaining yourself.
Ask an Evangelical preacher if he believes in heaven, he'll simply say yes.  Ask him to prove there's a heaven and he'll have some explaining to do.
You have agnostic tendencies. You want to believe, but have lots of questions.

The rest of my response you quoted explained why it is not a yes or no answer. I can't say "yes there is a heaven" because that implies it is the biblical one. I can't say "no" because I believe there is "something" after we die. Whether is it what is in the bible or not I can't say.

(04-02-2016, 01:20 AM)Vlad Wrote: Agree 100%, except you don't do much challenging of Islam....however, your description of this "Wizard who lives in the sky who created everything" is nothing but mocking.

I post the occasional Islam joke in the right thread for it. I don't know all of their tenets and beliefs so I can't speak about it as much. People tend to notice the things they care about more. If I made fun of Jews more than Christians you'd never notice.

(04-02-2016, 01:20 AM)Vlad Wrote: It most certainly can be. The intent of many jokes is to mock or ridicule. It depends on the joke. Often the "jokes' posted here mock or ridicule Christianity.
Btw... I noticed your posting of Christian jokes intensified since we've been posting on this thread. What are you trying to prove?
Switch it up with some Muslim jokes once in a while.

See my response directly above.

(04-02-2016, 01:20 AM)Vlad Wrote: You don't live in a shell either. You should know enough about Islam by now to speak out about it. Or are you afraid of offending Muslims? You don't seem to be afraid of offending Christians.

I'm not afraid because such things do not offend *me*. If you can't take a joke or an insult about your belief how strong can it be?

(04-02-2016, 01:20 AM)Vlad Wrote: Similar to my upbringing.  Didn't attend Catholic high school though, but I certainly was drilled with religion as a kid.


As have I.


Ok, most all of that is about you neither denying or believing, or not sure...clearly an agnostic view.  At least you don't mock those that believe this guy Jesus actually resurrected after being dead for three days then flew up to heaven...you leave it up to the other liberals and atheists you side with on this board to do that.

I don't care who believes what as long as they do not use that belief to put down or harm others. Period. What others do or say about any topic is not in my control. If I wanted to say something about it other than what I did I would.

(04-02-2016, 01:20 AM)Vlad Wrote: The first 2 sentences... agree, agree.  Third sentence??...you attend a physical church on a weekly basis I assume, how does it not play a part in your faith?

I do not. I attend only occasionally with my wife. I do still act as lector one every month or so. I attempted to get out of that and was told I would not doing it any more but they keep putting me on the schedule.

When I *do* go I have looked at it as time to relax and recenter and perhaps to learn something new about the faith. Sometimes that happens. Sometimes I am left wondering what the point was.

(04-02-2016, 01:20 AM)Vlad Wrote: That last sentence can be interpreted a couple ways. Don't quite get it.

 
I grew up in a small town. Went to a small school. Never traveled outside of the area much.

That formed my world view as all I knew was what the adults told me to believe. As an adult I have been able to look beyond the walls and see that there is more to life than what I was taught as a child.