HAPPY EASTER!

[hullexile]

I really disagree. I think this paradigm that you should "feel" some spiritual presence and respond to it, and if you don't, you're missing out on the truth/real life, is - sorry - bullshit. And it has baffled me my whole life why (some) Christians make up this narrative, basically guilt-tripping anyone who can't magically conjure up this belief or feeling. Everyone, through various circumstances, including as Eastcoast mentions where they happen to be born, comes to their understanding (or lack thereof) of their existence and the way the world around them.

I happened to grow up in a world telling me "to respond" as you did and I simply do not feel, see, or understand this "presence" yet I see all the suffering it entails. So, according to what you say, I am wrong, neglecting something in front of me, and so on. It's insulting to be told this. I'd love to have some clarify, I'm sitting here, waiting, but it just doesn't not exist as a belief for me or for some. That's just the way it is.

I think that's great and fine for those who have it, and I support and accept that. But why is that acceptance not mutual of others beliefs as genuine and true?

You got all thst from what I said?

[Elegiaque]

You got all thst from what I said?

Yes

Maybe it becomes a bit of an echo chamber at some point.

[hullexile]

I really disagree. I think this paradigm that you should "feel" some spiritual presence and respond to it, and if you don't, you're missing out on the truth/real life, is - sorry - bullshit. And it has baffled me my whole life why (some) Christians make up this narrative, basically guilt-tripping anyone who can't magically conjure up this belief or feeling. Everyone, through various circumstances, including as Eastcoast mentions where they happen to be born, comes to their understanding (or lack thereof) of their existence and the way the world around them.

I happened to grow up in a world telling me "to respond" as you did and I simply do not feel, see, or understand this "presence" yet I see all the suffering it entails. So, according to what you say, I am wrong, neglecting something in front of me, and so on. It's insulting to be told this. I'd love to have some clarify, I'm sitting here, waiting, but it just doesn't not exist as a belief for me or for some. That's just the way it is.

I think that's great and fine for those who have it, and I support and accept that. But why is that acceptance not mutual of others beliefs as genuine and true?

19 years and over 30k posts and I don't think I have guilt tripped anyone. I do not preach.

Unlike you I grew up in a totally non religious family,. My mother as a child was told to cross the road if she saw the vicar coming. I was a member of the British Humanist Association, an avid reader of The Freethinker. I was 48 before I even touched a Bible let alone read it

Christianity like most religions believes it is true and by extension others must therefore be false. Even within Christianity both Arminianism.and Calvinism cannot both be true. One or both must be false. However I know many good Calvinists and while I think they are wrong I like and admire them. Same with people of orher religions or none .

[SirNotAppearing]

And the lord said, let there be bunnies of chocolate and let them lay chocolate eggs and, behold, there were. And it was good.

[MABinPengChau]

Whether you love or hate Donald Trump, we can all agree that he always knows the right thing to say to bring people together.

His outstanding quality is his very deep and sincere Christian faith.

He is merely God's humble servant, in much the same way that Jesus Christ was when he walked the earth.

I aspire to be a shining example, just like Donald Trump in this singularly inspiring Easter Message.

We are truly blessed as a nation:

"Happy Easter to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting and scheming so hard to bring Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, the Mentally Insane, and well known MS-13 Gang Members and Wife Beaters, back into our Country,"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-e...n-courts-left/

[hullexile]

Whether you love or hate Donald Trump, we can all agree that he always knows the right thing to say to bring people together.

His outstanding quality is his very deep and sincere Christian faith.

He is merely God's humble servant, in much the same way that Jesus Christ was when he walked the earth.

I aspire to be a shining example, just like Donald Trump in this singularly inspiring Easter Message.

We are truly blessed as a nation:




https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-e...n-courts-left/

A great leader and statesman

[PLamHK]

Sorry I'm a bit late with this, but I've been cleaning up the coffee that sprayed all over my keyboard!