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In reply to the discussion: I have been criticized for calling Christianity a shortcut religion. [View all]guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)38. Have you literally looked? I mean really looked?
What were you looking for?
Where did you look?
Where you looking for:
A physical being?
A force of some sort?
An energized cloud of sentient particles inhabiting a corner of existence a billion light years from earth?
What form do you feel God would take?
It is well known that the human idea of a deity is often anthropomorphized, but this speaks more to a human need than any aspect of God.
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I have been criticized for calling Christianity a shortcut religion. [View all]
MineralMan
Dec 2017
OP
I think a lot of you MineralMan, but when it comes to my belief I think the phrase is
TexasProgresive
Dec 2017
#3
Well sometimes the hard sell is convincing them they are awful and in need of saving.
trotsky
Dec 2017
#20
It's pretty easy, really. We're all liable to do selfish things that harm others.
MineralMan
Dec 2017
#21
If that's the case, there are far fewer actual Christians than people who believe
MineralMan
Dec 2017
#17
The concept of divine forgiveness is fucked up, when you really think about it.
Act_of_Reparation
Dec 2017
#18
Your original comment appears to merely be a statement about divine forgiveness
Peaceful Protester
Dec 2017
#48
That is the problem when one insists on a very simplistic framing of a faith.
guillaumeb
Dec 2017
#23