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31. What I am saying is that as old institutions die

Tue Mar 5, 2013, 08:56 PM

Mar 2013

the processes of history always move beyond them. I doubt if you want to believe that whatever the tradition in any endeavor in which you are involved, is absolute, and that anything that causes it to be replaced by fresh thinking is therefore "bullshit..": I doubt you are that kind of a conservative in whatever discipline you represent.
Religion is a dynamic discipline, not a static one. That is what Jesus was talking about when he remarked, you have heard of old..., but I say to you......

There is nothing as exciting as hearing a new thought the populous is not yet ready to believe.

Why do you all fight so hard to keep from accepting that in religion there are new waves of thought. Is it that you just can't accept as real for others anything which violates your criticism of what many of us also believe is dated and inauthentic in the modern world.?
There is evidence all over the theological world that an emerging church is coming on as the old institutions die off. You may criticize it, but at least you ought to know and admit that it exists.

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You don't get to make that determination, Slick. Warpy Mar 2013 #16

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^^This^ ^ +1 mr blur Mar 2013 #5

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I fear that your desperate need for atheists to agree with you, mr blur Mar 2013 #7

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Are you seriously trying to say Goblinmonger Mar 2013 #20

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Wow. trotsky Mar 2013 #26

It's even worse - mr blur Mar 2013 #28

What I am saying is that as old institutions die Thats my opinion Mar 2013 #31

You need to be asking those questions of fellow Christians. trotsky Mar 2013 #32

I am not fighting that there are new waves of thought in religion Goblinmonger Mar 2013 #35

Nihilism is clearly orthogonal to theism, not opposite. eomer Mar 2013 #33

Very helpful re-definition of terms Thats my opinion Mar 2013 #34

Such a conversation can happen here, I think. eomer Mar 2013 #36

Thanks for the helpful Kurtz article. Thats my opinion Mar 2013 #40

Why do you continue to say things you have been told are false? trotsky Mar 2013 #37

Don't redefine what people have said. Goblinmonger Mar 2013 #38

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No it didn't. trotsky Mar 2013 #50

You need to get out more. Goblinmonger Mar 2013 #51

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Same difference edhopper Mar 2013 #49

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