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Guavanaut posted:Figures... Probably just a bunch of hipsters trying to be ironic.
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SedanChair posted:My favorite thing to do is ask charismatic evangelicals-turned-atheists if they were faking tongues and other "spiritual gifts" like being able to see demons perched on people's shoulders. Speaking as one, yes. The pressure to also exhibit the "gifts" is pretty severe. If you don't do it you're like the fat kid in school that gets mocked and ostracized until you lose weight and start playing the team sport. EDIT: "Discernment" is a neat little catch-all don't have to actually do anything "gift", though, for the people that have to fake it with family members. Just don't do anything stupid and you have it!
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Jul 7, 2015 15:31
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Zenithe posted:This is pretty key with the whole tongues deal, especially with kids. I imagine you could get them to do all kinds of craziness if you can get everyone else around to do it, and convince them there is something fundamentally wrong with them if they can't do it. Of course they will speak a few lines of gibberish for social acceptance. Yeah, no, literally seeing demons walking around is still lunatic territory. Discernment is more about God basically helping you avoid making stupid mistakes because people are stupid and can't be intelligent on their own. Or some poo poo.
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Jul 8, 2015 12:11
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GAINING WEIGHT... posted:Well I'm not contending that every conception of God is disprovable. But certainly some are, and they are disprovable the same way anything is disprovable: by comparing hypothesis to reality. The thing to keep in mind here is that the Bible itself is the god that Christians in America worship. The actual deity described within it is irrelevant and most of the denominations straight up claim this. The Bible is The Word and The Word is Jesus Christ. Worship The Word. Etc.
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Jul 21, 2015 15:03
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:You seem to be confused about the translation of the word Logos. It's often translated as "The Word", but it's not meant in the manner you're stating. Take it up with the pastors that literally preach what you quoted, not me.
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Jul 22, 2015 11:59
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Iron Crowned posted:Yeah, the office Jesus man is currently talking about how there's some prophecy that says that Obama is the last president, and apparently it's because of gay rights Ask him when Obama is going to get around to taking everyone's guns, because he's running out of time.
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Jul 29, 2016 14:17
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WrenP-Complete posted:Wren reporting for duty. Didn't see this thread before now. I wrote my dissertation on women who grew up in modern Christian and Jewish communities and chose fundamentalist ones. Did the dissertation include anything about how the women that grew up in those communities didn't really get much of a choice in the matter? Because my own experiences with fundamentalists is that they are all about teaching women that they are property and have no free will of their own to do anything.
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Sep 19, 2016 14:20
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WrenP-Complete posted:My dissertation is about women who grow up in modern communities and then move to fundamentalist ones, but there's some background on the role of women in each of these communities. The broader sense, or maybe your definition of fundamentalist is too narrow (ha!). Even your nominally "modern" churches (or at least what passes for such in the area I live in) will tell women to keep their mouths shut and not attempt to make decisions on their own, it's not just for hardcore fundamentalists.
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Samuel Clemens posted:I actually can't think of any major religion that isn't patriarchal. Which isn't that surprising considering all of them were founded and exist within patriarchal societies. Though, in fairness, all of them also have strong movements advocating a more egalitarian view. Shaktism/Shakti dharma in India, also Shiva in the Hindu pantheon.
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