OPEN DISCUSSION BOARD

[JLS]

Poker,

I knew it wouldn't take long before you would resort to insult and color it with quotes from the dictionary (which you should read more often). When you learn psychoanalysis, try to fix yourself before remarking on someone else. That would be God's way.

In your religious Faith, that would be turning the other cheek.

By your comments, you pass judgement on me when you should know that only your God can pass judgement. For you to pass that judgement means that you put yourself in the place of God, which is a great sin indeed. I know a very devout Lutheran. He even leads many of the services in his church. As you might imagine, he is extremely knowledgeable of the Bible. We are very good friends, and we can talk religion all day long without insulting or annoying each other. I once asked him what he thought about people who put themselves in God's place as they pass judgement on others. He believes it is the greatest sin.

But that's OK, and my friend agrees, because we all know that the Old Testament didn't work, so there became the New Testament which teaches that it doesn't matter how much wrong you do in your life as long as you believe that Jesus Christ is your Savior and died on the cross for you so that you can live forever if you have The True Faith. Well, good luck with that pretzel logic.

I'm still waiting for the New, New Testament because the new one isn't working either -- we keep dominating and killing each other as we devour the earth.

If you really knew me, you would come to know that it would be very difficult to find a more secure person. Only the insecure need The Faith, and they either obtained that faith during very difficult times when they felt the most insecure and needed the most help -- or they obtained it as brainwashing as they were drug into church as small children before they could think for themselves.

There is nothing of irony in what I wrote. Without irony, there is no sarcasm. Irony is the use of words to suggest their opposites, most often for the sake of humor. Therefore, nothing of what I have written is sarcasm. What I have been writing about is Fact versus Faith, not Faith becoming Fact as is the case with religions. Since you confuse one with the other, you are the mixer of words and their opposites; and with that, you are incapable of recognizing sarcasm.

I see Faith as nothing more than Faith, and when the Facts change, Faith will adapt to new Faith because as I wrote before, Faith abhors Fact. Faith is needed to explain the unexplainable. Many humans need that balance of Faith and Fact in order to have a sense of balance, or harmony, in their daily lives. Those people have trouble dealing with uncertainty. I don't have that problem, so I don't need religious Faith as you know it. It is OK that many people need that kind of Faith, but I don't need it.