Random thoughts/comments

[Leigha]

That’s not true, MR. Why do you feel such anger towards all believers, as if you know what they all believe?

[Magical Realist]

That’s not true, MR. Why do you feel such anger towards all believers, as if you know what they all believe?

Because I used to be a believer and know from experience what they believe. I also used to be an avid bible student and wasted the first 18 years of my life knowing it inside and out.

[Leigha]

That’s not true, MR. Why do you feel such anger towards all believers, as if you know what they all believe?

Because I used to be a believer and know from experience what they believe. I also used to be an avid bible student and wasted the first 18 years of my life knowing it inside and out.

Well, all believers aren’t alike. I understand having bad experiences with religion, though. I don’t think anything is a waste, every experience good or bad, shapes us. Makes us who we are, I guess.

[Syne]

Sure, free and happy, and for some reason feel the need to attack others for their beliefs. People who reject religion as children, adolescents. or young adults never seem to attain an adult grasp of religion. They just rail against what was taught to children who couldn't yet understand greater nuance.

[Magical Realist]

Sure, free and happy, and for some reason feel the need to attack others for their beliefs.

Oooo...bad awful naughty attack. What happened to all your "growing thicker skin" crap? I thought people who took offense to mere words were weak and fragile whiners?

People who reject religion as children, adolescents. or young adults never seem to attain an adult grasp of religion.

How do you know? Any studies to back up this claim? How old does one have to be to adequately grasp religion? What experience do you have with the Christian religion that you would know this?

[Syne]

Such attacks don't bother me. They just indicate a preoccupation in the attacker.
When so many non-believing adults repeatedly rail against religion as it's taught to children, it's fairly obvious to any religious adult that their rejection stunted their understanding. Just like the human brain doesn't become that of an adult until around age 25, it likely takes a bit beyond that to come to appreciate religion as an adult. I rejected religion as a teen, but came to appreciate it as an adult. So my experience includes both perspectives.

[Magical Realist]

They just indicate a preoccupation in the attacker.
When so many non-believing adults repeatedly rail against religion as it's taught to children, it's fairly obvious to any religious adult that their rejection stunted their understanding.

Then tell this non-believing adult what he missed about Christianity after years of fervently believing in it and practicing it in his life. What was that crucial and "nuanced" truth that I somehow missed in my studies of the Bible and my readings of theologians like C. S. Lewis and G. K. Chesterton and George MacDonald? Go ahead. You seem to know all about non-believers. Tell us, what else do we need to know that will have us come running back to Jesus with sobs and open arms.

[Syne]

I've told you many things, repeatedly. Once people reject it and get into the cycle of justifying that rejection, there's not much that penetrates. It's telling that you cite two lay-theologians and a minister and fellow fantasy writer of Lewis. No actual, academic theologians.

[Magical Realist]

Once people reject it and get into the cycle of justifying that rejection, there's not much that penetrates.

IOW you got nothing. Why am I not surprised?

It's telling that you cite two lay-theologians and a minister and fellow fantasy writer of Lewis. No actual, academic theologians.

LOL at Syne bashing C. S. Lewis.

[Syne]

I've certainly got no pearls for swine, knowing that you're only looking for your next opportunity to justify your rejection. Any openness must start with you, but I sense none.

Who bashed C.S. Lewis? It's a fact that he was a lay-theologian.