JazzManJim
On the Downbeat
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Yeah, I know it irritates some folks, but I really do enjoy religious debates.
I like them mostly because I can remain calm through them. I mean, I knw what I believe and there's very little someone can say to shake the faith I have.
That's not to say I won't listen. I will. I always do. I'm willing to consider what anyone else says. But I believe what I believe and I don't envision it changing.
Others may freely believe what they will. That's on them, you know? They can like me or not - like my beliefs or not - think I'm crazy or not. It really doesn't matter to me. What does matter are misconceptions and outright lies about what I believe, especially when the person giving them doesn't actually listen to what's really happening.
IN religion, like in so many other things in life, when humans get invovled, things are rarely cut and dried.
But that's the division that a lot of folks don't quite understand. There's a difference between my doctrine, which comes to me from God (wow did that sound Messianic!) via a rather mundane route, and tradition, which is handed down from person to person and is hardly ineffable. One is given by an omniscient, omnipresent Being Whose word I have no reason at all to doubt and the other is carried form person to person and is always subject to change.
Well, that was a longer quiet rant than I wanted to type.
Mostly, this is fun.
I like them mostly because I can remain calm through them. I mean, I knw what I believe and there's very little someone can say to shake the faith I have.
That's not to say I won't listen. I will. I always do. I'm willing to consider what anyone else says. But I believe what I believe and I don't envision it changing.
Others may freely believe what they will. That's on them, you know? They can like me or not - like my beliefs or not - think I'm crazy or not. It really doesn't matter to me. What does matter are misconceptions and outright lies about what I believe, especially when the person giving them doesn't actually listen to what's really happening.
IN religion, like in so many other things in life, when humans get invovled, things are rarely cut and dried.
But that's the division that a lot of folks don't quite understand. There's a difference between my doctrine, which comes to me from God (wow did that sound Messianic!) via a rather mundane route, and tradition, which is handed down from person to person and is hardly ineffable. One is given by an omniscient, omnipresent Being Whose word I have no reason at all to doubt and the other is carried form person to person and is always subject to change.
Well, that was a longer quiet rant than I wanted to type.
Mostly, this is fun.
