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2. Thanks. This line cracked me up.
Tue May 12, 2015, 11:17 AM
May 2015
Using the term with devout believers gets me instructions that I just need to read more sophisticated theology to come around.



Yeah, we non-believers get that suggestion a lot on DU. I think that first we're supposed to read the whole Bible in several versions to make sure we don't miss anything.

Then read all the early Church fathers from Tertullian on up, especially Aquinas. At some point, I guess, we work our way up to modern Sophisticated Theologians like Joel Osteen, Deepak Chopra, Karen Armstrong et. al.

By that time, our brains will have been overcome by Religious Stockholm Syndrome and we're so confused we will agree to anything. I consider it just a mental version of waterboarding.

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