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Old 08-11-08, 07:41 PM
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No, we approach it on a metaphysical level. We treat faith like we do all other abstract entities, numbers for example.
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The only part of the bible I'd being interested in reading would be all the parts that got left out.
that would be the "book of the non-believers." but i don't know where you can get the text version.
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The only part of the bible I'd being interested in reading would be all the parts that got left out.
Uh huh... Nothing was "left out" of the Bible in that sense. You've been dunking your head into way too many wild and wacky conspiracy theories.
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Also, the government has the technology to create matter, but they aren't telling us. They just used it to stage Roswell so we wouldn't think that the real aliens were the government who came here to kill all of us by creating matter in their machines and they did ans that was why Roswell happened but now they...
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Do you identify with any particular religion or are you an unlabeled theist?
I'm Muslim.
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Uh huh... Nothing was "left out" of the Bible in that sense. You've been dunking your head into way too many wild and wacky conspiracy theories.
There are different versions of the Bible for different sects of Christianity so depending on which version you have there may be some parts left out that are still widely accepted. Not all books that were left out of the Bible were necessarily inaccurate there was just not an unlimited amount of books they could put in.
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Don't really care for this debate but it definitely fits in with "heated discussion", so here it is, since it always gets posts.

So, you believe in God?
I'm just gonna sit back for a while and see what you all say.
Yep!
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No, I don't believe in God.
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