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Easterncedar

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6. Funny, just reading H.G. Well's autobiography

Tue Feb 25, 2025, 10:38 PM

Feb 25

He says he was about 6 when he realized it was all nonsense, to the distress of his pious mother.

“I was unable to feel as my mother wished me to feel. I sensed it was a silly story long before I dared to admit, even to myself that it was a silly story.“
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“ Jesus was some fine sort of man perhaps, the Jewish Messiah was a promise of leadership, but Our Savior of the Trinity is a dressed up inconsistent effigy of amiability, a monstrous hybrid of man and infinity, making vague promises of helpful miracles for the cheating of simple souls, an ever absent help in times of trouble.“

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Christians::: How long has the Trinity existed? Since infinity or approx 2000 years? [View all] Norrrm Feb 25 OP

You ask an interesting question. OAITW r.2.0 Feb 25 #1

It's bad writing JoseBalow Feb 25 #2

1,700 years odins folly Feb 25 #3

This is the correct answer. Voltaire2 Feb 25 #5

Seems deliberately over-complicated with both sides making up highly intellectual theories to back the result they want Norrrm Feb 26 #7

Yes... it was very complicated as they were trying to reconcile beliefs across an Empire mikelewis Mar 1 #9

Yeah! Think of the folks who want a Constitutional Convention to write a new one. Norrrm Mar 1 #11

Pretty certain this is why they agreed to a separation of Church and State... mikelewis Mar 1 #12

Oftentimes the method of religion is more important than the God of religion. Norrrm Mar 1 #13

2 Peter 3:8 Earl_from_PA Feb 25 #4

He does drone on... nt mikelewis Mar 1 #10

Funny, just reading H.G. Well's autobiography Easterncedar Feb 25 #6

I have been researching Isaac Newton... mikelewis Feb 28 #8