Literary Discussions

... More bull-shit rhetoric, buzzwords, sophistry, casuistry! Haven't you out grown that yet? I can feed you lots of tasty crap. Christianity is not a religion it is a way of life, a "PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP" with Jesus (what the HELL is an IMPERSONAL relationship?" Get to KNOW Jesus. Get with God's PLAN. Are YOU "right with God?" "Are YOU saved."  Steven, I memorized the "creed" in Greek and Church Slavonic. "Universal" and $2.50 will buy you a coffee at Starbucks. Few of the Protestant denominations are in agreement with one another in their beliefs yet all argue vigorously that they are catholic in the sense of universal. Baptists will boast that there are 1.7 billion Christians on the planet and count Roman Catholics as Christians but privately they will say that "Catholics are not CHRISTIANS" because they practice idolatry and believe in salvation by WORKS and they are not born again and saved because they did not roll around on the floor in a fit of glossolalia only to promptly return to the vomit of their adultery and intoxication and false witness and pride.  In ancient Greece there were professionals who played word games and they were called SOPHISTS.  For a fee they would teach you trick words to "make the weaker argument defeat the stronger."