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depends if you know anything about christian theology, mcgeedo. if you know about the tradition and a significant dimension of it is lopped off, then it's arbitrary. of course, there's this other problem of who gets to call themselves christian, and who is by extension "not" christian. personally, i have alot of backround in philosophy/theology, but i suspect in that forum's universe most of it would be considered catholic which may or may not be "chrisitan"---it's just one of those ugly, petty little things that happens in some quarters.
if for some reason, you want to take me on over this, go for it, but dispense with the snippiness and make a coherent argument. i don't have time to bother with much else right now.
pan--i don't really have a stake in this question, nor do i particularly care about the forum--and i wouldn't myself participate in it mostly because i don't particularly care about such questions---my point is that all the rules you cited are fine, but unless catholic is not christian, my point still stands. the center of the problem is how and in what way a finite mind can "know"an infinite god. within that, there's another problem, which has to do with what faith actually means---different sectors of christianity define it differently---not all are about this inward-oriented faith---some are basically you demonstrate your committment by maintaining the rituals in more of less good faith---you don't have to believe in the same way as other folk--so there's space for stuff like negative theology--which leads you to an entirely different understanding of what faith might mean than you'd get in some evangelical baptist group.
so i'm only saying that there's a considerable diversity within christianity and doubt about the existence of god isnot a criterion for exclusion necessarily.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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