I don't wish death on others. God is in control of that.
The length of our life has been decided.
You alone know how long that is.
You have set the limits for us and nothing can change them.
Job 14:5
Not quite.
I always liked the idea of Calvinism and self-reliance in religion.
Anything else becomes cargo cult mysticism.
Calvinism presents a rational coherence but it is purchased at a price: a smaller God, a narrower atonement, a Bible that must be systematically reinterpreted to fit a theological grid.
Paradoxes scripture leaves intact—election & invitation, particular grace & universal love, a Father who draws all men & a Father who passes over multitudes—are not held in reverent tension but dissolved into logical priorities. A theology afraid to let God be bigger than its own architecture.
@elston_ @amerika As a physicalist, the only "religion" I can take seriously is the mystic, where the experience is interpreted through psychology, and personal, subjective, experience and meaning.
People who try to argue that god is out there in the world, or that their god is the right one are lunatics and belong in a mental hospital.
@elston_ @amerika I do, as long as they do it within the constraints I specified. If they go past these constraints, I fight back.
Prime example... moslems. They want to reshape europe and make it into some kind of barbaric medieval society. This calls for fighting them. I do it by refusing as far as I can to hire them, to do business with them, and overall, to interact with them.
When I'm forced to, I always make a point of ridiculing religion, and not following their customs.
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@elston_ @amerika example are the revolting Jehovas Witnesses. There I use my philosophy studies and logic, to prove to them that there is no god, and that they are behaving like children.
Once I remember 3 young girls who were close to panic when I started to dismantle their faith. That was fun! 😇