Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Universalists believe it impossible that a loving God would elect only a portion of mankind to salvation and doom the rest to eternal punishment. They insisted that punishment in the afterlife was for a limited period during which the soul was purified and prepared for eternity in the presence of God.

(Wiki)

And?

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Universalists believe it impossible that a loving God would elect only a portion of mankind to salvation and doom the rest to eternal punishment. They insisted that punishment in the afterlife was for a limited period during which the soul was purified and prepared for eternity in the presence of God.

(Wiki)

The old Catholic notion of purgatory.

@deepthought said
The old Catholic notion of purgatory.

I think it’s still a current notion.

@divegeester said
I think it’s still a current notion.

I am a sociological Catholic so my purgatory is purely sociological.

@kellyjay said
And?

Sharing a different perspective kelly. Is that permissible?

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Sharing a different perspective kelly. Is that permissible?

Sharing a different perspective, apparently, is...

[1] evidence of "the devil's hands hard at work making a lie of the truth"

[2] NOT "founded solidly in the truth" (if the perspective is different from KellyJay's

[3] sowing confusion and division

[4] probably blasphemous

[5] simply re-juxtapositioning words, their meanings and intent to arrive at a convoluted meaning not consistent with the truth or context in which they're found for the apparent purpose of furthering your agenda which is to derail coherent, meaningful and purposeful discourse, as well as stroking your sense of intellectual superiority

[6] to go overboard by introducing into the narrative of any given discussion your psycho-babbling and hyperbolical insertions of language not inclusive with a coherent train of thought consistent with the content and context of the topic of discussion

[7] kind of like seeing oneself as a god or like a person that struts in, but first pauses to look at their self in a mirror vainly seeing their self as what they wish they were but knowing they're not

[8] an indication that you are a man delirious with himself because he has a disproportionate sense of the importance of his own thoughts, ideas and the noise he makes

[9] almost certainly mistaken

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Sharing a different perspective kelly. Is that permissible?

Why sure

@fmf said
I am a sociological Catholic so my purgatory is purely sociological.

If one combines the words sociological and catholic and leaves out a few letters one can pretty much come up with "sociopathic".

Just musing.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Sharing a different perspective kelly. Is that permissible?

Just one thing, as you look at when we sin, you believe only those that are against one another matter? Those sins against God are meaningless? Your perspective is that God isn't alive and real, so all such sins are, in your opinion, permissible only because without God, they are meaningless? Your perspective, you seem to be rendering, is solely based on your belief that God isn’t real.

Would this change if God is real, holy, just, and sovereign over all of creation? Would it then matter how we treat God in word and deed, since then the offended party is God, making this not victimless.

@divegeester said
I think it’s still a current notion.

I was under the impression they'd abolished it.

@kellyjay said
Just one thing, as you look at when we sin, you believe only those that are against one another matter? Those sins against God are meaningless? Your perspective is that God isn't alive and real, so all such sins are, in your opinion, permissible only because without God, they are meaningless? Your perspective, you seem to be rendering, is solely based on your belief that God ...[text shortened]... how we treat God in word and deed, since then the offended party is God, making this not victimless.

There is no God, ergo, there is no such thing as 'sin' as understood in a religious context. There are only actions that have been deemed by man as immoral.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
There is no God, ergo, there is no such thing as 'sin' as understood in a religious context. There are only actions that have been deemed by man as immoral.

So you say, and if you turn out to be fallible, and you are in error?

@kellyjay said
So you say, and if you turn out to be fallible, and you are in error?

Aren't you fallible too?

@kellyjay said
So you say, and if you turn out to be fallible, and you are in error?

Right back at you dude.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Right back at you dude.

I agree, and when I inquired about if you are wrong, you didn't respond with what that would mean concerning your answer.