C.S. Lewis, The Case for Christianity

@fmf said
Having looked at Judaism, Islam, Christianity and Hinduism ~ to varying degrees and for different amounts of time ~ I am a non-believer when it comes to these religions.

Obviously it's up to you to decide what's compelling and what isn't.

@dj2becker said
When did I say it's not enough for my faith?

Why did you post as mariekeXIV?

Did you intend to write as "mariekeXIV" in support of "dj2becker" but then forget yourself as you typed words that were obviously from "dj2becker"?

@fmf said
It is my observation based on your behaviour.

This riff, which sometimes seems as if it is the only thing you have wanted to talk about, has been brought up by you over and over and over again for 3-4 years.

I deduce that your faith is brittle and you are resorting to rhetorical gimmicks as a kind of arid, joyless, online assertiveness.

If your faith were stronger, you ...[text shortened]... need your Christian footprint here in this community to be bolstered by gimmicks and not much else.

You are entitled to your opinions.

@dj2becker said
Obviously it's up to you to decide what's compelling and what isn't.

It's up to everyone to decide what's compelling and what "matters". As for matters of magic and supernatural phenomena, I think we realize what it is that we believe rather than "decide".

Like you yourself said on page 7, "...what we believe about the matter doesn’t change what actually happened in reality. We need to examine the evidence and make up our own minds."

@dj2becker said
You are entitled to your opinions.

This is what I have been saying to you all along. For pages in fact. We can agree to agree that we are entitled to our opinions

@fmf said
It's up to everyone to decide what's compelling and what "matters". As for matters of magic and supernatural phenomena, I think we realize what it is that we believe rather than "decide".

Like you yourself said on page 7, "...what we believe about the matter doesn’t change what actually happened in reality. We need to examine the evidence and make up our own minds."

If you want to believe that you cannot analyse evidence and make up your own mind in terms of the supernatural then I guess that's your prerogative.

@dj2becker said
If you want to believe that you cannot analyse evidence and make up your own mind in terms of the supernatural then I guess that's your prerogative.

I am able to make up my own mind and I have done so. I have been sharing the resulting perspective here for over a decade. I don't have any difficulty making up my mind. But I see what you're trying to do here. Another gimmick from you, ho-hum.

@fmf said
I am able to make up my own mind and I have done so. I have been sharing the resulting perspective here for over a decade. I don't have any difficulty making up my mind. But I see what you're trying to do here. Another gimmick from you, ho-hum.

I think it's good progress that you finally admit that you have made up your own mind regarding the supernatural and that it wasn't merely a realisation that was totally out of your control as you have argued in the past.

@dj2becker said
If you want to believe that you cannot analyse evidence and make up your own mind in terms of the supernatural then I guess that's your prerogative.

This post seems to based on the premise that you did not read this post of mine on the previous page:

Having looked at Judaism, Islam, Christianity and Hinduism ~ to varying degrees and for different amounts of time ~ I am a non-believer when it comes to these religions.

@fmf said
This post seems to based on the premise that you did not read this post of mine on the previous page:

Having looked at Judaism, Islam, Christianity and Hinduism ~ to varying degrees and for different amounts of time ~ I am a non-believer when it comes to these religions.

Being a non-believer does not necessarily mean you have made up your own mind, but thanks for clarifying this.

@dj2becker said
I think it's good progress that you finally admit that you have made up your own mind regarding the supernatural and that it wasn't merely a realisation that was totally out of your control as you have argued in the past.

Progress?

Saying that one realizes what one believes in terms of supernatural things, and cannot simply decide to believe something, is not the same as something being totally out of one's control.

You sound like you haven't been reading my posts or you are pretending not to have read them.

In my view, one cannot decide to become a Hindu but if someone lived in a Hindu neighbourhood, read Hindu literature, and talked about supernatural matters with Hindus, it's possible that a person might eventually realize that they too believed in Hindu Gods, without there being a moment in time when a decision to believe was made.

@dj2becker said
Being a non-believer does not necessarily mean you have made up your own mind, but thanks for clarifying this.

How could you possibly have read and understood any of my posts over the last 3-4 years and think I hadn't arrived at my own set of beliefs about these matters?

@dj2becker said
I think it's good progress that you finally admit that you have made up your own mind regarding the supernatural and that it wasn't merely a realisation that was totally out of your control as you have argued in the past.

Why made you decide to log on and post as mariekeXIV? Did you intend to write as "mariekeXIV" in support of "dj2becker"?

@dj2becker said
Obviously it's up to you to decide what's compelling and what isn't.

I have spent years here making it perfectly clear what I think is and isn't compelling.

@dj2becker said
When did I say it's not enough for my faith?

Did you post as mariekeXIV?

You have been pretty much unilaterally derided in this forum for several years due to your duplicity and intellectual dishonesty. This is another moment to test your integrity Daniel.