Is mistakenly claiming you "know" detrimental?

@josephw said
Donkeys too.

Have you decided if they are real or if they are metaphors yet? 😄

@josephw said
And you're as divisive as ever.

I don’t see how; I just don’t like your particular brand of so-called Christianity.

I.e. Right-wing evangelical, Trumpian, partisan, judgemental, misanthropic, amoral, arrogant and completely unattractive.

@divegeester said
I don’t see how; I just don’t like your particular brand of so-called Christianity.

I.e. Right-wing evangelical, Trumpian, partisan, judgemental, misanthropic, amoral, arrogant and completely unattractive.

Don't forget ugly and mean and despicable and nasty, gun toting, knuckle dragging, booger eatin', but scratchin', fart sniffer.

@divegeester said
I just don’t like your particular brand of so-called Christianity.

That's because you worship at the church of the almighty bigotry where reading and believing the Bible is a sin.

@josephw said
That's because you worship at the church of the almighty bigotry where reading and believing the Bible is a sin.

But I do read the bible and I do believe it.

@josephw said
Don't forget ugly and mean and despicable and nasty, gun toting, knuckle dragging, booger eatin', but scratchin', fart sniffer.

No, I’m happy with the adjectives I used which to my mind are accurate and not just silly insults.

@divegeester said
But I do read the bible and I do believe it.

ROFLMAO!

Which parts? Oh! That's right, the parts you agree with.

But you don't believe in inerrancy, so which parts are infallible, immutable and inspired? The parts that fit your perspectives?

I seriously doubt you can categorically reference a single verse you believe came from the mouth of God. Unless of course it agrees with you.

@josephw said
ROFLMAO!

Which parts? Oh! That's right, the parts you agree with.

But you don't believe in inerrancy, so which parts are infallible, immutable and inspired? The parts that fit your perspectives?

I seriously doubt you can categorically reference a single verse you believe came from the mouth of God. Unless of course it agrees with you.

I don’t believe in talking snakes and donkeys, I don’t believe in multi-headed beasts being ridden by whores and I don’t believe in Jesus overseeing the eternal torture of billions of people.

You believe these things a literal, then another day they are metaphorical, then they are real again.

Don’t lecture me Josephw; you’re a flake.

@divegeester said
I don’t believe in talking snakes and donkeys, I don’t believe in multi-headed beasts being ridden by whores and I don’t believe in Jesus overseeing the eternal torture of billions of people.

In other words you don't believe the Bible.

@josephw said
In other words you don't believe the Bible.

I don’t it all of it literally.

I also don’t tub-thump about it all being literal, then decide some of it isn’t literal, then change my mind again to it lol being literal and so on and so forth.

You’re a bible flake, a right-wing evangelical Christian blowhard who doesn’t really know what he believes, what he’s been told to believe, about talking snakes, and eternal suffering.

@fmf said
People, like me, are often accused of being cowards for admitting that they don't the origin of the universe and also of being a coward for not coming up with an explanation to compete with religious narratives.

Can people insisting that they "know" things that ~ in fact, they do not know ~ be detrimental or hampering in any way to one's spiritual self and to one's interactions with others on spiritual questions?

The gun is not loaded! Being mistaken can lead to horrible consequences!

@kellyjay said
The gun is not loaded!

What do you mean?

@kellyjay said
Being mistaken can lead to horrible consequences!

That's what Dasa used to claim ~ he had a very similar mindset to you ~ and his "horrible consequences" were things like being reincarnated as a cockroach. But I used to think: Cockroach? Human? What's the difference? I can't tell. I am only an atheist after all.

@fmf said
What do you mean?

You can be wrong about the someone's favorite color, but life and death mistakes
are just that, life and death mistakes, so it can be wrong to be mistaken by claiming
the knowledge you don't have.

@fmf said
That's what Dasa used to claim ~ he had a very similar mindset to you ~ and his "horrible consequences" were things like being reincarnated as a cockroach. But I used to think: Cockroach? Human? What's the difference? I can't tell. I am only an atheist after all.

Well, if you recall, I was speaking about nothingness; if everything alive goes there
after death, there is no difference between a human and a cockroach when they
reach nothing.