For lack of a better word, I usually call that Divine Force "God" too. I think that this Divine Spark is in each and every one of us (and everything else too) and can act through us. I don't know where Fate and/or Free Will come into the equation, but they do somehow.
Keep in mind that the majority of the post was actually dominated by why I can't believe in the JCM god more than why the loonies bother me. I still stick by these thoughts. My whole point to the majority of this post was why I can't believe in the JCM ideal of who God is. It doesn't jive with the realities of the world as I see it.
I guess I'm a little bit more put off by Christianity in general because, perhaps, of how vocal (and how, at times, omnipresent) your loonies seem to be. I agree that they're in every state, every religion, every population of any sort, but I've had more bad experience with Christian loonies than any other sort.
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Date: 2003-09-08 11:59 am (UTC)Keep in mind that the majority of the post was actually dominated by why I can't believe in the JCM god more than why the loonies bother me. I still stick by these thoughts.
My whole point to the majority of this post was why I can't believe in the JCM ideal of who God is. It doesn't jive with the realities of the world as I see it.
I guess I'm a little bit more put off by Christianity in general because, perhaps, of how vocal (and how, at times, omnipresent) your loonies seem to be. I agree that they're in every state, every religion, every population of any sort, but I've had more bad experience with Christian loonies than any other sort.