You must be a proud holder of some liberal big-government campus degree with a few (or more) multi-cultural educators...who apparently taught you the error of...
...doctrinal equivalency...
...moral equivalency...
...truth equivalency...
Sorry, to break this to you: All doctrines, counterfeit doctrines, morals, legalistic excesses, & truths/falsehoods, are not created or derived "equal."
Otherwise...w/your corrupt interpretation of all this, the Hitler recognized Aryan "doctrine" of a "master race" would be just as defensible by you as any other...
Or the beliefs of a few 19th-century religionists (Mormon, some who claimed Christian, etc.) who embraced open racism would also be just as defensible by you.
Sorry. I won't make the same corrupt mistake of defending racism...or other doctrines (the Metropolitan community church teaches homosexuality & "same-sex" marriage as "doctrine")...just because of your non-sensical extension of a right to hold some belief somehow gives it 100% teflon status from any and all critiques!
Besides, you don't even practice this evenly on threads like this...
Based upon eyewitness testimony -- the same kind of testimony that's enough to send somebody to the gallows/electric chair -- Christians believe that the resurrection of Jesus was a "fact." Then Eastforker comes along this thread and inadvertently bashes the historical resurrection as "non-factual"...
He said, post #286: Since faith requires a belief based on someones words without evidence to back it up, it doesn ‘t make it a fact. since there is no factual information it can not be discussed logicaly, because logicaly, there are no facts.
Who says Christianity offers "no evidence" of the resurrection of Christ? (Not Christians). Hence, whereas Christians say such evidence exists...that these leads to the same as "facts" established in say, a trial...Eastforker has come on this thread to absolutely proclaim no such "evidence" or "facts" could possibly exist for the resurrection of Christ.
That is an attack upon Christianity; it ridicules the resurrection; and it bashes our belief in the resurrection as "news"...
Yet...what? No defense from you or Laotzu or others???
Why not? Is it because it's "OK" to target Christ and Christianity?
You must be a proud holder of some liberal big-government campus degree with a few (or more) multi-cultural educators...who apparently taught you the error of...
...doctrinal equivalency...
...moral equivalency...
...truth equivalency...
Just a quick one, since my caller is being fashionably late to emphasize his importance (one guess what party he supports)
I have a degree. I am a biochemist. Jobwise, I am a writer (part time) and a bloody good cabinetmaker (full time). That is cabinetmaker in terms of making custom furniture, not fitting MDF or plywood kitchens.
You never know where a degree will get you ....