[The Theophilus]

The calvinGod of Hate that your cult worships is not the Christian God.

What did I do to deserve that comment?

You and I both agree that we don't worship the same God. I can deal with that. There are essentially three systems that all claim, to some measure, Biblical foundations. Rome adds Holy Tradition which supplants Scripture, and the American Religion syncretizes Scripture with pop psychology and post-modern cultural memes, so basically there is only one that relies on Scripture alone - that is this so-called "calvinGod of Hate" which for some odd reason was the same God Augustine recognized twelve hundred years earlier.

Because of these differences that Rome and the American Religion can alter reality as needed, its folly to argue or even debate theology between the groups. Maybe we can talk about lawn care or the current baseball season.

[Cronos]

don't go all innocent on me -- what was the uncalled for " it must be so for the god(s) that Ro.. worships"?

You want to discuss civilly, fine, even disagree or argue without resorting to slurs, that's good.

Augustine disagreed with those philosophies especially being against double-predestination