“How can there be a meaningful conversation when you have already condemned me?”
The short answer is that there can’t be. Most of the creationists and YECs on this site believe that one cannot be a Christian if one does not hold to the belief that the Bible is literally true (at least in public!). They have a scorecard (OK, perhaps it’s an allegorical scorecard) that they use to assess the Christianity of those who take positions such as yours (or mine). If the boxes don’t get checked, then you’re not a Christian, and hence condemned.
As a Christian myself, I find it hard to accept that brand of fascism as a tenet of my faith.
>>How can there be a meaningful conversation when you have already condemned me?
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>The short answer is that there cant be. [snip]
>If the boxes dont get checked, then youre not a Christian, and hence condemned.
*nod* - I see that you understand.
>As a Christian myself, I find it hard to accept that brand of fascism as a tenet of my faith.
The fascism, yes. I notice, though, that there has been no reply to my observation that if time is not uniform (as relativity indicates) and God’s creating [the Heavens] is described by the Hebrew word meaning “stretch” then, considering that the center and the edges of creation would be moving at different speeds and therefore subject to different ‘time elapsments’ then how can the term day be literal? That is, if the universe is experiencing different times at different locations, how is one literal time-dependent descriptive word adequate?
So much of this reminds me of the Sunni’s and the Shiite's.