Religous Argumentationating

[Nephew Twiddleton]

And I say monotheist because right now, I honestly cant even remember if shes christian or catholic.

Ok, I'm going to let this go even though I pointed it out to you already, but it drives me nuts when people say stuff like that.

Catholics are Christians. Not all Christians are Catholic. Therefore you could say "my Christian friend"

[Phox]

English is originally from west germanic yes, but its also a whore-language that uses latin extensively.

But Blight is right, liguistics =/= Bible stuff.

Well, Since there are a wide variety of different Bibles, interpretations, etc. thats settled pretty much.

Back to the original topic of the thread, though disregarding arbitrarily instated rules?

Y sí, la biblioteca.

And I actually talked to a monotheist friend yesterday about talking to her pastor.

Hi, I have a degree in Linguistics. Please stop trying to sound like you know what you are talking about.

And I say monotheist because right now, I honestly cant even remember if shes christian or catholic.

Seriously dude?

[Don Coyote]

English is originally from west germanic yes, but its also a whore-language that uses latin extensively.

But Blight is right, liguistics =/= Bible stuff.

Well, Since there are a wide variety of different Bibles, interpretations, etc. thats settled pretty much.

Back to the original topic of the thread, though disregarding arbitrarily instated rules?

Y sí, la biblioteca.

And I actually talked to a monotheist friend yesterday about talking to her pastor.

You just spent several pages griping about poor translations of the Bible, and now you have the gall to say that linguistics should be left out of the discussion?

That was my suggestion. We can continue it if you like, I just thought that the thread was drifting in a pointless direction.

While it would be briefly amusing to derail this, I think this thread shows real promise, so back on track we go.

I merely posted Bibliothek as it is the German word for library.

[pH]

I dont pretend to know everything about linguistics, the point that where the word bible came from isnt relevant to the content of the bible is the point I was making.

And I usually say christian/catholic because though theyre both christian, i doubt a catholic would be too happy if you said they were christian, there is a definition between the two for a reason.
And I dont remember which she is because she mentioned it once about two months ago.

[East Coast Hustle]

Blight, I can accept that, but see it specifies "malevolent" witchcraft, which meant witchcraft as a whole was okay.
Glitter, google doesnt get past the whole

you're working with a collection of stuff that isn't even tertiary knowledge, then challenging the expert

RCP, its based on your statement that wicca is 'more ridiculous', which means other stuff is less ridiculous, and therefore preferable.
"Eclectic Wicca" as a general rule means "Im going to make up a bunch of shit and put it together and say its Wicca". Ive seen people combining egyptian gods with celtic gods and just making up rituals for them that were unrelated to the gods they chose, and calling it wicca.

1) "less ridiculous" and "preferable" are two vastly different things. If you equate them, that's YOUR filter, not mine.

2) I can put some dogshit on a plate and call it a prime rib, but when I put it in my mouth it's still gonna taste like dogshit.

[Phox]

I dont pretend to know everything about linguistics, the point that where the word bible came from isnt relevant to the content of the bible is the point I was making.

And I usually say christian/catholic because though theyre both christian, i doubt a catholic would be too happy if you said they were christian, there is a definition between the two for a reason.
And I dont remember which she is because she mentioned it once about two months ago.

Wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Catholics are perfectly happy to be called Christians.

[pH]

I will gladly take my plate of dog shit then.

Phox, Ill remember that then.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Actually, it pisses Catholics off when you don't acknowledge them as Christian. They call themselves Catholic to differentiate themselves from other denominations. A Lutheran will call themself Lutheran. A Baptist will call themself Baptist. But suggest to each of them that they're not properly called Christian and see what they say to you.

Blight,
Once again pointing out that he is a former Catholic.

[pH]

Duly noted Blight.

Anyway, any random/interesting/other beliefs present that havent been mentioned?

[Phox]

Sure, I'm a Taoist.

[pH]

Care to elaborate? My knowledge of that is that its a different spelling of Daoist, and goes with the watchmaker idea

[East Coast Hustle]

Duly noted Blight.

Anyway, any random/interesting/other beliefs present that havent been mentioned?

I believe that you should keep digging your heels in and trying to sound like you have a clue what you're talking about .

[Phox]

Care to elaborate? My knowledge of that is that its a different spelling of Daoist, and goes with the watchmaker idea

No.

[East Coast Hustle]

Care to elaborate? My knowledge of that is that its a different spelling of Daoist, and goes with the watchmaker idea

That's a Deist.

Jesus, did you just read a list of random terms and decide to try them out here to see how they sound?

[pH]

Nooope I took a class that mentioned this waay too long ago and I forget things.
Besides RCP, you seem glad to be knowledgeable about how wrong everyone else is but i have no interest in continuing my current line of thought which involves either provoking you for the novelty or challenging you to say what you believe, which so far looks like atheism/agnosticism