Are you a leader of any type within your faith community?

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coralbell
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10 May 2015, 4:05 pm

I you are a leader of any type within your faith community, how has that changed your response to the way others may label you?

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11 May 2015, 10:53 am

I guess I technically am, since my faith community has a population of 1.

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11 May 2015, 3:53 pm

coralbell wrote:

I you are a leader of any type within your faith community, how has that changed your response to the way others may label you?

I like being called Reverend, though I would prefer Your Majesty.

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11 May 2015, 7:48 pm

slave wrote:

coralbell wrote:

I you are a leader of any type within your faith community, how has that changed your response to the way others may label you?

I like being called Reverend, though I would prefer Your Majesty.

I'm an ordained Discordian Pope and Keeper of the Sacred Chao.

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13 May 2015, 5:50 am

Why have faith when knowledge is so easily obtainable?

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13 May 2015, 6:05 am

coralbell wrote:

I you are a leader of any type within your faith community, how has that changed your response to the way others may label you?

Yes, I am a leader of a certain type within my faith community. Not sure what you mean by your question about how it has changed my response to the way other might label me?

How do people label me? My response changed from what?

If you can further explain what information you are looking for, I might be able to answer you.

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13 May 2015, 10:41 am

Redstar2613 wrote:

Why have faith when knowledge is so easily obtainable?

Because without some modicum of faith, the only obtainable knowledge is cogito ergo sum. Claims to the contrary generally belie understanding of the problem of induction.

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13 May 2015, 6:56 pm

Redstar2613 wrote:

Why have faith when knowledge is so easily obtainable?

Easy. Most people are far too lazy to think and use reason.

Oh...and...a lot of people are...well...stupid.

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13 May 2015, 7:29 pm

slave wrote:

Redstar2613 wrote:

Why have faith when knowledge is so easily obtainable?

Easy. Most people are far too lazy to think and use reason.

Oh...and...a lot of people are...well...stupid.

Right, because every person who adheres to a faith is stupid, lazy, and doesn't use reason.

Tell that to my all-genius-level IQ family that is going through philosophy lectures this year as part of our homeschooling curriculum. We're Christians. Oh, and we're all excellent classical musicians = definitely not lazy.

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13 May 2015, 8:21 pm

nerdygirl wrote:

slave wrote:

Redstar2613 wrote:

Why have faith when knowledge is so easily obtainable?

Easy. Most people are far too lazy to think and use reason.

Oh...and...a lot of people are...well...stupid.

Right, because every person who adheres to a faith is stupid, lazy, and doesn't use reason.

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You got it, Pontiac :!:

Tell that to my all-genius-level IQ family

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I could but they may prefer to hear it from you.

that is going through philosophy lectures this year as part of our homeschooling curriculum.

:arrow:

Is it a Xtian tainted curriculum? or a true curriculum?

We're Christians.

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No you're not.

Oh, and we're all excellent classical musicians = definitely not lazy.

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I meant intellectually lazy.

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13 May 2015, 8:37 pm

I am an ordained elder in the Presbyterian church, and Pope of the Fnordic church.

I am not an atheist, I just hate religion.

None of this makes any sense, does it?

Neither does religion, either.

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13 May 2015, 9:16 pm

Fnord wrote:

I am an ordained elder in the Presbyterian church, and Pope of the Fnordic church.

What's your church's position on the seeing of the Fnords?

Should I be concerned that I see you?

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14 May 2015, 12:35 pm

RhodyStruggle wrote:

Fnord wrote:

I am an ordained elder in the Presbyterian church, and Pope of the Fnordic church.

What's your church's position on the seeing of the Fnords? Should I be concerned that I see you?

If you do not see the Fnords, they cannot hurt you.

You cannot see me, as I exist as the hidden integer between 3 and 4 in the spaces between the pixels on your screen.

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15 May 2015, 2:59 pm

I am now retired as an Army Chaplain (30 years total, Active and Reserve). When I first started working with soldiers, I had to get used to be called "Father" as with those of the Roman Catholic faith tradition, especially since I am from a Baptist faith group. But as a chaplain, I am more there to help them with their faith than to
necessarily push them toward one church.

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23 May 2015, 12:59 am

I'm an MSA officer at my school, if that counts.

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23 May 2015, 2:31 pm

I consider my role to be helping Christians understand Christos's true message when I see them bound up in whirlwinds of judgment. I attempt to remind them of Christos's service energy. It is not an energy devoted to judgment.

Matthew 7:1-3King James Version (KJV)

7 Judge not, that ye be not judged.

2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

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