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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a significant mystical element to Christian & Catholic metaphysics (like the metaphysics of many other religions) which is irreducible to logical analysis.

Unquestioning belief in an abstraction--"the divinity of Christ"--does that make you a "Christian" if you are simply parroting the words of authority figures but do not have a spirtiual, intuitive understanding of what it means?

The Bible is filled with parables about people struggling with belief, and to believe.  What do those parables mean?  Where do you fit in?

[b]Only a fool or child blindly believes in anything, without constantly questioning that belief[/b].

Where you believe Jesus to have been divine is entirely a personal matter for your conscience.   If that belief on your part, whatever it is, should cause someone else to label you "Christian" or "NOT Christian" is meaningless.[/quote]

Depends on the belief.  Certainly religious beliefs that revolve around miracles of nature are hard to believe, like rising from the dead and living forever, or burning forever as a punishment for sin.  but other beliefs are easier to hold on to -- like the value of treating others humanely.[/quote]

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