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I'm another person you've been arguing with, and I too am highly educated, including a graduate degree from one of the top three schools in the country. I, too, speak several languages fluently, although not quite as many as PP: I speak 2 languages fluently, one language near-fluently, and I have taken college-level courses in two additional languages.

I think some of the frustration with your posting style is the silliness of the arguments, which stems partly from ignorance about even the most basic tenets of Christianity. You also don't seem to know much about philosophy in general -- I'm the poster who quoted Berkeley at you, and you were unable to respond to it.

I have educated myself widely on my religion. I have read all of the New Testament, much of the Old, and many theologians including from the Jesus Seminar, and lots on the historical Jesus.

I still find Jesus' message of love, tolerance and peace compelling for all ages, including the 21st century when we're so interconnected and war is just a red button away. I don't find anything objectionable in the gospels about the treatment of minorities, women, or gays, except for a few passages in Paul and, of course, Paul was not Jesus. But most of all, the message to love your enemies is an extraordinarily powerful message, particularly today.[/quote]

sounds like you've been arguing with at least two  different people without realizing it.  I am very familiar with the tenets of Christianity and the Jesus seminar and studies of the Historical Jesus.  I understand how educated people could know all that and still have different takes on it.   I also understand how Jesus' message of love, etc, is compelling.  That doesn't make the Bible any less gruesome or dated or dubious and it certainly doesn't make Jesus divine or the son of god.   It suggests  that you have compartmentalized the parts of Christianity that appeal to you. [/quote]

[b]Show us where the New Testament is "gruesome."[/b] Thanks. That claim (among other claims you and the other atheist here have made) suggests that, despite your claims of familiarity with the Bible, you are actually pretty ignorant about it.[/quote]

The slaughter of the innocents.[/quote]

The Book of Revelation is quite a fine text that I often read to my young children as part of our bedtime routine.

Jezebel never had a chance in hell.[/quote]

Is the accuser going to acknowledge these references,  continue to defend the accusation or gloss over it or ignore it?[/quote]

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