Now to be clear, most of the religiously unaffiliated don’t reject religion outright, so candidates who focus on faith may not run any serious risk of alienating these voters. It was about ten minutes in, during the scene where Smith was explaining how he needed to drug everyone in the room and how it would cause them to soon forget everything they heard. Cory Booker (45) 11. Richard Dawkins is not (pardon the huge understatement) destined to be honored among the top tier of philosophers of all time. I don't think I've even seen you mention her before now. By clicking “I agree” below, you consent to the use by us and our third-party partners of cookies and data gathered from your use of our platforms. If you can show me that’s so I’ll publicly convert to your worldview right here in this thread. And you believe that your worldview makes all the things you don’t know to be knowable. Don’t forget, eternal damnation as “the wages of sin” is a Christian doctrine, not at all obvious to those who aren’t already Christian. Please enable cookies on your web browser in order to continue. It’s built on the assumption that every person of faith throughout all the stream of thought leading to it was unaware of the difference between knowing and pretending to know. Refusing to take the cure once I know I’m infected is obviously foolish. :D. Profound? Too Good to be False shows how hard that answer will be for them. “On the political left, certainly there’s a lot of talk of values being under attack, but it’s not framed in terms of an existential threat to your religious identity.”. Allow me to assume for the sake of argument the premises that there is no God and this can somehow be known. Dawkins is personally convinced of the truth of his atheism and I’d not insult him by insinuating that he is just “pretending” not to believe. I've just re-watched that bit and I think I must have re-started it about two seconds past that point. What about the Eurus part bugs you? manifesting so young, and there probably was a time that Eurus could have been "rescued" if people had figured out the signs early enough. Your chosen method of acquiring information about yourself and the world around you leaves you with no unanswered questions? The reason for me is that I don't think that Mycroft is as cruel as that scene makes him out to be when viewed in context of the entire series/show. Someone might object, “But look at how wrong these people’s scientific views were! Often using Romans 1 and its teaching that “all men are without excuse”, I think Christians are reluctant to admit the possibility of honest disbelief in order to avoid the conclusion that God sends some people to hell for a mistake. By the end, of course, I knew why... :D. As for the reveal, in the end her goal was to get the boys to come and play at Sherrinford, where she had everything set up. For the purposes of this debate I’m drawing no distinction between knowing something and personal conviction. It made me think about how we had spoken about her seeming immature in some ways and then like a mastermind in others. By using this site, you agree to our Terms of UseWe have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. I don’t know where you got this from: “In order to please God, we must assent to whatever the authority teaches.” Hebrews 11:6 says that without faith it is impossible to please God, yes; but there’s no equating “faith” with “assent to whatever authority teaches.” That’s another definition without a source. Answer: A Christian can be defined as a person who has, by faith, received and fully trusted in Jesus Christ as the only Savior from sin (John 3:16; Acts 16:31; Ephesians 2:8–9). She actually approached Sherlock in her role as Faith, so she must have had some other motive for posing as John's therapist. Why does she reveal herself to him, rather than maintain his trust in order to extract further information from him? He was also aiming at absurdity, and he achieved that as well; but the absurdity is not where he thinks it is. Awesome episode, best one for a long time. Because I think it would be good for more of this kind of thing to be out there, I encourage this behavior heartily. You can fake being normal perfectly and still remain completely crazy inside. It is some kind of a Christmas present for Eurus from Mycroft. But as the chart below shows, religious voters in each party may not have much else in common. In fact, according to the 2016 CCES data, only 9 percent of Democratic primary voters said they were atheists, while 8 percent said they were agnostics and 18 percent identified as “nothing in particular.” And notably, voters who fell into this last category were still surprisingly connected to organized religion. However, when one ignores what the other person is saying (and redefining “faith” to mean “pretending” is doing just that) and then resorts to ridicule the result is neither clarification nor the healing of harms. I didn't get it, but I figured I wasn't supposed to at that point. <_<, In light of Toby's recent posts, I wonder how Mycroft would rate on the Hare's scale - Psychopathy Checklist—revised (PCL-R), lol. If you are going to criticise Christianity about what it teaches then there is no sense in selectively ignoring the answer it provides to your criticism. You can have smart, intelligent female characters without making them kung-fu fighting superwomen.

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