| Suburbanite, when it comes to supernatural religions I am stupid. I am an idiot. I am a moron. That is because I do not claim to be an advocate of supernatural religion of any kind. I have observed that just about every supernatural religionist on the planet is a cherry picker and why they pick some parts over others is beyond me. So I have found that by the appropriate picking a Jew can be a Christian, a Christian a Jew, an Muslim a Jew, an X a fill in the blank. I do not bother to tell them what they are. For the rest of the supernatural theist that follow a dogma or the “truth” if you will, these people do not come up with their own beliefs. They go to some church where the pastor or minister or rabbi or mullah or priest or whatever tell them what to think, what to believe and how to act. The people doing the teaching are also cherry pickers and choose a part over others all the while insisting that it is all the "truth". Why these people choose one part over another is also beyond me. In order for these believers to be inoculated against reality so that they will maintain their beliefs no matter how much they clash with reality or even their very own religious teachings these people are taught to practice the religiously institutionalized double standard called faith. This double standard teaches them to hold their beliefs to a different standard than any other belief that they hold. They will not apply the same standard to their own religious belief that they would readily apply to any other religious belief. When it comes to this I am also a moron, an idiot, stupid or what ever you want to call me. Such thinking is just inconceivable to me. I am too honest, too curious, too interested in actually knowing reality to practice such a thing. When people practice such faith there is no way for me to comprehend any decisions that they make. So if you are disappointed, that I am such a moron when it comes to such things, sorry about that.
So when I find someone that thinks something that would be inconceivable to anyone not using the double standard of faith and that actually knew and studied their religion, I do not try to tell them anything. The methods that they use are beyond me and it is beyond me why anyone would practice such methods.
I do not tell such people how to be what they claim they are. If a Jew can believe that Jesus is god, it is no stranger to me then them thinking that god loves everyone, that he will torture people in hell for eternity, and that people should believe them because god talks to them through revelation. A Jew believing that Jesus is god is trivial compared to the other outrageous things that they commonly think.
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