Be skeptical of atheism.

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Still characters eh?
Still no bridge eh?
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I don't mean to be disrespectful.  That just doesn't make much sense in a Judeo-Christian light.  They aren't idolaters.  
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It is a part of our church tradition. That is why we use it.


I have have actually studied religion pretty extensively, and I was a Vedantist before becoming Christian. I was also a Buddhist. A chaos magician. Into the occult. Before all of that, I was a hard skeptic, fancied myself scientific, even an atheist. I performed a lot of experiments.

Why am I an Orthodox Christian now? Because I recognize it as the only enlightened form of Christianity, the original form of Christianity, and I respect its holy orders. The writing output of the faith is consistently high quality. I recognize it as what it is, Truth worship.


And I also understand why it takes the form it does. 







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I don't mean to be disrespectful.  That just doesn't make much sense in a Judeo-Christian light.  They aren't idolaters.  
So when you speak to a Hindu or a Muslim or a Scientologist or a Sikh, and they ask you, "why should I leave my traditions behind and adopt yours"

What do you tell them?
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The writing output of the faith is consistently high quality. I recognize it as what it is, Truth worship.
So you were convinced because what you learned about it "made sense" to you.

But you can't remember anything specific?
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I don't mean to be disrespectful.  That just doesn't make much sense in a Judeo-Christian light.  They aren't idolaters.  
So when you speak to a Hindu or a Muslim or a Scientologist or a Sikh, and they ask you, "why should I leave my traditions behind and adopt yours"

What do you tell them?

No one has ever asked me that before.  I think that might catch me off guard.
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It always helps if something makes sense right?

I had to give a lot of charity at first. It wss a process. 


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So when you speak to a Hindu or a Muslim or a Scientologist or a Sikh, and they ask you, "why should I leave my traditions behind and adopt yours"

What do you tell them?
No one has ever asked me that before.  I think that might catch me off guard.
Well, it's food for thought.
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It always helps if something makes sense right?
Of course, that's more than fair.
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I do my best to make it easy, but it should be evident that I am not believed regardless.

That is why it is what it is.