02-14-2015, 09:27 PM
Despite the numerous claims that the intended meaning of this thread isn't about acceptance, it sure sounds like that is the real issue.
Who is anyone to say that one cannot cherry pick quotes to base their beliefs of them? If said idolatry of the material or its channelers, improves the life of said person, what's the harm? If its having a negative impact upon the person who has enacted a personal mythology based upon this philosophy, that's their issue. If this person is negatively impacting an other self based upon this idolatry, it now becomes an issue of two. One for the giver and one for the receiver and again this is no ones concern except those involved.
Acceptance that another may covet this material as a devout Christian is perfectly fine if it improves the life of that other self and anyone around that self.
Trying to find reasons to not cherry pick sounds like unacceptance to me
Who is anyone to say that one cannot cherry pick quotes to base their beliefs of them? If said idolatry of the material or its channelers, improves the life of said person, what's the harm? If its having a negative impact upon the person who has enacted a personal mythology based upon this philosophy, that's their issue. If this person is negatively impacting an other self based upon this idolatry, it now becomes an issue of two. One for the giver and one for the receiver and again this is no ones concern except those involved.
Acceptance that another may covet this material as a devout Christian is perfectly fine if it improves the life of that other self and anyone around that self.
Trying to find reasons to not cherry pick sounds like unacceptance to me