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  • beardyw 3 hours ago

    Treating creedal claims as personal preferences, False equivalence with non-Christian beliefs, Framing orthodoxy as one option among many

    Wow, I'm a Christian and I am not sure I want to be told those are failures. That list is more akin to what you get in extreme authoritarian regimes. I'm hoping there's some room for Jesus.

  • bwestergard 4 hours ago

    I could only laugh out loud at this.

    I'm no expert in European religious history, but it is an interest of mine and I've read a fair bit more than the typical American about it.

    I am certain that every church father and major theologian from antiquity to the early modern period would have condemned without reservation the very idea of building a machine to answer theological questions. Possible exceptions, like Ramon Llull, prove the rule.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Llull

    Given the prevalence of stories about Djinn and Golems in Islamic and Jewish literature, it feels safe to say they would have looked askance at this idea as well.

  • alexchaomander 4 hours ago

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