@Astreja, #1381...
When you say, Astreja, “we”, do you mean the members of your Unitarian Universalist Church?
You have Me confused with Sabrina. I am not and have never been a Unitarian Universalist. I am an agnostic atheist humanist, and also the Goddess of the Northern Hemisphere Vernal Equinox, chocolate, punctuation, and Random Equipment Malfunctions. (For the record, I am agnostic regarding My own divinity.
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And for the record, PC, it is My understanding that many Unitarian Universalists do not believe in the god of the Bible.
You believe in God of the Holy Bible.
False. Although I read the Bible approximately 48 years ago, at no time did I see it as anything more than an odd storybook. I have been an agnostic theist, but the gods I worshipped were Athena, Shiva, and the Norse pantheon. Despite the fact that I was baptized in the United Church of Canada (moderate Protestant) at the age of 3 months, I have
never believed in the god of the Bible, nor in Jesus, nor in the Holy Spirit. I think they're all fictional (or, in the case of "Jesus," possibly a mythologized version of a perfectly ordinary rabbi who has been quite thoroughly dead for at least 1900 years).
The other names of the Holy Spirit in the King James Version are...
...Completely irrelevant. I don't care if you call the Holy Spirit "the Comforter," "Satan's Little Helper" or "Debbie the Dolphin Groomer," because to Me the Bible is patently worthless as evidence.
I do not say that the 73-year-old blind woman is a prophet. The spirit who appropriates her physical body is.
I don't think that there is any "spirit" there at all. I think that the the blind woman is deluded, insane, or a charlatan.
If you were to fire your nuclear missile, would you fire it on a rural area or in the city?
False dichotomy; and you're definitely asking the wrong person. I would never, under
any circumstances whatsoever (including a gun to My head) launch a nuclear missile against anyone. One nuke is two too many, in My opinion.
Who are working in the cities and military installations? Mostly, men. That is why one-third of men will die.
That is, in My opinion, sexist nonsense. Where I live, both men and women work in the city in roughly equal numbers. I have also known quite a few women who have served in the Canadian armed forces, and in fact
the new head of one of our training bases is female.
I also note that you haven't grasped the fact that the aftereffects of a major nuclear outbreak will kill virtually
everyone. If such a tragedy were to occur, I foresee a death toll of at least 6.5 billion people within the first month, and the extinction of the survivors not long after that because of the destroyed infrastructure, starvation due to a devastated ecosystem, radiation poisoning and psychiatric illness due to bereavement and despair.
There are no winners in a nuclear war.
Jesus cannot prevent what men can do because He has given them the free will but He can warn us of the impending danger. {emphasis Mine}
PC, if a god gives people "free will" (or any other superpower), despite knowing in advance that they will use that ability to murder billions of people, that god is 100% responsible for all the deaths that subsequently occur. A god that would stand idly by and allow a nuclear holocaust to occur is evil, and saying that it's because of "free will" is just making excuses for the inexcusable. It's no different than giving a loaded gun to a toddler, leaving him unsupervised, and then blaming the little kid when he shoots someone.
I've had my say and I'm done with the side topic.