What is a Nazarene?

timber it was wrong of me to respond in kind to your brusqueness. for that i apologize..

as you noted my religious beliefs (aside from my name) didnt come into the discussion til setanta brought them in.....and as i have stated i havent tried to make this discussion about my faith.....

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and and it is your subsequent interaction which has structured the further development of the digression currently - and tediously - under way.

please note that after page three, (i think) ...i said lets just drop this and did try to bring the convo back to the topic at hand...

thats has been my point with you from the beginning.......why cant you debate or discuss without getting nasty or rude???

It will greatly help the case of anyone posting in these fora to attempt to maintain a high level of self-expression in Standard English.

I believe one is supposed to "beat" a dead horse, is one not? I'm sure you're free to kick one as well, though . . .

Setanta wrote:

I believe one is supposed to "beat" a dead horse, is one not? I'm sure you're free to kick one as well, though . . .

Hey, don't start with me, boss. I'll draw a picture of you, next!!

Whoa . . . Dude . . . i was only funnin' ya . . . i'm backin' away now, keepin' my hands where you can see 'em . . .

kate, all you need do to provide foundation for your proposition is satisfy any one, any combination of, or all of the following previously-issued challenges:

1. Demonstrate objectively and in academically sound, forensically valid manner that religious faith be differentiable from superstition.
   
   
2. Demonstrate objectively and in academically sound, forensically valid manner that the Abrahamic Mythopaeia be other than a human construct, a cultural artifact with roots in the forgotten antiquity of the Anatolian Plain, the Aryan Plateau, the Fertile Crescent, the Mediterranean Rim, and the Nile Delta, derived through, drawing from and elaborating on the myriad cultural traditions and mythopaeias of those regions, both predating and contemporary with itself.
   
   
3. Demonstrate objectively and in academically sound, forensically valid manner that the Abrahamic Mythopaeia inherrently and incontravertably be superior to any other spiritual mythopaeia past or present.
   
   
4. Demonstrate objectively and in academically sound, forensically valid manner that any one of the 3 primary religions deriving from the Abrahamic Mythopaeia inherrently and incontravertably be superior to its 2 siblings.
   
   
5. Demonstrate objectively and in academically sound, forensically valid manner that whatever religiospiritual worldview you personally profess inherrently and incontravertably be superior to any other religiospiritual worldview.

Now, should you nail any one of those, you'll have the beginnings of an argument which merits being taken seriously and from which you may proceed. Nail 'em all, and you'll have resolved the entire issue beyond argument. Untill such time as you manage to get the whole job done, however, we by the requirements of intellectual honesty have no choice but to dismiss your proposition as heretofore you have presented that proposition.



Take all the time you need. We're patient, we can wait. We're quite used to that; we've been waiting for around 10 Millenia.

I'm with you, Herema.



Er, is there a Hisema?

Not to mention the stunning logic and erudite rhetoric.