Pilgrim,

I’m less confused about historic Christianity. The entire basis for your Doctrine Worship is a circular argument, that can be disproven to thinking individuals, but that requires thinking... an intellectual ability given to mankind by the Creator. Augustine, your idol’s idol believed thinking should not be allowed... especially for women, who should not be educated, but segregated from men... because they are to blame for what vexed him and as a result, his influence vexed families and women for centuries. Other great men like him have come and gone... some contributed to vexing society, others inspired others. You assume that I must color within the lines of the ‘hordes’ to come up against the great genius brilliant lawyer, intellectually elitism/Pharisee for God... but I don’t.

In another time, this anti-thinking approach might argue whether one should save someone who is drowning, because of what day of the week it is. Today it discusses the damnation of infants.

You assume I am basing my statements on my imagination, my feelings, my subjectivity, and while I do possess these attributes, I am not basing my conclusions on them... or what “feels good.” I am basing my conclusions on much observation, and a term used in the Declaration of Independence ‘self evident’ which went on in an entirely anti-Calvinist manner. And likewise, in that manner the promise that this nation’s government would not persecute me for not believing the same as you... something of a victory that took millennia against the mentality of the hordes (and the Grace of God – I believe) to establish. That is in spite of the fact that a few of the founding Fathers were Calvinists... The language is anti-Calvinist, largely Deist. (Which BTW, does not claim to be the Word of God).