We are not merely the body of flesh, we are the imprint we make into the physical world by our living. The body of flesh we have merely borrowed from the creatures and plants as well as water, air and chemicals that were here at the beginning. Every cell in our body is exchanged every 21 years so who we are is not the body. It is spirit - the eternal imprint we have made during our living. It is the character of who we are that is the reality of our identity. This makes us all responsible for how we have lived, in the eternal structure of things

Dear Josephus,

I applaud your observations.

What you wrote is beautiful and I would not want to detract from it. This is a huge step into knowing your true nature, but please do not stop here to rest on your laurels because there is even further depth and subtlety regarding the reality of our identity.

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Dear Yuyutsu,

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You ask :

1. « And who could the courts appoint in matters of religion? »
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As I indicated previously, they appoint competent experts relevant to each particular case as and when required.

If there are no experts, then they have no alternative but to use their own best judgment, depending on the circumstances of the case and the terms of the applicable law.

Also, as I indicated previously, disputes are settled by democratic courts of justice, not by some hypothetical, so-called “divine justice”.
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2. « I don't consider all Islamists to be authentic: many are just violent and corrupted people who believe in nothing and hitchhike the Koran to follow the evils of their own minds … I just think that they are deluded in believing as if God instructed them to kill and terrorise others »
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Though you did not specifically say so, Yuyutsu, I presume that to mean that you are not a terrorist even though you agree that « following God's instructions [when indeed one does!] cannot be immoral, cannot encroach on the freedom of others and cannot cause any harm ».
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3. « Do you know anyone who projects their personal faith, hope, and trust on a cinema screen? »
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I’m sorry to have to say so, Yuyutsu, but I think that everybody who believes in the supernatural and a God or Gods is simply, and unconsciously, projecting their personal faith, hope, and trust on a cinema screen – analogically speaking, of course.

Once again, I confirm that I agree with your analogy of God as a cinema screen, but I do not agree with your interpretation of it.

Allow me to repeat once again that like you, I too see God as a cinema screen, Yuyutsu – but, regrettably, nothing more than a cinema screen – on which people project their personal faith, hope, and trust – analogically speaking, of course !

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Yuyutsu, thank you! it reflects similar as light on your screen as the analogy. As actors on the screen of time. If we could travel faster than light we could observe in light years things of the past, recorded in light. Our lives are recorded in light for eternity.

Josephus,

How can your life be recorded in light when you are against
so many things in your faith and you believe that only your
way is the right way and that only your God is the right
God? And you demonize people who don't think like you.
I think your light is not shining very brightly at all.
You can take your soap box and go preach to the converted.

Foxy I hear your criticism and I know the facts bother you, because you live with everyone truth is Ok for them. Like Biden and Polosi attend Mass several times each week - good Catholics according to you. In the scheme of things fund the murder of thousands of innocent children.