Johnny, why are you so angry all the time? Take a deep breath, step back and observe yourself.
Why should he debate you? Maybe you're both right? Ever thought of that?
The very fact that you're demanding a debate from him, is clearly indicative of the fact that you have no clue about the role that spirituality or "religion" as some choose to call it, plays in a person's individual life, ...do you? You don't know him, or where he is on his journey. We're all on a journey, ...some simply master different aspects of that journey at a different pace, or even in a different sequence than others. Maybe his religion is precisely what he needs. And maybe a lack of religion (at this time) is precisely what you need. You appear to me, to be already so imbalanced, that I doubt you would know what to do with spirituality if it bit you on the butt.
You talk about repressed sexuality leading to perversions, and I'll grant you, that much is true, ...but at the same time, a repressed spirituality leads to a perverse imbalance of it's own as well. It's a trinity of mind, body, AND spirit. You seem to respect the mind, perhaps maybe the body as well, but you've left out the spirit. Hopefully one day soon you'll find it, ...hopefully for your sake before someone gives you a real "Come to Jesus" meeting {lol}
You scream about bible literalists and religious bigots trying to convert everybody (and I can understand and relate to your anger about it) but you don't seem to realize how you are cut from the very same cloth as those you scream about. You're just the flip side of the coin. You are just as bigotted in the other direction, trying to force everyone to believe as you do, and as much of a literalist as those you scream about.
You even took the name of this forum literally. Maybe it should have been titled Religious "Discussion" rather than "debate". Maybe if it was, literalists like you wouldn't feel so compelled to attack others, or prove their beliefs wrong. Beliefs are neither right nor wrong, ...they simply are.
Whether IntenseOne has the ability to articulate it, let alone get it across to someone like you, ...or anyone else, doesn't mean his personal experiences are any less valid, ...or that he is wrong, ...just that he can't explain it. If I can't explain an engine, how it works or why it works, ...does it mean the engine doesn't work?
Really Johnny, you need to chill out. kick back, and read a good book. Try some Dale Carnegie.
