Today is Mothering Sunday here in the UK. I much prefer that title to Mother's Day. It has more of a pampering ring to it.
As my husband and son are disabled I have had to do most of my usual chores. My Down's Syndrome son presented me with a box of his favourite chocolates, fortunately they...
Although this isn't particularly a religious topic, the Good Samaritan had the right idea!
My husband had a brain haemorrhage in December 2008. Although he made a miraculous recovery he has been left with some disabilities. In particular his speech is impaired due to a brain processing problem...
No one deserves to be punished for the mere 'crime' of unbelief, imo! No one should force themselves to believe in something that just doesn't sit right with them.
As a kid I was continually told that unless I was 'saved' I wouldn't go to heaven. In the end, aged 11, I gave in because I was...
Some Christians see God as a physical being. I am of the opinion that if there were no humans there would be no God or a need for one. I think if we believe that God exists, he does for us, in whatever form we choose to depict him. I believe that was just as true for the authors of the documents...
When I was a kid I attended a pentecostal church and was subject to hell-fire sermons, which I found spiritually abusive, but par for the course where fundamentalists are concerned! Since I have been connected to the NET I have come across Christian religious beliefs that are so way out it makes...
I suppose one's reaction to faith is governed to a great extent by the way in which it is presented. The way it was presented to me as a child has had a negative impact on me throughout my life. I know there are many good decent Christians out there, but as soon as I hear certain buzz words...
If the Bible is literally true and God created us just like it describes, then one could very well be forgiven for thinking that we are pawns in an elaborate game.
God set it all in motion throwing in a few wild cards like free will and chance, and he is sitting back enjoying the spectacle...
Some Christians excuse the behaviour of God in the Bible by saying that just as we discipline our children, God disciplines us! If we disciplined our kids in the way God supposedly disciplined the folk in the Bible we would be serving a life sentence in prison!
I have been a child, I am now an...
You hear Christians going on about loving God, but I can't see anything remotely loving about the deity!
What is there to love, and what do you mean by love?
Some Christians on this and similar forums seem to derive a huge amount of satisfaction from the idea of the 'unsaved' being tortured in the flames of hell for all eternity! The smug, "I am God's buddy", attitude is highly unpleasant, and says something very uncomplimentary about the person...
There is nothing in the Bible to suggest that there isn't intelligent life on other planets.
How would it effect your faith if you discovered that not only are there intelligent aliens out there, but they have never heard of the concept of religion, and have discovered scientifically how the...
Some fundamentalist Christians are very intelligent people, they have degrees and work in the professions, teachers, doctors, lawyers etc. Yet they come out with the most complete tosh when it comes to the Bible. How anyone can possibly believe the creation story, Noah's flood, the Tower of...
My late father, a devout 'born again', was not only a water diviner, but he could use his divining rod (a hazel twig) to do geographical dowsing to find people and objects. This was a skill at which he was quite talented. I am of the opinion that dowsing is a natural gift that some people have...
For the past 12 years, coinciding with my menopause, I have had what I describe as psychic flashes from time to time. Normally they are about fairly trivial events, however I have had one or two dealing with death. Three days before Diana died, it flashed into my mind that she was going to die...
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.
The courage to change the things I cannot accept.
And the wisdom to hide the bodies of those I had to kill today because
they got on my nerves.:D
I wonder how many members say grace before or after their meals?
When I was a kid we used to say this grace.
"For what we about to receive, may the Lord make us truly thankful, and relieve the want of others, Amen"
My sisters and I used to see how fast we could say it, and often got a clip...