That was great. :)
My little saying is "You don't have to believe they are right, but you should believe they are just as valid."
And while I'm thinking about it everyone points the finger at Christians and says that they don't accept other religions, but I've been in many a Pagan and...
I'm not sure where I stand on this issue, actually. I believe in reincarnation. Atleast I think I do. I haven't actually sat down and thought about it and settled into the WHY or the HOW, but there is too much for me not to believe it.
I believe in past lives and that people can get...
Well, you're not thinking about those things when you're having actual sex, either... atleast I hope not.
I'm sure some people masturbate and think about someone other than their partner, but there are people that have sex with their partner while thinking of someone else too. One is worse...
I think maybe the reason it's a "sin" is because sex, according to the Bible and Christianity, and some other religions too, is purely for procreation purposes. Women are not supposed to enjoy it. Back in the late 1800s and early 1900s women who actually wanted sex were committed for being...
Oh, I forgive you! :)
If you can't pi... um... make people angry, what's the point? You just have to do it when it really counts and when you really mean it.
So far we've managed not to get into any knock-down-drag-outs on this forum, and I'm sure we can keep it that way. :) *knocks on...
I agree that there is very little in the Bible to condemn homosexuality. But I also can't find anything in the Bible that describes Mary Magdalane as a prostitute. That seems off the subject, but it is not, in my opinion.
I believe there are a good many things that I call "liberties" taken...
Yeah, I did a search too. Though I am certain there is a Christian Archaeologist Society and I will keep looking...
But the only thing I found that referred to a Christian Anthropolist Journal and Mr. J. Rothdell Grape, P.H.D Candidate was the same article by XLLB on another website that I...
As I've said before: Not everyone uses the Bible as a reference as to how to live their lives. You shouldn't assume they do, or that you are right for doing so, and they are wrong for not.
I agreed with some of what Stained Class said, atleast I think what he was trying to say. That not...
Hi, Stained.
Flattered as I am, I am a happily married woman. :)
Tho I'm not sure you got my point. I was just stating that was my understanding of the reasoning behind Christianity subjugating women.
Where I'm not quite a "Femi-Nazi" (but I know some, and it is tiring after a while) I...
Here is a good definition and a little fun. :)
http://www.witchvox.com/holidays/ostara/ostarahistory.html
You may or may not know, the Sabbats and Esbats (Pagan holidays) are set around the Solstices and Equinoxes. Paganism as I said before began as an agricultural way of life and it...
I do like the basic idea of Scientology tho, atleast I think it's the basic idea. Almost everything that is wrong in your life you can change. By a change of mindset and by getting a better grip on your brain and it's functions.
That's the idea behind Dianetics. That everything that is...
It's not necessarily a matter of not trusting any books or documents from the past if taken individually. You have to consider the context and the time they were written when deciding if what is written is true. Or if it is still true today.
The Bible was not found in it's entirety. It was...
Bah. Don't be quoting me to use in your "discussion" with Runt. We need a separate forum for just you two. :)
EL
Yeah, sure.. "discussion"... same as the "discussions" your parents have with the door closed. LOL :)
Blessed be my feet that take me on my path.
Blessed be my legs that help me stand before the Divine.
Blessed be my abdomen that gives me inner strength.
Blessed be my breast that holds my heart true to Them.
Blessed be my lips that they speak only love and truth.
Blessed be my eyes that see...
A good many of our founding fathers were Unitarian, were they not? Some Episcopalian too.
It's right there in the first few lines of the Declaration of Independence:
"When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have...
Yes, thankyou for that. I said no one REMEMBERS in this recent History. Do you remember? No, you were told. They have proven it, I'm sure... but can you know for certain who wrote them? Can anyone Remember? In other words, we weren't there.
It's the same principle that people use to...
Not again... lol
From my understanding You have Paganism (defined already) and then you have as a subclass to that Wicca (Alexandrian, Gardnerian, etc. ) and Wicca is more the "Organized Religion" with specific rituals and practices done a more specific way. Now, I'm not saying that there...
As silly as it is... and man is it silly.... there will be people that believe this and use it as examples.
One small step for that guy and one giant leap backwards for Christianity.
If the Church or some other Christian Scholars came out against that guy it would help, but that will...