Okay, I know that I'm Baha'i. But I still feel close enough to my Catholic roots to speak from a Catholic perspective.
I was thinking about the Rosary, devotion to Mary in general and my experience with it. I remember that right up until the day I became a Baha'i I had trouble integrating my...
As we know Jesus criticized his contemporaries for holding to mere human commandments rather than God's. Because of this some, Catholics particularly, have been criticized for adopting practices and teachings not mentioned in scripture. To what extent do you think people should restrict...
This is something that I've been stewing over for awhile.
There's a whole lot more to religous violence than crusades, jihads, and pogroms. These are just the crude outbursts of a far deeper problem, the use of ideas as weapons against other people. I'm sure just about everybody here finds...
What are people's thoughts on this?
I really don't buy the claim that the New Testament writers were anti-semitic. When I think about it the idea anti-semitic doesn't have much meaning in itself. It gets its meaning from people's association of the word with pogroms, the holocaust, al-Qaida...