I'm going too. This site has changed. Challenging debates about religious beliefs hardly ever occur anymore. It has become a site for chit chat and very "unserious"debates, more like a place to waste time. Moderators continually remove posts for all kinds of reasons. You cannot even have a...
I ask a question about the tolerance within Islam for different sects and no Muslims answer. That leads me to believe that very little tolerance exists. If you can not tolerate the beliefs of those of your own faith, then tolerance within Islam does not exist. True or false?
I'm sure most here have read about the destruction of Sufi shrines in Timbuktu. Is Islam so intolerent that it cannot even respect the different sects of it's own religion? If it cannot tolerate sects of it's own, how can it respect those of other religions?
Since you are always prepared, what is your view on the Book of Enoch, the Book of Giants, and the book of Jasher? I haven't read all of it, but it is very well written. Different to say the least.
Uphold the Catholic faith? Do Catholic priests uphold the Catholic faith? Are the many gay pedafile priests that have gotten away with their sexual abuse for years, being protected by corrupt Cardinals, who are being protected by the Pope following Christ? It is only a yes or no answer. But I...
They are called "revealed religions". Simply because they never existed before they were revealed.If a religion did not exist before it was revealed, then why? Perhaps because they are creations of not a "God" but a person.
It was not a loss of faith, nor a rejection of the teachings of religion in general. It was the sordid past of all the "religion of the holy books" that told me that a "God revealed" is a "God" denied. If everyone that follows a religion would take the responsibilty for the atrocities that their...