Not all that new and I'm sure at least a few have seen it before, but....
Having just recently watched it, I couldn't help but imagine what RF commentary would be like :) I think both sides in this recorded debate did a pretty good job for their position...which is kinda rare, making it more...
Flipping around this old thread - http://www.religiousforums.com/threads/how-do-pagans-feel-about-christians-and-why.455/ - this time with title more appropriately aimed at traditions/ideology rather than the people themselves.
The idea for this thread is interesting to me as I very often see...
I saw a link to this image within a YouTube video description, thought it would be pretty cool to share and discuss here. Part of me is saying it has been posted here before (if not multiple times) but I forget which thread/s if so. Anyways...
Does this seem accurate to you other than the...
Curious on thoughts and opinions about this.
Are there things, beliefs, outlooks, practices, etc. which are psychologically healthy/positive/beneficial - yet are not necessarily spiritually healthy/positive/beneficial? Same goes vice versa.
@Sunstone -style bonus:
As above, this time switch...
https://humanism.org.uk/humanism/how-humanist-are-you/
Curious what others get for a result. I got a 65% score.
Thought it was interesting to take despite it being aimed more specifically at Secular Humanism. Does it seem accurate that Secular Humanism is taken to be "proper Humanism"?
Predominant/prevalent views among many religious traditions seem to express that weakness, vulnerability, and passiveness are somehow more spiritually valid than their counterparts. Strength, power, passion, dominance, etc. tend to be expressed as signaling spiritual-bankruptcy.
What are your...
I saw something a month or two ago that his case was actually in the process of being revisited once again. The first time this happened, he received a new sentence with additional years of imprisonment and more lashes tacked on. I know many nations have officially condemned the ordeal and...
If there were no books or stories shared or passed down, how close would your worldview/religion be to what it is now?
It is a question I like to ask myself when thinking about the origin of different traditions and schools of thought. If only your own experiences and knowledge gained through...
m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5854492
This is an interesting article. I found it a while back when doing some more reading on Ahmadi persecution - our thread about whether they are true Muslims or not reminded me of it.
I have wondered - is the persecution issue the major reason we rarely see much...
I thought I remembered there being one or two but now I can't seem to find one. Am I mistaken? Thoughts on it?
It makes an interesting contrast with various pagan traditions if there is truly not a single one.
Excerpt from here koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/books/wiah/index.htm
"...Like its Germanic equivalent Heathen, the Latin word Paganus literally means: rural. Christianity started as a strictly urban movement, and only after it had taken power in the Roman Empire in 313 AD did it start to conquer...
This post may be a "leap of faith."
Lately when looking at suicide, homicide, and mass murder cases, I've been thinking a lot on the prevalence of seeing heavy doses of defeatism, detachment, disenchantment, pessimism, etc. - that can lead to the devaluation of life (yours or others) and remove...
"A wayfarer should not walk unarmed,
But have his weapons to hand:
He knows not when he may need a spear,
Or what menace meet on the road."
Cold Steel Boar Spear Used To Defend Family From Cougar Attack!
Poll itself is for religionists/religious folks only please...and keep in mind your answer is for your religion specifically - not one or more other religions or religion as a whole.
What are some ideas on how mercy, actually the greatest mercy, can be reconciled with the vision of "Hell" in Islam?
"...fear the Fire whose fuel is men and stones,- which is prepared for those who reject Faith" (2:24)
"...Enough is Hell for a burning fire. Those who reject Our Signs, We shall...
For Christians, do you feel as though yourself and other Christians are saved, in the process of being saved, or will be saved in the future?
Non-Christians understanding of how it is perceived in greater Christendom is appreciated as well.
I was thinking of this the other day when paying...
Literalism, fundamentalism, and (especially) fanaticism are very often painted as the culprits for the realized or potential dangers, ills, woes, harm of religion.
If any and every notion or degree of religious exclusivism and compulsion were erased, what would take the blame?
My stance...