• Welcome to Religious Forums, a friendly forum to discuss all religions in a friendly surrounding.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to the following site features:
    • Reply to discussions and create your own threads.
    • Our modern chat room. No add-ons or extensions required, just login and start chatting!
    • Access to private conversations with other members.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon!

Search results

  1. D

    "The Book of Mormon" vs. Charlie Hebdo

    Munster, five hundred odd years ago. They out grew it. With Scientology those sort of behaviours seem to be substantially what they are all about. LDS substantialy not perhaps; but that component is there and has been from the beginning. The Roman Catholic hierarchy was complicit in Latin...
  2. D

    "The Book of Mormon" vs. Charlie Hebdo

    A long time ago I was having to make just that explanation. I stopped half way through. I realised transubstantiation was just as silly as the cannibal explanation. Later it occurred to me that if the host was in somesense Jesus the cannibal calumny was actually true. You cannot go through life...
  3. D

    "The Book of Mormon" vs. Charlie Hebdo

    I generally begin with the source material. The Book of Mormon is a bowlderised pastiche modelled on the King James Bible. It shares the moral repugnance of the Tanakh. Then there is the person, character and history of the LDS founder and the events surrounding him. Looking at the Church's...
  4. D

    "The Book of Mormon" vs. Charlie Hebdo

    If you look you will find those descriptives are applicable to the LDS Church. Just as they are applicable to the majority of churches and religions. Even the Amish have roots in a church that was prone to killing everyone who didn't follow it.
  5. D

    I too have good friends in Oldham. I look forwrd to it. Cheers

    I too have good friends in Oldham. I look forwrd to it. Cheers
  6. D

    "The Book of Mormon" vs. Charlie Hebdo

    All DIRs appear to be that or echo chambers.
  7. D

    Provided we haven't fallen out, let me know if you wiil be in my locale and I'll take you both...

    Provided we haven't fallen out, let me know if you wiil be in my locale and I'll take you both to dinner.
  8. D

    "The Book of Mormon" vs. Charlie Hebdo

    While I might respect you as an individual I cannot respect either your religion, your Church, it's heirarchy or it's "prophets". Asking 'respectful' questions on a propagandist outlet is not something I am either likely or inclined to indulge. 'Dubious snake oil' is as generous as I could be...
  9. D

    Where abouts are you going exactly? And I apologise if any of my comments have upset or offended...

    Where abouts are you going exactly? And I apologise if any of my comments have upset or offended you. I will always stand to be corrected.
  10. D

    "The Book of Mormon" vs. Charlie Hebdo

    The rhyme quote is Samuel Clemens aka 'Mark Twain'. Curious (or maybe not) that you mention gnostic teaching. I was for giggling helplessly about getting your own planet (Which I have heard and read of; and from; Mormons.) when I came across something very similar in a 2nd - 3rd century...
  11. D

    "The Book of Mormon" vs. Charlie Hebdo

    The Jews had the Shouty Stabby tm killed out of them by the Romans in three near-genocidal wars the Jewish, Khito, and Bar Kokhva Wars. Similarly for the Christians of North-West and Central Europe in the Reformation and Wars of Religion. We, the English that is, were also able to export the...
  12. D

    "The Book of Mormon" vs. Charlie Hebdo

    God was an ordinary man on another world who became a God. You are all going to become Gods and get your own planets. Bonkers but no more bonkers than any other religion. There is a Mrs God and Joe made the leap that Jesus couldn't just do half a dozen gigs in Jerusalem and Galilee; he had to...
  13. D

    whats up with the "Xtians"?????

    You'll do me, chuck. I look forward to talking to you in more depth in the future. Ta Tah now.:)
  14. D

    religion is slowly dying?

    Sorry I have been so long getting back to you. I went away for a think; I was going to bail out and erase my existence here. Much on these Forums is an exercise of futile circularity. My patience and perseverance with you seems to have worked however. You are now 'engaging and debating'...
  15. D

    religion is slowly dying?

    It would be more accurate to say that as along as (wilful?)human ignorance exists, there will be religion.
  16. D

    Is Islam Responsible for the Charlie Hebdo Murders?

    I have pointed out elsewhere the similarities between the Englsh and Iranian Revolutions, and the Commonwealth and the Islamic Republic of Iran. This is looking very like a re-run of Western Christendom's Reformation and Wars of Religion. They were a neccessary evil without which there coud have...
  17. D

    whats up with the "Xtians"?????

    You were not just tossing a grenade to watch it go BOOM! were you?:)
  18. D

    Jesus and the Pharisees, who was correct? Vote.

    It could not; but what do you see as hypocrisy? The Gospels are probably documents of internal Christian disputes and dialogues written up as origin stories. Their authors are Greek speakers of Greek education writing outside Judea and the Galilee with varying and insecure understandings of...
  19. D

    "The Book of Mormon" vs. Charlie Hebdo

    Part of the reason is that, like the Anabaptists before them, they had the Shouty, Stabby kicked out of them by other Christians with more and bigger guns. Americans forget that The War on Terror tm isn't the first time the US Army has been called on to deal with this sort of crap. The fate of...
  20. D

    Is Islam Responsible for the Charlie Hebdo Murders?

    Kudos to all. That was a fruitful, nuanced and; above all; civilised debate. Thank you.
Top