Homosexuality is neither an illness nor a curse. It is simply a part of some people's manifestation. A little like being born with blue eyes. Or like being born a bigot. We're all who we are.
You can be sure that if God did not wish to have gay people or bigots in the world, there wouldn't...
So? ..... All of those are legalistic, humanly created systems of doctrine. How can you be sure that God endorsed them? Eastern Philosophies that are less legalistic and more intrinsically compassionate would present a different 'word' from god, that doesn't hate gay people.
True - but unfortunately he was also a great colluder with the Romans, an authoritarian and the architect of Christianity as a highly legalistic religion. Paul invented the present day Christian conception of Hell. What a lot of people consider to be Christianity is actually Paulianity. Of...
With all due respect, this is the sort of narrow labelling and 'fitting things into boxes' type thinking that stifles people's spritiual growth. Even if the Christian God exists, he is not a Christian! Christianity is a humanly constructed set of beliefs, doctrines and theology - just like...
I have been through almost exactly the same experience that you've described here. I was a 'hardcore' atheist / materialist once too. Once this type of experience happens, there is normally no turning back. It's not anything (for me, anyway) that really 'fits' into just one (existing...
This speaks volumes. Narcissism as suspected. If you truly believe you are a messiah, and stand above 'ordinary' men (and women), and truly believe you have evidence for this, then you should visit your Doctor and discuss your experiences, and be prepared for a course of anti-psychotic...
I read your opening post and was prepared to give a heart-felt answer. And then I read your proclaimations that you are Christ. And being a Monist and Nondualist, I thought "well actually, my core belief is that we are all God, we are all filled with the Holy Spirit". And then I read your...
The Bible doesn't comdemn standing outside your neighbours house at 2am playing "Agadoo" (by Black Lace) at max volume, while dancing around in a chicken suite, either.
I guess it's commands aren't exhaustive and some things (perhaps such as the moral questionability of eating other humans) are...
The fundamentalist, literalist, hard right view of Islam is dangerous, .....and likewise those making sweeping generalisms of negativity about Islam are also dangerous. The 'extreme' sides of a debate or cause can rarely influence swift, clean, blood-less change.
As The Buddha, Jesus and...
The God that I have in my life does not judge dead babies (or anyone/thing else).
People who believe or experience God in their lives, don't all share the same view or definitions of what God is to them. That's what makes your question hard to answer.
Conservative Evangelican Christians, who...
I can partially agree, but then the Quran does contain some elements that could be considered morally questionable by today's global standards. Therefore I wouldn't say that it's a perfectly neutral ideology. It has a certain potential or propensity to be a little more prone to attract...
I personally think that Islam, as a whole (let's say as an ideology), would probably hold some responsibility for these terrible acts, in the same way that a Father may feel, if his son had commited murder. The Father would not be legally guilty and in most people's eyes morally guilty of...
Well, you're only speaking of literalists there. No doubt the language of the Bible is in masculine form..... it is, of it's age. Human society on Earth is progressive, and it's naive to look back at times when issues of gender and equality did not even exist in common thought, and to...
It does indeed depend on what we mean by 'true'. Do I believe it's a real historical grouping of documents from the ages that it claims to derive from? ... yes. Do I believe it's the perfect. infallible, exact word of God? ..... lord, no!
The Bible, like all religion, is a human construct...
I disagree.
Proof for or against existance of a god or absolute reality can be neither proven nor disproven by empirical means.
From a standpoint of absolutely reason and logic; the only entirely rational viewpoint in the theism/atheism subject is agnosticism.
Empirically, by means of the...
I don't agree this is a necessary condition for worship.
Non-dualists such as aherents of Advaita Vedanta would not either. The route of the word 'worship' lies in the word 'worth' ; an activity that is 'worthwhile', or 'worthy', 'worth-ship'.
Some of my friends at my local Quaker meeting...
I feel that all religions in the forms they've taken over the last 1500-3000 years could be more or less extinct within 200 years, if they fail to adapt to the intelligence and consciousness of our younger and forthcoming generations.
I am currently reading a book called "God in us: A case for...
None.
Not because of some nice principal that makes me a good person though .... it's simply because I've done it before on other forums, but then I always hit the "You cannot see this post because you have blocked this user - READ ANYWAY" button, 'just to see how bad their post it...
What an excellent gesture, and one that will hopefully bring Christians, Buddhists, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Atheists and every other type of person around here, together for a great cause.
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