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    Why won't God go away?

    Yesterday upon the stair I met a man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today I wish, I wish he'd go away That verse by Hughes Mearns reminds me of "God"... At least from the time of Darwin and then Nietzsche, we have known that "God" is either redundant or dead, in the sense that there is...
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    Where is the account?

    If "God is love" (1 John 4:8) and "Love...keeps no record of wrongs" (1 Corinthians 4:4,5) against what are the living and the dead to be judged? (Matthew 25: 32,33; John 5:29; Romans 14:10; Revelation 11:18)
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    Who's your running mate?

    Suppose you were going to run for election as President of the United States of RF - which RFer would you choose as your running mate - and why? I'm going with @Revoltingest because he will appeal to the haggis lovers better than Boris did the other day:
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    Pantheism - a foundation for unity?

    Sydney Religious Studies Lecturer, Raphael Lataster, suggests that a pantheistic model of deity may be a more fertile basis (than, for example, a monotheistic revealed religion) on which religious "unity" and cooperation might be founded. In a recent paper he writes: "The clear lack of dogmatic...
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    All's fair in love and proselytizing

    OK - so you have a strong religious faith that you wholeheartedly believe would benefit everyone to know about...like Peter and John in the Book of Acts you simply "cannot stop speaking about the things we have seen and heard" (Acts of the Apostles 4:20). You sincerely believe that "necessity is...
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    Purple cow fallacy

    I never saw a purple cow I never hope to see one If you can't prove there's no such thing There certainly must be one What is the logical fallacy here?
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    Davidic Covenant - conditional or unconditional?

    About 3000 years or so ago, according to tradition, God made a promise to King David that is recorded in 2 Samuel 7:8-17. Through Nathan the Prophet, God tells David "I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build an...
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    Ode to ignorance

    Picking up on the idea in @bobhikes ' thread here: Born this way a New understanding. I am introducing a new religion which I want to call "ignorantism" - not because I want to promote ignorance (quite the contrary), but because I think human ignorance should be properly acknowledged and be...
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    Religious fervor or mental illness?

    Discussions in another thread prompt me to post this. First, a link to a Scientific American article addressing the question: How Do You Distinguish between Religious Fervor and Mental Illness? I know I'm skating on thin ice with many even approaching this subject, but I have a sneaking...
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    Mapping Reality

    This is a blog post I wrote a few years back and I realized that it was kind of pertinent to some off-topic diversions in another thread - so I'm posting it as a new thread...feel free to comment on, criticize or tear to shreds any part of it you like - or don't like... Mapping Reality...
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    Do animals grieve?

    In another thread this off-topic topic came up. Of course we do not see animals performing elaborate funeral rites as humans do but these are really just well-developed community-, language- and technology-based responses to death that we would expect to observe in humans much more than other...
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    Define my religion

    Please note this is not a call out, but in another thread, quite a few people have objected to my definition of a certain - let me call it - way of thinking. I suspect that this objection is partly because the perception is that I have an opposing religious view. I'm not sure that I do and to be...
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    Why atheism entails the possibility of God

    Here's an essay I wrote a few years ago. Sorry its a bit long - but feel free to tear my argument to shreds... The following partial definitions of atheism and materialism are taken from the American Atheists web pages: Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts...
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