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  1. Mary Blackchurch

    Why is Christ's sacrifice needed?

    If this was not gods purpose then he failed. If it was all because of Adam, then it was Adam who needed forgiveness. If you do something against the law should your son go to prison for it? Also, if Christ's sacrifice is something you must accept in in order to be in his favour, then he's not...
  2. Mary Blackchurch

    Hi Guys

    Hello S.T. Ranger!
  3. Mary Blackchurch

    What attracts people to the spiritual?

    What religions would those be? Here's a chart of world religions: http://www.religionfacts.com/big-religion-chart Which of those does not address an afterlife? Which of those do you think other animal tribes might ponder? I realise the latter part of that was a bit of a strawman, but I...
  4. Mary Blackchurch

    What attracts people to the spiritual?

    I think it's the fear of death. I doubt other animals worry so relentlessly about it.
  5. Mary Blackchurch

    Is Christianity logical?

    What could be more logical? How about skipping the middleman and never introducing sin and evil? Just take away the sin, god, take away the evil. But noooo. He's got to insert a talking serpent, dancing satyr, unicorn, parted Red Sea, invisibly raped virgin, man-god son birth, etc., next on...
  6. Mary Blackchurch

    Any Atheists Ever Had A "Spiritual" Experience?

    I have more "spiritual" experiences as an atheist than I did as a theist. The problem I may have had with my theism is that I was constantly looking for something magically spiritual, i.e. like the regrowth of limbs or eyesight regained by a blind person. But I realise now that it isn't...
  7. Mary Blackchurch

    How Much of a Theist or Atheist are You?

    I agree to leave a smidgen of room. I am an aleprechaunist, too. I am quite certain that leprechauns don't kiss the Blarney Stone at the end of the rainbow or dance around wee pots of gold. But I do leave room for a smidgen of doubt. After all, that folklore came from somewhere! So, someone...
  8. Mary Blackchurch

    What are your thoughts about the Catholic Church?

    I actually voted that I dislike the church because there was no button for "ambivalent" - which is more accurate for me. I still both love her, and dislike her. I still love the pomp and circumstance and all the beauty that goes with that for me personally, but I resent the abuse of power when...
  9. Mary Blackchurch

    Who was the most influential person to walk the earth?

    It's a geographical question mainly, but not entirely. If we really think about the beginning of things; the beginning of connecting the world and peoples, I would say Nikola Tesla. I guess his prophet (who also didn't always agree with him) would have been Thomas Edison. But I write that...
  10. Mary Blackchurch

    Your thoughts on ''mediums?''

    They are convincing because that's their livelihood. You can't be a good sales person without a good pitch. If it's a gift, it's certainly a "gift" that keeps on asking for more money. Charlatans all.
  11. Mary Blackchurch

    Why do you care?

    I don't care about what people believe so long as their not peddling it for me to believe. I mean, I don't have a problem with the Amish - and they're pretty fundamentalist in their behaviour. I don't care. No one worries about quakers. They don't peddle their beliefs. I do care that...
  12. Mary Blackchurch

    Why do people hate Muslims?

    I think it's the most hateful of all. It's just more covert since The Reformation - which is ironic, because a reformation is exactly what Islam needs but I doubt will ever have. Nonetheless, Christianity has been the worst thing to ever happen to the world imo. Chrisianty is like the mafia...
  13. Mary Blackchurch

    Why do people hate Muslims?

    Oh, I don't know about that. Islam supports the governing law of Shari'ah because it is the law of Allah. To support any other governing laws is not acceptable to them because it means turning their back on their god...something they should never do. That's often their argument after bombing...
  14. Mary Blackchurch

    Why will our lives be better if there was no Religion.

    I agree, and that's really evident since Trump became president. I guess my point was/is that the religious tend to always win. Even Roe v. Wade - an already legally established civil right, is still being fought by religious people. And they just may end up winning with the republican...
  15. Mary Blackchurch

    Why will our lives be better if there was no Religion.

    Thank you for that insight. But hasn't the US always been a bit puritanically hypocritical? I am talking about way back during the Salem Witch Trials, etc. I also read Thomas Paine's The Age Of Reason when I was fence sitting on my Catholicsm (and happy to have left), and I remember that he...
  16. Mary Blackchurch

    Why will our lives be better if there was no Religion.

    A better way to view the question would be how the world would have looked without ever having had religions. Russia, the US and China have other problems. Only one of those nations is truly "religious", that is to say, governed by the religious peoples. The United States, and it's ultimate...
  17. Mary Blackchurch

    The FLOOD, God's Great Failure?

    What gives anyone a moral authority? Particularly when that "authority" comes from an antiquated book where a deity supposedly loves his children and yet punishes them by drowning them. And you wish to throw out a red herring about abortion? :tearsofjoy: C'mon. Let me be the first...
  18. Mary Blackchurch

    The FLOOD, God's Great Failure?

    I think I understand it better than you since the very unrighteousness you're speaking of still exists as I had already pointed out. :tearsofjoy:
  19. Mary Blackchurch

    The FLOOD, God's Great Failure?

    :tearsofjoy::tearsofjoy::tearsofjoy: And one could easily argue, if they believe this nonsense, that he certainly does! But that doesn't make it right. You can do whatever you want with your children, too. But don't you think not watching them suffer would be better? God is a joke. I'd...
  20. Mary Blackchurch

    The FLOOD, God's Great Failure?

    First of all, it never happened. But as the story goes- yes! It was a big failure on god's part. Right up there with setting up two people in the garden of Eden (which was perfect except for the roaming serpent that was permitted thus making it imperfect:eek:), and then framing them for what...
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