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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
: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...
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...