Why are many Christians so intolerant of other religions and spiritual paths?
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Drumming, like chanting, can take you places, spiritual realms. The African drummers I play with are pretty good. On some nights we can reach a harmonic state that the resonance creates something that sounds like voices singing in the background. I have heard them too with the native drum group. It is quite a high when you reach that level of synchronicity. I like listening to Buddhist monks chanting too. It is like hearing the harmonics of the galaxies. It opens up channels in the brain that rarely get opened. Gregorian chants can do the same.
I asked you first. But anyway, I'd say all of them are born without having sinned.
So you can't name a sin that newborns commit. Yet according to you, others, and your Bible say that humans are born sinners. I call BS .... again. lol An entire species was changed from having stuff such as long because your god got pissy about Adam eating an apple. If that isn't about an irrational revenge upon an entire race because of one man's screwup, I have no idea what is.
It is snarky, immature, angry, irrational, etc.
....... and about which biblical scholars have been arguing contexts ever since it was written. If everything in it was so clear, there'd be no arguments.
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Ah, but women take the fall because it was Eve that tempted Adam. I have heard it said that the pain of child birth is the payment for her part in original sin. It is confounding to me, but women are the greatest proponents of these religions that oppress women. It is a dichotomy that is completely baffling.
wow...... and both of ya's complain about the Bible being taken literal, and here ya's are, taking the Bible literal.
I'm not taking it literally. I'm just repeating what some literalists believe about it. It confounds me how they can believe a loving god would do such a thing.
Just can't help but avoiding the topic and posting about other posters, huh.
But anyway, explain with examples, please.
I haven't avoided the topic at all. I don't think Christians are any more intolerant than anyone else, including yourself. I just find it hilarious how one can complain about the Bible being taken literally and then use a literal translation in an argument.
"it's a fairy tale when you use it, but I can use it when ever it suits my agenda".
Perhaps, I sure hope so. When I think of a Christian I think of a couple of old ladies, one my great aunt and the other my friend's grandmother, just quiet who read their Bible every day, minded their own business, and didn't criticise anyone. They followed the Golden Rule.
Bible-Thumping Bumpkins Make Buddhist's Life Hell at La. Public School
Perhaps you've never heard of Sabine Parish, Louisiana, up on the Texas border. It's most famous as the birthplace of Christopher Columbus Nash, who created the White League, a Christian white men's club like the KKK, except its members weren't anonymous. Old habits apparently die hard.
The ACLU is suing the parish school superintendent, as well as a principal and teacher at Negreet High School, alleging that they essentially turned the K-through-12 school into a Christian theocracy that tormented a Thai-born Buddhist child at every opportunity.
More: Bible-Thumping Bumpkins Make Buddhist's Life Hell at La. Public School
Perhaps you've never heard of Sabine Parish, Louisiana, up on the Texas border. It's most famous as the birthplace of Christopher Columbus Nash, who created the White League, a Christian white men's club like the KKK, except its members weren't anonymous. Old habits apparently die hard.
The ACLU is suing the parish school superintendent, as well as a principal and teacher at Negreet High School, alleging that they essentially turned the K-through-12 school into a Christian theocracy that tormented a Thai-born Buddhist child at every opportunity.
More: Bible-Thumping Bumpkins Make Buddhist's Life Hell at La. Public School
and your point is....what? That you can find **** heads? Good for you. Here, let me remind you what you said earlier
Gerry, who asked me to start this thread? I found this article on a Buddhist friend's Facebook page. I thought it fitted in with the OP and something I would like to see those who requested this topic address. Take a deep breath and count to ten.
I'd like to hear that. Music and rhythm have great emotional power. I've had similar experiences with one of my sisters, a consummate musician with a voice like... well, I dunno how to characterize it. It's formally called a coloratura, she can sing anywhere from high soprano to low tenor, with what our mother, who was operatically trained and knew what she was talking about, once described as a wild, gypsy quality, and I'm not a bad baritone. One night with our mother at the lake, in what proved to be the final summer of her life, we did an impromptu concert, two guitars and our two voices, we sang up every song we knew, from our adolescence in the folk scene in the late 1960s to contemporary stuff from Loreena McKennit, Deep Dark Woods and Old Crow Medicine Show. Took about four hours. One of my favourite memories.
And, harmonies are all about you in your neck of the woods.
USCC Senior Doukhobor Choir - 1964 - Степь да степь кругом - YouTube
Ah, yes, the Doukhobors. I have lived among them. Very interesting people. There are a lot of them in the Slocan Valley, not so many in Nakusp..