A common belief and a place you can be yourself. No matter what colour you are you can find like minds everywhere on the globe even if it underground in some places.
It's the trust and safety that binds the people.
More Than Half of Canadians Say Religion is Harmful
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A common belief and a place you can be yourself. No matter what colour you are you can find like minds everywhere on the globe even if it underground in some places.
It's the trust and safety that binds the people.
a place you can be yourself...I would not agree that a church is a place where people can be themselves.
Their repression is planetary in scale.
If the Roman church had got their way, you and I would not be able to read or write. They fought it for centuries, as a matter of fact. The freedoms that you enjoy, the education that you have received are all 100% from Protestantism, specifically from the Lutherans, Methodism, the Presbyterians, Calvinists.
Well, more than half of Canada still believes the Liberal governance is more good than bad for Canada, mostly because Conservatives are often afflicted with religion.
Embrace atheism as a positive virtue in politicians, that is a good way forward.
Embrace atheism as a positive virtue in politicians, that is a good way forward.
The Communist Party of China is officially atheist and an applicant cannot join without professing his atheist faith.
And you know that most Conservatives "are afflicted with religion" because?
That statement doesn't even qualify as mediocre.
Yes it can and the Christian was corrupted as soon as the RCC started using a Latin version of the Bible. There is no way to undo that but why and pretend the rest of the social institutions are just as corrupt rather than thinking religion is the only corrupt one. You have to be full on stupid to think the commercial world is not corrupt as the World Banks or the head on the commercial aspect of society. That would apply even more to politics considering the potential criminal charges that are in the news almost daily.
Yes, ****servatives love religion because they know that religious people are a bit dim and are easily led,so they have whole herds of sheeple ready to be shorn. They don't like Liberals and Atheists because they tend to think for themselves and not be so easily led or scared silly by bullshit.
Ah, I see. A studied, professional observation. Thank you, professor.
The only people on this board that are dim witted are the ones who make statements that they cannot back up. They say silly things because they are vindictive. The trouble is, the slow ones can never cite from a reliable source.
The best way for them to circumvent 'the stupid' is to preface their statement(s) with an "in my opinion" or "I Think...".
The only people on this board that are dim witted are the ones who make statements that they cannot back up. They say silly things because they are vindictive. The trouble is, the slow ones can never cite from a reliable source.
The best way for them to circumvent 'the stupid' is to preface their statement(s) with an "in my opinion" or "I Think...".
Like your bullshit assessment of my mental state. You can't backup your statements because you haven't a clue who I am or what I know. You just mirror your own psychosis, passing it off on someone else cuz you ain't got the balls to own it.
My gospel doesn't say anything about gold, except give unto Caesar what is Caesar's and unto God what is God's.. and that the rich are going to have to get their camel through the eye of a needle to get into heaven.
Doesn't say anything about race or ethnicity. It does say something about gender, natural law, marriage and about respect for life.. but we've decided that God abridges our 'freedoms' with His rules.. even as we become enslaved to trivial gratifications & distractions and our institutions collapse into absurdity around us.
As far as homosexuality goes.
Paul in Romans 1:26-27
For this reason [idolatry] God gave them up to passions of dishonour; for even their females exchanged the natural use for that which is contrary to nature, and likewise also the males, having left the natural use of the female, were inflamed by their lust for one another, males with males, committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the recompense which was fitting for their error.
Seems pretty clear to me.. but what does God know.. the Western zeitgeist has decided its above all this. And it dances into the night with the barbarians at the gate, the masque of the red death in our midst.
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I'm going with "not much" given that it created sinful creatures and then punishes them for being what it created. creates intelligent creatures but doesn't want his creations to use it. Says those creatures have free will, but punishes said creatures when they use their free will.
created a planet where our heat and light source also cause cancer...
can't show itself except obscurely. Can't get a book written in a language that would be understood by it's creations.
god know nothing...almost like it's made up by man..,..LOL
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When a perfectionist makes something, is it always made perfect right at the beginning or is it made 'very good' and then run to see if it breaks and when it breaks that is repaired before it is considered to be perfected?
That question alone is enough to challenge you claim that God is not a perfectionist. If He made this world perfect there would be no need for a perfected world, one where Adam and Eve know about good and evil and are still alive. Why do you have an objection to people becoming immortal (rather than eternal) and sinless rather than in a position that temptation to sin can exist.
Would the immortal and sinless people that lived for 1,000 years see any use in them being witnesses to God sending millions of fallen angels to the fiery lake in that they just became as powerful as angels and come under the same law that angels were under when they sinned in Ge:6?
Those are not trick questions.
That question alone is enough to challenge you claim that God is not a perfectionist. If He made this world perfect there would be no need for a perfected world, one where Adam and Eve know about good and evil and are still alive. Why do you have an objection to people becoming immortal (rather than eternal) and sinless rather than in a position that temptation to sin can exist.
Would the immortal and sinless people that lived for 1,000 years see any use in them being witnesses to God sending millions of fallen angels to the fiery lake in that they just became as powerful as angels and come under the same law that angels were under when they sinned in Ge:6?
Those are not trick questions.
If a earth that is to last forever is in the future would that be what a perfectionist had in mind all along and it is you and others that are bitching that it is a flawed world shows their own imperfection that will be repaired before a person sets foot in the new earth.
Isa:66:22:
For as the new heavens and the new earth,
which I will make,
shall remain before me,
saith the LORD,
so shall your seed and your name remain.
'Will make' is different than 'have made', true or false?
Isa:66:22:
For as the new heavens and the new earth,
which I will make,
shall remain before me,
saith the LORD,
so shall your seed and your name remain.
'Will make' is different than 'have made', true or false?
What does your Bible say about nationality and national boundaries?
when we consider when it was written, how do we know it's not fulfilled at least partially by now?
Look at modern internet technology today.
The thing that always amuses me about the followers of the cult of Joshua Josephson, apprentice carpenter and itinerant preacher without credentials, is that they love to piss and moan about how Muzzies follow the cult of a seventh-century barbarian while they follow the cult of a first-century barbarian. Well, that and their reliance on a former government official using a fake name.
Nations are a recurrent theme in the Bible as a primary, integral and essential human governmental organization. The one i like is in Acts.. but there are many that reflect the same theme.
Acts 17:26Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
And he made from one every nation of men to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their habitation.
Muslims tend to agree with Christians on homosexuality, but are far more ruthless in the prescription. They are much more tolerant of beastiality, though. Different and irreconcilable credos of natural law, human obligation and destiny i'm afraid.
What does it matter? The message of the Gospels is crystal-clear: coldstream's god ordered him to love others without reservation or qualification. Instead, he cherry-picks his own sacred writings to support his fear and hate. He feeds not the hungry, gives no drink to the thirsty, clothes not the naked, comforts not the sick nor visits the imprisoned.
He above all people should hope his bible is wrong, for Matthew 25:31-46 sentences him to eternal damnation.
I think a more accurate interpretation is He instructed us to hate the sin and love the sinner. That conflicts with the modern interpretation of love the sin and make the sinner a designated 'victim' worthy of celebration by way of the sin.