Okay, this has gone along the paths of mixed meanings long enough. The term faith is not a specific enough term to use in this discussion. Faith...
Actually, if you go back a few decades and compare Playboy to some of the stuff on ABC, then you have a pretty good match. But since the definition...
Vizzini: I can't compete with you physically, and you're no match for my brains. Westley: You're that smart? Vizzini: Let me put it this way....
Jesus and pre-Jesus-like characters The problem with any argument about the story of Jesus coming from some other culture, is that Christianity...
I read tiassas post in a recent thread about television violence, and would have liked to fork the thread there, but since this board does not...
Sin and judgement Lamsa's view is that sin is just error and there is no need to have someone atone for. The whole thrust of the Bible is that...
okay, Xev's purpose is for the Wings to win the Stanley cup... not quite a universal purpose-of-humanity statement, but everyone's entitled to their...
Actually what I would like to know. What I want to know from the atheists here is if you believe there is a purpose to life that is universal to...
For spiritual type I got 90, "Candidate for Clergy" And for faith I got: 1. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (100%) so, that...
jihad and "defense" The odd thing is the interpretation of the word "defense". It could mean in defense of your life, but that is obviously not...
Thank you Xev, Adam, and jjhlk (who must have made his screenname by hitting random keys on the right side of the keyboard) For proving my point....
Logic cannot explain feelings. It cannot explain the love felt when a couple gets engaged, or the grief felt after a person dies. Those experiences...
What about the guy who wrote, "Why I am not a Muslim" (in the same vein as Bertrand Russel)? He is now a secular humanist, not a Christian. I think...
Lies. Yeah. As a kid who grew up in a primarily atheist/Unitarian family, I have come to believe that the lies were on the side of the atheists....
apologies in advance Were the angles obtuse to want to rape? Maybe they wanted acute girl.... Maybe some of the angles were right and wanted...
If Israelis are bent on Muslim destruction, then why does the dome of the rock stand on their holiest of holies? If Israel is so bad, then why did...
Good discussion. I was wanting to put Christianity and the Crusades in perspective, and it has been done very well. Xev There is only one...
I was talking about the non-Christian death penalty instated by Rome. This goes along with the other widely instituted religious bigotry and murder...
By the way, your quote from Titus was not about Jews, but a spinter sect of Christians who were trying to have Christians follow all of Jewish law...
I took modern world history from a Muslim, and these facts were all stated--although sugar-coated--in the class as true. And as far as your...
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