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Religion & Spirituality
Welcome To Religion & Spirituality.Here is the place to discuss religious and spiritual matters.
"Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations."
- Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
So why is there so many different religions?.
Is your atheism based on a full and satisfactory appreciation of your understanding of the nature of our apparent reality, or do you possess any doubts on that on which you abandon belief in God?...
Atheists read the Bible and find plenty to criticise it. However it so cleverly written, that there are levels of understanding at so many levels in even the most simple texts. Many texts have been...
Some people equate spirituality with religion....
Weve had our spats on here and biblical apologetics has been done to death. But Im genuinely interested... When you read the Old Testament, what does your conscience say? When you read of God ordering...
J.P. thinks not, and I tend to agree with him,
- a short extract from a longer video;
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https:/ /www.am azon.co .uk/His tory-Go d-Karen -Armstr ong/dp/ 0099273 675 Have had this in my personal library for years and never read it. Just started to read it and it seems that it may be 'heavy duty'....
If a time machine was invented and you could travel back to the time that Jesus walked the Earth (presuming that he did) what question would you ask him as a believer or non-believer of religion?...
I think he bothered that ordinary poor people were getting a bad deal, Sadly, he didn't realise that his attempt to engender kindness in many people would fail - he underestimated the widespread lack...
You wanted a one to one dialogue.
Great.
You have always been respectful. Thank you.
So to begin, I believe in God.
Your response?...
Bible believers (or Koran believers) justify it.......
Why cant people just accept that life is a mystery without inventing religion to account for it? My own personal journey has gone from being a 'born again' teenage Christian to looking into everything...
The constant complaint from the AB religious is why do us non-believers spend time and energy refuting the posts of the religious. (it could be argued why do the religious post things knowing full...
Offended, delighted, favourites? For various reasons, the stage production of the musical ‘Godspell’ is and always will be very special to me; ‘Joseph’ I love - so funny - and who could forget...
How can anybody wanting to worship God or wanting to search for Him ever step into a Roman Catholic Church given their recent revelations about criminal and pervasive sexual abuse with both adults and...
I read some years ago, that a frog, put into a pan of water that is heated up, will get so used to the change in temperature, that it will not try to escape but stay until it dies. Don't know if that...
It seems to me (both on AB and in real life) that the reasons why religious believers and religious doubters differ in their opinions is because of the way that we process information. Either...
//It was written.
It happened.//
But the question is why did it happen?...
I don't want to pop my clogs and miss out on obituaries. So to give me a flavour of what will be written, any chance of letting me know now what will be said? So come on, the nice ones, the horrible...
Does anyone here feel sad that the Catholic church is still in thrall to superstition? Apparently Cardinal Newman is close to beatification following an alleged miracle that he performed. He may even...