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ChristianityCatholic Churches feel grim
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The reason a lot of Catholic churches are grim is because Catholicism revolves around suffering and poverty. Catholicism is a serious religion and never takes itself joyfully, and, when you look back... |
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IslamThe Qur'an
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Firstly, there are no accurate accounts of Muslims forcing anyone to convert before, during, or well after the Crusades. The religious incursions into Christians lands were accomplished in one manner,... |
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Emotions & FeelingsExercises In Vulnerability
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I've been through a few bad years, various life jokes sent to kick me in the arse and test me to the absolute limit. My kids keep me going but you know what, you're right, life is one big le... |
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Life & DeathLife: Is it now? Is it then? Is it to come?
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I started reading this and was fairly impressed. Very sophisticated thoughts I thought for someone so young. And then I started to get bored because there was just so much of it!! First of all... |
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God in ReligionIf god exist why doesn't he show himself to the world?
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I dont realy believe that there is such a thing as god... I believe that there is something out there, something that we humans call GOD .... but I dont think that god is some guy walking on clouds wh... |
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God in ReligionWhy would god need worship?
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God doesn't need worship. People do (IMO). It serves toward the end of creating community where almost none can be found this day and age. It also serves to concretize speculation into dogma. Peo... |
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ChristianityWhy is jesus story so powerful
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The reason Jesus story is so powerful is because it is the Truth.
We have been created to know this truth and when you find it you will know it.
It is not by good works that we get to heaven tha... |
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Religion & HumanityThe Meaning of Living
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I was adopted at 2 and raised in a strict Southern Baptist family in a rural town in the heart of the U.S. My family and I attended church every Sunday morning, Sunday evening, and Wednesday nights. I... |
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Religion & HumanityThe True Religion?
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Dreamer, check out Deut 2:34. God commands Moses to commit mass murder. This is graphically depicted, and Moses is quite thorough by killing "the little ones" also. Now thats a god we should... |
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SpiritualityI'm think I'm losing faith in God.
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First off, I'd like to say that this situation you find yourself in is one that thousands and thousands of people find themselves in on a day to day basis. To me, praying and reading the bible do... |
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Religion & HumanityAll Religions are paths to god
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History shows that since even the Didache which was written during the time of the Apostles that the belief of the Cross, death and resurrection are IMPORTANT beliefs in the whole reason for the Bible... |
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LawAbortion
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my opinion is the government or church or ne one has the right to ban it but ppl should be more careful as to what their doing if you didn't want a kid u should have used protection or not spread... |
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Law & GovernmentCan law and justice be maintained without religion
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S ocial_contract
Most religions stem from this theory and then they add in their agenda.
The social contract alone is enough to promote law and order.
Come on, mos... |
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Religion & HumanityReal Religion Or Cult?
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I like what Decius said - but add.
A religion inspires you while a cult controls you. They will use fear, pier pressure and intimadation.
While I'm not real familiar with Rastafarian. My wi... |
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Life & DeathAFTER DEATH
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Melkor - I believe in heaven because I believe I've been there. I remember before I was born. But I could not stay there, I had to come down here.
I had a dream that I was a bank robber, after... |
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ChristianityWas Christ really resurrected?
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You would think, but look what happened.
Everything you just said, was speculation, assumption, and flat out wrong.
Everyday people fight for different sides of equally witnessed and accounted... |
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ConspiracyExcerpt: Mainline U.S. Church Publishes Book That Claims U.S. Government Was Behind 9/11
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Submitted by rob on Sun, 2006-08-13 16:49.
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)'s publishing arm has released a book that says President Bush organized New York's Sept. 11 attacks.
The dec... |
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Are man made things to be trusted?
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Morales are part of our fibre we know what is good and bad at least when the situation is clear-cut We do not necesarily need religion to provide that for us. But religion for years did a fair job of... |
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ChristianityBlessed Are The Peace Makers
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I think you need to study Ghandi again. Though he was maybe closer to the Hindu faith, he wouldn't claim it either. Many people would ask him, and he would tell them that he belonged to no religi... |
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ChristianityI've searched everywhere for the true church,
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the true church is within yourself... not withing organized religion, stay away from organized religion... organized religion is evil.
ask yourself... "what do I believe" with your answer... |
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Quantum questions
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The Hawaiian religion that was outlawed by the Catholic Church - Can't remember the name, but, they claimed that they could predict the future and even change it through their dreams. They knew w... |
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Religion & HumanityReligion has history
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[But man is man...and shall never be equal to Christ and God the Father...and this is why we need to go to church!]
Huh? Excuse me? Thats it, I can't stand it.
Christianity is a false religi... |
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LawEvolution vs Creationism
19 Posts • 6353 Views Politics & Current Events Forum |
Should Creationism or "Intelligent Design" be taught in schools? Should students be informed on the different views of how life began or is Intelligent Design simply not science? If so, shou... |
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ChristianityDo You Want to be a Christian?
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I would like to be a christian, but at a lot of the churches i've went to they've critized gay people, people who read like vampire novels, etc... and tell us or preach to us that we will go... |
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Religion & HumanityGrand Religious Theories
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730 - your dissagreement is noted
Fin - Ofcourse you know we don't know, we're all guessing here, so the best I can give you is my best guess, and this is based on memories, dreams and it... |
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