"but have you considered there is more to life than your eyelids?"
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Dreamin is still how the strong survive
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New Hampshire has a point....
Written by: Mr Majestik
for example, god cleanesed the earth allowing only noahs family to live, why? because people had turned away from him, this could be an example of a majority of people not being believers, even before other recorded history began.
Fair luna bright, fair luna moon
it shines at night but fades too soon
fair luna moon, fair luna bright
forever we dance
we dance under starlight
Keep your dream alive
Dreamin is still how the strong survive
Shalom VeAhavah
New Hampshire has a point....
Written by: Kyrian
Nor are christianity and judaism basically the same thing
Fair luna bright, fair luna moon
it shines at night but fades too soon
fair luna moon, fair luna bright
forever we dance
we dance under starlight
"but have you considered there is more to life than your eyelids?"
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Written by: Kyrian
Nor are christianity and judaism basically the same thing
the best smiles are the ones you lead to
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
Written by: UnbeatenChampionOfFightingWritten by: Mr Majestik
for example, god cleanesed the earth allowing only noahs family to live, why? because people had turned away from him, this could be an example of a majority of people not being believers, even before other recorded history began.
Actually.... God was reported to have done that. The Bible cant be undeniably proven as either Fact or Fiction for a very long time, possibly ever.
According to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle of Quantum Dynamics, we may already be making love right now...
Keep your dream alive
Dreamin is still how the strong survive
Shalom VeAhavah
New Hampshire has a point....
Written by: jeff(fake)
From the evidence it's extremely unlikely that the bible is literaly true. A world-wide flood and a pan-species popultion bottleneck would have to have left some kind of trace especially if it happened only three thousand years ago or so.
Written by: jeff(fake)
A thousand years or so ago god would have been the only explanation for a myriad of phenomena so it would have been a perfectly rational exlanation, perhaps more so than disbelief.
the best smiles are the ones you lead to
Empty your mind. Be formless, Shapeless, like Water.
Put Water into a cup, it becomes the cup, put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, put water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot.
Water can flow, or it can Crash.
Be Water My Friend.
the best smiles are the ones you lead to
Written by: Mr Majestik
basically i've been thinking for a while how many people talk about the dominance of religion, how in history people were generally more religious than they are now.
Pele
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If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh
According to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle of Quantum Dynamics, we may already be making love right now...
If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh
According to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle of Quantum Dynamics, we may already be making love right now...
Written by: Leaning_Towards_Corruption
If the huge flood, noah etc story were true, that would make everybody in the world descended from inbreds... Hell, if Adam and Eve were the first man and woman, surely the population after them would be so inbred, that it would have developed such disability and defect that it would've died out any way, not to mention that they only had two sons, Cain and Abel... doesn't it take a man and a woman to breed? I agree with UCoF, it is the best selling Story book of all time, but in my opinion, to follow it as a religion, is kinda like forming a religion from the hit cartoon, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors.
According to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle of Quantum Dynamics, we may already be making love right now...
Keep your dream alive
Dreamin is still how the strong survive
Shalom VeAhavah
New Hampshire has a point....
Written by: Patriach917
The idea that everything has a natural explanation is a philosophical choice. To teach it as a scientific fact which supports one theory of origin over another is inappropriate in a science class.
Written by: Patriarch917
the fact that the favored view is taught as “science” while a competing view is not given the same treatment shows that even a non-supernatural religion held by the powerful results in circumstance similar to the historic examples given by other posts.
Written by: Patriarch917
A good example to consider is the man who proposed that if doctors washed their hands it might prevent disease. This theory conflicted with the popular science of the time, and was derided.
After much consideration, I find that the view is worth the asphyxiation.
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Written by: Mr Majestik
ok, first of all i'd like to say this thread is not for bagging religion, there are many other threads where you can feel free to critique religion as you please.
basically i've been thinking for a while how many people talk about the dominance of religion, how in history people were generally more religious than they are now. i have a problem with this belief.
Written by: MrMajestik
because whereever i look in history i can see the likelyhood that there were many non-believers of the dominant religion of their time.
Written by: Mr. Majestik
for example, god cleanesed the earth allowing only noahs family to live, why? because people had turned away from him, this could be an example of a majority of people not being believers, even before other recorded history began.
Written by: MrMajestik
Next is Buddha, siddartha was raised as a hindu as far as i know, yet he turned away from that faith and sought other knowledge, with many people slowly joining him, showing that at least some people must have doubted that religion. The time of christ, where pagans seem rampant according to the bible. The spread of islam, where wars were started to spread the faith to non-believers.
the middleages, where people are labeled witches and burnt at the stake for alledgedly practicing witchcraft instead of christianity.
nowadays, where science is the reason for people to turn away from religion (i mean this in a general way, i believe that science can support religion) and people are saying that not as many people believe in religions anymore.
Written by: Mr.Majestik
basically i get the feeling that there has always been a silent group of doubters all over the world, but seeing as it has often been major religions that keep recorded history that silent group has gone somewhat unnoticed. i think when people say there are less religious people now they are incorrect, i think that there has always been many believers and also many non-believers
what do you guys think?
the best smiles are the ones you lead to
If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh
According to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle of Quantum Dynamics, we may already be making love right now...
Written by: jeff(fake)
Also you've become confused on the subject of teaching creationism in America. It can be taught, but not in a science class on the rather obvious grounds that it isn't science.
Pele
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"Oooh look! A pub!" -exclaimed after recovering from a stupid fall
"And for the decadence of art, nothing beats a roaring fire." -TMK
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Old school creationism states that all this evidence was fabricated by god to test our faith and there isn't any way to argue with that except philosophicaly with plausibility”
If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh
Written by: jeff(fake)
Creationism without quasi science is at least logicaly consistant. The fact of the matter is that there is a large bulk of mutualy supporting evidence that the earth is about 6 billions years old and life has been evolving since that time. Old school creationism states that all this evidence was fabricated by god to test our faith and there isn't any way to argue with that except philosophicaly with plausability.
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