Buxtebuddha

Out of nowhere? What does that mean?

What's wrong with this thread and the questions asked?

ACT therapy would be additional. Only so far a good and healthy attitude can get you. Often times physical pain will override sheer positivity.

A better life is one that has facilitated a person more toward actualizing virtue from a position of humility. Christianity accomplishes this more tha...

I've a friend who suffers from debilitating back pain stemming from a spinal injury she suffered some years ago and medical marijuana is the safest, c...

I remain unconvinced that any religion, including Christianity, enables people to live significantly better lives. Until that's the case, I suppose I'...

Find what will you have left and check yourself into rehab, even if you've already been, and even if you don't think it will help.

It's hard for me to even find your argument. Why won't you substantively reply to my last post to you? What's wrong?

You don't find it wrong that an older man has sex with a 12 year old, or a 15 year old, or a 16 year old. This makes you a creep. So, no, I'm not goin...

Okay, I see what you mean, now. Won't change for the better if the Christian standard is evangelical Protestantism. The Catholic Church has already ma...

You're a creep. Why would I not call a spade a spade?

Explain. I don't see what you're getting at here. I mean, what's this thread about, then? Are we wanting to save true believers in Christianity, or ju...

What may or may not be lawful does not make it right or wrong. If you have sex with a child, you are a pedophile, a rapist, and a creep. And if you're...

Why is an examination of Islam's founding and most important prophet, Muhammad, not relevant to a discussion that critiques Islam on the grounds of it...

Fucking wow. This is still child molestation, you creep.

How so? You already said you have no opinion of Muhammad, but you're willing to refute the opinions of others who do critique him? :^/ To play devil's...

Yes, I'm sure you're one of those, "delete philosophy of religion" sorts of people. If this thread irks you so much, leave.

Contrary to this projection of yours, I'm actually contributing to this thread by having reasonable conversation with Agustino, BC, and T Clark. If yo...

Priests did not establish Christianity, however, Jesus Christ did, just as Muhammad founded Islam. As I said, critiquing priests in light of critiquin...

I don't necessarily think there's a clear cut solution to the problem. At the very least I don't think it's prudent for the Catholic church to water d...

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbrc2v61Ph1qablpd.gif Kill the infidels.

If the discussion is about saving Christianity, getting a bunch of evangelical Protestants mucking about doesn't save Christianity or the Catholic Chu...

How many Christians would drop everything and follow Him if He came upon your doorstep? Methinks very few. The idea of Jesus is quite nice, but if the...

I got that sense, but...you sort of prove my point from earlier, that a lot of religious people aren't particularly religious, they just value a sense...

Yes, and I'm sure all Christians drink water, too. I think I'd venture to agree with you here, though I still think it's important to separate x belie...

There's a pretty big difference between not being Catholic and being Catholic, just as there's a huge gulf between Sufism and some other sect of Islam...

Enough of an opinion to suggest that Thinker's characterization of Mohammad was and is an "empty idea" ... Having sex with a child is immoral, whether...

Argue that Muhammad was an upstanding and moral man. If you can't do that, there should be an x in the top of right of your screen which you could per...

I thought you might say that, but you're not Catholic. Nor are the great many mobs that are being evangelized in largely developing countries. Making ...

What is the "Church"?

Plays badminton, wears plaid, jerks off to leftist socialist politicians, hasn't gone to college but reads philosophy, likes cats and coffee...Sappy, ...

I think the religion Mongrel is referring to will look a lot like Noblosh's avatar. Apathetic, bored, passive aggressive, and claiming to have read "t...

As the great George S. Patton once said - I had a fly in the house last week. I'm fairly certain he was deliberately trying to piss me off by dive bom...

I honestly do not remember. Perhaps he wanted to give stick to the faux liberal profs and prove that sidewalks cannot be safe spaces, :B

The difference is that terrorists intend to kill you. A soggy roof or a too-sweet glass of tea does not. Several months ago my university had a studen...

Does heart disease fly planes into buildings, blow themselves up in crowded market squares, run people over with a bus, stab people whilst screaming "...

Are you a douche, obsessed with making fun of the Christian Old Testament, do you think Richard Dawkins represents the real presence of Christ, do you...

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If happy religious people can do evil, then what's the merit in some statistic that asserts the happiness of religious people as being important? I'm ...

Also, I think it it would be entirely reasonable to suggest that Osteen is both a charlatan and a giver of good advice, just as Hitler was an evil man...

And this is exactly how people become jihadists.

I mean it's not original >:O I have heard of it, but haven't been able to go. Perhaps something to do, hmm... And "up" there? Oh dear, do you live in ...

I think Osteen's a pretty reasonable guy if you cut out "God" and "faith" and "prosperity."

Oh, well my mistake, then. My "condescension" senses are usually set to 100% when I'm on this forum, so my first reaction was to be skeptical O:) So, ...

I feel condescension here... :’(

It'd be more interesting if I told you the story about history in general, :-*

And the 76er's were a good basketball team.

Around Halaf, before. I'm talking early.

Sedentary as in a landed class? The landed "class" in the earliest Mesopotamian communities had nearly the most power and social leverage because they...

Because you are the one who claimed that religions are... ...to which I contested, pointing out to you that you've conflated the moral status of a rel...