Christians believe there are different possibilities for what happens after a person dies. Heaven, Hell, classrooms. Jesus willingly died in some sens...
This is what i said earlier and yes there are alot of Christian denominations and they are in many cases all over the map. "Some christians believe th...
"?christian2017 That was an impressive slide, from liberal apologetics in the OP to whether Jesus was a nicer person than Mohamed... I'm not intereste...
"It’s for no one and no one needs it. Mere “love” of wisdom is akin to porn addiction. " well lets not go that far. Porn addiction has been shown unde...
"Ah, so Islam is immoral as a social system, while Christianity is a moral social system that happens to have a few folk with moral flaws..." i'm not ...
if you say i lack character because this christian did this or that christian did that then you should remember that you can only judge me by my philo...
"You're presupposing enlightenment values -universal basic rights, universal freedoms- as your metric for superiority. As obvious as it seems, it stil...
"And again, if so, then I am still very much the exception to this. I have 9,000 comments here, 12,000 posts on the old forum, and I have spent a grea...
you can get past the rhetoric and the eloquent words of some famous philosopher but at the end of the day some what they say may be true. Even country...
"That's a comforting thought, but I think God got carried away dishing out the suffering. " i wish i could say your wrong but at this point in my life...
i would agree with that. As to how someone progresses from that dilemna i would say we can only control ourselves and i would say out in public or out...
I would argue content people have a tendency of not "stirring the pot" in their own mind but that is not a hard and fast rule that i consider to be tr...
i guess i didn't phrase that quite right but the way i intended to phrase it is that people who use drugs are more likely to end their boredom with so...
as you said if you have something better to do with your time like make the world a better place then i suggest you do something other than philosophi...
this would fall in line with what some call a collective consciensce which is common in alot of religions. In some ways a collective consciense throug...
there is may about it and thats where we disagree. I'd have to read mein kampf and various works by Nietsche and i just haven't gotten around to it. T...
"No: I think the answer is that there probably are aliens. Probability is how we judge the merit of inductive truth, how we differentiate between weak...
"I suppose now that God is dead, and we have killed him, we could aspire to become ubermensch. Do you know of Thus Spoke Zarathustra? It's a book for ...
he does however say many times in the book that we need a new fiction to believe in our modern era that we live in. If we were to take everything in t...
Some of those authors i am familiar with and i find their work severely lacking as to the others i'll have to research them myself and see what they s...
Yeah the fact that you would have to mix the gold or silver i didn't think about that. I need to rewatch that series on "Guns, Germs and Steel" becaus...
I'm not going to discuss the "little" bit of information showing there might be a god but that being said people need to understand that when discussi...
"I would just like to point out that Einstein, Sagan, Feynman and many other scientists identified as agnostics rather than atheists...and those three...
" Under that logic why don't we just sit around on this forum and discuss our favorite type of icecream or what we think is the best color. — christia...
I agree with that statement. I lost the quote but you said something to the effect that modern cosmologists are very often athiests. I'm not going to ...
"As I see it...what we "believe" is nothing more than what we blindly guess about the unknown. Anyone can make a guess at any time...nothing wrong wit...
"Amazon river can manage big boats and if you hug the coasts anybody of water could be used for travel in a large boat. The Vikings initially traveled...
"The laws of math should be invariant across all such universes. I am of the opinion if there are other universes, they will be like this one. They ar...
Amazon river can manage big boats and if you hug the coasts anybody of water could be used for travel in a large boat. The Vikings initially traveled ...
" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actual_infinity Its possible to keep counting indefinitely but even if you do you will never reach infinity (because...
if i add 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 that is 4. If i do the same thing again that is 8. If i die tommorow and never do this process again and at the same time have ...
In early navigation in the old world ships very often hugged (without being too close) the coasts due to its easier to navigate that way and there is ...
Not all christian denominations have used inquisitions. The new testament says that there would be "bad" people that will creep into the congregations...
Some christians believe that god greatly rewards those who are innocent and suffer for their innocence. Jesus for example is the king of the universe ...
i agree. This example of yours is the problem with saying there is no objective truth. As i said before objective truth can be very hard to obtain but...
according to the book "1491" they did smelt some metals such as gold and i think silver and you could technically make weapons and tools out of gold a...
"?Maureen tl;dr: Why is that that not everyone is an agnostic like myself? Those people must be stubborn or stupid. " There is a practicality to relig...
I agree with this but i would like to add that for simple things like does the sky reflect the electro magnetic spectrum (a particular frequency) that...
"Why is that? Must you prove that Donald Trump exists before we will discuss him with you? Every believer (belief in anything, not just God) decides w...
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