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I think the only thing that really annoys me (apart from people trying to force feed beliefs), is when people 'pick and mix' with religion.

There was this holy roller in highschool who had such a higher than thou attitude, yet she smoked and got pissed pretty much every weekend AND got knocked up at 16.

Isn't sex before marriage a rather big thing in Christianity?

Next time anyone has a chance to talk to their loving god please remember to mention how much I appreciate the fact that gunpowder is less expensive to make than butter.

As for me, the only reasonable relationship that I can see with god is the one expoused by Roy Batty.

I understand what you all of saying. Being open minded is accepting others of course. However, I am not merely set in my ways as you think. I go to a Bible College where there is many, many different Christian denominations and you have to be open minded. As for me, I have never really been able to understand the whole evolutionary theory. As for Buddism and Hinduism, they are two different religions. In my above post regarding sacrifices and burning incences, I was merely trying to point out what used to be done in the ancient times. I was not referring to any religion. I was pointing to the fact that in the ancient times many of those gods were false that people were burning the incense for.

Oh so what proof do you have that old gods were false gods?

many of the ancient peoples were polytheistic and worshipped many different gods. If you look at the tribes in Ethopia and Egypt or even in the Natives cultures. Many of these people worshipped gods of the earth and of the skies. They had a god for a different area. Which seems cool but I am referring to the people worshipping different icons or idols. I mean who wants to bow before a statue.

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Originally posted by newtotrance many of the ancient peoples were polytheistic and worshipped many different gods. If you look at the tribes in Ethopia and Egypt or even in the Natives cultures. Many of these people worshipped gods of the earth and of the skies. They had a god for a different area. Which seems cool but I am referring to the people worshipping different icons or idols. I mean who wants to bow before a statue.

idk, you tell me

while we're on the subject, who wants to bow down before anything?

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Originally posted by newtotrance I understand what you all of saying. Being open minded is accepting others of course. However, I am not merely set in my ways as you think. I go to a Bible College where there is many, many different Christian denominations and you have to be open minded. As for me, I have never really been able to understand the whole evolutionary theory. As for Buddism and Hinduism, they are two different religions. In my above post regarding sacrifices and burning incences, I was merely trying to point out what used to be done in the ancient times. I was not referring to any religion. I was pointing to the fact that in the ancient times many of those gods were false that people were burning the incense for.

I wouldn't necessarily say that being open minded is accepting others. You can accept others even if you radically oppose their views for no reason, but don't confront them about it. When confronted with an argument, an open minded individual would not hold steadfast to their position, but rather learn about the opposing argument, and then make a decision. You believe in God, the holy trinity, etc, and you believe anyone who says otherwise is wrong. that, my friend, is not being open minded

When did I say everyone else were wrong?

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Originally posted by newtotrance When did I say everyone else were wrong?

well every post i've seen you make here on TA suggests that you believe your religion to be the 'correct' one, am i right?
its all in the way you phrased things dear...compare:
i believe there is a god.
-to-
there is a god.

which one of those sounds more like you?

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Originally posted by mezzir its all in the way you phrased things dear...compare: i believe there is a god. -to- there is a god. which one of those sounds more like you?

word
noone wants to hear you preaching, just your point of view
unless you are tom cruise then you are clearly right

Tom Cruise - being right - well let's proclaim him a god. That would be brillant to see.

Well let's see how to start this off - I believe in the Christian God yes - and my beliefs do not have to be the only solitary thing that the world follows. I just find that believing in anything such as Scientology or other forms of religious tradition very hard to fathom. I myself was brought up in a Christian home and in a Christian church but I also grew up in the public school system and I have friends that all follow their own beliefs. However, to draw the attention back to peace and harmony - isn't all of humanity to try and get all with each other despite of what each other's beliefs are?

Science = the answer to the "How?"
Religion = the answer to the "Why?"

and imo religion should remain something personnal

(sorry, i havent read the whole thread so this post might be pointless )

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isn't all of humanity to try and get all with each other despite of what each other's beliefs are?

It's funny that you say that. Some religions preach that some others' beliefs are not the right ones and therefore should be persecuted for such. From all the bad things I've heard about being done in the name of religion, I would say that one of the main problems of religion is that no one wants to try and get along if you don't believe what I do. I see the fanatacism that accompanies any serious religion as a horrible thing. Bottom line in some cases, it is akin to brainwashing and that's just bad. (sorry for sounding like an eight year old)

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Originally posted by newtotrance I just find that believing in anything such as Scientology or other forms of religious tradition very hard to fathom.

See, this is exactly what he meant.

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Originally posted by NomadaNare Well why do you believe in God, that's always been a curiousity for me. A lot of people ask, "well why dont you ...?" but nobody asks "why do you ...?"

pretty much the same reason people don't. Non-logic I look at the world, complexity of life, how crazily interlocked everything is, diversity...standing on top of a mountain at 3am watching the sun hit off another mountain thousands of feet taller and hundreds of miles away...

People usually have a philosophy of "this is all too amazing" or "This all sucks" and then base their logical approaches to it. Its one of the few things in life where the roof would still be there even if all the foundations are gone.

Im just in the "lifes too cool, there has to be a God camp"

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Originally posted by Orbax pretty much the same reason people don't. Non-logic I look at the world, complexity of life, how crazily interlocked everything is, diversity...standing on top of a mountain at 3am watching the sun hit off another mountain thousands of feet taller and hundreds of miles away...

Those are purely emotive reasons, not logical ones. Beauty is a subjective thing. If we're both standing on top of that mountain looking at the sunrise, you see god's work - and I see a giant ball of hydrogen and helium shining light over a world full of flawed and imperfect things that aren't living in harmony with eachother.

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Originally posted by trance_shaft Well on w/ my useless ranting while at school The latest argument has been about scientology thanks in no part to Tom Cruise. A classmate berated scientology as if it was the religion or belief of lunatics Yet I posed a question to him... Scientology was developed by a science fiction author w/ a credible amount of education. Whatever he asks us to believe in...At least the founder was alive, visible, and reasonably educated As opposed to...well...let us now put our faith in a Jewish carpenter who lived more than a thousand years ago. He asks us to believe that the world was created in several days...that there are angels/demons...that there was an Adam/Eve...that a great flood caused Noah to harbor ALL KNOWN SPECIES AT THE TIME....on and on Which would you believe? Well I find both to be absurd and idiotic. But it baffles me how people who have an adequate education in the sciences are so vehement towards the former dogma. In my opinion both are outlandish...

just some factual indiscripancies. thinking back to the cultures of 2000 years ago, few people were educated. u didnt need to be educated. it wasnt the scientific age of enlightenment in which we live in now. now your arguement that the founder was alive, visible, etc. can also be applied to the founder of christianity in that he was also alive and visible to numourous people back in that time. to them, he was very real, because they lived basically in his time, as we live basically at the same time as the scientology founder, therefore, coincidentally, the scientology founder seems a lot more real to us because he lives in our time.

noah did not harbor all known species. he harbored all "kinds" or "types" of animals. all u need is two dogs. not two of every species of dog, or animal for that matter.

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Originally posted by Aquarian Those are purely emotive reasons, not logical ones. Beauty is a subjective thing. If we're both standing on top of that mountain looking at the sunrise, you see god's work - and I see a giant ball of hydrogen and helium shining light over a world full of flawed and imperfect things that aren't living in harmony with eachother.

are u saying there is a good and an evil? if so, what is good, and what is evil?

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Originally posted by ::TranceVanDyk:: are u saying there is a good and an evil? if so, what is good, and what is evil?

I think you misunderstood my post. If anything, it would imply that there is no such thing - but I wasn't even trying to touch the subject.

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Originally posted by ::TranceVanDyk:: noah did not harbor all known species. he harbored all "kinds" or "types" of animals. all u need is two dogs. not two of every species of dog, or animal for that matter.

Regardless, it's biologically impossible to regenerate a species with only two specimen. Hence why more christians today interpret it as symbolism.

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Originally posted by Aquarian I think you misunderstood my post. If anything, it would imply that there is no such thing - but I wasn't even trying to touch the subject.

well, u said an imperfect world not in harmony. im just inquiring into what u think is the force behind the imperfection and the reason why we're not in harmony.

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Regardless, it's biologically impossible to regenerate a species with only two specimen. Hence why more christians today interpret it as symbolism.

really? so DNA doesnt change as generation after generation is born? who said the two animals had to be the same species. a doberman can breed just fine with a german shepard, to come out with a mix. and if bred long enough, a new breed of dog. who interprets it as symbolism?

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Originally posted by ::TranceVanDyk:: well, u said an imperfect world not in harmony. im just inquiring into what u think is the force behind the imperfection

Why must there nessessarily be a force behind it?

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and the reason why we're not in harmony.

Humans are destroying the environment, species are dying because they can't adapt to their climates - or they're wiping eachother out. That's not what I call a perfect harmony.

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Originally posted by ::TranceVanDyk:: really? so DNA doesnt change as generation after generation is born? who said the two animals had to be the same species. a doberman can breed just fine with a german shepard, to come out with a mix. and if bred long enough, a new breed of dog. who interprets it as symbolism?

Inbreeding causes severe genetic deformations. Even if you had two of every dog species and made them inter-breed with eachother, you'd still get very unhealthy offspring. You need a very large population sample to start a species. Even so, the fact that pure german shepards and pure dobermans exist today would have implied that these two dogs of the same race would've had to breed with eachother, and their offspring amongst themselves.

What is most annoying is when people try to disprove scientific theories like evolution in favour of creationism, and then use scientific method to try to do it...

When will people learn not to take scriptures SO LITERALLY. This seems to be a common condition of hardline protestantism.

Using scientific analysis evolutionary theory will ALWAYS be more logical than creationism or the story of Noah's Ark. If you want to be a literalist then quit using science and go back to interpreting every word literally... ie the Sun literally rises and sets (these are the words of the bible)... If we are not allowing for metaphor then this means the Sun revolves around the Earth.

Id be catholic if id went to church.

just thought yall should know.

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Originally posted by astroboy If we are not allowing for metaphor then this means the Sun revolves around the Earth.

Believe it or not there are people who still believe the earth is flat. They claim that every picture and film or sattelite image suggesting otherwise is atheist propaganda to lure them away from God.

Stupid ppl these days...

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