Do you beleive in Jesus?
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Krizzy said:
Among other things, I find their stance on homosexuality pretty questionable, especially how it is considered a mental illness that needs to be purged. The whole thing is pretty stupid and makes me question if those guys even know the central virtues of their own religion. Christianity is about the New Testament and following the example of Jesus Christ, a guy who was all about forgiving sins and looking at ones own faults instead of those of others. This brings the pursuit of gays into dogma territory and would make Jesus feel pretty terrible if he knew. I don't know if the Vatican still does stuff like that. I haven't bothered keeping up with their recent activities because I stopped caring some time ago.
Also, I don't have anything against christians in general (i.e. the guys who just peacefully go or don't go to church). My whole family is christian. I'm just irked by the religious extremists. That means you can relax as I won't kill you. I never planned to, so the implication is a bit rude, but whatever.
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It was legally defined as one until the 70's if I recall correctly.Krizzy said:
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Every religion has extremists. Christians who are against homosexuality and abortion, among other things, and Catholics who hate and physically attack Protestants (it's happened in Ireland if I remember correctly) are extremists, in my opinion.
I guess you could say that, in a sense, unless someone who knows more about the Bible disagrees.Sayoko Shinozaki said:
What? People change the Bible? I'm very sure it is the same as when it was first written.
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arachnidsGrip said:
It happens ANYWHERE if I remember WHATEVERLY. XDarachnidsGrip said:
But other than Catholics, I don't think it's really that "every religion has extremists." Certain people, no matter what they say they are, can be extremists. Being a certain relgion isn't going to make you a better person if you're an inherently bad egg.
Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh-day Adventists (more or less) oh my! They of course have the right to believe what they want but even they won't deny that their books (at least the first two) are alterations of the original, widely accepted Bible.Fawfulfury65 said:
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I've never heard of a Christian believing the Greek Gods actually existed but that's pretty cool I guess.Krizzy said:
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Zeitgeist has been debunked as nothing more than a piece of conspiracy theorist drivel.ToD the ToaD said:
The Troubles were largely fuelled by centuries old religious conflict (mostly from the Anti-Irish perseuction by the English). However, the main reasons for sectarian conflict were actually quite secular. The IRA had Marxism as one of its main ideologies. The main reason was the question of future sovereignty of Northern Ireland, not one of religious conflict.arachnidsGrip said:
Most certainly and quite strongly, although my morals of Jesus and his father reside in the actual lessons taught throughout the bible, so you won't see me discriminating all over the place and threatening to kill you because you have a different mentallity(sp?) about my spiritual life.
Life has actually changed a lot since I started believing though and for the better, not some everyday person was capable of doing. Hard to explain I guess, but it just seems like life has perked up quite a bit since my first deep prayer and onwards belief in him.
So yeah, I believe in Jesus and his father and I think they exist. Proud of it.
I'll sing it to you if you want me to.
Life has actually changed a lot since I started believing though and for the better, not some everyday person was capable of doing. Hard to explain I guess, but it just seems like life has perked up quite a bit since my first deep prayer and onwards belief in him.
So yeah, I believe in Jesus and his father and I think they exist. Proud of it.
I'll sing it to you if you want me to.
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A fight in the making already.Sophie Wood said:
PokemonMaster said:
Well everyone did this real cool thing, I learned it by the way, ignore posts that have no value to discussion, we wouldn't have to!
Plus the history surrounding many religions is always interesting, as a fellow historian, I wouldn't mind some good discussion on the greek gods and other such things.