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Reply to The New Hate Crimes Bill..Plan to remove Freedom of Religion in Current Events JoeUser Forums

this is a ridiculous jump to make. i don't like this bill either but to say it's an attack on freedom of religion? how? what religion teaches its followers to commit crimes against homosexuals? i can almost guaruntee the democrats did not have removing one of the freedoms our country was founded on in mind when they made this bill.

Atheism and Morality in Religion JoeUser Forums

A major misconception of atheism is that it lacks a reason to be moral-no reason for people to be good and nice rather than just doing whatever they want. In reality almost the opposite is true. I argue that atheism gives more reason and responsibility to be good people and that religion actually promotes evil. One may make the argument that without a highe

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never mind, got it

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Reply to Christians limit their God in Religion JoeUser Forums

God does have infinite love and forgiveness. Jesus died for the sins of everyone, not just a chosen few. The only thing keeping anyone from the power of the Atonement is themselves. If a person chooses not to accept the infinite forgiveness, they won't get it. Why should God force forgiveness on people who don't want it? First, I don't think there's many people that would turn down this forgiveness. I'm completely open to being forg

Christians limit their God in Religion JoeUser Forums

Christians limit their God. This is perhaps the most frustrating part of Christianity to me. It claims to have an all powerful, perfect, boundless God yet there are obvious examples of how He is limited in Christian teachings. Christianity claims that it has a loving God that is not only able to forgive us from our sins, but wants to. Here’s where the probl

On a side note... in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Sorry for falling off the face of the planet for the past week. I started a new job for the summer and the move in hasn’t gone as smoothly as I had hoped. Even right now, my internet isn’t hooked up and I’m writing in a computer lab. I’m surprised how cut off from the world I feel without my internet. I have no AIM, no facebook, no way to check what the weather w

Reply to A Dose of Common Sense in Religion JoeUser Forums

KFC, I admit, what I wrote wasn't what clearly what I meant. I'll return to the Jephthah passage. You say it serves as a reminder to make sure people aren't doing foolish things like that. To me it shows an amazingly faithful man that would do anything for his God, and isn't that what God wants? Surely if I make a deal like that, then I should carry it out for my Creator. The problem with the passage is that it doesn't say "Don't do thi

Reply to A Dose of Common Sense in Religion JoeUser Forums

Baker, You write many thought provoking things that make my head hurt. Thanks. I think there’s a misunderstanding with what I was making a case against in my essay. I was making a case (however weak) against the idea of a Christian type of God, an all loving, omnipotent, creator, personal God. The Christian God is also an anthropomorphic God, which, as you pointed out, my argument deals a lot with. Hopefully that clears up some o

Reply to A Dose of Common Sense in Religion JoeUser Forums

Sean and whip, I have never read any of Paine's writings but now I will. Haha, sorry if that caused a stir. The quote stuff, Sorry if it there was confusion about it. I didn’t research it all the much. I just thought it was thought provoking and an interesting way to start my essay. KFC, I think there is a major problem thinking like that. If parts of the Bible are clearly wrong then why are they i

Reply to World Government: A Generally Stupid, Pathetic, Bad Idea in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I hate to say it but I believe this is absolutely, utterly wrong. We AREN'T conquering these problems, stillkoontz, we're just suppressing them by banning talking about them in public places. By making prejudice the evil noone speaks, we actually increase the chances of violence, because feelings that are pent up have a tendency to violently boil to the surface at inappropriate times. The banning of slavery, women's rights, relig

Reply to World Government: A Generally Stupid, Pathetic, Bad Idea in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I really don't see how a world government would be such a horrible idea. Obviously the process would have to be slow and meticulous but I think eventually it would be a very good idea. There would be less reason for war and more resources and ability to fight and prevent them. There would be more of any oppurtunity for people to see that everyone is more or less the same when their all united under the same flag (sorry for the cliche). I realize th

Reply to What was the point of Jesus? in Religion JoeUser Forums

I have a few problems wit hthe show us the way out explanation. Using the trash can analogy, why couldnt God have just picked all of us maggots up and out of the trashcan? It would have been so much easier and more complete. He could have just put in our minds the right way without having to become one of his lowly creations. Next, atonement always being made with blood, God, in his omnipotence, could have made this one time, ju

Reply to A Dose of Common Sense in Religion JoeUser Forums

Baker, I think that an omnipotent God could have made a place without any evil and with us having free will if he was all loving and wanted to. If there are no limits to an all loving God then he can do everything, even that. God could find a way to make it so it wasnt a evil totalitarianism. So that leaves a few alternatives in my opinion, that kinda go back to the quote: either he's not all loving or there is no god. Next, let'

What was the point of Jesus? in Religion JoeUser Forums

This post goes off one of the tangents mentioned in my last post dealing with God’s omnipotence. I’ve been thinking a lot about it lately and I cannot understand the point to Jesus, especially if you believe in a Christian God. The more I think about it the less he seems necessary or even plausible. First of all, the whole Jesus thing isn’t scientifically

A Dose of Common Sense in Religion JoeUser Forums

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?” -Epicurus These are questions that man has wrestled with and religion has tried to answer for millennia. I

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