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Reply to Why so many different religions? in Religion JoeUser Forums

[quote who="lulapilgrim" reply="268" id="3019290"]Until we prove a thing it's a matter of opinion.[/quote]Please see previous reply ... proof my arse. I am curious though how is can be that when you quote the ‘word of God’ it is all prim and proper and makes perfect sense (after translation of course), but when someone else who has fallen through your clutches quotes the Bible … it is just their opinion, go figure. Unlike you I do not take anyone’s speculations to

Reply to Why so many different religions? in Religion JoeUser Forums

[quote who="lulapilgrim" reply="267" id="3019272"]Reply #267 lulapilgrim[/quote] Lula, you are conceded beyond reason as are most people with agendas. Normally when I am asked a question I answer it as I can … but you refuse to acknowledge my own answer preferring instead to provide my answer for me because of what, you’re innate natural reasoning or something just as meaningless … or maybe it is just because of <span style="text-decoration: underl

Reply to Why so many different religions? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Slavery is an interesting word don’t you think? Neither Jesus nor St. Paul, nor any other Biblical figure is recorded as saying anything in opposition to the institution of slavery and yet it was the mainstay for labor throughout these tumultuous times. Nothing is simple when dealing with religions, go figure. Whenever you guys communicate with us mortals you just take the high road. You wi

Reply to Why so many different religions? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Lula, you need to go back to your Sanctum Sanctorum for a recharge of your CSC (Catholic Superiority Complex), where you can be comfortably insulated from reality, science and common sense. I am just not sure how this can be done is all??? You might ask yourself whether it was God who created dysfunctional man … or was it dysfunctional man who created a dysfunctional God … or my favorite one … that it was dysfunctional man who created a dysfunctional Church who created a

Reply to Why so many different religions? in Religion JoeUser Forums

KFC, I don’t have a bone to pick with religion in general, it is just not for me. Ho

Reply to Why so many different religions? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Thanks KFC that answered some questions I had. But then you say something like “The bible, on the other hand, is truth and makes total sense.” We both know the Bible does not make sense at all and that is why you Lula needs a Church to interpret it for her, go figure. I do find it strange that only upstanding Catholics are all that can go to Heaven … just doesn’t seem right considering their role in human history.</p

Reply to Why so many different religions? in Religion JoeUser Forums

[quote who="lulapilgrim" reply="247" id="3018363"]Reply #247 lulapilgrim[/quote]Lula, I didn't say I wouldn't comment ... I just said I wasn’t going to play this back and forth nonsense is all. And I most assuredly don’t want to interfere with the heavy weights who are amply demonstrating the reasons why interpretations of parables are a many splendored thing to behold first hand. But to be fair, you must be in the right of it … because you have a very modern

A leap of faith in Ethics JoeUser Forums

Personally I like the Book of Genesis as it makes an interesting read if one is into strange fantasy. In The beginning there was either nothing or something depending on your point of view. It is strange but let’s take a look at the nothing concept first: DAY 1: In The beginning there was nothing but darkness and out of the darkness came the One God who always was … in the darkness? Well eventually God became tired (?) of the darkness after however long and

Reply to Wolf-Pac in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Smoothseas" reply="4" id="3017807"]Reply #4 Smoothseas[/quote]You were right it was a good movie. I always perk up when Noam takes part. I was glad to see that the Bechtel Corporation of San Francisco and the water resources of Bolivia were well represented (a pet peeve). If you can watch a foreign film with English subtitles I would recommend “Even the Rain” also on Netflix. It is a two in one kind of movie that meshes old atrocitie

Reply to Why so many different religions? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Sorry people, but I am not going to continue with this back and forth brouhaha. Let the religions and churches play this game as they try to destroy each other with their kindness, infallible 'knowledge' and circular existence. This nonsense goes hand in hand with the barbarism of the time when all this goodliness was written (by man) and the bible that resulted is rampant with inhumane ‘orders’ that inflict pain, death and total destruction on the peoples of the world for

Reply to I don't believe God exists in Ethics JoeUser Forums

[quote who="ChuckUSA1" reply="5" id="3017871"]You never know, maybe someday they might find a way to prove Gods existence, but the again, being a God means power over everything including the ability to make him/herself impossible to find. Just a crazy idea.[/quote]I used to think such thoughts but I kept coming back to square one. It boils down to this; if there was such an entity, then he would have made people the way they are … seems like religious practitioners (RCC in particular)

Reply to Why so many different religions? in Religion JoeUser Forums

KFC, good to hear from you again! I have to apologize as I thought you too were a Catholic. I went through a period where the two blended into one. Of course, I didn't know at the time that you were only a 'second hand' Christian, go figure. As a matter of fact, I have learned much about the RCC and their inability to acquiesce to anyone or anything not in their best interests. The only disagreement I have with religion in general is the fact that I (personally) do not believe the

Reply to Why so many different religions? in Religion JoeUser Forums

[quote who="lulapilgrim" reply="193" id="3013277"]Earth IS the privileged planet[/quote] No matter your beliefs, how could it be otherwise??? Considering that Earth is the only planet in the 'known universe' that sustains life and in particular humanity ... this is a revelation from God? What in the world would cause us to take say a Martian or Alpha Centaury perspective of things … all things considered?

Reply to I don't believe God exists in Ethics JoeUser Forums

Confessions of a Former Christian: This pretty well describes my own religiou

Reply to I don't believe God exists in Ethics JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Anthony R" reply="1" id="3017676"]Reply #1 Anthony R[/quote]Same for me, it was a process that took quite a bit of time to conclude. Well said ... “the Popemobile with golden hubcaps”, got to love this stuff, hahaha. Well, don't feel too bad because everyone seems to wig out when I bring it up. I am not sure right or left has any more bearing on this (except for the money of course) any more than Republican or Democrat or liberal or conservative have muc

I don't believe God exists in Ethics JoeUser Forums

Wherever you think man came from is fine with me, but man from his inception was corporeal and as such was only privy to what his senses could perceive (and much later his instrumentation) … of the real world (universe). In order for there to be any coexistence between varieties of people (like more than one), a vernacular had to be (and was) established. Humans having no known extrasensory functions, established our language around those things we knew to exist (or existed) and are (w

Reply to Wolf-Pac in Politics JoeUser Forums

As I understand it: If they somehow get a Constitutional Convention, they cannot restrict it to a new amendment without opening the door to revisions to the rest of the Constitution or other amendments … or something like that. Not at all convinced this would be a good thing.

Reply to Why so many different religions? in Religion JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Smoothseas" reply="221" id="3015821"]JU is quite funny in that respect. A lot of what I see here in regards to religion and politics are people who resort to name calling or who throw out the race or religion card when dealing with subjects or queries for which they have no valid response.[/quote] I quite agree. I have been following your 'chat' with the Doc, hehehe ... but you must include the ‘partisan’ card too, hahaha. [e digicons]:rofl:[/e]

Reply to Why so many different religions? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Lula, I appreciate all your hard work, but all you are doing is alluding to Biblical Scripture and then telling me that it must be so??? Personally, I think the NT has more of a plagiaristic relationship to the OT … not a complimentary one. Throwaway religions, you guys are too much. I believe even semiliterate people are more than capable of deciding for themselves what God’s own words mean, sort of like … He … were actually doing the talking instead of you guys do

Reply to Why so many different religions? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Smoothseas, welcome aboard!!! I hope you enjoy yourself as much as I have … I would go one step further and say that anyone with a sense of logic and a working knowledge of history combined with science could not accept ANY religion as truly revealed by any God. As I explained, I don’t care that much about religions or the people who practice them … whatever floats your boat. What I do care about is the self-proclaimed superiority of the Roman Catholic Church. It was

Reply to Why so many different religions? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Just when I thought I was through for the night, oh well. Ok, move on I shall. It is my guess that a 2,000 year old feud over the dominion of the Earth is not going to go away in the even not-so-foreseeable future. I don’t care about Islam, that nonsense is between you guys and your god and them and their god. I don’t really have a big problem with Christianity (all things considered) as that is between you guys and I have no say. But I have many problems with The Roman Catholic C

Reply to Why so many different religions? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Response to Response # 208, #209 and #210: Have you looked at the world outside your sanctuary … and you are concerned that an R rated movie would make you occasion sin????????? This was not a guess on my part as you told me elsewhere, just a little truth checkup, sorry. You say the funniest things sometimes like … If one understands ‘inspiration’, exasperation is more apt … tradition confirms Biblical inspiration … oh this is silly. What in the

Reply to Why so many different religions? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Response to Response # 206: Oh contraire madam, I know much more about your Church Doctrine and practices than I want. Why would anything the late Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen had to say be of concern to me??? Blessed Virgin Mary … Protestants … you must have me confused with someone who GAS besides, you always digress. So now I am supposed to just go after your sinful membership for you … because the people who gave them their marching orders are not responsible???

Reply to Why so many different religions? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Response to Response # 205: As usual you lost me with your jumbling around. If you could let me know what Catholic and European expansion around the world has to do with The Crusades, The Inquisitions and The Dark Ages this would be easier you know??? Lula, I don’t care about other expansions whatever that comprises of. My concern is the devastating influence The Catholic Church had in the new world and beyond throughout the Americas and Africa. So which is it; are we disc

Reply to Why so many different religions? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Ok already ... give me a week to gather my thoughts on all of this, hahaha. If I get too far behind I end up repeating myself and then the confusing really gets so. I am trying to write an article about my conceptions from childhood pertaining to The Catholic Church. OK, I'll start reading now...