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What good does religion offer the world today?

 
 
peacecrusader888
 
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Sat 11 Feb, 2017 06:09 pm
@peacecrusader888,
For the information of everyone, the difference between a dead person and a living person is SPIRIT. The spirit of a dead person has already left his physical body whereas the spirit of a living person is still in his physical body.
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peacecrusader888
 
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Sat 11 Feb, 2017 06:12 pm
@peacecrusader888,
The difference between a dead person and a living person is SPIRIT. The spirit of a dead person has already left his physical body whereas the spirit of a living person is still in his physical body.
cicerone imposter
 
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Sat 11 Feb, 2017 08:17 pm
@peacecrusader888,
Spirit doesn't exist. It's only another creation of religion.

However, I have been wrong on the issue of a brain dead person cannot regain consciousness.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/19/4748248/new-deepest-state-of-coma-identified-brain-activity-after-brain-dead
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Olivier5
 
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Sun 12 Feb, 2017 03:55 am
@Leadfoot,
Nobody is denser than he who doesn't want to understand.
Leadfoot
 
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Sun 12 Feb, 2017 06:20 am
@Olivier5,
I get the implication, but you'll have to be more specific about what's not understood.
Is there a fist in that glove?
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bestgamingchair
 
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Sun 12 Feb, 2017 06:45 am
@TheCobbler,
The message of forgiveness

Some of the world’s great acts of forgiveness have been motivated by a religious ethic and faith in the importance of forgiveness. For example, Martin Luther King, frequently used Christian language to preach a message of peace and forgiveness. Other great leaders inspired by religious teachings on forgiveness include Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and the 14th Dalai Lama.
farmerman
 
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Sun 12 Feb, 2017 06:59 am
@bestgamingchair,
Tomorrow at the annual "DArwin Day" conference in Philly , there will be a session about the creation and growth of the Fundamentalist movement of several religions that have coincided with the countering of "modernist thinking" and the growth of science. Im taking my lunch I feel its gonna be a looong session.
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farmerman
 
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Sun 12 Feb, 2017 07:01 am
@peacecrusader888,
Quote:
The difference between a dead person and a living person is SPIRIT
actually its mostly pH as the living biological system "gives up" and submits to the forces of entropy.
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Fil Albuquerque
 
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Sun 12 Feb, 2017 08:43 am
@bestgamingchair,
Forgiveness is a lame concept...it assumes guilt n resentement which are equally inferior concepts. Replace it for understanding!
cicerone imposter
 
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Sun 12 Feb, 2017 11:50 am
@Fil Albuquerque,
Good point, Fil.

Interesting topic. More to mull over.
http://www.fr-paul.org/assets/pdfs/spiritual_intelligence/Chapter_14_Guilt.pdf
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izzythepush
 
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Sun 12 Feb, 2017 11:59 am
@Fil Albuquerque,
I'm sorry, that shot right over my head, but I forgive you.
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Krumple
 
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Sun 12 Feb, 2017 03:32 pm
@Olivier5,
Olivier5 wrote:

Krumple wrote:

The problem here is that the bath water doesn't exist or there is nothing that proves its existence. As far as Jesus goes, he might have been a person who was crucified but divinity is suspect. I don't buy any of it but there are a lot of used car salesmen still trying to sell that lemon.

The bath water is the religious belief. It does exist, as a belief. The baby is the etical message.


How is Jesus an ethical message when he wanted to curse a fig tree for not bearing fruit?

Yes I am aware it's a metaphor as well but still it points out a fundamental flaw in the Christian doctrine

If I was born of sin and I am prone to evil how can you expect me to be anything other than that? To punish me for my own designed nature is not only wicked, it is stupid.

"Ye who is without sin cast the first stone."

How about not throwing stones peroid? I'm superior.
cicerone imposter
 
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Sun 12 Feb, 2017 03:50 pm
@Krumple,
Quoting the Bible goes nowhere because of the contradictions within it.
http://www.thethinkingatheist.com/page/bible-contradictions
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Olivier5
 
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Mon 13 Feb, 2017 01:34 am
@Krumple,
You're so superficial that you make any conversation with you boring to death.

You never cursed anyone or anything in your entire life? Rejoice then, you're more ethical than Jesus in the cursing department.
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Leadfoot
 
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Mon 13 Feb, 2017 05:59 am
@Krumple,
Quote:
How about not throwing stones peroid? I'm superior.

R r r i i i i i i i g h t
izzythepush
 
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Mon 13 Feb, 2017 06:07 am
@Leadfoot,
I would say that questioning the veracity of the Holocaust counts as a pretty big stone.
TheCobbler
 
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Sun 19 Feb, 2017 08:10 pm
@Leadfoot,
Love is the only gauntlet worth carrying and it needs to be unconditional.
cicerone imposter
 
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Sun 19 Feb, 2017 08:55 pm
@izzythepush,
Yes. I've visited Auschwitz-Birkenau, and have stood on the tower over the tracks when I visited. We saw inside the barracks where the toilets were in the open in the middle of the barracks. Many starved to death in those camps.
https://www.bing.com/search?q=auschwitz-birkenau&form=WNSGPH&qs=LS&cvid=77ae14cbcfa041189cf5897d8cb1ff6d&pq=auschwitz&nclid=BBBDD7EE3C7D9D059E24CEC7220ACBBF&ts=1487559082147&cc=US&setlang=en-US

Us Japanese Americans were in concentration camps in the US during WWII. The Jews were in extermination camps in Poland.
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TheCobbler
 
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Wed 22 Feb, 2017 12:21 pm
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Leadfoot
 
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Thu 23 Feb, 2017 09:40 am
@TheCobbler,
Quote:
Love is the only gauntlet worth carrying and it needs to be unconditional.

I would agree that once understood, the holding onto of Love is unconditional (which can indeed be a 'gauntlet'), but Love itself is reserved only for that which is lovable. My grip on it could not be so tight if it were not so.
 

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