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This is a segment from Bill Maher's show in which he took a stance that liberals are being politically correct about Islam rather than acknowledging that the majority of Muslims believe in the most radical parts of their faith. Affleck responding by calling Maher a racist for condemning an...

If any. I'm not a big person for jewelry and such. I do wear an ankh around my neck all the time. Once in a while I will put on a fabulous Native American crafted ring of the Thunderbird.

Lamson suggested it would make for an interesting thread to turn the question around. Instead of 'How do you know you are right about your beliefs', what about 'How do you know everyone else is wrong'. My response is that I don't know that I am right. I have no idea whether I am right. To me...

Hi, Wassup with not being able to open the thread 'What makes you think you are right about belief?' in the Belief & Spirituality section? Have tried for two days now and keep getting a database error. This is a conspiracy ain't it. The whole thing just stinks of conspiracy!

Is it possible to ever rid religion of the fundamentalist extremists who take the teachings of a supposedly loving God and distort it into hatred of everything their narrow minds find objectionable? Or is fundamental extremism always going to be a part of religions. Westboro Baptist Church...

A study by the Pew Research Center has discovered that by a big margin, the more poorly a nation has developed, the more its people believed a belief in God was required for a person to have good morals. The more highly developed the country, the fewer believed that belief in a God was a...

Wil mentioned this test of religious/spiritual beliefs in one of the introductions. I'm a sucker for these things, even though I have little belief in their accuracy most of the time. Just for chuckles, how's about we all take the test and tell the group the results. Here's the link...

Eleven people have their birthday today. They are all 28 years old. They all joined on the same date. Does this not strike anyone as mildly suspicious.

This statement of the bible has always been an issue for me. Mankind is created in God's image? Seriously? Has anyone looked around this world in recent times, or the past hundred thousand years for that matter? The creature called man is hardly a shining example of godliness. At least not in...

One of the many items that fascinate me about internet forums is the wide range between the members and the guests. As I type this I am the one member online, and there are 93 guests as well. To all our many guests today and any day, why not join and get into the discussions. I know that I...

When does the freedom to do as one wants go too far? Here in the U.S. we have warped our right to freedom to mean we believe we are free to decide that what we believe trumps what is true (i.e. that there are observable facts contrary to what we want to believe). On a grander scale which...

Someone I was having a discussion with came up with a fascinating question that I have never considered before. I don't think there is any real answer, though maybe there are religious texts that do cover this. Namely, what the heck was God doing before he created the Universe. The Universe...

Not at all sure this is an appropriate subject for this forum. So I’ll throw it out there and if no one is interested in responding so be it. The concept of morality has always held a fascination for me. Particularly the fluidity of moral standards in different cultures, and at different periods...

Is there a purpose to living? Or is it possible that beyond the skills necessary to survive, anything else is irrelevant. Indeed pointless. Anything else people have created to give their life meaning is mere illusion. A panacea to placate our minds into believing there is indeed purpose...

I posted this comment on another thread, but it is, methinks, relevant enough for a discussion on this subject alone, so I've created another thread. My other post was: I do not believe in guilt. It is the most wasteful, useless of all human emotions. If you do wrong, wallowing in guilt is...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It looked like a typical Sunday morning at any mega-church. Several hundred people, including families with small children, packed in for more than an hour of rousing music, an inspirational talk and some quiet reflection. The only thing missing was God. Several hundred...

Into your personal life that is. It has been a part of me for as long as I can remember. Not that I am a walking, talking movie quote dictionary. Nor am I talking about quotes that make it into the popular lexicon ("Go ahead. Make My Day!") Just that little odd phrase once in a while that adds a...

This is one of those issues that have troubled me for many a long time. Why did the Great Prophets of religion come along when they did? These were men who came here to dispense the wisdom by which many faiths were born. To name just a few, and roughly the time of their propheting: Moses -...

The ramblings of a mentally challenged cosmologist (that would be Me). There is the science of the Big. Einstein's theory that everything is Relative. And, There is the science of the unimaginably small. String Theory. Called that because it has been stringing everyone along for decades...

It always comes as a shock to me that people are apparently interested in what we have to say. Just noticed that as I am writing this there are 3 members on the site, and 76 guests. I'm suddenly feeling kinda self conscious.....