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This is a very nice advertisement for solar power, but I can't help thinking that a couple of solar panels on every roof would be just as effective.

You still there Angel? Anyway, no it's the other way round. We don't go to heaven. Heaven comes to earth. Remember "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth..."? You don't live forever, neither do I. We do. The human race, that is. People always read "we" and "us" in the bible and think it...

Yes and we shall eat the finest food but never poo; there will be wonderful music and art, but no Marilyn Manson or Playboy; endless eternity without boredom; zzz.... zzz.... zzz....

Take whatever interpretation helps you best. For me, I think Jesus was not running an earnest evangelical bible study meeting. He was talking, as ever, about the normal business of everyday life: making the world a better place, putting aside grievances, putting the Kingdom before money worries...

I have to say I can't entirely go along with this interpretation. You can try too hard to elicit a meaning which is right in front of you. "Which art in heaven" - often abbreviated to "Our heavenly father" as distinct from our own natural father "Hallowed be thy name" - this "be" is in the...

It's that thing again - Do we put a picture of Jesus on the wall and polish the glass every day or do we start practising what he preached? ET - yes that's the classic. The Easter story all over again. Not to forget Harry Potter of course (controversial!). My favourites include The Lion King...

Silas, my scriptural reference is I can't give you chapter and verse right now but you'll know it's St Paul. Choose life. There is choice. I don't go along with all this fallen angels malarky. I agree with bananabrain, creation is a done deal from God's point of view. From ours, we're still...

Hang on! All Post-Einsteinians know that things fall because of distortions in the space-time continuum caused by objects of mass. I hope that's cleared that up :D There is no experimental data that I'm aware of that shows the speed of light is constant. This is an assumption. In fact, nearly...

I was at the Greenbelt Christian Arts Festival in Cheltenham a few years ago, sitting on the grass in front of the main stand listening to Mike Yaconelli, the American pastor and inspirational speaker, a regular Greenbelt favourite, making what was to be his last vist to the festival before his...

I refer to the essay "The mystic word "OM" by Swami Prabhavananda in "Vedanta for the Western World" edited by Christopher Isherwood, published by Viking Press, NY (1960). The author then equates and differentiates this Logos with the word "OM". "It is God, and by its aid man may realize God"...

Can someone verify this - I read that this passage from the beginning of John's gospel is almost identical to a passage in the Upanishads. The implication being that this concept is not indigenous to Christianity, and maybe should not be there at all. If it is accepted, I take Word to mean...

That reminds me, 17th, of Bananabrains quote from Billy Conolly: "Before you would criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes. Then who cares? He's a mile away and you've got his shoes!" :) Oh Dawkins! So much intelligence and so much stubborn stupidity all in one. He appreciates music and...

An interesting and amiable ramble if I may say so. This reminds me a bit of the discussion on angels. Do they exist? Are we (or can we be) angels for others? Are we God? St Paul describes the Church as the body of Christ. If you look at the spectrum with definite red at one end and definite...

I wonder if this discussion is essentially meaningful. Medieval Christians postulated a whole hierarchy of angels, archangels, seraphim and the rest. Other Christian cultures have a host of major and minor saints whose task is to petition God on behalf of the faithful. Catholics pray through the...

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way. Mohandas Ghandi

When someone calls out "Open in the name of the law!", it's not the words "the law" that compel the fugitive to open the door. What the lawman means is "By the authority invested in me by the law, I command you to open the door". Similarly we could say - if we had faith enough - "By the...

Reminds me of C Day Lewis...Perhaps it is roughly Saying what God alone could perfectly show -- How selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in the letting go. (My stock of Merton quotes is rather low) :)

I wish...

I would second that. I once despaired so much of where I had taken my life, I prayed to be re-made into something better. After a brief but nonetheless wrenchingly bad reaction to Prozac which followed my ill-considered request and which left me teetering on the brink of the great black void, I...

It all depends on whether it is genuine spirituality or vanity. No-one would accuse Jesus or the Dalai Lama of being spiritually acquisitive would they?