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Well said, Brian. :)

I see. Are you sayig then that Christians really struggle to make a point without defaulting back to bible quotes? Oh - seems I have the answer to that, right there in front of me!:cool: This is a Christian forum? Really? That is news to me, perhaps you might explain why it doesn't...

I don't think the religous her are gonna like this, but I feel that footage could go some way to explaining so called 'divine' experiences, and therefore all of religions roots....

I do have a live and let live outlook, so long as whatever a person is doing is not a violation on the rights of another. If someone wishes to believe in Zeus or the Flying Pink Unicorn, then I am good with that. If that same person lobbys to have the FPU on the school curriculum, I might...

No surprise then. There is a very logical reason as to why you and Wil might have very different perpectives while pertaining to believe in the same god. Can you guess what that reason might be..? Oh, I am in a good mood, so I will just tell you - the reason that there is such a plethora...

Yes, having reviewed the choices, I definitely think that it remains the standard cop out of the modern Christian (I was addressing Wil though, not you, never mind..). There are more and more Christians that I speak to, who are now claiming that rather than a book of literal and historic...

A connection with who/what though? Apologies if wrong, but you are a Christian, I believe. Almost every Christian that I have spoken to this about, they ridicule and dismiss it (ironic, but there ya go). There are other Christians that I have discussed this with who are pretty much fearful...

If someone wants to fast, let them fast. Will it bring them closer to their divine cosmic being of choice? No. It will merely make them a little hungry, and perhaps a little thirsty. As long as their little indulgence is done in their own time, and does not impact on say (for example)...

YouTube - Michael Shermer Out of Body Experiment

I went for B...

Have you ever been to a medium? If so, in your experience... A) They are providing a good comforting service to the other person, but there is nothing supernatural or other wordly in what they are doing. B) They are fraudsters, praying on the minds of the vulnerable, by selling them...

This is the standard cop out of many Christians, these days. Realising that a modern society would have no truck with a god or a book in which there were some terrible instructions ordered by the 'loving' god, not to mention the mass killing of innocents, and realising that anyone who felt...

Thanks for the history lesson, but I already knew his origins. Hey, fairy tales, wild stories, and fable, they can all have a function, for entertainment purposes, for example. Look at how much Lord Of The Rings took in, at the box office. And Avatar. People have always been drawn to...

See, generally, those people who get an ear pierced, they are not doing it based on a delusion that the action will bring them closer to god. You do know what the actual definition of a delusion is, I assume. 'A delusion is a fixed belief that is either false, fanciful, or derived from...

It doesn't matter if one dresses self harm up in the robes of religion. It remains illogical, dangerous, and utterly counter productive. Look, if a fella came to you tommorow, and said that he believed in the Flying Pink Unicorn, and as part of his belief, he liked to take his penis, and slam...

There are some real odious elements in the US and in the UK, who just need a reason to hate - at the moment, Muslims are a handy outlet for them. Before that it would have been black people, in the 60's, with many of the same ill informed fears and scaremongering about them, as there are...

Hi Thomas, In my experience, I appear to have read both the OT and NT more than many of the so called 'believers' that I have met. If you are in denial about the murdering, jealous, and psychopathic god of the OT, perhaps you might like to make yourself with familiar with some passages...

:rolleyes: I have a one year old grand daughter. She has one toy that speaks when you press a button. She loves that toy. Quite sure that in her immature mind, she does see it as being 'real'. Of course, as adult minds, we know different, and were she to grow up believing that this toy was...