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Well said Thomas. I think we should all follow the simple rules laid down by Bill S. Preston Esq. and Ted Theodore Logan, who said, "Be excellent to each other, and party on dude."

On the other hand.... After reading through some bits and pieces, (mostly from wikipedia, I admit) I understand that the Rastafari religion broke off from Christianity largely because of the treatment of Black people. Since this treatment has drastically changed in the last half century...

I have to agree with you CanuckRasta, my first thought on reading this article was, "This was obviously written by a Christian and not by a Rastafarian"

If there is a monotheistic style God then one would have to assume that this was his will, but he has given us no obvious reason for his actions. This suggests one of two things to me, either there is no God and this is simply an act of nature, or there is a God and he is petty and vengeful...

Personally, I dont believe so. I see no conflict between scientific evolution and theistic evolution. I think that if there is a God, it is quite wrong to deny the perfection of the system he has set in motion to produce humans as we are now. In my humble opinion, to ignore the evidence and...

Is there really a difference between "believe" and "accept the theory"?

After all the talk recently about Creation and Evolution, I was curious to find out just how many of our CR brethren believe in Evolution and how many in a Genesis style creation. Please note that this is in no way limited to the Christian idea of Creation, any version of a creation myth is...

That is an interesting interpretation of humanism, and I have no sources to contradict it. However, the question was not about humanism but rather humanitarianism. Feeding the poor IS the humanitarian thing to do, would you do it? Certainly it would, but what if a person is unable to provide...

How many people had heard of the Philosopher's stone before Harry Potter? And be honest!

Re: Is the biblr currupted. So do you maintain that there is absolutely no corruption in the bible? A document which is now a copy of a copy of a copy of a many thousand year old text? I dont think the key message has been lost but there must surely be some corruption in the specifics, which...

And what of compassion?

myself for the fist time.....

I am just getting stuck into Frederick Nietchze's "Thus Spok Zarathustra" I bought a load of his books at together and Ive still got, The Antichrist, Twilight of the Idols and The Gay Science to read when Im done with this one.

That's interesting, wasn't Allah the Arabic moon God? Wonder if there's a connection. Also, while reading a bit of the OT recently I came across one of those lines that casts a big doubt over monotheism. Leviticus, 18: 21. "Do not hand over any of your children to be used in the worship of...

Is this the same as the Irish Orangemen who march through the streets of belfast every year causing riots?

The point is adressed quite nicely in Rama 2 by Arthur C Clarke. It's all Science Fiction of course, but in the story a devout catholic is part of a team going to investigate an extra-terrestrial spacecraft. This is only a small part of the overall story, but the conclusion drawn is that since...

I have noticed on a number of threads in this section, references to central baha'i membership lists and membership cards and the like. I am wondering, why is it necessary to be officially accepted as a 'member' of the faith in order to share these beliefs and call onesself a baha'i? Is it...

Unfortunately, from a physical point of view, this is not possible. Nothing can have existed before the universe because 'before' is a function of time and time is a dimension of the universe, so anything which did exist before the universe would have had to exist in a very different form to...

I was an atheist for a long time, but I had a vague sense that human beings were capable of being infinately greater than we are at the moment. A couple of years ago I saw the film, "7 years in tibet" and I realised then that I knew absolutely nothing about the Buddhist faith, which seemed...

Nuns do it, so I guess there must be some vague theological reason for it.