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Our posts crossed over. That was all. The point is that just because someone has attended a college that specialises in theology, just because someone is a nun or priest, that does not make them any more connected to god than a person that does not even attend a formal church. On the...

All these priests and pastors, etc. Are they even needed? Surely, as I say, if god is real, and his message is simple, we do not need these men in frocks, that insist that people call 'father'?

Well, if I happened to believe in a creator, and I believed that creator to be 'all good', I would simplify it down to being happy with that, without complicating it, and factoring in a lot of stuff that is needless and divisive. Religion and spirituality should be simple. Too many religions...

Briefly, how did the Catholi Church end up with a single head of heads (the pope). There is no equivalent of that really, not in Protestantism or Islam, for example? Does it ever benefit the religion to have a single head in this manner?

Attention Seeker Alert. Look at me, look at me....:rolleyes:;)

Question. What does ANY religion need all these priests, pastors, nuns, etc, for? Surely if, as most of you believe, there is some sort of divine creator, then all you need do is be a good person, open your heart to that, and voila, you are sorted. Why does it have to be made any more...

Yes I did. I can show someone creating a car. Can you show someone creating an earth?

Okay, first of, as I peer out my window, I see cars. And I believe that these were made in a factory, with machines operated by men. I could trace those men, watch them 'create' their cars. There are a thousand things I could do to demostrate that these cars were made, by man. But to...

gods/religion needs man to exist, as a concept. Were man to die off tommorow, there would be no one here to worship, pray, and make sacrifice to their god of choice. It is the existance of man that religion relies on. If there just mammals and inverts left, religion, and all that goes with...

So, much the same, yet without the tinsel. And yet, there are many things that they share, too, right? Despite that, we have seen conflict between them, in modern times. This always seems to happen. Not just one religion v another, but one religion v another version of that religion.

Of course, you cannot assert that god is a better creator than anything, since you cannot show that god exists, nor show that we are creations of his. You would have to do that in order to then compare his creation to that of mankind's. And if he did design us, like a car, then it could be...

What are the primary differences between Catholicism and Protestantism? In an easy to digest manner, please. :D

Really? :confused:

But we're not cars. Or plants. We are free thinking beings.

The 'ancient' religions, esp the A'hamic one's, are most often the first to be scathing of new religions, dismissing many as no more than cults. And maybe some are. But it is pot kettle black for anyone of an organised religion to use that C word, since what are they, save for cults that...

This makes him sound even more like a slave owner. We have freedom of mind, freedom of thought, and can use critical thinking. We are not 'plants', but thinking beings with feelings and emotions. This is one of the downsides of religion, it bottles complex matters down into neat little...

If you believe that the bible is the word of god (through men), read from it, and think Jesus is the son of god, you are, by default a Christian though, are you not? That would be your religion - Christianity. Or is there something in organised Christianity that you are not at ease with, that...

God seems to have a thing about obedience. That is one thing that strikes me about the bible, esp the OT, he is painted as a rather demanding control freak

I think you should care. If it is your religion, then it is crucial to ensure that people do not hijack it for ill ends. If you really believe in the methods of Jesus, you would want nothing to do with those who organised Jesus Camp, as one example. Moderate theists should be doing all that...

Yet one could still dismiss these things as nothing but stories, and still embrace the principle of love, tolerance, understanding, etc. They would be a good human being, and a credit to themselves and their family. That's important too, right?