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To get back to Tao's original post, I would like to point out that the only response that a creationist has given is a link to the Ooparts site, which, while some individual cases in the site may truly be anomalies, the majority of it appears to be either false or irrelevant in the discussion of...

May I ask in what ways are Christians in the US becoming outcasts, persecuted and hated? Not only an organizational nightmare, but also, I think, it would be no less biased; simply biased in a different way. People are not created equally, not in the sense of charisma and speaking ability and...

First off, thank you for being patient with me in such a controversial topic and please forgive my continued questioning, I'm trying to get a good grasp of this. :) So both of these are just tests? I can't imagine that the two things I'm about to say are correct, but I'm having a hard time...

My reason for asking, is that I always rationalized prohibition of homosexual sex with the thought that sex of any sort -aside from that used for conception- makes it harder to lead a spiritual life instead of a sensual, physical one, and so all real seekers of God should avoid it. Along with...

I would like to verify something, I am under the impression that in the Baha'i faith, intercourse is never appropriate unless used for conception. But I have some vague memory of a quote that says, 'intercourse is appropriate when between a man and his wife.' Meaning that it doesn't have to...

I don't really understand the controversy with this. As with any group, the Baha'i Faith has the right to set it's own rules and see that the members of the group follow them. If someone does not like the rules it is their business, and their right and their obligation to leave said group. I...

Thank you for your answers, they made a lot of sense, but I have a further question. I've always heard that the fact, that women cannot serve in that highest Baha'i 'office' (I apologize that I can't think of the words,) is a bit of a test regarding the individual's will (in this case, maybe a...

It seems to me that you have to draw the line somewhere when you talk about accepting God's will in areas where it makes no sense to us. It is a little more clear in the Baha'i faith, it seems, but in older religions, how can you say that, 1. something doesn't make sense because God understands...

Yeah, that's why I said 'taken loosely'. I didn't mean 'the divine' to apply only to monotheistic cultures. To take, for example, Sioux culture, there was/are the ideas of the Great Hoop/Great Spirit and other spirits within nature. So in their society, 'the divine' - simply a word that I chose...

I was sitting in my anthropology class yesterday, being lectured on various religious topics and I found that one thing sounded a bit familiar. 'Revitalization Movements', a theory (and subsequent journal article) by anthropologist Anthony Wallace. Wallace said that periods of cultural stress...

Oops. That was a really old part of the thread that I replied to.. :rolleyes: - Sarah

Did you really mean speciation (the change from one species into a genetically different one)? Or creation of some kind of life from proteins, water, etc? -Sarah

Quahom. Is Brian not doing a good enough job for you? Give this some deep, unbiased thought: what was your intent in writing the messages that you have posted in this thread? Perhaps you should look at yourself before critiquing others in their consistency to their faith? 'Let he, who is...

Such substances seem like the lazy way out to me. Taken loosely, all of the main religions ask their members to become ever more virtuous in order to be closer to the divine. Could God really be okay with people taking a drug to experience Him, instead of developing true divine character? As...

I have a question in regards to the Bab's execution. I know the story about the 750 gunmen all missing and 20,000 witnesses to prove it, etc. Not that I am unwilling to believe in a proven miracle, but of course all of this sounds fantastic and I'm not one to just accept such things based on...