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I think for much of this anti HP stuff they must have missed some beautiful little lines(forgive me for misquoting)...'Love is the greatest protector of all' 'Friendship is everything'....There's the fight of good over evil...Is that un-Christian? I also think to suggest that children will turn...

Apologies Tao_Equus I didn't mean to omit the mention of the good men of society. There are good and bad in both sexes (once again the balance) and I am one of the many women who despise (and I shout about it) the actions of, shall I say the nastier end of my sexual grouping. I wouldn't call...

I think I merely answered your own post. Not intending to be political. No sex is superior to the other, they balance one another. I did answer when does a baby count as a living being and that I counted from the quickening, which is about 15-20 weeks in gestation. However, with contemplation on...

Agree with both male and female are necessary, not only for the production of human life but for the raising of the children. Male and female are a balance, a delicate harmony that nature (or God) created. However this status quo is not always possible, and nor has it been in the history of...

Thanks it has been a little helpful. :) It seems I was not the only one who wanted to know why this practise is done. I did do a Google hit, and understand that for the Jews its a kind of blood sacrifice as a symbol of their covenant with G!D. I don't know why but I think the practise is even...

Forgive me for being lazy. :o I know I really should do a Google hit. How many religions circumcise their male babies? And why does their faith dictate it? What purpose does it serve? Is it merely religious practises or do cultural pressures also dictate this surgery on baby boys

I had this vision around the turn of the millenium. I thought it would be more fitting to build a temple of sorts to accommodate all faiths rather than all the silly things that were built. We do have a multi faith, multi cultural population and it would demonstrate a kind of unity. All faiths...

Congratulations Brian to both you and your partner. Hope all goes well I go with from the quickening. Up until that point, the baby isn't viable outside the womb and although the foetus is unlikely to survive out of the womb at the commencement of the quickening, there is no doubting that...

I don't think its black and white either Believers can be shallow too. One of the most shallow people I ever came across was minister to our local church. This is an area that's down to the individual not the faith.

Interesting thread with a lot of very interesting responses. If there was one true religion why has the Divine sent forth so many messengers to guide mankind upon his spiritual path and upon the guidance of the messenger a faith has been established? Has mankind missed the point with each new...

Thanks for the reply nomanshake Do you really want me to include the passages that incite man to hatred against his fellow man? Were there not enough in those links? During the worst times of religious fervour that led to countless killings in the name of religion...I say in the name of...

But they didn't create the religions, they were the messengers. We're due for another one...

No, they would be an agnostic, or deist.... Do you mean an organised religion, one with set rules? For there are many pagans and Druids who are solitary, they believe in a higher power.

I think you're looking to the past with rose tinted glasses Bandit. Business is business regardless of what time frame you are in. When business helps another out it is in the way of profit...or the other is not in competition with that business. The past was much worse, even my gran called...

Thankyou for the reply juantoo Vampires were the first sci-fi characters that came to mind. They embody man's hopes and fears. Man would love to be able to live forever or rather escape the grave but at the same time the vampires are the bogey men, they are also considered 'unnatural'. The...

Religion is organised collective faith based upon the prophecies of (sometimes) one man. Faith is individual belief in a Divine not religion That's my view anyway

I'm all for it. There are many genetic disorders that can not be cured, some are barely managed. GE gives the hope to the sufferers that one day their children will not suffer the agonies that they have lived with. GE may also give the answer to curing/preventing many cancers and the answers to...

I have got to see this one, it has 4 very good points before I set into the cinema 1. Its one of my favourite stories (I could watch the original War of the Worlds repeatedly) 2. Spielburg directed it 3. Excellent soundtrack 4. Tom Cruise.

I like this, and its precisely how I feel about faith.:)

I do tend to agree with you here. I actually came across some of the teachings of the masters recently and the true gospels of Christ. They bear very little similarity with Christianity today. So much has been lost in the way of all the earth's old religions and many valuable lessons lost...