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Is it because children are more forgiving? Does their innocence make them more likely to do what is right, or thought of as right? Is it a generalisation too far or a metaphor? General ponderance.

This sounds interesting. Is this Widom and Compassion equivalent with thought and deed? And is it a developed philosophy or incidental? Do you have anymore information on the Vajra? Sorry for the questions as you piqued an interest.

I like the last one. It made me smile! :)

I do not believe that female circumcision is proscribed in the Koran or other Holy Islamic writings. So the issue is African culture, not Islam, I think. September 11th was committed by a small number of people for political reasons. I do not hold that as indicative of Islam any more than I...

I am not too sure what you mean by the following Could you please elaborate? I don't understand where the perception of gender comes into it. IT would be interesting to see where you see this coming from, and where you see this leading to.

The nature of Jesus is foremost one of philosophy that I am actually still quite uncomfortable with. Still, it is good to see that so much emphasis is place on the manner of Jesus Himself! Sometimes I fear too many become enthralled first by theological arguments first, and focus on Saint Paul...

Brian, is there is something wrong with the last link? When the page comes up it seems to be mostly intact, but at the top I receive the following error Warning: main(): stream does not support seeking in /home/virtual/site95/fst/var/www/html/articles/golgotha/index.php on line 5

You make an interesting point about fundamentalist beliefs. It is these extremes expressed so simply that makes myself question the application of the term Christian at all for myself.

I am not a big Lord of the Rings fan but the allegory you mention does sound interesting. I know even less about CS Lewis.

I like the points made then, especially This can only be especially true when dealing with so complex a series of different writings as within the Bible. Yet to the fundamentalist only literal renditions of the English can be true! It is a ridiculous preposition.

I guess it could be sid that all music truly touches our spirit. But does it always do so in the spiritual sense? I do not think some music touches positively at all.

I have never accepted the idea of a literal Hell of fire and burning. It sounds utterly alien for a forgiving God. Believing that the universe was created simply to bring form sentient life and then torture the majority of it for all eternity speaks to me of a sickness in the mind of the...

I would presume that for one it would give a distinctly Jewish origin to the traditions of the early Christians in the first place. The issue of opening to the Gentiles would follow after the original Matthew tradition. That is the way the early church is believed to have developed so a Q...

I have yet to achieve a real understanding of what I actually want to achieve out of live. I'm sorry if that does not help but it is the real truth of my position. Ask not what you can do for life, but what life can do for you, perhaps?

I would like to have seen all of the life of Jesus first hand to see the truth of the event in every detail. Then I would know everything for sure.

I am living around San Diego at the moment though living arrangements are not settled. I have started working in a new position as administrator at a law firm. My real name is not actually Dave. When I first connected to the world wide web I used an alias to stop myself being identified as it...

There is always the danger of pollution by those who come after. I believe that oral traditions are quite resilient to change and as reliable as written records, which are also open to abuse. But politics is always a danger. I am still trying to find for myself what effect that may have had on...

I find the whole nature of Divinity to be beyond my comprehension. Maybe that is why I am ever uncertain how to perceive Jesus as Christ, and in what way. Should I be trinitarian or allow other perspectives. Everything is confused so I seek a reading that makes most sense without doctrine. I...

I think we are better reinventing a modern tradition based on compassion as that is what I see as essential to the teachings of Jesus.

I will enjoy these recommendations as well. :)