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If you read carefully, i didn't actually exclude any other possibility. Perhaps I should have gone into more detail: a common failing of mine is assuming every one is quick on the uptake! As for Wilson, he should stick to his bugs.

Any religion has taken a step on the road to truth, for to acknowledge the divine is a necessary start. Is one religion going to be the complete truth? No. God is infinite and man is finite, so any revelation is going to be partial, since the totality would be incomprehensible. Are some...

Your argument is 1. If moral standards were based on religion, all believers would observe them. 2. All believers do not observe them. 3. Therefore, moral standards are not based on religion. Obviously the first premise is not true: people do not always behave in ways logically implied by...

First the links: Hellenismos Labrys Hellenion Neokoroi Neos Alexandria Those should keep you busy! As for opinions, a reconstructionist religion doesn't give you a temple to drop into, but neither is it tied to an ethnic community in the way that Indian or Chinese faith would be. The...

I might say the same to you! How do you know what my understanding of Hinduism is, how much study I've done, or how much of the scriptures I've read? It won't do just to say "western and eastern cultures simply do not use the same ethical guidelines". That's begging the question: assuming...

I was asking for comment, of course. I know the site you mention, and it confirms my point: "Hindu ethics is mainly subjective or personal" "Objective ethics … is based upon … duty, related to a man’s position in society" And on the caste system: "Who are these untouchables? Originally they...

One of the things that troubles me about Hinduism is the lack of ethical discussion. Even the Bhagavad Gītā says little more than "do your duty". Defining duty then seems to be left to custom. I found a list of 20 requirements for achieving mokṣa, of which only 3 relate to society: show devotion...

Many Hindus would agree with you. Rāmānuja defined each human soul as real, unique, eternal, indivisible, intelligent, and self-aware. God is the ground of their being, supplies them with bodies, and gives them freedom of action. I doubt if you'd disagree much with him. Of course, there is a...

(C) On wet days I always keep an eye out for straying snails and put them in the nearest garden. So far, luckily, no gardener has caught me at it. And for all molluskophiles Magical World Of Snails Captured In Macro Photography By Vyacheslav Mishchenko | DeMilked

You can't have proof in the sense that you can prove "2+2=4". If the existence of God were to be written in flaming letters in the sky, where's your freewill? If incarnation has any value, it's surely to enable us to learn and develop, and we couldn't do that with God obviously looking over our...

"kalpa" is Sanskrit! The text of Psalm 90 reads "from age to age": the Hebrew word is ‘olam. And what has that to do with hell, anyway? In Mark 9.48, Jesus speaks of being "thrown into hell where the devouring worm never dies and the fire is not quenched." If Peter remembered that passage...

I left another forum because of the unpleasant attitudes I'd encountered. It's difficult to report an abuser when they're a moderator! My response is usually along the lines of "Well, I shan't say any more in this thread, since you have trouble coping with it, so you can go and have a nice cup...

This is one case where Wikipedia is helpful: there's a large article with plenty of references. Looking at the list of beliefs, I'd say that the Age of Aquarius, indigo children, and the power of positive thinking are unique to New Age, but the other features can obviously appear elsewhere. It...

Eva Wong (practitioner of the Complete Reality School of Daoism) wrote That sounds like a religion to me. The philosopher Robin Collingwood wrote Choose your own examples!

For the Catholic Church that passage is part of the first commandment, which makes it specifically refer to the worship of images. And of course, unlike the Protestants, they would say that the images in church are not being worshiped, but a channels for the worship of what they embody. The...

Who says there are laws of nature? It's been argued that this is a basically Judeo-Christian idea, based on the concept of a God who lays down rules. It might be that the physical world just gets into the habit of behaving in a certain way. Another view is that the universe fits itself to our...

I've never owned a car in my life. I have public transport, buses and trains, in the next road, and if that's not enough, I can call a taxi. That's called living in a civilised community. And being a smug environmentalist!

I think answering a 2008 question was a bit late!

Is deletion disabled? I clicked on edit, but I couldn't see a delete option.

Re: Hi, are there still temples devoted to appollo, dionysius and hercules in greece Oops, I've created a zombie, so I'll delete it: I can't find the removal option.