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From the book description. His urgent call for a revival of traditional Christianity is sure to generate controversy... Is that not what everyone in American Christianity has been going on about for the last few decades? A return to traditional values? Seems to me the problem is that everyone...

Tea said "Your argument that your not a racist is that your God is a racist...so basically own up to that: I'm a racist because my religion is based on the premise that my race is better then all other." Shib said "So, why don't you just pick your Bible and throw it into the fire? I cannot...

Kaku is a smart guy, so I would not bet against him. Not sure what your point has to do with anything, however. There is a huge amount of science between the Big Bang and day to day stuff that we know is true. The fact that you are communicating with me on a computer that is linked to an...

Welcome! Would be interested in more information on which religions in particular; which variant of Gnosticism - If you are comfortable doing so. Inquiring minds and all that!

And never taken as an attack. In point of fact I enjoy your posts; they are well thought out and on point. The shared reality you pointed out is one of the basic laws of physics. Since the results of such a belief is immediately apparent (squish!) it is hard to get around it. Same as jumping...

I for one would just wish JC would get his Holy Butt down here and straighten out the mess he created. And the same for Moses, and Mohamed, and the Buddha, and Shiva and all the other Great Religious Leaders. They all started these religious orders, then took off and left fallible humans to...

Gross misinterpretation or not. The bottom line is that religions of all stripes have thru-out history found loopholes to support killing when it was their desire to do so. Thou Shalt Not Kill Suffer Not a Witch to Live. Two diametrically opposed statements. Same source.

I thought Wil was the eternal optimist here!

Shib, if you will read a little bit of history you will find that Lemaitre did indeed create the idea in 1922. When Einstein came along, Lemaitre also used a lot of Einstein's theories as evidence to support his big bang theory. Lematire was a priest by profession AND a physicist by choice...

Thomas said: "Best sellers, especially in theology, tend towards the latter, employing a more colourful and emotive language and, sadly, a tendency to assert a thesis without paying proper regard to the counter argument. Colour and emotion will always trump technical rigour in the wider...

Well it would be pretty clear if 'thou shalt not kill' was actually held as inviolate. Unfortunately as we all know too well, 'thou shalt not kill' except for A, or when B, or if one were to come across C, or a thousand other exceptions to the rule. The reality of religion is 'thou shalt...

Hatshepsut said "I wonder if it's both ways: that part of reality is shared" Yeah I ponder this a lot, too. If part of reality is shared, what part do you suppose it would be? I look at the world around me, from my closest to people halfway around the world and individual reality seems to rule...

Shib said "You say in your first statement above that "there is not but one reality." You misunderstood my meaning. But then again it is a really crappy sentence on my part. The statement is not wrong but it is confusing. I should not have put the 'but' in there. Which would have made my...

In point of fact he found it by extrapolating Einstein. To cheapen this man's brilliance by suggesting he found it in the Bible is beyond absurd.

Dan, that smilie at the end of a sentence usually means the comment was a joke.

PK said "I am trying to meditate because I want to get closer to God and get away from evil. What are the reasons for you guys to meditate." Meditation for me has several purposes. At its most basic, it quiets the mind. We in modern western societies have so much coming at us from so many...

Cough. Cough. Ahem. Racism against Jehovah? Hardly. While Gnosticism is widely considered an offshoot of Christianity, there are those who suggest that the principal elements of gnosticism were derived from Jewish speculation.* Which would make it an offshoot of the Jewish faith. As is typical...

Yep. Like anything practice makes one better. Meditation is typically a slow learning curve. First attempts, it is difficult to keep the mind from wandering. Over time it becomes much easier to keep focused. On the issue of binding our thoughts without failure, if I understand what you are...

Thomas said "That is not to decry polytheism as such, but I would draw a distinction between Traditional Polytheism, and modern polytheisms, which seem to me to tend towards sentimental self-projections and little more." True. The same could be said of modern monotheisms don't you think? There...

Actually, my statement is a follow up to yours. I took your observation and expanded on it in a slightly different direction. Doesn't mean I am not a sneaky witch thief. Just that I didn't do it this time! IWMWD. (It's what Morrigan would do). :)