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I don't know if this is it, but I did find one religious conference going on in Eau Claire, WI, in September: The Great Lakes Baptist Conference Pastor's Prayer Gathering. This doesn't seem too likely, though, since it sounds like this is just for pastors. If he was a minister, I would think he...

Churches are run by people, and people are flawed. "Organized religions" are no different than any other human institutions. Well, perhaps there is one difference: Religions aspire to ideals. But as a human organization, they can be just as political, just as destructive and just as barbaric as...

I have to admit I didn't read through all the responses to this issue, so if someone has already suggested this, feel free to skip this comment. An assumption in this question is that God is a being — a supreme being yes, but nontheless a being. That basically means he's just like us, just...

Hey, I just figured out how this quote thing works! It's a breakthrough for me. What I meant was this: One of the ways God has been defined in the Christian tradition is that he is a supreme being, infinite and ineffable. Based on that definition, I would argue that you can never understand...

Hey presser kun, From where I sit, it seems that you're not so much talking about "proving" God's existence as you are talking about exploring the metaphor by which you connect to God. There's nothing wrong with refining your understanding of the metaphor. That's part of how you sustain...

A lot depends on how you define religion. In the context of the few comments here, I would say the definition being used at the moment is the institutions by which beliefs are carried from one generation to the next. So using that definition, religion is no better or worse than any major...

If you could prove God existed, why would you need faith? Why does faith have such a bad rap among so many who call themselves religious? It seems it isn't good enough for them. They want certainty. They want proof. So if your a Christian who believes he can "prove" God exists, how are you...

I guess I'll be the ass here and say that I don't need to respect or like someone or something to tolerate them. For instance, I don't like the wait in a doctor's office, and I don't respect the inefficiency of most medical facilities, but I'll tolerate it. I don't like chatty taxi drivers or...

Giving relationship advice is pretty dodgy. The dynamic is so much more complicated than religion. But I would ask yourself a few questions: 1. If you stay with him, do you see the relationship heading toward marriage? If not, what do you want to get out of the relationship? Will whatever...

I think you're missing the point there, JJM. I once posted a similar scenario on my blog. I'll reprint it here: Now, I'm going to do a little role playing. I'm a 28-year-old woman with a degree in chemical engineering. I wasn't brought up with any religion. In fact, religion was never...

The trouble with defining religion as anything you want to believe is that it ends up including a lot of things that common sense would tell you is not religion. It could mean just about anything that ends with an "ism:" captialism, socialism, facism, idealism. There have to be some criteria...

I like your answer, path of one. It makes sense. I do think Buddhism is technically atheistic, arthra. Here's an explanation from the BBC religion and ethics site: "No one saves us but ourselves, No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path, But Buddhas clearly show the...

So let me get this straight, this all-loving god is actually so petty and mean spirited that he would condemn someone to an eternity of pain just because this person thoughtfully and authentically came to the conclusion that there is no god? It's not like there's a lot of real "evidence." I'm...