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I bet if someone took the time and effort to probe ever corner of every translation of every Bible they could find something to contradict it. Taking everything literally in the Bible eventually means you can't do anything yet must do everything, which is why it is subject to interpretation and...

I would change it so that people would think about others as well as themselves and think about something other than themselves. If people actually stopped and thought about what they were really doing by their actions then things might run a lot more smoothly and without such desire for...

I personally don't agree with the idea of killing another human being in any context - it's self-defeating. When you mention it to everyone they agree with it - so why do wars happen? Because everyone talks about defence and stopping people killing by killing but it all turns into one vicious...

Surely as God as the creator and with man possessing free will any form of hierarchical Church or organization is by definiton spiritual fascism? Aren't the imposing THEIR beliefs rather than those of their religion as their is often discussion about what a deity really meant by doing such and...

I know my opinion is Christian-based as I've been brought up with a one-dimensional view of what religion is from my westernized education! However, I know that each and every argument for and against God, religion and the function of the universe is all boiled down, taken apart and thrown to...

You really weren't kidding when you said there was a disproportionate amount of authors on the site! Despite my youth (about 10 or 15 years younger than most of you by my guessing) I don't wish to pursue writing as a career, but it is something I pursue in my spare time. I've always had a...

I personally agree wholeheartedly with the Bible but there are a few things I'd like to point out: #1 The Bible has been written, re-written, changed and altered since the dawn of Catholicism and was written by mortals about the divine. As such many things may have been subject to...

Which therefore means God is fallible which means God could have made a few errors while creating the world which accounts for all the suffering which in turns allows for God's mistakes. This to me seems as always a flawed argument - if God gave is free will then we have the choice to accept...

qiatsu has it spot on for me - that is exactly the crisis, we all fight for institutions whereas we shouldn't be fighting for anything in the first place (well, in the sense of people killing people). As for war and religion - this to me is a seemingly strong argument that God can never want...

If the suffering argument is the case then there is an obvious conclusion that I draw from it every time: If God created evil and suffering (which to most eyes they did) then surely God is a hypocrite? Saying not to harm each other, to love and care, to treat one other with deceny and then to...

Religious leaders never know what they will create because it is only created after their deaths when people can appreciate what they've missed (this isn't to say that it was/wasn't a messiah figure, but an inspirational influence at least which has put a hand on history). They can teach and...

I think that dreams are just a junkyard for the days thoughts, but then I'll just be having a normal kip and all of a sudden someone's face who I haven't seen or thought of in years will just appear out of the blue and it's that random element that I can't seem to explain. We all have pretty...

Flying Circus was amazing, especially with the Gumbies (does anyone remember the anesthetist sketch??); The Upper Class Twit of the Year and the Bookshop sketch (the bloke going to buy a book but in the end doesn't know how to read - it's quality). + has anyone got a hold of that recent Python...

"Bored of the Rings" is a must read as it's like the original, but without Tolkein's over-flowery and long use of the English Language! As for the film, I wasn't too impressed by it all. The first two were really good and went a long way to working the whole situation. The last one (though the...

From what I've read you seem fairly open-minded on the whole idea of age. Where I live people often look down on me because of my age and treat my opinion as inferior because I haven't seen as many cold winters as they have. It's finally refreshing to hear people who actually care more about...

"Rode 14,000 miles on a Shire draft horse throughout the US in an attempt to prove to myself that I was still alive." - how long did that take??

From what I've seen and read so far I appear to be the youngest person - by quite a long long way! How old is the average person that uses the board (ish) and what made you join the board? (this is more knowing people's motivation rather than anything else).

This has to be the most obscure set of lists I have ever seen. There are a lot of very strange books that are going into the depths of the strange and biazzare. What is it with Robert Rankin and Terry Prachett, is there something I am going amiss with all of them? I'm reading: The Second...

I say we're a "child" - between toddler and teenager. We are just started to realise our potential and looking ahead to what we may or may not do. Yet at the same time we still squabble and argue over petty things, fall out with each other because we can and are only at the beginning of the...