All About RELIGION Here

[brownprose]

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pila ra diay imong IQ, mr.brown? hehehe.

akong nahibaw-an hell kay murag below zero on the kelvin scale mao na akong problema kay di ko ka-apas sa mind ni kebz.

[josephdc]

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.

Was it Christopher Hitchens bro who made a similar comment?

I cannot understand it. If with or without religion, we'd still have some people doing good things and others doing bad things, it seems clear that religion is not the problem but people.

[josephdc]

imo, religion is a path of least resistance. ready made beliefs. all you have to do is believe, practice and follow the rules. no need to dig deep within yourself. if you don't believe in the bs but don't want to rock the boat, you just have to be quiet and keep with the appearances. but i think religions were primarily made to give us moral codes to live by with the intention of making us better human beings.

Yeah, I think the same way. This is one of the reasons why I cannot separate my religion and my spirituality, because I think the two help each other out. Religion, or in this case Christianity since I'm speaking as a Christian, gives us moral codes or laws, like the ten commandments in the Old Testament or the two greatest commandments in the New Testament, in order to help us grow in our spiritual life. In this context, we are not called to become religious at the expense of our spiritual growth, nor are we called to become spiritual at the expense of the religious tradition that we follow; rather, in this sense, we are called to practice our religion so that we can grow in our spiritual life. I think the two are not mutually exclusive.

[josephdc]

If you call life's necessities "crutches," I guess God is a crutch. Needing the things we were created to need is not a weakness. It would be foolish to ignore the "crutches" we were designed to use... necessary things like food and water and families and friends and God. Then again, there are things we need once in while like medicine and doctors and real crutches and wheel chairs. I suppose some people are too proud and self sufficient to use those things, but they either stay sick, die, or live a life that is less than it could be. God has made my life great. I'll keep leaning on that crutch.

Yeah, I agree!

[kowkruche]

Yes, it is needed.

[reptoid]

Albanus Schachleite was a Benedictine abbot who preached at nazi rallies. This real photograph (famously used as an album cover by UK rock group Killing Joke) raises uncomfortable questions about the role, purpose and scope of organized religion.

Brown priest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[josephdc]

Thanks for the reply Bro,
Yup there is a hint, but I think Science will not agree, they also have theories how the Cosmos was created, Big Bang theory so on and so forth....

I think the Big Bang theory does point to a transcendent Creator. Big Bang cosmology tells us that the universe had an absolute beginning, that the universe after all is not eternal. Now, what may have caused the universe to begin to exist? Whatever this cause may be, it must be something other than the universe because it existed before the universe. Therefore, it must be something that is not material and is not bound by space and time. One philosopher said that there are only two candidates for what this cause may be: it's either an abstract object, like numbers, or a "mind" (for lack of a better word.) But abstract objects are impotent, they cannot cause anything. So it must be a "mind". This is how theists traditionally understand "God" to be -- a being who is immaterial, timeless, changeless, and whose essence is existence; a being who possesses great power (for "it" brought something, the universe which is contingent, out of nothing), intelligence, and free will (for "it", God who is eternal, brought something, the universe which is temporal, into existence).

I'm sure you know that there are other models out there other than the Big Bang, but I think the latter is the one which is generally accepted by the scientific community. I may be wrong (please correct me, anyone), but my impression is that current scientific findings support the standard model more than they do the other models.

[josephdc]

I think what the photo lacks is context. Does that image tell us the whole story?

[handsoff241]

@reptoid... *sigh *facepalm

[Anydowro]

first, you need religion to realize that there is something wrong. After you've realized what's wrong, you can then say that you don't need religion.