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I do. Are you not supposed to? How do you know you are clean if you do not?

+1 Oly, I'm not an atheist. I do believe belief in god as well as Jesus' actual teachings(as long as the other 90% of the bible is not heeded, or is at least approached realistically) are a good thing to live by. However, I have spent the past hour reading this thread, and What I see is this...

What does it mean to question the beliefs you hold most true? This is a difficult question to quantify - the beliefs I hold most true are things like the fact that the sun will rise in the morning and set in the evening. If we're talking strictly spiritual beliefs here(which I don't think we...

No, I'm not Christian, but that's what the church teaches.

Any thoughts?

But the bible is "infallible"..... and those that do not accept Jesus as their personal lord and savior shall burn in eternal torment.

I'm well aware of why this is nonsense, but I'm interested in hearing some devout Christians' explanations and/or ideas in relation to this.

While I'm well aware that QM supports a concept of the afterlife as well as lot of other things considered "paranormal", I would have also liked to see some sources.

We know man has existed for around 150,000 years, and we also know that the oldest worship of the Jewish god Jehovah began sometime around 1400 BCE. Before then, humans had no way of knowing about the Abrahamic god. It's said that if you do not believe in or worship him, you will burn in hell...

Now we're getting somewhere...

People do. Catholicism is included when people say "christianity"

I'm not talking about Alchemy. I'm talking about the Dark Ages after the fall of Rome when all of the modern technology, writing, art, and science was burned to the ground and lost to the annals of history.

You are making this up, or are misinformed. It's not a well accepted belief at all that religion has caused more death than any other cause. Starvation, famine, plague, disease, have and still do cause more death than anything else. Even the "millions" projected in the case of the crusades has...

Yes, I am giving you the correct definition. It's you who are using the wrong term "All the front runners" and "Religion as a whole" are two different things entirely. Have a look at this example: Mcdonalds and Burger King are cheap, and kinda gross Where "Mcdonalds and Burger King" are the...

You're talking about fundamentalism, not religion.

Disease, hunger, and non-religious war dwarf this number by many, many orders of magnitude.

That's not necessarily true. A religion is, in its most basic form, a way by which someone lives their life that is unwavering and uncompromisable. Some are more structured than others, some are taught and some are just slowly assembled by the person, some entail belief in a deity while others...

I was under the impression that the meaning of life, the universe, and everything was 42

1. Chill out and read. 2. Understand that having your world view challenged is a GOOD thing and that expanding your knowledge will help you to understand the big picture. 3. Stop arguing with trolls.

The bible should not be followed. What you have in the bible today is a political document that has been modified and raped countless times so as to be unrecognizable when compared to that which Jesus tried to teach. Men in power changed what it said to suit their needs time and time again...