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  1. Exaltist Ethan

    I believe God loves gays and lesbians

    Reality ultimately created homosexuals and if two homosexuals are in love with each other I see nobody being a victim of it. If the perceived problem is population, there's already eight billion of us and there's ways homosexuals can have children now so I don't see that as an issue. Since I...
  2. Exaltist Ethan

    How do Baha’is see atheists?

    (Part 2 of 2) I am neither gay nor a member of the Baha'i Faith. However, if I were both, I would have gay sex outside of marriage, I would have a partner and be "married" to him outside the confines of my religion, and I would still practice the religion regardless. The Baha'i Faith has...
  3. Exaltist Ethan

    How do Baha’is see atheists?

    (Part 1 of 2) I'm going to try to meta this conversation. The Baha'i Faith restricts sex between the marriage of one man and one woman since Abdul Baha led the religion. In fact, Islam allows three women to one man and Baha'u'llah initially believed in two women to one man. Abdul Baha changed...
  4. Exaltist Ethan

    How do Baha’is see atheists?

    I disagree. Atheism and nontheism are different concepts. Atheism is a disbelief in God, that is supported by either faith, evidence or both for their disbelief in God. An atheist is someone who believes in atheism. A nontheist is someone who believes in nontheism. And if this is what you have a...
  5. Exaltist Ethan

    How do Baha’is see atheists?

    I think there is a fundamental problem with this question. An atheist is a person who believes in atheism. A Baha'i is someone who believes in the Baha'i Faith. Let's separate the atheism from the atheist and the Baha'i Faith from the Baha'i. Most people would agree that atheists and Baha'is...
  6. Exaltist Ethan

    should prostitution be legal?

    Not only would I say prostitution is a victimless crime, I would say both parties involved actually benefit from the transaction. I agree that we should legalize and regulate it to some degree, but I don't understand why it needs to be taxed. I get the fact that everything is taxed and I guess...
  7. Exaltist Ethan

    Drug and alcohol addiction

    I honestly think the problem is hedonism. People live in a culture where they think whatever makes them feel good is what they should do all the time. This leads to problems with drugs, which offer considerable amount of short-term gain but severe long-term consequences. I take drugs myself, but...
  8. Exaltist Ethan

    Why do some people leave religiousforums?

    I think one thing people aren't mentioning enough here is the adaptation to the new server redesign. A lot of us didn't like the changes that were presented through it, especially how it gutted the new threads section. Traffic has slowed down significantly since RF was forced to update, and...
  9. Exaltist Ethan

    Should I leave this forum?

    We need to have diversity in thought and you happen to be one of the few remaining conservatives on this forum. Cutting yourself off completely would be a mistake, but if you don't want contentious debate, I suggest sticking to the forums that don't allow it.
  10. Exaltist Ethan

    Brain Droppings

    Unity Church I'm going to be honest: I have very little disagreements with the Unity Church and the New Thought movement in general. They are panentheistic, they believe that humans are divine creatures, and they believe in making the world a better place through positive thoughts. And I agree...
  11. Exaltist Ethan

    Does God always get what he wants?

    I am going to pretend that my beliefs don't exist and I am answering this as if I were a Christian. In the KJV of the Bible, Isaiah 46:10 says this: 10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do...
  12. Exaltist Ethan

    Poll: Basic Theology

    Pistevism isn't even a word. Apistevist is someone who rejects faith. So I broke down its etymology and used apistevism as a means to describe a belief system that rejects faith. And since a in the beginning of a word typically denotes "without", like "a-gnostic" being without knowledge of God...
  13. Exaltist Ethan

    Poll: Basic Theology

    I could have made an "other" option or perhaps a version of agnosticism that doesn't include apistevism or apatheism. Not all agnostics are apistevists (like agnostic theists) and not all agnostics are apathetic towards the idea of God either. Some (true) agnostics are actually deeply interested...
  14. Exaltist Ethan

    Eating

    So hungry you can't eat. So tired you can't sleep. So dirty you can't take a shower. So bored you forget what fun is. It happens.
  15. Exaltist Ethan

    Poll: Basic Theology

    I am so glad I decided to include it. Atheists will often say, "we're all born atheists" but in reality I believe we are all born apatheist. Some people just never change that position, yourself included.
  16. Exaltist Ethan

    Poll: Basic Theology

    Theism/Atheism - Belief in God axis. Gnosticism/Agnosticism - Knowledge of God axis. Pistevism/Apistevism - Faith in God axis. I'm really having fun making these polls in Interfaith and poking at the brains here in RF. Similar to my theology poll, this poll doesn't name specific theological...
  17. Exaltist Ethan

    Brain Droppings

    My extrapolations/assumptions/faith can go insane. I literally have the assumption that 1 - everybody will be resurrected at a later date 2 - will control their own galaxy that will be later upgraded to a Universe, then a Multiverse and 3 - and at that point we will live in a post-moral reality...
  18. Exaltist Ethan

    Brain Droppings

    The Fault of Faith This is going to come extremely unorthodox by most people's standards, but I feel like I need to express this belief as I have come to known it. I believe that agnostics, atheists and apistevists know and understand God more than most theists. In fact, I believe it is their...
  19. Exaltist Ethan

    Free will deniers

    Free will is not an illusion, but it's also not very apparent in society. I believe to some degree of both free will and determinism, but I would argue that determinism is slowly becoming more free over time. For example, in the past, to listen to music, you'd have to go to the record store or...
  20. Exaltist Ethan

    So what about hell?

    Once bad people realize what they did to people was wrong, no matter how bad they were, they will be able to change in the future. Between genetic/epigenetic manipulation and other ways of changing the mind, I have no doubt even the worst of society will be able to redeem themselves, including...
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