It is the New Atheism aka Militant Atheists that bother me. They are as likely to try to save you from the belief in God as the Fundamentalists are by trying to get you to accept Jesus in your heart.
I was in a group of Unitarians, where these New Atheists also resided. One by one people with...
This isn't something that I can give a yes or no vote for. While Christmas is a pagan holiday, just look it up in the encyclopedia, I think Christmas can be celebrated as the birth of Christ if Christians so wish. Christmas has different meanings for different people. You can make of it as you...
This is truly beautiful Quintessence.
I see God in everything. And I also realize that people experience God differently. There is validity to all our beliefs. Some may have the gift of experiencing God personally, directly, others experience God as Consciousness, and there there are those who...
I believe after thinking all this over that I have come to certain conclusions, and I posted them on another thread: http://www.religiousforums.com/forum/theological-concepts/75876-there-really-god.html
I believe that Hinduism may not be my path anymore, but at the same time I will always hold...
I have come to believe this. Thank you Storm for suggesting that I read Why God Doesn't Go Away. Also for the other comments made by others in this thread, whose names I cannot see to post, and one who said something very similiar to what jacob said that I just quoted.
I have been away nursing...
Welcome MyMessiah,
Atheists are good. I am nothing in regards to religing, but I have been through alot of those synthetic religions that Giant talked about, only I am left without knowing what to believe, what to take with me and what to toss out. Although I have tossed out so much that I am...
The last chapter of Rational Mysticism was the best, the summary. And here I thought that the book was just entertaining.
When he wrote: “What can be ruled out is that science will answer the ultimate question: How did something come from nothing? Neither superstring theory nor any other...
I was just going to ask about that book too, and I will check into it. thanks.
Seven, interesting, we do have a lot in common. A JW as well.
Sometimes I can just say, It doesn't matter about God and truth, what matters is that you love others and that you try to help when you can. And then...
I loved the thread on Science and Vedanta, if my memory serves right. But I was not able to grasp much of it.
I can tell you what I believe and don't believe, but at the same time I have doubts about certain things.
I cannot accept the God of Christianity because of the cruelty that this...
I may not have worded that last post of mine correctly, because what I am saying is that mystical experiences are not just neurological problems. These experiences are deep and change people. Even past life experiences change people. Science cannot prove that they are hallucinations. If they...
I think what I have a hard time believing if I think enough about it, is that experiences in meditaton are hallucinations, especially since others have had similar experiences. My mind expanded, I was in a larger consciousness. and an atheist cannot ever explain that outside of saying it was a...
What wonderful posts. Thank you all. Thanks for the condolences on my dog too.
I think I have spent too much time on the anti religious, anti God forums.
I like that answer too.
No spoon. What wise words, and I noticed that you are catholic. You just think differently than what I would...
I thought it was good to be lost for a while. But right now it doesn't feel that way.
It wasn't just knowing that there was a God, and I don't mean the God of the bible or koran, etc. But Consciousness, which turned me to reading quantum physics, which caused me to realize that that is too...
I am new here, and I am not sure where to post this or where to begin. I used to be in a yogi group, but due to the behavior of a guru I left Hinduism and went to Buddhism. I am rather lost now.
When I used to meditate I had an experience in which my mind expanded and I was enveloped in Love...