Topic title, prob my most hated sentance lol. So many a time has it been an argument comback...sigh lol
(ps ive highjacked my brothers account its actually Alex_G posting :P)
by national socialism i assume you are talking about the Nazis? Well, the Nazis did not worship the Christian God and deffinitly not the Jewish God, they worshiped the Sun (wikipedia it, i'm sure its there)
The Judeo-Christian God (i don't know about the muslim God) appears from the original texts (OT & NT) to be a God that interviens with the world. God may be in control of everything, but may not directly cause everything. A theory is just like cold is the abcence of heat, could evil (auchwitz...
i totally agree...trying to sound clever, i believe that that is called the teleological argument where the beauty and splendour of the world could not have happened per chance therefore Divine intervention must have occured. William Paley was famous for this, wikipedia it if interested ;)
what i find annoying is Buddha, Christ and other religious figure heads are depicted in cartoons, do Christians go up in arms about it? the answer no, we might be offended but don't go round burning flags like drugged up lunatics. (i know that seems a bit strong but it just annoys me soo much)
im not to sure about capital punishment, because my religion tells me no, but i know instinctivly that if someone close to me was murdered i'd want that culprit dead. So i find myself asking why should it be different for me? I heard that prisoners in the UK get a newspaper delivered to their...
I think that (though i may be wrong in thinking) Scientology is to believe what Mr. Hubbard has said literaly. Whereas my take on Christianity and what i believe is more symbolic. Like the feeding of the 5000 was this child who gave up everything he had which inspired others to do the same and...
I think that because most people and in particular me find it very difficult to love your enemies, it is a virtue one should strive to acheive. Also, i think it can be said that it is our duty to love our neighbours whether they are our enemies or not. Our duty is something we ought to do and...