How is Christianity all about personal freedom? There are strict codes even in the new testament like these
1,050 New Testament Commands | Christian Assemblies International
Is there personal freedom in the sense that God wont stop you from doing some act he does not approve of on earth? Yes but...
Kilgore Trout
I think that people would have more spiritual growth if they stopped worrying about spiritual growth and started having more sex.
This.
I think one thing that holds peoples spirituality back is their propensity to bother themselves with things that don't have any affect on what...
I think conflict. I think it allows us to develop the way we do, the way we are now evil is a requirement
The problem is that if you believe in a God that is the creator of the universe and everything in it, than are perspective and logic is one slice of reality in a thousand other possibilities.
Catholicism seems like an over complication of something fairly simple.
There are many logical inconsistencies in the bible that it takes many people trying to fix it and therefore over complicating it.
If your sink was broken and beyond all repair, would you keep taping it back together if...
I know.
Ive read up on the daily grind that many adults hate facing. I do have a fear of aging past the age of 25.
I want to die young but I don't. Its hard to explain.
But since the world gives you the choices (at least in my case) I will take it if I want.
I am not clueless
I am a writer, sceptic and Atheist.
But first in importance, I am a writer.
No, I do not have any college degrees or even my high school diploma yet (I am in eleventh grade) but these are not important. What is important is the interest and then the ideas.
And my biggest influences in my...
This is a "yes". No is an impossible answer
The reason is that if god doesn't will this, than he defies the "logic" he has given us and that in itself is malevolent.
The problem is is that, a religions over all effect can be negative though they're maybe some positives
Like the extremist christians blowing abortion clinics vs the nice ones donating money and food to third world countries and even to the homeless here in the states
I would argue though that...
I took a DNA test and I know on my fathers side I am Mexican but I have no Idea if I have blood on Native American or my ancestors were part of the culling?
If I did want to join and my ancestors killed native americans, would i not be allowed in?
I believe through my research that the peoples who made these stories were in it for the betterment of their people. A way to teach people concepts that were extremely complex and could be related to in these stories, as an atheist these are the religions that make the most sense to me and if i...
Religion in general is an excellent tool to control the masses and has been used for it many times, whether people would like to believe it or not.
The problem with Christianity is that it can only work with a large uneducated culture and people because of its many logical pitfalls and barbaric...