• Welcome to Religious Forums, a friendly forum to discuss all religions in a friendly surrounding.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to the following site features:
    • Reply to discussions and create your own threads.
    • Our modern chat room. No add-ons or extensions required, just login and start chatting!
    • Access to private conversations with other members.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon!

Search results

  1. Riverwolf

    What does each religion or belief system get right?

    Thanks for the clarification. :) I don't really focus on what religions teach or believe, so I'll only focus on the ones that do. (My own is, in fact, not going to be listed here.) I pretty much agree with most of what the Buddha taught (though I'm still indefinitely unsure about rebirth), but...
  2. Riverwolf

    How did you find out your deity/deities were real?

    Never did. My theism is agnostic, and that's okay with me.
  3. Riverwolf

    Why is your Deity better and why are you sure you are right?

    ??? Offensive... Wha...? I'M CONFUSED!!!! DX Yeah... that's what I said.
  4. Riverwolf

    What God in each major ancient civilization is closest to the one supreme God?

    Only if the PIE culture (or possibly cultures) is actually from that region and/or traded with Semitic-speaking tribes. Fact is, we don't know. While they almost certainly existed, we simply don't know much beyond what little we can reconstruct of their cultural-linguistic paradigm. After all...
  5. Riverwolf

    Vegetarianism/Veganism and You

    My religion says nothing on the matter. I think it's a good thing to work up to, but not something I can do right now. I tried it one time, and because of reasons we still don't understand, it almost killed me. Not so much because of respect, but because of factory farms being the primary cause...
  6. Riverwolf

    dinosaurs never existed. The dinosaur fossils were created by paleontologist scam artists.

    And on what grounds do you judge that errors are being made? Are you a geologist? (And where'd you get that picture, anyway?) And you still haven't explained how pure sandstone can have melanin. You do know what that is, right?
  7. Riverwolf

    dinosaurs never existed. The dinosaur fossils were created by paleontologist scam artists.

    Here's what the sole paragraph at that link says: FOSSILS Archaeopteryx Fossil In Fossilized Sandstone Archaeopteryx lithographica. Believed to be one of the first bird species to have evolved from the dinosaurs about 150 million years ago. Specimen from Oxford University Museum Let's...
  8. Riverwolf

    dinosaurs never existed. The dinosaur fossils were created by paleontologist scam artists.

    No, a conspiracy is when a bunch of people get together to make secret plans. No, you haven't. You've merely provided a hypothetical scenario. You've not demonstrated that this has actually happened.
  9. Riverwolf

    dinosaurs never existed. The dinosaur fossils were created by paleontologist scam artists.

    No, I don't. You're claiming that scientists are saying things they're not, with no citations. That doesn't change the fact that there's nothing to be gained from doing so. I said "the sciences."
  10. Riverwolf

    What God in each major ancient civilization is closest to the one supreme God?

    Why? They're a completely different group. We don't know who or where they were. It probably varied from Tribe to Tribe, depending on what was most important to them. Indeed. DX Makes things hard for those of us trying to revive them.
  11. Riverwolf

    What God in each major ancient civilization is closest to the one supreme God?

    This is apparently what seems to have happened. However, we cannot be certain, given that we know almost nothing about the various religions practiced among the Germanic-speaking tribes. It's not so much a theory, as it is a mere hypothesis at best. According to Tacitus, the Ingwina (Ingvaeones...
  12. Riverwolf

    How do you know your deity is good?

    I can think of a few stories...
  13. Riverwolf

    Saved by faith and love, not law

    It's not meant to be punitive, even if it has that as a side effect in some cases. Punishment is about making the recipient feel bad for what they did, while making the giver feel better. It's meant to control a person's behavior via shame and guilt. Weregild is more about debts, and it only...
  14. Riverwolf

    Saved by faith and love, not law

    Yes, and it's a reference to a time, largely forgotten, in our culture when these matters weren't ever about punishment. The "payment" in question is called a weregild. Not really. Fate cannot be fought, even by the strongest Gods. Hence terms like "fatalism." Destiny, however, can be...
  15. Riverwolf

    Does the Following Prove That Jesus Legally Owns America? Read and Find Out...

    Don't forget about the disease part, i.e., the part that killed over 90% of the indigenous population.
  16. Riverwolf

    Saved by faith and love, not law

    ...I'm no closer to understanding whom you're talking about. How is punishment in any way repairative? I've always regarded it as avoidance. So you mean Destiny, then. Because Fate in the Classical (i.e. Greco-Roman) sense is something wholly beyond our control, something that everyone and...
  17. Riverwolf

    The difference between Human and animal

    A statement that, when examined, actually is so broad that it's basically meaningless. "Harm" and "environment" are so broadly applied here that the truth of this statement depends on what is meant. Are we talking individual species' behaviors doing something to make their own habitats hard to...
  18. Riverwolf

    dinosaurs never existed. The dinosaur fossils were created by paleontologist scam artists.

    After all, paleontologists are some of the richest and most well-funded scientists of any field, RIIIIIIIGHT??!?!?! :rolleyes:
  19. Riverwolf

    What does each religion or belief system get right?

    What do you mean by "right"?
  20. Riverwolf

    Does the Following Prove That Jesus Legally Owns America? Read and Find Out...

    Such a shame that we REALLY suck at that. Moreso, in fact, than some other countries. We may not be part of the English Commonwealth, nor subject to the English Crown, anymore; yet English remains our dominant language.
Top