Or a demonstration of just how powerful perpetual forced conversions are (especially when it began through the global power of Rome)... I wonder how Christianity would have spread if it didn't threaten everyone who it came in contact with over the ages? Hell, even now people feel pressure from...
Oh god... This is an excellent point. No one should ever be subjected to such disturbing, cthulloid horrors. I can't even handle a minute, let alone all eternity...
Country music is how I know evil truly exists and thrives in this world.
Listen to this song on repeat for an hour straight. Works wonders!
I think my computer has gained sentience, and it's threatening to wipe out all of mankind. What should I do?
There's a reason bards (skalds) were so important to ancient societies... People come and go, but thousands of years later their stories survive in songs. Furthermore, what is fact ceases to be important as the legend of someone's deeds eclipses the person themselves.
The truth of one's...
I love the big questions like this. These are the questions worth asking, even if there can never be a satisfactory answer.
For me, the quest for truth should be a quest without end. Once one thinks they have the truth, they stop looking and begin to collect rust while the world around them...
I guess for me it depends. If an animal is killed humanely, and the animal's meat isn't wasted, then I suppose it wouldn't bother me too much, in theory.
I would fish with a guy who was from the Puyallup tribe, and if he were successful in catching a fish, he would thank the river by filleting...
Oh wow. I've never had anything like a near death experience, though I have had other experiences that could be considered "divine" in nature; that said, I am largely agnostic myself.
When it comes to Sikhism, I'm with you. I'm largely ignorant myself as well, though from what little I know, it...
Cool! Have you looked much into other monotheistic faiths such as Islam, Sikhism, or Zoroastrianism? That last one is especially interesting, imo. :D
By the way, why are you convinced of an afterlife? Do you believe that souls exist?
I would wonder why such a god would author a text that endlessly brags about his might and deeds in the world (with the intent of leaving little or no evidence of those deeds) and endlessly heaps praises upon himself.
I wonder what I could have done that would make him want to reject me when I sought him with all my heart? What have I done that warrants eternal destruction?
I can understand the concept of faith, and how it helps people, but the kind of faith that Christianity (at least, the Christianity I know) requires can lead to intellectual dishonesty.
This one book is right, and everything else that disagrees is not only wrong, but a manipulation from Satan...