Hatred, violence and anger are human problems. They are not limited to a set of religious or political beliefs. If all religions disappeared at 6 am tomorrow we'd have a new reason to fight and hurt and kill by 6:05.
Ezekiel says why Sodom was destroyed and it has nothing to do with homosexuality and it never did. Ez 16:49
Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and...
A post I wrote a number of years ago seems apposite.
What is Zoroastrianism?
Simply put, Zoroastrianism is the name given to the religion and beliefs based on the teachings which are attributed to the Persian religious leader Zararthushtra ( in Greek Zoroaster, in later Persian Zartosht)...
The KJV is a good but dated translation. There are better. The NASB if you want almost woodenly literal, word-for-word translations or the NIV if you want thought for thought. The ESV is good as are the RSV and the REB. The really important thing to remember is that ALL Bibles are necessarily...
The deaths of DeForest Kelley and Leaonard Nimoy both moved me to tears. It is because all humans seek connection, I think, and we find it in shared experiences. In my case the shared experience of 'Star Trek.'
I disagree. Humans evolved as super-omnivores which means that there is almost nothing we cannot eat. I would add that we can choose to eat meat or not according to our individual consciences. Speaking as one Zathusti to another there is no command to either eat or abstain as with all things we...
We humans are super omnivores, which means that there is very little we cannot eat. Our diet can and should contain a variety of things, including some meats, for optimal health.