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I assume you mean the part that says "it is clear that heaven will contain many who are not Christians, and hell will contain many who are!".Samara said:
2 Thess 2:10,11 "...with all decievableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they recieved not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie."Samara said:
Surely not any belief? What about the belief that the moon is made of apples, or the belief that I don't exist? If bias against any belief if wrong, how come I can't start my own religion saying that Asians are unclean and have it officially recognised (that was an example- substitute Asians for any ethnicity if you wish [do I mean ethnicity? Nationality? Race? Feel free to correct me])?
stemann said:Surely not any belief? What about the belief that the moon is made of apples, or the belief that I don't exist? If bias against any belief if wrong, how come I can't start my own religion saying that Asians are unclean and have it officially recognised (that was an example- substitute Asians for any ethnicity if you wish -do I mean ethnicity? Nationality? Race? Feel free to correct me)? [/QUOTE]
yes, the word is ethnicity
* this is a silly belief as we have evidence against it
* this is a perfectly valid belief, how can we be sure that we are actually here, that this is not all one dream-like state
but religious belief do not have evidence per se, that is why they are called faith
* because that is preaching unfounded and unsubstantiated hate
of course, im sure you personally do not preach such things
i think the point was though, that it is wrong to hold prejudice against other established religion
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Anything can be taken to such an extreme as to be ridiculous. I cannot legislate which religions are right and which are wrong. Consequently, I would not ask a potential employee about their religion. That would NEVER be a factor for employment while I am around! I find racism exceptionally revolting, yet I have hired racists and have even worked for them. This does not excuse them from treating ALL customers with due respect. For many of these racists, working with the race that they despise often "rehabilitates" them to the point of them fully repenting of their hate.stemann said:
stemann said:Surely not any belief? What about the belief that the moon is made of apples, or the belief that I don't exist? If bias against any belief if wrong, how come I can't start my own religion saying that Asians are unclean and have it officially recognised (that was an example- substitute Asians for any ethnicity if you wish -do I mean ethnicity? Nationality? Race? Feel free to correct me)? [/QUOTE]
yes, the word is ethnicity
* this is a silly belief as we have evidence against it
* this is a perfectly valid belief, how can we be sure that we are actually here, that this is not all one dream-like state
but religious belief do not have evidence per se, that is why they are called faith
* because that is preaching unfounded and unsubstantiated hate
of course, im sure you personally do not preach such things
i think the point was though, that it is wrong to hold prejudice against other established religion
We have scientific evidence against the moon thing, but only as long as you believe the sensory data fed to you by what is believed to be 'the outside world.'
Exactly, this could all be an illusion, which leads into:
Wait a minute.... why do you claim it's wrong to preach 'unfounded and unsubstantiated HATE' and yet it's ok to preach anything else unfounded and unsubstantiated?
I can only assume you think hate is a bad thing..... which leads me to the question, where do your values of 'good' and 'bad' come from? If I believe this world is no more real than any dream or illusion, what reason do I have to act morally?
And yet people would say a religion is 'wrong' or 'evil' if it preached hate- if YOUR opinion is that hate is 'bad', and MY opinion is that hate is 'good', why are you allowed to say my opinion is 'wrong' when if i do the same it is called prejudice?
