draculina

Gerry, the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages was one of the forces holding back the development of capitalism.

they believed that usury was wrong.

The Protestant work ethic seems to have been  more conducive to capitalist development.

The Churches haven’t been behindhand in more recent centuries, mind you.

Apart form the Church of England’s…[Read more]

Well, if they created even you, then that proves Paig’es point.

Take care, Sarah.

I hope you find what you’re looking for.

If you return, sooner or later, then you’ll be welcome x

What started out as a debate about religion and penises has moved on to more adult ground about the nature of laws in physics and the consequences for religion, if you read it carefully.

Bloody hell!

It’s being cheerful which keeps us all going, isn’t it?

Someone hand round the cyanide capsules quick.

Now, for Gerry, it’s the intellectuals who are destroying the planet, and there was me thinking it’s lousy and thoughtless consumption, mass use of plastic and an unparalleled emission of carbon into the atmosphere.

Do something…[Read more]

Bloody hell!

It’s being cheerful which keeps us all going, isn’t it?

Someone hand round the cyanide capsules quick.

Now, for Gerry, it’s the intellectuals who are destroying the planet, and there was me thinking it’s lousy and thoughtless consumption, mass use of plastic and an unparalleled emission of carbon into the atmosphere.

Do something…[Read more]

But all religions claim that information is given, and that people have used their freedom to reject the choice, for whatever reason. Christians go further and say that men killed God when he came to offer them the choice again. Christians also argue that their murder did not end the choice.

Now you may believe that the choice is not a real one,…[Read more]

Gerry,

there is plenty of evidence on both sides of the case about God’s existence.

God exists or doesn’t exist is something we can all agree on. We can stop at agnosticism, or something can make us move on. There is evidence that the cosmos is a creation of Love; there is also evidence that the cosmos is a cold and indifferent place.

The adult…[Read more]

I think that’s the answer to drac’s second argument about worship.

Thank you, paige.

That’s just a misunderstanding. You’re mixing up God’s creation of a universe and God’s interaction with an already created universe

First, God’s creation of the universe is the creation o0f something measurable. Therefore, in measuring the universe, we are measuring God’s creation. If the universe is not crated by god, then you can’t show that…[Read more]

Gerry, I’m not presenting religion as black and white, not to my knowledge.

There are many different religions.

We all live our lives the best we can; there are some real bastarsds in the world, and some are religious and some aren’t. To some, religion is a comfort; to others, it’s not sufficient.

I’m just saying that there is a lot of room…[Read more]

Again, I have to ask, Mr Norfolk.

What you’re saying may well be true

or maybe not.

But how do you know??

You may feel you feel fairly certain, but some Muslims feel just as certain that they’re heading for a harem in paradise. maybe they’re right, too.

Who knows?

How do you know?

???

I’ve no idea about why a benign God would do this.

because he’s not benign? because he can do whatever he likes? because he might be a God that none of us like?

Or maybe there isn’t any Hell or Heaven???? Not in the snese we can envisage???

Who knows? not me.

Christians who believe in Hell say it’s not a condemnation of you as a dead…[Read more]

???

I’ve no idea about why a benign God would do this.

because he’s not benign?

Christians who believe in Hell say it’s not a condemnation of you as a dead person, but as a living soul.

I’m sure that when I go downstairs, I’ll look up to you and Alfie smiling down at me from heaven and pouring your divine nectar over the wall laughing at us…[Read more]

Why is there no God if there is no afterlife??

I just say that I really have no idea about what happens after death.

Christians have different approaches. The Catholics think we go to heaven if we’ve been good (sorry, cosy) and to hell if we’ve been bad and to purgatory if we’ve sinned but not too much. I have read an account by the Anglican…[Read more]

Why is there no God if there is no afterlife??

I just say that I really have no idea about what happens after death.

Christians have different approaches. The Catholics think we go to heaven if we’ve been good (sorry, cosy) and to hell if we’ve been bad and to purgatory if we’ve sinned but not too much. I have read an account by the Anglican…[Read more]

a lot of people get after-death experiences, when their heart stops and they are looking down on their body.

My gran said that she saw a girl dressed in white calling her. Apparently this is a common vision for the dying.

*shrugs.

The people I know who are dead stay dead. If you pushed them, they didn’t come alive. Their bodies went cold.

One…[Read more]

a lot of people get after-death experiences, when their ehart stops and they are looking down on their body.

My gran said that she saw a girl dressed in white calling her. Apparently this is a common vision for the dying.

*shrugs.

The people I know who are dead stay dead. If you pushed them, they didn’t come alive. Their bodies went cold.

When…[Read more]