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Did you see that interview with the local sherrif ?
Guns don't kill people , people do
Fecking hell
Those Texas police and some of the people they interviewed looked like they came straight from the set of the Texas chainsaw massacre or the hills have eyes
In god we trust ff sake
Well he didn't help out those people murdered by the gun yesterday did he !!
There have been thousands of gods worshipped throughout history and in all different locations around the world - and we all know which one most people believe in i.e. the one they were indoctrinated with as a child. Religions generally travel along the same routes as languages and Empires. That's why you are likely to be a Catholic if you speak Spanish etc. And what most current-day Abrahamists would have believed in just over two thousand years ago is anyone's guess. Depends on what bed they were born in methinks.
i was agreeing with what he was suggesting in his post
and was just commenting on his comment about being non-pc
because what he posted was not offensive it did not seek to marginalize any sets of groups it was rational
it wasn't tippy tappy around the subject trying hard not to upset somebody, because of what "group" they see themselves as part of
in actual fact he was very pc with his post lol
I think I know what political correctness is
Good evening sir.
Q.1: Yes.
Q.2: Heaven is a place for believers/followers of Jesus. Jesus made an extraordinary, almost arrogant claim – no one comes to the Father except by me. Why would non-Christians want or even expect to go there? Surely to them it's a fictional place and Christians are deluding themselves.
God is forgiving but to obtain forgiveness surely first you have to acknowledge that there is something that needs to be forgiven and then ask for forgiveness! That tends to fly in the face of relativism which today's society is based upon - what feels right to me must be right etc. Hence my suggestion that the word “sinner” is a very non-PC expression today – if I called you a sinner I suspect you might be a little upset? The fact that someone professes to be a Christian is an acknowledgment that he/she is a sinner and therefore no different to anyone else in that sense, as we ALL fall short of being the person that Jesus wants us to be. The big difference is that the Christian knows that he/she falls short but has the humility to recognise this.
Yes, Christianity, if you consider Christianity to be a religion (which I don't), i.e. not a relationship with a person, just a follower of an ideology or philosophy. My two sons grew up in a Christian home and were free to choose their own path. They had ample opportunity to turn away (away at university, leaving home to get married etc.) but they have not. We never coerced them - what teenagers would accept that! There is an expression "to love people into the kingdom" - do you seriously think that anyone today could be bullied into becoming a Christian?
My sisters kid was brought up by my sister and her husband who are both devout , god fearing Catholics
Is it any surprise she has turned out the same ?
The difference is she is very bright and studying anthropology and evolution at king's college London and surely she will over the course of her studies realise that the earth is billions of years old and that , in my opinion , creationism is nonsense
At least l hope she does
OK, so don't worry about it then. As Dawkins has said - "there probably is no God, so stop worrying and get on with your life". Remember the famous slogan on the side of the bus -
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ri...0jygJyyvms-EM:
But Christians believe the Bible to be the word of God and that the earth was created in 10000 years
Why wasn't there any mention of dinosaurs in the Bible ?
God is supposed to be omnipresent ......everywhere , all the time , watching over us ......you don't seriously believe that do you ?
Why didn't he stop Adolf Hitler ?
Why does he allow people to die in tower blocks in horrible fires , some of them young children ?
Why does a young doctor get killed in a car crash when he had so many lives to save and a bright future ?
God is all powerful isn't he ?
I simply cannot accept there is a god if he is supposed to be everywhere at all times and all powerful
Regards
So they had to wait until they were teenagers and went to Uni or left home to get married before they could make their own decision? (Meaning they were about 18 years old, and therefore adults, not children)
In the meantime, up until those opportunities came about, were they taught your religion by you and other followers?
If one of your children at the age of 10 had said “I no longer want to follow your religion, I don’t believe any of it”, would you have allowed them that privilege? (Don’t forget, telling lies is a sin)
It is pretty obvious that a religious upbringing affects the belief systems of children in quite a fundamental manner. If people were allowed to be religion-free until adulthood the results would be different as to how they perceive the world and the eventual religious or non-religious path that they would follow. Creating a belief system in a child is a very strong influence and a considerable traction, something that has been recognised by purveyors of religious and political dogmas throughout time.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathl...b_5664805.html
"In our first study, we found that children’s judgments about characters in biblical narratives were strongly affected by their upbringing. Children who had had some form of religious education - via church, parochial school or both — generally judged the central character to be a real person. Children who did not have religious education — who did not go to church and went to a secular school — largely judged the central character to be fictional.
In a follow-up study, we obtained a similar pattern for what we might call quasi-biblical stories — stories that included miraculous events but not ones that children would read about in the Bible. For example, we told children a story about the parting of the mountains. Religious children were more likely than non-religious children to think that the main character was real."