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I'd like to know why we christians don't get to blow people up..lifes not fair
You did in Northern Ireland.
Religion - I can understand someone believing in god/jesus, but why do they believe in the bible?
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You did in Northern Ireland.
Here's why I understand what the OP is on about (taking Christianity as an example):
First you had "Christianity".
Then you had the East–West Schism which created the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church because people disagreed and decided they were right.
Then you had the Protestant Reformation which created Protestantism out of a split from the Catholic Church because people disagreed and decided they were right
Christianity is the belief that Jesus is the Son of God. After that you are just being shuttled into a collective group based on who was doing the shuttling (the State you were living in mostly) at the time.
For example I could create Fillado's Church, where I edited and added to existing Christian branches as I saw fit. Then if I get enough people to follow my Church it becomes a valid form of Christianity purely because the masses felt (or were forced) to make it one.
First you had "Christianity".
Then you had the East–West Schism which created the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church because people disagreed and decided they were right.
Then you had the Protestant Reformation which created Protestantism out of a split from the Catholic Church because people disagreed and decided they were right
Christianity is the belief that Jesus is the Son of God. After that you are just being shuttled into a collective group based on who was doing the shuttling (the State you were living in mostly) at the time.
For example I could create Fillado's Church, where I edited and added to existing Christian branches as I saw fit. Then if I get enough people to follow my Church it becomes a valid form of Christianity purely because the masses felt (or were forced) to make it one.
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I didn't...I was at home minding my own business.
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'You' obviously meaning Christians as a noun... albeit it other Christians.
The Koran doesn't tell Muslims to blow people up, you know?
I didn't say you were confusing the two. Based on an inherent misunderstanding of the nature of 'something', you mean?
I can dismiss God so easily. It makes no sense for this 'something' to be of a human anthropomorphic nature. That's just humans self-assumed status at the top of the food chain taking place. I know sense and spirituality/religion don't go hand in hand.
Spirituality and Religion are not the same thing. If you read about Hindu, Mayan, Buddhist teachings you will see that many of the philosophies we see emerging in theoretical Physics such as multiverse's and the such have been discussed for millennia, sense and religion can go hand in hand, it depends upon interpretation and which religion you choose to denigrate and in which way.
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Yeah that's it I meant other christians...not really one myself..who believe's in all that crap?
Anyway..Who mentioned muslims?
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Tell that to AcidHell2.
I used / as a way of grouping things, not implying that they're one and the same... as in scissors/knife being both tools to cut things... and religion too! Ba-dum-tish! And I'm done.
That would assume that we have some way of relaying our thoughts back to this 'something'... and if you say "Could be prayer?" I'm going to quit the internet.
That wouldn't assume any such thing.
It would assume that the Universe is a single entity and as everything, including Humanity, are made form the same stuff and that the entire Universe shares a single common ancestor it is not a huge assumption to make.
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See, I agree in general. I just wouldn't use phrases like "that the entire Universe shares a single common ancestor". It's semantics really, I think we're on the same page generally. I assume that you are open to the possibility of a human envisioned 'God'?
I hate discussing this sort of thing though... it's not like we're ever going to find out the truth.
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Oh come on!!! Mary has an affair....wots his face comes home to find she's pregnant...can't be him as he's sterile..mary.."Oh Joseph....thank space (there was no god at this point remember)...you're back...I was set upon by this bloke called god....but anyway it's ok because he says he rules the heavens etc"...(Joseph accepts all this as he's spaced out on drugs n stuff)...Anyway they call the little bleeder Jesus...& Jesus goes forth & spouts off all the crap his old ma had taught him to keep her seedy little secret quiet...Amen to that bro.
Where did I say they where the same thing?
As for what am I on about. It all steamed from the comment about science showing that the chance of a God is extremely low.
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I never thought it would happen.
You've found one of the missing Dead Sea Scrolls.
Fiver on ebay...(smells of t-bags tho...didn't even know they had t-bags BACK then...)
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I never thought it would happen.
You've found one of the missing Dead Sea Scrolls.
That's a good point but you have to remember that the real 'missing' scrolls are kept hidden for a good reason - because there's something written that would send shock waves through the very foundations of Christianity.
Can anyone guess what that might be?
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You only get an ooh with typhoo?
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The discovery that Jesus was a figment of everyone's imagination probably
Considering that the dead sea scrolls can be view digitally and copies can be found in many public accessible university libraries I find that kind of conspiracy theory as silly as you find the bible.
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Do you remember how the turin shroud was supposed to be genuine until a carbon date proved it was a fake? It turned out to be a trick or treater many years onward who was pushed by a homeowner into his peat garden?
So you think that there are not any scrolls kept hidden do you and that it's just a conspiracy theory, there's plenty of evidence around on the net altho you would just spout your usual ' can you prove that' stock answer
Which just shows how misinformed and ignorant you are.