Man of Honour
- Joined
- 29 Mar 2003
- Posts
- 57,720
- Location
- Stoke on Trent
There are not enough gif's to reply to this.
Religion question?
- Thread starter squarehead94
- Start date
There are not enough gif's to reply to this.
Soldato
- Joined
- 10 Mar 2009
- Posts
- 4,473
- Location
- South West
I'm a Christian and personally don't believe in aliens in the sense of little green men in flying saucers but I do believe people have seen what could be described as ghosts, although not the white sheet 'woooooo' kind. I know the spiritual side of this world is far deeper than we realise and some do dabble with it through things like the occult, ouija boards, spiritism, mysticism, call it what you like but they have a very real spiritual core.
God doesn't expect you to believe in Him, it's not like He made universe and wrote a book about it or anything
God doesn't expect you to believe in Him, it's not like He made universe and wrote a book about it or anything
Last edited:
Soldato
- Joined
- 10 Mar 2009
- Posts
- 4,473
- Location
- South West
Double post - need caffeine
God doesn't expect you to believe in Him, it's not like He made universe and wrote a book about it or anything
He wrote a book....like put pen to paper and wrote a book ?
Maybe he should have made it multilingual.
Man of Honour
- Joined
- 27 Sep 2004
- Posts
- 25,821
- Location
- Glasgow
I'm surprised that Nitefly hasn't had conniptions at this. Are you sure you really believe in Darwinian theory? Because you seem to be misattributing it at best - it has never been about survival of the fittest in the sense of the strongest being the fittest, it is more subtle, those who are best adapted to their environment are most likely to survive via natural selection.
Lots of things influenced the Nazi regime, that doesn't mean all influences should automatically be classed as Nazis. That would be a gross abuse of logic to presume that because a group has taken an influence from something that what the influence is taken from also agrees everything it has influenced.
Man of Honour
- Joined
- 17 Feb 2003
- Posts
- 29,640
- Location
- Chelmsford
I believe that each person should be entitled to their own beliefs and faith.
Regardless of religion, we all have faith in something which we don't understand. Over the last 100 years or so science has filled the gaps where faith once stood.
Not being religious myself, I admire anyone who sticks to their pricinicple and beliefs; relgious or otherwise.
Regardless of religion, we all have faith in something which we don't understand. Over the last 100 years or so science has filled the gaps where faith once stood.
Not being religious myself, I admire anyone who sticks to their pricinicple and beliefs; relgious or otherwise.
Soldato
- Joined
- 8 Mar 2007
- Posts
- 10,938
Faith is the belief in something without evidence. We have evidence for the existence of extra terrestrial life.
It's an almost mathematical certainty that life exists outside our planet, the same can't be said for the existence of God.
Just thought I'd start a little debate here, I personally am an atheist, (a non prophet organisation) but I have friends that are christian.
What I wonder is, a lot of people find ghosts and aliens preposterous to ponder the reality of them existing, They'd have to see them to believe them, but if they find it so difficult to believe in ghosts and aliens, how comes they can believe in god? No proof he exists, just myths and tales from long ago.
Thoughts?
Absence of evidence does not mean evidence of absence as they say. I have never seen a ghost/alien so I would say it is unlikely but I can't prove beyond doubt that they don't. Same applies to existence of God, I can't prove to anyone that he does exist but it is a case of providing facts that can support a given position then analysing which viewpoint is more plausible/probable.
The key to Christianity is the resurrection of Jesus, if this is disproved then the Bible itself says "your faith is in vain if the resurrection didn't happen". It's an interesting topic to look at the historical accounts of that event/time period.
Christianity is steeped in history and that is what makes it interesting. It isn't just history though, you will often hear apologists refer to logical, philosophical and scientific facts/rules/premises that support their views.
The biggest misunderstanding in our society today is the thinking that religion and science are mutually exclusive.
Thanks for the vid, have just sent to a mate of mine who was the wrong kind of public school boy to show him there is hope.
So they haven't discovered any planets with a habitable atmosphere then......just some where it may be possible....... maybe!!!
So, you have carried out a study into the reliability of the text and concluded that the genre is fiction? Wow!
Would you label the historical parts as fiction too?
i hope one day all people will realise that this religious nonsense was only ever put there to control the masses
I'd love to know how you can be so certain on why religion was formed? Did you get some divine revelation thats suggests you are correct? Or is this just purely the opinion of one individual.
Last edited:
anyone know of a good facepalm image to post here???
Darwin the pro nazi, now i have heard it all, you need a slap, pure and simple pal. Also to original question, no proof that he doesn't exist and no proof that he does exist
The end (which is what the writer of the bible forgot to put at the end of it )
Darwin the pro nazi, now i have heard it all, you need a slap, pure and simple pal. Also to original question, no proof that he doesn't exist and no proof that he does exist
The end
(which is what the writer of the bible forgot to put at the end of it )Because they don't apply the same level of scepticism to god. They have invested emotionally in the idea that god exists and as such are subject to confirmation bias.
Permabanned
- Joined
- 8 Jan 2010
- Posts
- 10,263
- Location
- UK
Just thought I'd start a little debate here, I personally am an atheist, (a non prophet organisation
What I wonder is, a lot of people find ghosts and aliens preposterous to ponder the reality of them existing, They'd have to see them to believe them, but if they find it so difficult to believe in ghosts and aliens, how comes they can believe in god? No proof he exists, just myths and tales from long ago.
Thoughts?
Dunno about Christianity but in the Quran somewhere it says God created mankind and Jinn so that they worship him alone. Then somewhere else it mentions that animals do too.
One of the tenants of faith is to believe in Jinn (Ghosts).
- Joined
- 25 Nov 2011
- Posts
- 1,355
- Location
- Cumbria, United Kingdom
Grammar police, bloody hell, this isn't an english exam!
All I am getting at is Darwin's ideas on superior races and other ideas attributed to Naziism.
I believe in the theory of evolution, and I am in a perfect mental health state, Surely those that find pro-alien believers and believers of ghosts to be insane surely need a reality check, its been mentioned there are millions upon millions of other planets that are sustainable to support life. and Ghosts have had many sightings, However I hate these shows on tv such as just haunted or whatever it is called, Its so faked its untrue. But I am a firm believer in Ghosts. And aliens.
All I am getting at is Darwin's ideas on superior races and other ideas attributed to Naziism.
I believe in the theory of evolution, and I am in a perfect mental health state, Surely those that find pro-alien believers and believers of ghosts to be insane surely need a reality check, its been mentioned there are millions upon millions of other planets that are sustainable to support life. and Ghosts have had many sightings, However I hate these shows on tv such as just haunted or whatever it is called, Its so faked its untrue. But I am a firm believer in Ghosts. And aliens.
Soldato
- Joined
- 28 Nov 2004
- Posts
- 16,024
- Location
- 9th Inner Circle
Alien life is probable but to believe in it is no different from having a belief in God or your deity(s) of choice.
Ghosts? Well that's is exactly life having a belief in the Goddess (or whatever deity) as you cannot prove or disprove. Therefor some people may say that if you believe you are being irrational.
Also: wall of text. Never mind grammar, try some formatting.
Last edited:
This could be legendary.
