ThePretentiousEnema

Which is why I included "national pride" in the equation. This idea that we belong to a certain place and that we are helplessly bound by history to our culture ...

Just flush the religious connotations behind this conflict down the toilet and learn to exist in peace and harmony. That is what needs to be done; just let go, and ...

As you were.

Reading the New Testament is rather painful, and will tear your mind apart as the bipolar nature of the scripture's "peace, love & understanding"-theme slowly transitions into a mindless tantrum ...

I think people are turning to Atheism/Agnosticism because of the absurdity of the Biblical stories when compared to what science has unraveled in modern times. Which is rather normal; old ...

Right, but your last post was rather debunked by Wherethewindgoes. Political decisions are sometimes made due to religious appeal. And my question was; what do you think of that? Should ...

So what about letting superstition define political choices?

You don't see a problem with the most powerful man in the free world being guided by religiously superstitious principles?

Cultures and traditions have all passed through stages of metamorphosis. Sometimes due to warfare, sometimes due to migration, and sometimes simply due to social evolution. This idea that traditions m

Hey,"ThePretentiousEnema". Truth is,I'd be lying if I said your standpoint or general view of religion is in the least,rational.Your post leads me to conclude that you've been drawn into the ...

Well, Cole. Even if it's no excuse, I was drunk when I wrote that last post (hence the sloppy grammar), but nevertheless, I claim the right to be angry, even ...

Cole, quite frankly; you are so deeply entangled in your own little bubble. What is free will worth in a world that was connived by an omniscient, omnipotent being? Nothing! ...

Cole, I get that the laws are in this book you uphold as holy, what I'm trying to get at is how utterly selfish and arrogant God is towards mankind. ...

Right, so why would God set up a world that has homosexuality in it? Why did he construct a Universe where that type of orientation wouldn't please him? In other ...

Rubric and Cole, my good sirs, may I just ask you; why did the Old Testament hold such hostility towards homosexuality, and how do you morally reoncile this type of ...