Recent content by Revenant

Vegatarian - almost vegan, cream in coffee and milk chocolate deny me the title Objective Atheist - although I've been labelling myself agnostic, I must admit that I've been agreeing more with atheists than agnostics recently. However I don't see religions in the same harsh light that a lot...

Maciamo, can you make a case for that? It seems a little stretched to say WWII was brought about by religious hatred. According to this site Hitler was neither Christian nor Atheist.

I've got no problems with irrational beliefs that make people a whole lot nicer to live with. The whole politics things isn't easy. People don't want abortion banned, but only some land developers would complain were a Buddhist party to start campaigning for old growth forest protection. I'm...

I quite agree with this, and I think when the paradigms of Christianity are prioritized correctly, they do produce good results in most people. I'd give you rep if I could. I'm most interested in these studies, are there any books you'd recommend?

As I see it, comparitive religion and proper science (including the theory of evolution and excluding Young Earth Creationism) should be mandatory. Comparitive religion classes would go some ways in increasing tolerance towards other belief systems. Both atheists and fundamental Christians...

You have also made a claim, in the first quote here, and now have the burden to prove that Paul is in all probability a composite of other characters.

Actually I hope Maciamo posted for the sake of argument alone, otherwise I would worry about him. What he posted just isn't what any balanced person would post in all seriousness. No one should ever go to prison for telling their children that they believe the world was brought into existence...

Armageddon, heaven, and all those other final battles with eternal peace make little sense to me. In some ways it seems to be focused on the 'better' future at the expense of now, when it is only now that we have direct contact with the world, it is only with the sensations we have now that we...

Sabro, my parents, some of the most compassionate teachers I have known (Mr, Voogd, Mr. Tuninga, Mr. Veldman, and others), should be placed in jail for intellectual rape. Errr.... doesn't that strike anyone else as pure over the top insanity?

Persistent prosyletizers unwelcome. Otherwise, I think religions are fascinating, and I am most interested in finding out more about the different paradigms of wisdom that have been incorporated into the various religions. I am not so interested in campaigning for or against any particular...

Have you got a better and practical solution to a society that placed a premium on virginity, very limited if any opportunity for women to work for pay, a welfare system of alms and forgotten harvest, parents that wouldn't live past thirty to forty, and a time when food and clothing were neither...

strongvoicesforward, I'm not suggesting moral relativism, please give it a lot more thought before you post your next response. Try looking at some of the other laws concerning women, and see for yourself if the lawmakers lacked any compassion towards women, or if there are some laws that were...

Militant Fundamental Secularism just another extreme...

A lot of the members of the church I grew up in, and the kids I grew up with still carry the Young Earth paradigm. They seem healthy, neither psychologically nor emotionally harmed, and their beliefs don't actually cause anyone harm. The most they get is 'Why the heck do you believe that...

Would it be alright if it were presented in a different subject? Not sure what's so wrong with this... What of the private Buddhist schools teaching the luminous Buddha-nature that we all possess, something completely unsupported by neuroscience? Perhaps there's no evidence against it. Thoughts?