May god be with you.

[Elsa TLC]

Definitely not white!

Even thats not for sure. Its believed that no one is still alive that ever met Jesus. So no one can say for sure

 

[diy_fun_uk]

We have all these religions, they've been around for centuries and more, and yet the world is still a sh1t show with horrific suffering here there everywhere.

Funny that ...

 

[carmanmemoranda]

We have all these religions, they've been around for centuries and more, and yet the world is still a sh1t show with horrific suffering here there everywhere.

Funny that ...

I still don't and can't understand why 1 religion is good

And every other religion (based on the same fables) is bad.

Either religion is true, and good. Or it's not

 

[SPLINE]

Free riders!

 

[IT Minion]

I still don't and can't understand why 1 religion is good

And every other religion (based on the same fables) is bad.

Either religion is true, and good. Or it's not

It could be true and ****.

A religion that forgives murder or child sexual abuse if you're really sorry about it later, and allows you to eternal paradise, where someone who is a decent human being but fails to pray is sent to burn in hell forever is not something that should be seen as 'good'.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

It could be true and ****.

A religion that forgives murder or child sexual abuse if you're really sorry about it later, and allows you to eternal paradise, where someone who is a decent human being but fails to pray is sent to burn in hell forever is not something that should be seen as 'good'.

Exactly.

You can live a good life without religion.

Religion (any) doesn't make you a good person (look at the examples in here), or bad

 

[carmanmemoranda]

Look at the worlds that each religion has created, rather than selecting individual vices and virtues from each one.

We in the West enjoy the world created not by the Jews, the muslims or the Bhuddists, but by the Christians. All the wealth and freedom we have, all the peace and security that we take for granted are built on a Christian past. If you deny this, you are a 'free rider', taking without paying.

Sadly, in the last 80 years Communism has decimated Christianity and that past is being rewritten such that it is easy for younger people to deny. One of the first tasks of a Communist takeover is to get rid of the local religion, and the commies have very successfully decimated ours.

So why is your religion correct, but not the others?

Its all based on the same story

 

[IT Minion]

Look at the worlds that each religion has created, rather than selecting individual vices and virtues from each one.

We in the West enjoy the world created not by the Jews, the muslims or the Bhuddists, but by the Christians. All the wealth and freedom we have, all the peace and security that we take for granted are built on a Christian past. If you deny this, you are a 'free rider', taking without paying.

Sadly, in the last 80 years Communism has decimated Christianity and that past is being rewritten such that it is easy for younger people to deny. One of the first tasks of a Communist takeover is to get rid of the local religion, and the commies have very successfully decimated ours.

Read Guns Germs and Steel.

You're pinning the spread of European power on Christianity rather than our superior military systems.

Britain didn't conquer India with Christ, we did it with scheming, capitalism and better weapons.

 

[Vinty]

The latter do.

Jesus, referred to as Isa in Arabic, is mentioned by name 25 times in the Quran and there is a whole chapter named after Mary.

It's surprising what you can learn if you study something.

Muslims believe that Jesus was a prophet rather than the son of God.
Jews believe Jesus was a charlatan trying to pass himself off as the messiah.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

Muslims believe that Jesus was a prophet rather than the son of God.
Jews believe Jesus was a charlatan trying to pass himself off as the messiah.

Are either of them, or any other group, right ?

 

[johnny2007]

Churches are mostly empty and have been for a long time.

How long have you not been to Sunday mass?
I go half hour early to get a seat.
Lots of activities during the week too, 100% not religion related (Bingo, cake making, youth club, etc.)
Recently I've been on a few weekends away and everywhere all Sunday masses were packed with people of all ages.
Go see for yourself.

 

[Vinty]

One of the first tasks of a Communist takeover is to get rid of the local religion, and the commies have very successfully decimated ours

Just like the early Russian Bolsheviks, who suppressed Christianity and made Atheism official state policy.

They also lifted all restrictions on Jews and made anti semitism punishible by death,Russia was the first state to do so.

History could be repeating itself.

 

[morqthana]

Churches are mostly empty and have been for a long time.

From what I have seen, most ppl just don't believe and majority never get any conviction from Christianity anyway.

The older folks still attend, might be lucky to have the odd youngster accompanying them, but rarely seen.

Mosques are full, plenty of programs running, daily prayers, talks, classes etc and I would love to see Churches be like that too.

Try looking at Baptist churches.

 

[blup]

Sadly, in the last 80 years Communism has decimated Christianity and that past is being rewritten such that it is easy for younger people to deny. One of the first tasks of a Communist takeover is to get rid of the local religion, and the commies have very successfully decimated ours.

Utter Bol•x, the decline started after the reformation when people decided to read the bible and invent their own denominations, which others later disagreed with and invented their own version. Then we had the Age of Enlightenment and science stepped in. That’s the science that created the same absolute certainty as religion until the latest theory gets debunked.

 

[Highway Man]

A lot of people compare me with jesus, I just do not believe in religion or the stories in the bible, however that said I can understand people looking on me as Jesus.