Religion Definition and 116 Threads

I truly believe this. Judaism, Christianity (in its many forms) and the Islamic religion have brought more pain and suffering than benefit to humanity. These religions all share a common design. They are all structured so as to control the masses by the fear punishment and the promise of...

Recently i visited an uncle who is a pastor. I've also been trying to learn more about religion and spirituality in general. we got in a little argument that left me terribly unnerved. aside from he's comments that i wouldn't understand this and i wouldn't understand that, and remararks...

Questioning the Delphic Oracle "DELPHIC ORACLE is shown inhaling vapors in this photographic interpretation, because new evidence supports ancient assertions that intoxicating gases were a source of her inspiration. In reality, the gases would have been invisible."...

Even Less Religion In Our Government Yay! http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/07/01/tencommandments.appeal.ap/index.html The ten commandments monument in front of an alabama state supreme court building must go! Yay! man this past year the supreme court sure has done some nice and LOGICAL things!

The collapse of religions, mass suicides, the collapse of governments? What would the result be if, as I suspect, it [edit to avoid confusion] was generally believed that some highly advanced civilization - one completely beyond our reach or understanding in any technical or intellectual sense...

Freedom of religion is interesting and to some degree contradicting issue. On one hand, anyone shall be free to do whatever he/she wants (as long as nobody hurts) - to believe in flat earth, in science, in Santa or in Allah, to be an altruist, or to commit suicide, etc... On the other hand...

Science as we know it and think of it began 3-400 years ago and progressed steadily until around the turn of the last century. Science had a number of greats but probably none greater than Issiac Newton who discovered gravity by as the legend goes having an apple hit him in the head...

You all know that Albert Einstein was deeply religious in his pantheistic veneration of the physics of nature. No scientist today should be surprised to learn that Einstein was completely wrong about true religion. This paper is about outrageously religious ideas in the philosophy of physics...

The important difference between science and religion is that religion comes with ABSOLUTE statements, that neither can be proved or disproved, and science evolves from relative truths and statements, that can be testified and proven false (which means: science has to develop, in order to...

The important difference between science and religion is that religion comes with ABSOLUTE statements, that neither can be proved or disproved, and science evolves from relative truths and statements, that can be testified and proven false (which means: science has to develop, in order to...

How Strict do you follow your religion? Need I say more?

Dogma... There is always a dogmatic war between believers of science and releigion. How come then a believer of both bring a balance between his soul and spirit?

[SOLVED] Beleif-O-Matic Not quite sure where to put this but here seemed as good a place as any. This link seemed kind of interesting and pretty fun. You answer the question about how you think about god and religion and it returns what your most likely religions are. Kind of interesting, it...

Well.. I need to write a paper about a topic on religion and social and ethical issues regarding religion. I've thought about writing about the practice of baptism in the Adventist Church and other denominations. Not sure about that yet. The proposal is due next week and I'm running behind on...

I personally think that many people get these two ideas mixed up. Can one be religious and spiritual? I don't believe so, and that is because they both contradict one another. Spirituality is the idea that one applies their inner most morals to only their life, where as religion is a...

I am beginning to think that it can be disastrous to get involved in a heated debate concerning religion, politics, or philosophy.