what's also interesting is if you answer Yes or No to #1 your answer is based entirely on your own personal belief, or faith, since it cannot be proven either way
read back on my earlier posts, you cannot prove things dont exist, even things that dont exist, so saying you can't prove god doesn't exist is meaninglessIf things either have an impact on reality or they dont, things that do there is evidence for this, there is no evidence that god has impact on reality so either there is no god or there is a god that doesnt impact on anything, why care if there is a god that cannot effect things as that is exactly the same as no god
For me, religion (separate from faith) is evidence to me that there is a God - or at least a supernatural being.
You must have a lot of faith to beg the question in this manner and expect anyone to take you seriously.
Proof is via interpreted evidence. Your interpretation of the evidence suggests to you that there is no God.
There is nothing you can say that will take away the experiences that I have had that are the foundation for my faith. That was just an example.
If things either have an impact on reality or they dont, things that do there is evidence for this, there is no evidence that god has impact on reality so either there is no god or there is a god that doesnt impact on anything, why care if there is a god that cannot effect things as that is exactly the same as no god
"feeling gods presence" is not evidence for his existence and never can be. Even though you maybe be sincere about it. The only thing i would categorize these types of events as are misinterpretations of feelings/events or mental illness.
exactly, i can experience those EXACT feelings and not attribute them to god as many others do
Cos you know EXACTLY what others feel.
No i dont. thats why when you say the only evidence you have for god is your feelings with him, i cant believe you.
The reason why I used the word 'benevolent' instead of 'sentient' is because there are quite a few examples of non-sentient(dead) Gods, most prominent being Osiris. Also: There are many examples of non-benevolent Gods. Loki, Apep(but not Set), Angra Mainyu, Kottravai and Tawhiri-Matea.Believing in a non-sentient God is akin to believing in a non-benevolent one.
And why the smeg does it say there are 114 pages, but I cant get to page 114?
Seven not enough: Pope adds to deadly sinsThere used to be just seven, but the list of sins that could threaten your mortal soul just got a whole lot longer.The Vatican has overhauled its list of mortal sins, adding several more to cope with the age of globalisation.The new sins take aim at those who undermine society in far reaching ways, including by taking or dealing in drugs, polluting the environment, and engaging in "manipulative" genetic science, The Times of London reports.Also new to the list are paedophilia, abortion, and social injustices that cause poverty or "the excessive accumulation of wealth by a few".They join the long-standing evils of lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, anger, envy and pride as mortal sins – the gravest kind, which threaten the soul with eternal damnation unless absolved before death through confession or penitence.The church's revised position came as the Pope lamented the "decreasing sense of sin" in today's "secularised world," and falling rates of Roman Catholics going to confession, The Times reported.Bishop Gianfranco Girotti, head of the Apostolic Penitentiary, the Vatican body which oversees confessions and plenary indulgences, said after a week-long Lenten seminar for priests that surveys showed 60 per cent of Catholics in Italy no longer went to confession.He said priests must take account of "new sins which had appeared on the horizon of humanity as a corollary of the unstoppable process of globalisation"."Whereas sin in the past was thought of as being an individual matter, it now had social resonance," he was quoted by The Times as saying."You offend God not only by stealing, blaspheming or coveting your neighbour's wife, but also by ruining the environment, carrying out morally debatable scientific experiments, or allowing genetic manipulations which alter DNA or compromise embryos," he said.
Say this news story and thought of the thread!For the record, let me say that Catholicism is far more dogmatic than most Christ-based religions or denominations. You would never see any mention of the deadly sins at my church.http://www.stuff.co.nz/4433581a10.htmlAfter reading that, maybe the Pope should make "advancement ofthe human species" a deadly sin too :disappoin
taking or dealing drugs?wonder what he means by drugs? are doctors going to hell? baristas and bartenders? or just illegal drugs?
by ruining the environment, carrying out morally debatable scientific experiments, or allowing genetic manipulations which alter DNA or compromise embryos
lol dark ages here we come
