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January 19, 2008 at 10:38 AM #139070January 19, 2008 at 8:58 PM #138867
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ParticipantCardiffBaseball,
Usually I try to stay out of religious discussion because I dont care what the un-enlightened believe, but your statement:
“Now one could consider the Judeo-Christian stuff just as silly but at least the writings and beliefs of the leaders are pretty much well-understood and researchable”
May not be completely correct.
Even in the well researched Judeo-Christian churches, there is much miss-information about what is actually in the bible. Many religious experts have studied and proclaimed, but there is little in the bible to support the notion of an eternal punishment in “Hell”. It exists only in the minds of the believers. Until after 1765 it never showed up in the new testiment, and did not arrive in the old testiment until the King James version. Churches have created dogma to facilitate their own earthly desires.
And this re-writing the “book” is far more reasonable than some churches fabricated canabalistic rituals where the flesh and blood of the savior is eaten and drank each week at mass which was never part of the “book”
If scientologists want to be the offspring of Zorg the interplanetary traveler and our ancient relative – so be it. Maybe they have a book that they are miss representing also.
January 19, 2008 at 8:58 PM #139080bubba99
ParticipantCardiffBaseball,
Usually I try to stay out of religious discussion because I dont care what the un-enlightened believe, but your statement:
“Now one could consider the Judeo-Christian stuff just as silly but at least the writings and beliefs of the leaders are pretty much well-understood and researchable”
May not be completely correct.
Even in the well researched Judeo-Christian churches, there is much miss-information about what is actually in the bible. Many religious experts have studied and proclaimed, but there is little in the bible to support the notion of an eternal punishment in “Hell”. It exists only in the minds of the believers. Until after 1765 it never showed up in the new testiment, and did not arrive in the old testiment until the King James version. Churches have created dogma to facilitate their own earthly desires.
And this re-writing the “book” is far more reasonable than some churches fabricated canabalistic rituals where the flesh and blood of the savior is eaten and drank each week at mass which was never part of the “book”
If scientologists want to be the offspring of Zorg the interplanetary traveler and our ancient relative – so be it. Maybe they have a book that they are miss representing also.
January 19, 2008 at 8:58 PM #139103bubba99
ParticipantCardiffBaseball,
Usually I try to stay out of religious discussion because I dont care what the un-enlightened believe, but your statement:
“Now one could consider the Judeo-Christian stuff just as silly but at least the writings and beliefs of the leaders are pretty much well-understood and researchable”
May not be completely correct.
Even in the well researched Judeo-Christian churches, there is much miss-information about what is actually in the bible. Many religious experts have studied and proclaimed, but there is little in the bible to support the notion of an eternal punishment in “Hell”. It exists only in the minds of the believers. Until after 1765 it never showed up in the new testiment, and did not arrive in the old testiment until the King James version. Churches have created dogma to facilitate their own earthly desires.
And this re-writing the “book” is far more reasonable than some churches fabricated canabalistic rituals where the flesh and blood of the savior is eaten and drank each week at mass which was never part of the “book”
If scientologists want to be the offspring of Zorg the interplanetary traveler and our ancient relative – so be it. Maybe they have a book that they are miss representing also.
January 19, 2008 at 8:58 PM #139131bubba99
ParticipantCardiffBaseball,
Usually I try to stay out of religious discussion because I dont care what the un-enlightened believe, but your statement:
“Now one could consider the Judeo-Christian stuff just as silly but at least the writings and beliefs of the leaders are pretty much well-understood and researchable”
May not be completely correct.
Even in the well researched Judeo-Christian churches, there is much miss-information about what is actually in the bible. Many religious experts have studied and proclaimed, but there is little in the bible to support the notion of an eternal punishment in “Hell”. It exists only in the minds of the believers. Until after 1765 it never showed up in the new testiment, and did not arrive in the old testiment until the King James version. Churches have created dogma to facilitate their own earthly desires.
And this re-writing the “book” is far more reasonable than some churches fabricated canabalistic rituals where the flesh and blood of the savior is eaten and drank each week at mass which was never part of the “book”
If scientologists want to be the offspring of Zorg the interplanetary traveler and our ancient relative – so be it. Maybe they have a book that they are miss representing also.
January 19, 2008 at 8:58 PM #139175bubba99
ParticipantCardiffBaseball,
Usually I try to stay out of religious discussion because I dont care what the un-enlightened believe, but your statement:
“Now one could consider the Judeo-Christian stuff just as silly but at least the writings and beliefs of the leaders are pretty much well-understood and researchable”
May not be completely correct.
Even in the well researched Judeo-Christian churches, there is much miss-information about what is actually in the bible. Many religious experts have studied and proclaimed, but there is little in the bible to support the notion of an eternal punishment in “Hell”. It exists only in the minds of the believers. Until after 1765 it never showed up in the new testiment, and did not arrive in the old testiment until the King James version. Churches have created dogma to facilitate their own earthly desires.
And this re-writing the “book” is far more reasonable than some churches fabricated canabalistic rituals where the flesh and blood of the savior is eaten and drank each week at mass which was never part of the “book”
If scientologists want to be the offspring of Zorg the interplanetary traveler and our ancient relative – so be it. Maybe they have a book that they are miss representing also.
January 20, 2008 at 12:03 AM #138962CardiffBaseball
ParticipantI think you are introducing a straw-man here, though perhaps not intentionally. Yes my statement was vague, I am speaking to generic philosphy (i.e. there is a god, etc.). For better or worse these things shaped entire civilizations.
I do agree interpretation varies wildly even amongst Christians.
January 20, 2008 at 12:03 AM #139176CardiffBaseball
ParticipantI think you are introducing a straw-man here, though perhaps not intentionally. Yes my statement was vague, I am speaking to generic philosphy (i.e. there is a god, etc.). For better or worse these things shaped entire civilizations.
I do agree interpretation varies wildly even amongst Christians.
January 20, 2008 at 12:03 AM #139203CardiffBaseball
ParticipantI think you are introducing a straw-man here, though perhaps not intentionally. Yes my statement was vague, I am speaking to generic philosphy (i.e. there is a god, etc.). For better or worse these things shaped entire civilizations.
I do agree interpretation varies wildly even amongst Christians.
January 20, 2008 at 12:03 AM #139227CardiffBaseball
ParticipantI think you are introducing a straw-man here, though perhaps not intentionally. Yes my statement was vague, I am speaking to generic philosphy (i.e. there is a god, etc.). For better or worse these things shaped entire civilizations.
I do agree interpretation varies wildly even amongst Christians.
January 20, 2008 at 12:03 AM #139269CardiffBaseball
ParticipantI think you are introducing a straw-man here, though perhaps not intentionally. Yes my statement was vague, I am speaking to generic philosphy (i.e. there is a god, etc.). For better or worse these things shaped entire civilizations.
I do agree interpretation varies wildly even amongst Christians.
January 20, 2008 at 1:14 AM #138984stockstradr
ParticipantScientology?
I think Tom Cruise is their God. That’s all I know.
January 20, 2008 at 1:14 AM #139197stockstradr
ParticipantScientology?
I think Tom Cruise is their God. That’s all I know.
January 20, 2008 at 1:14 AM #139223stockstradr
ParticipantScientology?
I think Tom Cruise is their God. That’s all I know.
January 20, 2008 at 1:14 AM #139247stockstradr
ParticipantScientology?
I think Tom Cruise is their God. That’s all I know.
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