It had nothing to do with you, btw.. o.O I just answered the thread's question, lol.
thats EXACTLY what i thought it was lol. making sure
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-Winged
"Maybe" should not be a choice. Everyone who voted maybe; it says "do you believe in Angels?" Well; do you? If I may be so bold: "do you acknowledge Angels existence?"
i believe in science, but i have faith...so angels do exist to me, but sometimes i feel hes on a really long lunch break and forgot to come back to mee
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Remember the String of Ears
"to the worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish."
I'm an atheist through and through and I'm perfectly cool with everybody following their own religion however they so please. I just wish that all religions and non religions in the world could get along for once.
And to answer the poll, no I don't believe in angels.
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Well, based on the various religions' main concepts, they literally cannot be at peace with one another, since for one to be right, many others must be... not right? Get me?
Well, based on the various religions' main concepts, they literally cannot be at peace with one another, since for one to be right, many others must be... not right? Get me?
thus the crusades and burning people at the stake. Buddhism is a religion that isnt hostile towards others so for all u hippies <------:D
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"to the worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish."
Rachel Halliburton
Published 25 April 2005
Observations on religious hatred
A militant Buddhist might sound like a comic contradiction in terms, but not in Sri Lanka. The island's small population of Christians increasingly faces death threats, arson, and assaults from militant Buddhists. More than 170 such incidents have been reported in the past two years. And this month Buddhist hostility to Christians could become enshrined in Sri Lanka's constitution, as parliament prepares to vote on the deceptively named Act for the Protection of Religious Freedom.
Though 70 per cent of Sri Lankans are Buddhists, and only 8 per cent Christians, the act is supposedly designed to prevent Buddhism's decline. The law will make it a crime to try to convert a Buddhist to another religion. Penalties will range from heavy fines to seven years in prison.
Though the vast majority of Buddhists in Sri Lanka are non-violent, the National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka is recording attacks on church workers and churches, attacks which are as remarkable for their sadistic inventiveness as for their savagery. Last year, the Calvary Church in Wattegedara, 20km from the capital, Colombo, was attacked at midnight by a mob wielding bicycle chains and attempting to cut the telephone wires. A few days later, another night-time mob, dressed in black and white, smashed statues in a Catholic church and set Bibles on fire. In Anuradhapura, one of the island's top tourist destinations, men hurled buckets of excrement and engine oil around the church, then set off firecrackers in a failed attempt to burn it down. Elsewhere, a pastor's family was attacked, his wife beaten, and all their furniture, books and documents burned. Finally, the attackers took a sword and cut off the pastor's wife's hair.
Wilfred Wong of the human rights group Jubilee Campaign says: "The Christians in Sri Lanka hoped that, having helped with the victims of the tsunami, their relations with the Buddhists would improve." Instead, Christian-based charities were criticised in the Sri Lankan press for allegedly providing aid as an incentive for people to convert.
The less moderate Buddhists' strength increased after the emergence of Jathika Hela Urumaya, a nationalist political party consisting solely of Buddhist monks. It ran for election for the first time last year and won nine seats, making it a power-broker in a parliament where no single party had a majority. It proposed a bill for the prohibition of forcible conversion, rejected by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional. Yet the new Act for the Protection of Religious Freedom, despite having a more palatable title, is actually more stringent.
Benedict Rogers of Christian Solidarity Worldwide visited Sri Lanka recently. He reports that Christians are accused of everything, from eating cookies in the shape of a Buddha to instigating the Tamil Tiger bombing of the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy (the Sri Lankan equivalent of Saint Paul's Cathedral) and the Taliban's destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas.
The biggest of these "wild conspiracy theories", as Rogers calls them, concerned a Buddhist scholar-monk, the Venerable Gangodawila Soma Thera, who died from heart failure in 2003. Assaults on churches followed, and several Buddhists went on hunger strike.
A Buddhist spokesman said: "Money was channelled here to silence those who spoke against the work of certain radical Christian sects . . . Soma Thera was right on top of their hit list."
Well, based on the various religions' main concepts, they literally cannot be at peace with one another, since for one to be right, many others must be... not right? Get me?
Aye, I know that total equilibrium isn't possible as far as happiness goes, but it would be damn nice for all sides to stop bitching at one another, eh?
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Yes, it would, I totally agree But it just can't happen unless they (all religious parties) resolve to completely eliminate key doctrines and become one world religion. That could be bad, too, however. Imagine every religious person in the world believing the same things and worshiping the same god(s)- whose to say the new "god" isn't a human? That would be bad, bad, bad.
Yes, it would, I totally agree But it just can't happen unless they (all religious parties) resolve to completely eliminate key doctrines and become one world religion. That could be bad, too, however. Imagine every religious person in the world believing the same things and worshiping the same god(s)- whose to say the new "god" isn't a human? That would be bad, bad, bad.
thats what we call Marxism or communism, or socialism, or fascism, in a certain context, we will worship dear leader, or big brother, or chairman, or the nation.
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"to the worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish."
i believe in science, but i have faith...so angels do exist to me, but sometimes i feel hes on a really long lunch break and forgot to come back to mee
If it's your belief then there is no maybe about it, that was my point. Also, you wouldn't say they exist to you; you'd simply say they exist. You could make an independent statement that you acknowledge them. This enforces your belielf. I guess I'm trying to say; if you state "they exist to me," then a listener could interpret that as 'they're not real, he just thinks they are.' If you say that you acknowledge them, then your statement implies they are real; leaving the listener the only option to do the same, or refute existence
Outwardly, it appears to be a matter of opinion because there is no current proof; being that absence is not proof.
As far as anyone else saying there can be no such thing as peace in religion, I say:
What a skewed perspective on peace. Hypocrites may have tainted your thoughts, but ignore them and focus on Jesus. Don't try to understand those whom state to follow him, just look to him and only him. If you're wondering which religion truly teaches peace, it is his.
What a skewed perspective on peace. Hypocrites may have tainted your thoughts, but ignore them and focus on Jesus. Don't try to understand those whom state to follow him, just look to him and only him. If you're wondering which religion truly teaches peace, it is his.
Why do I smell some sort of board-wide argumentative shitstorm brewing? :rolleyes:
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I believe in a pre-mortal existence where we knew God and were and still are his children, and 1/3 of those in the pre-existence followed satans plan (he wanted all the glory, he wanted us to come to earth and not have agency or free will, so we would all return to our heavenly father without ever making our own choices) God's plan was to send us to the earth with a purpose, this purpose is to be tested, a veil was put over us to make it so we do not remember the pre-existence, and Christ was chosen as our savior who would be the key in the plan of salvation. All of us who are and ever have been on the earth chose God's plan, the other one third never recieved bodies and now seek to make all mankind miserable as they are.
So in short yes I do believe in angels and that if we are righteous we can become like God.
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"This is the triumph of man:
Where there is truth, he must find.
Where there is destruction, he must rebuild.
Where there is love, he must protect."
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"God gave us memories, that in life's garden we may have June roses in December."
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-Equinox
"We're like the downtown of the Diablo related internet lol"
-Winged
and i believe that everything thta ur religion encompasses is false... give some take some idk no winner here lolz:thumbsup:
gamma11 > east
When evil was born, I was there...
When evil struck back, I was there...
When evil returns, I will be there...
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i believe in science, but i have faith...so angels do exist to me, but sometimes i feel hes on a really long lunch break and forgot to come back to mee
"to the worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish."
Is it to protect us from some form of evil?
If your insane, but still sane enough to know it, are you insane or sane?
And to answer the poll, no I don't believe in angels.
Theatre Major ie: waiter in training
"to the worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish."
(Source: http://www.newstatesman.com/200504250023.)
Yes, it can be hostile.
Aye, I know that total equilibrium isn't possible as far as happiness goes, but it would be damn nice for all sides to stop bitching at one another, eh?
Theatre Major ie: waiter in training
"to the worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish."
Theatre Major ie: waiter in training
thats what we call Marxism or communism, or socialism, or fascism, in a certain context, we will worship dear leader, or big brother, or chairman, or the nation.
"to the worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish."
Outwardly, it appears to be a matter of opinion because there is no current proof; being that absence is not proof.
As far as anyone else saying there can be no such thing as peace in religion, I say:
What a skewed perspective on peace. Hypocrites may have tainted your thoughts, but ignore them and focus on Jesus. Don't try to understand those whom state to follow him, just look to him and only him. If you're wondering which religion truly teaches peace, it is his.
Why do I smell some sort of board-wide argumentative shitstorm brewing? :rolleyes:
Theatre Major ie: waiter in training
So in short yes I do believe in angels and that if we are righteous we can become like God.
Where there is truth, he must find.
Where there is destruction, he must rebuild.
Where there is love, he must protect."
World's Fair Exhibit
"God gave us memories, that in life's garden we may have June roses in December."
John Barrie