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What motivates fundamentalists to complain about other people exercising their rights, and then claiming they are the ones being oppressed?
For example, fundamentalists appear to have a problem with gay people marrying, or atheists marrying...
Yet if you defend people exercising the same rights as anyone else, the fundamentalist acts if they are the ones being harmed by other people marrying.
What goes through a fundamentalist's mind when they behave like this?
3 AnswersReligion & Spirituality4 years agoDoes God view us as toys that he can choose to create for the purposes of destruction and punishment?
In Romans 9 it says:
18 Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.
19 One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?”
20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’”
21 Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?
Is the Bible saying that we are just tools, instruments, that God can make for the express purpose of destruction? How can such a God be called good?
3 AnswersReligion & Spirituality4 years agoWhat do you think of Megan Phelps-Roper (ex-Westboro Baptist Church)?
In this video, at 45:48, she talks about why she's no longer a Christian.
https://youtu.be/hOnefFVBEb0?t=2748
What do you think of her comments about Romans 9?
2 AnswersReligion & Spirituality4 years agoWould you vote for God?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIxSeiqyGXQ
How do believers respond to God's inaction in the face of evil without resorting to the obviously flawed free will argument?
7 AnswersReligion & Spirituality6 years ago(ANY GENRE) Recommend some high-paced songs?
Rock, metal (no cookie monster vocals though), house, ambient, techno, punk, pop, indie, grunge, whatever.
I listen to all kinds of stuff, so I don't mind what genre a song's from, as long as it's a good song and got a fast pace that I can run to.
I'm ideally looking for music that's 165-200bpm, but don't worry if you don't know the exact tempo.
3 AnswersRock and Pop7 years agoWhy are American Christians like Ted Cruz surprised when Arab Christians boo support of Israel?
Can he really be that ignorant? Does he really have no idea what Israel does to Palestinian Christians and Lebanese Christians?
6 AnswersReligion & Spirituality7 years ago
Do you agree with Sam Harris that the Jewish people partially brought the Holocaust on themselves?
Beyond the opinion that atheism doesn't necessarily preclude spirituality, there's very little that Sam Harris says that I agree with. And reading this passage in 'The End of Faith' confirmed that for me. I think his reasoning is pretty abhorrent. What do you think of it?
From 'The End of Faith' (page 93):
7 AnswersPolitics7 years ago
What's your favourite piece of religious art?
Here's one of mine - it's a small segment of a triptych by the Netherlandish master, Hieronymus Bosch, depicting a vision of Hell.
5 AnswersReligion & Spirituality7 years agoYou're speeding down rail-tracks in a runaway trolley, and people in the tunnel ahead are going to die. What do you do?
SCENARIO 1:
You're in an underground mine, speeding down rail-tracks in a trolley you can't slow down. Down the tunnel ahead of you are 5 people who are sure to be killed when you crash into them. It's no good shouting to them - there's nowhere they can run. But you have the option of steering your trolley down another tunnel containing only 1 person, and they'd be sure to be killed if you crashed into them.
WHAT DO YOU DO AND WHY?
SCENARIO 2:
This time, you're standing on a bridge over the tracks, watching as the empty, speeding trolley is about to kill 5 people. But there's an extremely fat man on the bridge with you. You know that if you push him over the railing onto the tracks, he will certainly be killed, but he's so huge that he'll slow the trolley down enough that the 5 people further down the tracks will survive.
WHAT DO YOU DO AND WHY?
7 AnswersPhilosophy7 years ago
What do you think of the reconstructed Temple of Solomon?
It's a pretty large building - it's twice the size of the famous Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio and holds 10,000 people.
It's been recreated by Evangelical Christians in Sao Paulo, a country which has historically been Catholic but has seen the number of evangelicals in Brazil climbed to 22 percent of the population in 2010 from 15 percent in 2000, according to census figures.
5 AnswersReligion & Spirituality7 years agoReligion and Spirituality: What was the last book you read?
22 AnswersReligion & Spirituality7 years agoMuslims, why is it Satanic to ask 'Who created God?'?
The Qur'an admirably exhorts people to use their faculties of reason. It says things like:
"Indeed, the worst of living creatures in the sight of Allah are the deaf and dumb who do not use reason." (8:22)
So why is it that the hadiths deprecate the asking of difficult questions?
"Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Apostle said, "Satan comes to one of you and says, 'Who created so-and-so? 'till he says, 'Who has created your Lord?' So, when he inspires such a question, one should seek refuge with Allah and give up such thoughts." "
(Sahih Bukhari 4:54:496)
10 AnswersReligion & Spirituality7 years agoWhen believers say "Atheism is a religion"...?
When they say "I hate religion but I love Christ"...
When they say "I don't have enough faith to be an atheist"...
Don't they recognise that by trying to impute 'faith' and 'religion' upon atheists, they're treating these things as pejoratives?
If even the religious treat religion as an insult, aren't they admitting defeat?
11 AnswersReligion & Spirituality7 years ago
