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The Reverend Soleil
What is the inherent value, if any, in sacrificing an immortal being?
I mean, seriously -- that'd be like praising the "courage" and "sacrifice" of an ordinary human being for getting a haircut or trimming his fingernails.
You DO understand that they grow back, right...?
16 AnswersReligion & Spirituality6 years agoSpiritually Speaking, is the reason churches don't offer free Wi-Fi...?
...is that they don't wan to compete with an invisible power that actually WORKS?
7 AnswersReligion & Spirituality6 years agoIs teaching our kids multiculturalism and loathing of this country eating away at America's soul?
I'm reminded of something Bono Vox of the band U2 once said, comparing Americans to his own countrymen...:
"In the United States, you look at the guy that lives in the mansion on the hill, and you think, you know, one day, if I work really hard, I could live in that mansion. In Ireland, people look up at the guy in the mansion on the hill and go, one day, I'm going to get that bastard."
But when I look around here, it seems like at least half the posters here (most of whom I assume are Americans) are members of the "I'm gonna get that bastard" crowd. Are we slowly losing that whatever-it-is that makes us uniquely American?
9 AnswersPolitics6 years agoSpiritually Speaking, do you ever take a vacation from R&S by going over to the "Politics & Government" section...?
...and when you get back here, the R&S regulars suddenly seem like Rhodes scholars by comparison?
9 AnswersReligion & Spirituality6 years ago
Did you hear -- "Pajama Boy" from the Obamacare Ads was mugged in DC?
I saw this article and just had to ask -- Is this what passes for manhood among the millennial crowd?
Senior Oliver Friedfeld and his roommate were held at gunpoint and mugged recently. However, the GU student isn’t upset. In fact he says he “can hardly blame [his muggers].”
“Not once did I consider our attackers to be ‘bad people.’ I trust that they weren’t trying to hurt me. In fact, if they knew me, I bet they’d think I was okay,” wrote Friedfeld in an editorial featured in The Hoya, the university’s newspaper. “The fact that these two kids, who appeared younger than I, have even had to entertain these questions suggests their universes are light years away from mine.”
Friedfeld claims it is the pronounced inequality gap in Washington, D.C. that has fueled these types of crimes. He also says that as a middle-class man, he does not have the right to judge his muggers.
“Who am I to stand from my perch of privilege, surrounded by million-dollar homes and paying for a $60,000 education, to condemn these young men as ‘thugs?’” asks Friedfeld. “It’s precisely this kind of ‘otherization’ that fuels the problem.”
“The millennial generation is taking over the reins of the world, and thus we are presented with a wonderful opportunity to right some of the wrongs of the past,” writes Friedfeld. “Until we do so, we should get comfortable with sporadic muggings and break-ins. I can hardly blame them. The cards are all in our hands, and we’re not playing them.”
2 AnswersOther - Society & Culture7 years agoWhat does arthritis pain feel like?
I'm 44 years old, and over the last week or so I've been feeling an odd discomfort/pain in my left hand (I'm left-handed, if it makes any difference). It's a soreness in the metacarpal region (i.e.; around the knuckles where the fingers attach to the hand), and feels almost like I'd punched something or got my hand caught in a door when it was closing. It doesn't hurt a whole lot, but it becomes more intense if I squeeze the area, or if I make a fist or spread my fingers wide.
Could this be the early onset of arthritis? Or did I just bang my hand against something and not remember it?
4 AnswersPain & Pain Management7 years ago
Will Christians ever stop lying about or misrepresenting what Atheists' position actually is?
For the forty eleven-dozenth time:
We don't "hate" your god;
We don't "just want to sin";
We don't secretly believe and "are just trying to avoid accountability";
All atheism really says is: "We don't find your arguments or evidence to be convincing" -- and, as a parenthetical aside: most of what you offer up doesn't even qualify as evidence because it cannot be measured, cannot be reproduced, and cannot be proven true or false.
You are now officially educated as to the facts about us -- now will you please stop making the baby Jesus cry?
20 AnswersReligion & Spirituality7 years agoWould it surprise you to know that Atheists & Agnostics are, on average, the most informed about religion out of any group?
And further, that atheists are better educated in general than any other "religious group"?
(I put "religious group" in quotes because atheism is a religion like "bald" is a hair color...)
11 AnswersReligion & Spirituality7 years agoChristians -- Why have you never read the Bible in its entirety?
Statistical data show that more than 90% of self-identified Christians have never read the Bible in its entirety:
http://healtheland.wordpress.com/2008/01/23/less-t...
If this book is your best evidence for your God's existence, and his most direct effort to communicate with YOU, personally, to convey his message, why on Earth would you NOT make the effort to find out what he actually has to say to you?
Please, help us to understand -- because your actions suggest that you don't take the Bible any more seriously than atheists do...
9 AnswersReligion & Spirituality7 years agoIf scientists all joined hands every Sunday and sang songs & gave speeches about how Gravity is real...?
...and refused to let you see any of their mathematical formulas and research data, and told you that you just had to "have faith" that what goes up must come down...would you think they seemed pretty insecure about the whole thing?
9 AnswersReligion & Spirituality7 years agoWill Christians ever learn to be careful what they wish for?
Just saw this news story about a Christian group in Florida who threw a tantrum over being able to distribute Bible literature to elementary school kids -- they got their way, but now the school system is obliged to let EVERY religious group have equal access, and the Satanic Temple is distributing a coloring book of its own:
https://richarddawkins.net/2014/09/this-is-the-sat...
Your thoughts?
14 AnswersReligion & Spirituality7 years agoCould the REAL reason why Yahweh didn't want Adam & Eve to eat from the Tree of Knowledge be...?
...that then they would realize that he was an evil god?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT8WATQ6vWY
Just sayin'...
6 AnswersReligion & Spirituality7 years agoSincere Question to Christians -- I Need Your Help & Insight (see below)?
I'm taking a screenwriting class at my local college, and I have to write a script for a short film as a class project. I've decided the story is going to be about a sort of robot janitor/caretaker who works at a small church sometime in the near future. He's got it into his head that, while he's programmed to avoid harming humans, the risk to their immortal souls is infinitely greater than anything they could suffer here on Earth; he concludes that he can best "save" people by killing them while they're still members of the church in good standing, before they have a chance to sin or renounce God. In the story, the robot will have kidnapped the church's organ player and is planning to kill her; the second act will mostly revolve around her attempts to persuade the robot to spare her.
So my question to you: if you were in such a position, with the robot offering to "save" you from the temptations of sin, and possibly someday rejecting your salvation, by sending you straight to Heaven, what arguments would you use to persuade him to let you keep on living?
I know I may be a bit of a smart aleck and an iconoclast here online, but this really is a project I'm working on and I sincerely would appreciate your feedback. I look forward to hearing your responses...
7 AnswersReligion & Spirituality7 years agoDoes an All-Knowing God™ know what it's like to WANT to sin? Is he All-Powerful™ enough to do so?
And given that to even THINK of committing evil is the same as doing it (as per Matthew 5:21-28), how does that square with any claim to Omni-Benevolence™?
11 AnswersReligion & Spirituality7 years agoShould someone who claims to be all-knowing be taken at face value?
Wouldn't an intellectually honest person acknowledge that they could never REALLY be sure if they're omniscient, since they could not know that they don't know something?
8 AnswersReligion & Spirituality7 years agoDoes an all-knowing god know what it's like to WANT to sin? Is he all-powerful enough to do so?
And how does that square with his followers' claims of his omnibenevolence?
4 AnswersReligion & Spirituality7 years agoDo you suppose that in some parallel Universe...?
...people believe in Thor, and Jesus is a member of the Avengers?
3 AnswersReligion & Spirituality7 years ago