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    Thread: What's in your Library ?
Post: RE: What's in your Library ?
I'm trying to get through two tomes at the moment. "Religion in Human Evolution" by Robert Bellah Very interesting book tracing the evolutionary origins of religion from its roots in the prehuman to...
 Funky_Gibbon Religion 41 3216 November 13, 2016 at 2:03 am
    Thread: If someone says science can't explain everything what's the best way to repond?
Post: RE: If someone says science can't explain everythi...
(August 23, 2016 at 2:59 am)ReptilianPeon Wrote: I've though about this one a bit. I think what the person, e.g. my parents or somebody in the street, is trying to say is: 1. God of the gaps (they d...
 Funky_Gibbon Religion 94 13257 November 13, 2016 at 1:48 am
    Thread: Why are the "laws" of physics so different as conceived by many xtian fundamentalist?
Post: RE: Why are the "laws" of physics so different as ...
(November 12, 2016 at 11:25 pm)Fireball Wrote: (November 12, 2016 at 8:03 pm)Funky_Gibbon Wrote: Isn't that very similar to the problem of induction? You know the one all good scientists and philo...
 Funky_Gibbon Christianity 22 4892 November 13, 2016 at 1:35 am
    Thread: Christian loons who support the death penalty.
Post: RE: Christian loons who support the death penalty.
Yes. Although for the record the Church never technically executed heretics. The Church never had the power to use the death penalty. Hence the ultimate sanction of the inquisition: "Relax to the SEC...
 Funky_Gibbon Christianity 85 8896 November 12, 2016 at 9:50 pm
    Thread: Is it possible for someone to take away the judgement from God?
Post: RE: Is it possible for someone to take away the ju...
(November 1, 2016 at 8:59 pm)verbral Wrote: If God gave us free will. And someone decides to murder me before I had the chance to accept Jesus in my life. Would that person be taking away my chances...
 Funky_Gibbon Christianity 31 4224 November 12, 2016 at 8:23 pm
    Thread: Why are the "laws" of physics so different as conceived by many xtian fundamentalist?
Post: RE: Why are the "laws" of physics so different as ...
(November 7, 2016 at 5:09 am)Homeless Nutter Wrote: If you believe in an omnipotent, omnipresent god, science is impossible. There isn't a single measurement you can make, or an experiment you can c...
 Funky_Gibbon Christianity 22 4892 November 12, 2016 at 8:03 pm
    Thread: Christian loons who support the death penalty.
Post: RE: Christian loons who support the death penalty.
Oh yeah. Executing heretics is out now. Despite it being a practise St. Thomas Aquinas defended.
 Funky_Gibbon Christianity 85 8896 November 12, 2016 at 7:46 pm
    Thread: Oh, ffs.
Post: RE: Oh, ffs.
Yeeep. Bit odd, no doubt - it's just trying to underline the part of the creed that goes "I look forward to the Resurrection of the dead." I don't see how keeping ashes in one's home is that bad or n...
 Funky_Gibbon Christianity 72 12789 November 12, 2016 at 7:41 pm
    Thread: Free interpretation of the Genesis 3:5 KJV
Post: RE: Free interpretation of the Genesis 3:5 KJV
I'd disagree... I like W.H. Auden on Hell... which is ironically a lot closer to the Eastern Orthodox interpretation of is as I understand it. "Criminal laws are laws-for, imposed on, with or without...
 Funky_Gibbon Christianity 19 3724 November 12, 2016 at 7:29 pm
    Thread: Christian loons who support the death penalty.
Post: RE: Christian loons who support the death penalty.
I don't think you have to be a lunatic Christian to support the death penalty. A lot of Christians support the death penalty, I don't, personally - but then a lot of Christian thinkers did and indeed ...
 Funky_Gibbon Christianity 85 8896 November 12, 2016 at 7:15 pm
    Thread: A serious question for theists
Post: RE: A serious question for theists
(November 5, 2016 at 6:43 pm)dyresand Wrote: How do you exactly know if God/Jesus even loves you? The bible only supports god loving a select few people so yeah you can't exactly use it. You don't k...
 Funky_Gibbon Christianity 35 4918 November 12, 2016 at 7:06 pm