(July 8, 2017 at 8:58 pm)Lek Wrote:I would expect that, if there was a god who created us and loved us, he would make it clear to the beings he loved how to avoid eternal punishment, instead of allowing such confusion to take place. Comparing scientists and people who "have a relationship" with a deity is a poor comparison.(July 8, 2017 at 8:55 pm)Jehanne Wrote: I was raised in an Armenian sect; we were taught that we could sin and lose our salvation. After marrying a Catholic and converting, the idea of mortal (dying and going to Hell) and venial (going to Purgatory, and then, Heaven) sins were made, but hardly anyone within the Catholic Church believes in Purgatory, much less people going to Hell.
If you put a hundred evolutionary biologists together do you think there would be a bunch of varying opinions or would they all agree on everything concerning evolutionary biology? If they didn't agree on everything would you still accept evolution?
"The last superstition of the human mind is the superstition that religion in itself is a good thing." - Samuel Porter Putnam
