Are you a Christian?

Atheists can have a religion, such as Buddhism.

All Buddhists do not believe in a god. Buddha himself did not claim to be a divine god, nor does Buddhism involve a personal god. Because a god is not important in Buddhism, an atheist can be Buddhist.

Im a catholic. encase i change my religion it would be muslim :)

Yes, I am. I am proud to be one (: But I do not judge others by how they choose to live. Born and raised Methodist (:

If Christ is god, then why is he referred to as the son of God. This doesn't make sence. Also, who was he praying to every time he did so. Was he talking to himself? Christ said that he came to do 'His father's will'. He identifies his father as a separate and higher entity than he is.

Indeed Islam and Christianity (adopted from Judaism with the inclusion of Christ as the messiah) have the same origin. Correct me if I'm wrong but did they split when Jacob fooled Isaac into giving him his brother's(Esau's) blessing?

Indeed Islam and Christianity (adopted from Judaism with the inclusion of Christ as the messiah) have the same origin. Correct me if I'm wrong but did they split when Jacob fooled Isaac into giving him his brother's(Esau's) blessing?

Sorry bout d double post. My internet connection seems to be bad.

I'm only human, life's to short, judge me anyway, lol

I'm a christian. I'm a preachers daughter and im proud of it!!
i think as long as you fallow what the bible says or at least try then your okay... but i think theres alot of religions at in the world that are lost and dont know what they are talking about or dont make sense at all.. but thats just what i think..
i dont judge anyone for what they believe i have friends who are other religions.. NOT only christians go up to people and try to teach them about GOD there many of other religions who do that.. christians go out and try to tell people about GOD and the bible because they want to try to save as many poeple as possible, and im one of them whon try to teach people about GODs word.
but i never judge any one because of their religions cause thats not something Gopd would of done

**Dominique**

Before i start i want to say this is my opinion i dont want someone taking a quotation from what i have wrote and turn it against me because it really grills me when people do this and i cannot stress this enough I MEAN NO OFFENCE TO ANYONE FRIEND OR NOT

i think religion is full of lies and hipocracy eg: in the past christians killed people in the name of god but in the bible it teachs all life is scared how can this be? because they belived they were more morally surperior than other people and the pagan witch burning thousands of woman burned alive on basis of supersition and fear i think kevin was right it was a sense of insuperiority and indifference that threatend them because of a senseless fear that was paid in blood

^^ christians are not the only people who have killed people before lots of other religions have dont it before and some still do just because they way you look or just cuz they think u live bad live.
not all christians think they are better then other people. i have meet some that have thought that but that never bothers me. people make mistakes!
i think some religions are ful of lies and they basically prove it them selfes by what they say or do. but thats just my opinion everyone has their own.... i just now mine are not full of lies

**Dominique**

What the hell makes you so sure your religeon isnt full of lies. one example is your prcious jesus christ condones slavery. so do you to believe slavery is right?

and for "If a person does not believe in a god, then they have no religion since they do not believe in a surpreme and all powerful being.
If a person does not believe in a god then for them there can be no right or wrong to be either punished or rewarded for in an after life as there is no afterlife. The only reason for doing what is considered by society to be right is in order to avoid being punished by society.
If there is no god and thus no after life, then why waste time effort and money going good works as there is absolutely nothing to gain. You ceryainly won't be rewarded in this life and there is no afterlife to be rewarded in." tell me this. who would you respect more. the person who does right because he will be rewarded for it by going to heaven. or the person who does right because he himself has decided it is the correct thing to do. are you telling me that ,if it wasnt illegal, the only reason you wouldnt go out to murder and rape and rob is because you would be afraid of going to hell.
is the only reason you help your fellow man and do good deeds is because you want to go to heaven. is that not an utterly selfish point of view as the only reason you do good is for personal gain.

With all due respect Rikki a practicing Christian could never conduct an experiment such as Puting 50 of the most civilised and harmonious people you can find, in a cage. Feed then starvation rations, not anough food for half the number of people ,
but when this was done during the The Holocaust (from the Greek holos, "whole" and kaustos, "burnt"), of an unholy kind. there are stories of humans turning to divine
mercy. The word god has been traced to the earliest civilizations and translates to "to sacrifice to" The sacred Holocaust of modern humans usually required an altar. What other species sacrifice to gods? What other religions have God sacrificing divine blood for the sake of good over evil?

Christ is the anointed one, yet the fly in the ointment
is that Christ would not have approved of the burning of anyone. During then inquisition and through history man has shown himself to be capible of the greatest evils as well as great good

The most beautiful aspect of christianity is that it takes the greatest evil i.e. the crufixion of the deity and tranforms it to the salvation of man.

It was not the pure of heart religious authorities that sacrificed the Truth then, and I suspect many authorities have much more purification to endure, but I cannot see the value of ignoring seven thousand years of evolution.

I am also amused by Amanda's email which she shared

I am a fan of a prolific spiritual writer who feared that technology would advance more rapidly than spirituality. I am amazed that every time a group rejects Christ message of healing and love they are hailed as the representatives of Christianity

The root meaning of evolution is change and if the human species have not advanced technology than which species did?

Rikki i have to disagree with you saying we havent evolved of the last 7000 years as we have. look at any race living in an extreme inviroment and you will find they have evolved to live there, and most havent been there anywhere near 7000 years. take a look at the ethiopians, it is extremely prevalent for them to be able to break down poisins in there system at over twice the rate of europeans, or the eskimos production of brown fat which turns sugar in the blood directly into heat without the need of movement, or the way their capilliries in there extremities dialate briefly every now and then to prevent frost bite. or how about asian flush which is where most asians cant handle alcohol as well as europeans because they boiled there water and made tea from it to kill the harmfull bacteria while we fermented it ,for the same reasons, so we evolved to deal with alcohol better. if this is not biological evolution then what is.

and as for physical evolution it is our "civiliazation" as you call it which is giving us the power to take evolution out of the hands of blind luck and put it into our own. genetic engineering has dicovered many wonders over the last few decades and is advancing at a rate which is only increasing every day. it is not going to be much longer before we have the knowledge and understanding of how to create super humanes. people who will be stronger, faster and more inteligent than we are. that will leave us only with the ethical question of would it be right to do so, but the way i see it is that you cant stop science in its tracks only slow it down. as if the knowledge is there of how to do something then someone somewhere will eventually do it ,even if only to see if they can.

Any evolutionist can dig up dead bones and hypothesize the rate of adaptation ,but at the end of the day I would rather put my faith in a living God

did you already read my Origin of a feces thesis ?

Origin of a feces thesis
That inspires me to do some stinking thinking. Let's suppose that my greatest grandfather was born in a mass of primordial "Substances High In Transmutations" or SHIT . Please pardon this acronym. Let me explain I am not saying that my greatest grandfather began in a pile of shit. I am saying that life came from "Substances High In Transmutations" or SHIT at least from a purely scientific theory
Now let's theorize that in order to be SHIT, you have to take SHIT. [Organic matter naturally consumes organic matter}
This presents a problem in the law of opposites though, and philosophers have pondered this mystery to determine who gives a SHIT. Because Substances High In Transmutations can be broken down to a simpler DNA, which I understand is a the substance of life. Some people believe that SHIT just happens, but others say they don't know SHIT, because in order to know all about SHIT you have to be SHIT for a long time. Some folks feel like SHIT, but most people spend their whole life trying to get their SHIT together. If one can find the synthesis where opposites meet and merge that would be where all this SHIT began. The paradox is that if I am more full of SHIT than my greatest grandfather was, then there would seem to be some "Good Orderly Direction" involved, but if I say that GOD created SHIT I am going to get burned as bad as Giordano Bruno did from one side, and the other side will say that I am really full of Papal Bull SHIT.

Oh well I can always work on a theory explaining why every thing in the universe is getting farther apart
Well let's see, there is more room out than there is in. and they have almost proven there was a big bang
Let's see what about the cosmic Farther Apart Reaction Theory, or cosmic FART
.Damn it!!!

Matter cannot be created, nor destroyed just because you can dilute it or flush it....it is not gone
The truth always comes out. "The end"

PS I am not an atheist, but I am not against free thinking

When we all think alike heaven, and earth will unite

Atleast an evolutionist has concrete facts to hypothosize from. well no-one in the entire world has one iota of unquestionable proof that a god even exists. lol what would we think of evolutionists if they had never found a single bone but merely hypothesized from bones they had faith in being there.

What the hell are you going on about. the "Substances High In Transmutations" is meaningless for the begining of life. as the only substances that transmutate are those exposed to extremly high radiation. transmutation is when one chemical element is changed into another through radiation.
secondly the theory of "Organic matter consumes organic matter" plants can do perfectly well of of inorganic matter. look at plants growen hydroponically with chemical fertilizers.
thirdly we may not be able to create matter yet but we sure as hell can destroy it into pure energy. look up what happens when matter and antimatter come into contact.
and fourthly when everyone on earth thinks alike it will be because he is the last one left

Rikki you have made a very common error of logic in your above post. you have said a=b so therfore if its a it has to be b. to give an analogy its like saying cats are animals therefore if its an animal it has to be a cat. as natural selection can be a part of evolution but it is not evolution. cars, computers and languages have evolved from what they once where into what they are today and there is nothing natural in how that came about.in its even all biological evolution really means is when something changes to become better adapted to its enviroment. it doesnt stipulate how long it has to take or what causes the adaptation. look at bacteria for example. they evolve many thousands of times faster than we do and it still is evolution.

and come to think about it natural selection is a process not a thing. natural selection dosnt cause evolution. it only weeds out those animals and mutations in animals which arent viable for the enviroment where the animal is in. even when someone does eventually play god and create superhumanes natural selection will still be there as it will weed out that part of the species which aint as viable as the other, ie you me and everyone else with the normal humane dna

Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmutation_of_species

The only constant is change, yet how many laws of nature have changed in your life span?

Plants? You must be taking about a family tree

"Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree."

I still stand by what i said. transmutation means changing one thing directly into another. its like saying monkeys changed directly into man . even in the article it says "Transmutation of species was a term used by Jean Baptiste Lamarck in 1809 for his theory that described the altering of one species into another" and "The proto-evolutionary thinkers of the 18th and early 19th century had to invent terms to label their ideas, and the terminology did not settle down until some time after the publication of the Origin of Species. The word evolution was quite a late-comer" which states the correct terminology is evolotion not transmutation
and i dont understand your "family tree" reference
i was just stating that organic matter does not need to consume organic matter

also "Because Substances High In Transmutations can be broken down to a simpler DNA, which I understand is a the substance of life." makes no sense. you can break a house down into its simpler components. but that doesnt mean that if you take some of those components you necessarily have a house.

looking back over what you said i realise you may have just being trying to make a joke. if that is so i am sorry for taking it serious but im a bit sleep deprived

You have got to stand for something or you will fall for anything

Many anthropologist note more changes in homo erectus than counting fingers and many believe our ancestors became bipedal when an ape chose to use his forelimbs to carry food. After it caught on the physical adaptation was passed from parent to offspring

I would like to know which theory you favor as to why modern humans survived while the stronger Neaderthals became extinct

"Life is too important to be taken seriously" - O.Wilde

The theory i like for why our ancestors became bipedal is because we used to spend alot of time in water ,as the only ape that walks on two legs for long peiods of time often forages in water for food. interesting enough it is the only ape with downwards facing nostrils like our own. i cant remember its name but if you dont believe me just say and i will find it for you.

and i think we survived over them because we were smarter. man is probably the weakest animal for our size, we cant run fast and have bad sight and smell , yet it is our inteligence which has made us the top predator around

That's a good point. I believe it is nonsense to believe that man cannot effect the overall global temperature. When I think of nucleur weapons that exist and mans potential to build weapons of mass destruction that makes man the most dangerous animal on the planet. Due to widespread chemical imbalance the only solution I can imagine is the golden rule

Rikki is correct that those who depend soley on human nature are doomed

In a book titled "Miracles" C. S. Lewis breaks everything into three divisions natural, ,supernatural, and unnutural. Since spirituality has been a signiture of mordern humans for many years which division do you think it belongs?

"This argument is irrelevant to the naturalism/supernaturalism issue since naturalism does not entail the view that there are no objective values. It is a gross misunderstanding on Lewis' part that if a person denies that any supernatural entities exist then that person must deny that there are any objective values. Many naturalists can and do believe that there are objective moral rules"

Soil is a natural compound which includes organic and non organic material. So dirt is a part of the purest unnatural life in one sense or another

Would anyone deny that spirits distilled from the natural friuts and grains are unnatural,
yet chemical balance through spirituality can be ignored as a healing agent

'Neurotypical (or NT) is a term that was coined in the autistic community as a label for people who are not on the autism spectrum:[1] specifically, neurotypical people have neurological development and states that are consistent with what most people would perceive as normal, particularly in regards to their ability to process linguistic information and social cues.[2] The concept was later adopted by both the neurodiversity movement and the scientific community'

Since many believe I was born within the autism spectrum I don't believe I am neurotypical. Would neurotypicals prefer to be broad minded and shallow, narrow minded and deep, or broad minded and deep?

Whether you believe in mind over matter, or matter over mind, I know the fellow that coined the phrase "Chemical Balance Through Spirituality"was not the first to believe it is possible.

The first believers were not Naturalist

Naturalism (philosophy)
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There are at least two basic types of philosophical stances characterizing naturalism. One is concerned with existence: what does exist and what does not exist? The second is concerned with knowledge: what are methods for gaining trustworthy knowledge of the natural world?

In its broadest and strongest sense, naturalism is the metaphysical position that "nature is all there is

Agree- hate is bad all around. the only thing i hate is hypocrisy. i dont hate hypocrites, cause everyone is a bit of a hypocrite (however that's spelled, sorry) sometimes, but it can be so destructive. like when someone calls themself a christian, but hates people for being muslim or jewish or atheist or something, or even a slightly different kind of christian from them. also, when people say one thing and do another, that makes me mad.