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@poster
"just wondering if there is anyone who considers himself a deist around here?"

Try reading 'The age of reason' by Thomas Paine. He was a deist and this is a very enlightening book by him.

If you are interested in reading peer reviewed scientific articles in support of evolution you will find them in abundance in this thread.

Re: Creationism Or Evolution - Post Your Peer-review Articles Here And Lets Discuss
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-252741.64.html

Respects to m nwankwo for providing them.

He has a belief in a god and also accepts the fact that there is so much evidence in support of evolution now that  to ignore it would be intellectually dishonest and regressive in our understanding of how we all got here.

I am not a scientist, but he is so if you wanted to learn more about evolution i suggest you ask him. I'm sure he would be only too willing to share his knowledge with you.

Each one Teach one.

Respects

ok. Thanks

What movie was this clip taken from? It looks very interesting, and i would like to see the rest of it.

Millions of people have suffered much much more than Jesus allegedly did on the cross and during the events leading up to his death.

And replaced with medical research centres, hospitals, secular schools and universities funded with the same 10% of the populations income that the pastors get, will nigeria be a better place?

Or do we, as a people, still need the psychological crutch of religion like a child needs it dummy?

"I like the spirit of your OP but alas it is unrealistic."

It is not beyond the intelligence of people like me, yourself, and the poster to make that hope a reality, eventually.

I think that common sense will inevitably win in the end. It's just a matter of time.

Greetings doubleh and welcome to the nairaland religion forum. The home of freethought and intelligent, honest, open discussion.

i just wanted to say excellent first post. 

Respects

Non believers in Jesus Christ will be given the chance to repent and convert of course, but if they don't, then according to revelations they will have 7 years of great tribulations to look forward to before being cast into the eternal torture chamber called hell.

Then according to which denomination you subscribe to, only the true Christians will be left to live forever in paradise on earth or in heaven.

This all sounds much too heartless and barbaric for a 'loving' god's plan for humanity. Why would one rejoice in the return of Jesus Christ if it will result in the torture and deaths of billions of innocent people?

It is more akin to the final solution. Why would you care about people who are going to hell anyway - lets just eliminate them all now. Then the world will be a perfect paradise basking in the glory of god's love.

@recognise
Good for you for having the common sense to not take it literally.

As a christian you must know that millions of followers of your faith do take it very literally. Word for word, including the talking animals, dinosaurs on Noah's ark, Jonah's adventure in a whale etc. etc.  If you didn't then you must be very naive.

Maybe you should take a trip down to the $28 million creation museum

http://creationmuseum.org/

Open your eyes. 

, all non believers dropped dead and went to hell and only the true believers in Jesus Christ were left behind?

I think that the whole talking snake episode in Genesis is hilariously funny. Snakes cant talk. 

http://www.thebricktestament.com/genesis/garden_of_eden/gn03_01.html

Genesis 3:1

Now the snake was the shrewdest of any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made.

He said to the woman, 'Has God really said, "You shall not eat from any tree of the garden?"'

The incredible talking snake. 


Almost as funny as Balaam's talking ass.

http://www.thebricktestament.com/the_wilderness/balaams_talking_donkey/nm22_30.html

The bronze age people who wrote the bible must have been comedians, and the funny thing is that people actually believed it to be true.

It is well known that manatees (sometimes known sea cows) used to be mistaken for mermaids by european sailors. Many unique species had evolved in their own unique environments and were made extinct by man because they had no natural predators in the wild and did not fear us. Many of the mammy water myths that we had about them actually protected them from us humans until the europeans arrived and slaughtered them all. Not many species survive today, but it is thought that there were hundreds, if not thousands, of different types in africa and around the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_African_Manatee

Thousands of species of african animals have been quickly made extinct by man in the last 500 years and most of them have never been documented.

Here is a short list of some of those that have.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extinct_animals_of_Africa

Here is a great example of god's stupendously hilarious and omniscient sense of humour.

http://www.thebricktestament.com/job/meet_job/jb01_01.html


And another example of his great holy and omnipotent comic genius:

http://www.thebricktestament.com/genesis/noahs_insobriety/gn09_22a.html

enjoy

Wasn't there a christian hymn that said 'thank god i wasn't born a Jew'?



Maybe Mormonism is the one true faith, because the book of Mormon says so.

@essenced

What is your definition of ontology?

@essenced
Very interesting question!

Can you prove your own ontology?

Atheists don't claim to have all the answers yet. If they cannot scientifically prove your ontology, what does this mean to you?

And can you prove my ontology?

I am not afraid of any gods, but what i will admit to being afraid of is the prospect of fundamental believers in a god getting their hands on a nuclear bomb and using it in a suicide attack, thinking that they are carrying out their gods will.

@Poster
There are thousands of different religions in the world to choose from.

Take your pick and good luck.   
(From Wikipedia)

Abrahamic religions
Main article: Abrahamic religions

A group of monotheistic traditions sometimes grouped with one another for comparative purposes, because all refer to a patriarch named Abraham.

[edit] Bábism
Main article: Bábism

    * Azali

[edit] Bahá'í Faith
Main article: Bahá'í Faith

[edit] Christianity
Main article: Christianity
See also: List of Christian denominations

[edit] Catholicism
Main article: Catholicism

Western

    * Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association

    * Independent Catholic Churches
          o Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church
          o Heenum Catholic Church
          o Philippine Independent Church (In communion with the Anglican Church and the Union of Utrecht)
          o Polish National Catholic Church
          o Union of Utrecht (In communion with the Anglican Church)

    * Old Catholicism
          o Liberal Catholic Church

    * Roman Catholicism (Latin Rite)
          o Sui iuris (Including Byzantine Rite churches)
          o Traditionalist Catholicism

Eastern

    * Eastern Catholicism (Eastern Churches in Communion with Rome)

    * Eastern Orthodoxy
          o Eastern Orthodox Church
                + Bulgarian Orthodox Church
                + Georgian Orthodox Church
                + Greek Orthodox Church
                + Romanian Orthodox Church
                + Russian Orthodox Church
                + Serbian Orthodox Church
                + Ukrainian Orthodox Church


    * Oriental Orthodoxy
          o Armenian Apostolic Church
          o Coptic Orthodox Church
          o Ethiopian Orthodox Church

    * Syriac Christianity
          o Assyrian Church of the East
          o Indian Orthodox Church
                + Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (In full communion with the Oriental Orthodox Church)
                + Syriac Orthodox Church (In full communion with the Oriental Orthodox Church)
          o Mar Thoma Church (In full communion with the Anglican Church in India)
          o Syriac Catholic Church (In full communion with Rome)

[edit] Protestantism
Main article: Protestantism

    * Anglicanism (via media between the Roman Catholic Church and Protestantism)
          o Anglican Communion
                + Church of England
                + Church of Ireland
                + Church of Wales
                + Episcopal Church (United States)
                + Scottish Episcopal Church
    * Pre-Lutheran Protestants
          o Hussites
          o Lollards
          o Waldensians
    * Anabaptists
          o Amish
          o Brethren in Christ
          o Church of the Brethren
          o Hutterites
          o Mennonites
          o Old German Baptist Brethren
    * Baptists
    * Brethren
    * Catholic Apostolic Church
    * Charismatic movement
    * Christadelphians
    * Christian Israelite Church
    * Unification Church
    * Christian Science
    * Dispensationalism
    * Elitism
    * Esoteric Christianity
    * Evangelicalism
    * Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster
    * Lutheranism
    * Methodism
    * Messianic Judaism
    * Most Holy Church of God in Christ Jesus
    * New Thought
    * Pentecostalism
          o Oneness Pentecostalism
    * Pietism
          o Holiness movement
    * Quakerism
    * Reformed churches
          o Puritans
          o Presbyterianism
          o Congregational church
    * Religious Society of Friends
    * Spiritism
          o Espiritismo
    * Swedenborgianism
          o Christian Spiritualism
    * United and uniting churches
    * Unitarianism
    * Universalism

[edit] Restorationism
Main article: Restorationism

    * Adventism
          o Millerites
          o Sabbatarianism
          o Seventh-day Adventists
    * Christadelphians
    * Latter Day Saint movement (Mormonism)
          o Church of Christ (Temple Lot)
          o Community of Christ
          o Rigdonites
          o The Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite)
          o The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (a.k.a. LDS)
                + Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (a.k.a. FLDS)
          o The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite)
    * Iglesia ni Cristo
    * Jehovah's Witnesses
    * Restoration Movement

[edit] Gnosticism
Main article: List of Gnostic sects

Christian Gnosticism

    * Ebionites
    * Cerdonians
          o Marcionism (not entirely Gnostic)
    * Colorbasians
    * Simonians

Early Gnosticism

    * Borborites
    * Cainites
    * Carpocratians
    * Ophites
    * Hermeticism

Medieval Gnosticism

    * Cathars
    * Bogomils
    * Paulicianism
    * Tondrakians

Persian Gnosticism

    * Mandaeanism
    * Manichaeism
          o Bagnolians

Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism

Main article: Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism

    * Sethians
          o Basilidians
          o Thomasines
          o Valentinians
                + Bardesanites

[edit] Islam
See also: Islam and Divisions of Islam

Kalam Schools

Main article: Kalam

    * Ash'ari
    * Kalam
    * Maturidi
    * Murji'ah
    * Mu'tazili

Kharijite

Main article: Kharijite

    * Ibadi (Only surviving sect)
    * Azraqi
    * Harūriyya
    * Sufri

Shi'a Islam

Main article: Shi'a Islam

    * Ismailis
          o Mustaali / Bohra
    * Jafari
          o Twelvers
          o Alawites
          o Alevi / Bektashi
    * Zaiddiyah

Sufism

Main article: Sufism

    * Bektashi
    * Chishti
    * Mevlevi
    * Naqshbandi
    * Tariqah
    * Quadiriyyah
    * Suhrawardiyya
    * Tijani
    * Universal Sufism
          o Dances of Universal Peace

Sunni Islam

Main article: Sunni Islam

    * Hanafi
          o Berailvi
          o Deobandi
    * Hanbali
          o Wahhabi
    * Maliki
    * Shafi'i

Groups sometimes considered non-Islamic
    These religious traditions are not recognized as parts of Islam by mainstream Islamic fiqh, but consider themselves to be Muslim.

    * Ahl-e Haqq (Yarsan)
    * Ahmadiyya
    * Druze
    * Nation of Islam
    * Moorish Science Temple of America
    * United Submitters International
    * Zikri

[edit] Judaism
See also: Judaism and Jewish Denominations

Rabbinic Judaism

Main article: Rabbinic Judaism

    * Conservative Judaism
          o Masorti
          o Conservadox Judaism
                + Union for Traditional Judaism
    * Orthodox Judaism
          o Haredi Judaism
          o Hasidic Judaism
          o Modern Orthodox Judaism
    * Reform Judaism
    * Progressive Judaism
          o Liberal Judaism

Non-Rabbinic Judaism

    * Alternative Judaism
    * Humanistic Judaism (not always identified as a religion)
    * Jewish Renewal
    * Karaite Judaism
    * Reconstructionist Judaism

Historical groups

    * Essenes
    * Pharisees (ancestor of Rabbinic Judaism)
    * Sadducees
    * Zealots
          o Sicarii

Sects that believed Jesus was a prophet

    * Ebionites
    * Elkasites
    * Nazarenes
    * Sabbateans
          o Frankists

[edit] Rastafari movement
Main article: Rastafari movement

[edit] Mandaeans and Sabians
Main articles: Mandaeism and Sabians

    * Mandaeism
    * Sabians
          o Sabians of Harran
          o Mandaean Nasaraean Sabeans

[edit] Samaritanism
Main article: Samaritanism

[edit] Unitarian Universalism
Main article: Unitarian Universalism

[edit] Indian religions
Main article: Indian religions

Religions that originated in Greater India and religions and traditions related to, and descended from, them.

[edit] Ayyavazhi
Main article: Ayyavazhi

[edit] Buddhism
Main article: Schools of Buddhism

    * Nikaya schools (which have historically been called Hinayana in the West)
          o Theravada
                + Sri Lankan Amarapura Nikaya
                + Sri Lankan Siam Nikaya
                + Sri Lankan Ramañña Nikaya
                + Bangladeshi Sangharaj Nikaya
                + Bangladeshi Mahasthabir Nikaya
                + Burmese Thudhamma Nikaya
                      # Vipassana tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw and disciples
                + Burmese Shwekyin Nikaya
                + Burmese Dvaya Nikaya
                + Thai Maha Nikaya
                      # Dhammakaya Movement
                + Thai Thammayut Nikaya
                      # Thai Forest Tradition
                            * Tradition of Ajahn Chah
    * Mahayana
          o Humanistic Buddhism
          o Madhyamaka
                + Prāsangika
                + Svatantrika
                + Sanlun (Three Treatise school)
                      # Sanron
                + Maha-Madhyamaka (Jonangpa)
          o Nichiren
                + Nichiren Shū
                + Nichiren Shōshū
                + Nipponzan Myōhōji
                + Soka Gakkai
          o Pure Land
                + Jodo Shu
                + Jodo Shinshu
          o Tathagatagarbha
                + Daśabhūmikā (absorbed into Huayan)
                + Huayan (Avataṃsaka)
                      # Hwaeom
                      # Kegon
          o Tiantai
                + Tendai
                + Cheontae
          o Yogācāra
                + Cittamatra in Tibet
                + Wei-Shi (Consciousness-only school) or Faxiang (Dharma-character school)
                      # Beopsang
                      # Hossō
          o Chan / Zen / Seon / Thien
                + Caodong
                      # Sōtō
                            * Keizan line
                            * Jakuen line
                            * Giin line
                + Linji
                      # Rinzai
                      # Ōbaku
                      # Fuke Zen
                      # Won Buddhism: Korean Reformed Buddhism
                + Kwan Um School of Zen
                + Sanbo Kyodan
    * Vajrayana
          o Shingon Buddhism
          o Tibetan Buddhism
                + Bön
                + Gelukpa
                + Kagyupa
                      # Dagpo Kagyu
                            * Karma Kagyu
                            * Barom Kagyu
                            * Tsalpa Kagyu
                            * Phagdru Kagyu
                            * Drikung Kagyu
                            * Drukpa Kagyu
                      # Shangpa Kagyu
                + Nyingmapa
                + Sakyapa
                      # Jonangpa
    * New Buddhist movements
          o Aum Shinrikyo (now known as Aleph)
          o Diamond Way
          o Friends of the Western Buddhist Order
          o New Kadampa Tradition
          o Share International
          o True Buddha School
          o Vipassana movement

[edit] Hinduism
See also: Hindu denominations and Contemporary Hindu movements

    * Agama Hindu Dharma
    * Hindu revivalism
    * Lingayatism
    * Hindu reform movements
          o Arya Samaj
          o Brahmo Samaj
    * Shaivism
    * Shaktism
    * Tantrism
    * Smartism
    * Vaishnavism
          o Gaudiya Vaishnavism
                + ISKCON (Hare Krishna)

Major schools and movements of Hindu philosophy

Main article: Hindu philosophy

    * Nyaya
    * Purva mimamsa
    * Samkhya
    * Vaisheshika
    * Vedanta (Uttara Mimamsa)
          o Advaita Vedanta
          o Integral Yoga
          o Vishishtadvaita
          o Dvaita Vedanta
    * Yoga
          o Ashtanga Yoga
          o Bhakti Yoga
          o Hatha yoga
          o Siddha Yoga
          o Tantric Yoga

[edit] Jainism
Main article: Jainism

    * Digambara
    * Shvetambara

[edit] Sikhism
Main article: Sikhism

    * Khalsa
          o Nihang
    * Namdhari or Kuka Sikhs
    * Sahajdhari Sikh
    * Ravidasi

[edit] Persian religions
Main article: Iranian religions

    * Manichaeism
    * Mazdakism
    * Yazdânism
          o Alevi
          o Yarsani
          o Yazidi
    * Zoroastrianism
          o Zurvanism

[edit] East Asian religions
Main article: East Asian religions

[edit] Confucianism
Main article: Confucianism

    * Neo-Confucianism
    * New Confucianism

[edit] Shinto
Main articles: Shinto and Shinto sects and schools

[edit] Taoism
Main article: Taoism

[edit] Other

    * Caodaism
    * Chondogyo
    * Chinese folk religion
    * Falun Gong
    * I-Kuan Tao
    * Jeung San Do
    * Legalism
    * Mohism

[edit] African diasporic religions

African diasporic religions are a number of related religions that developed in the Americas among African slaves and their descendants in various countries of the Caribbean Islands and Latin America, as well as parts of the southern United States. They derive from African traditional religions, especially of West and Central Africa, showing similarities to the Yoruba religion in particular.
See also: African diasporic religions

    * Batuque
    * Candomblé
    * Dahomey mythology
    * Haitian mythology
    * Kumina
    * Macumba
    * Mami Wata
    * Obeah
    * Oyotunji
    * Quimbanda
    * Santería (Lukumi)
    * Umbanda
    * Vodou

[edit] Indigenous traditional religions
See also: Paganism and Folk religion

Traditionally, these faiths have all been classified "Pagan", but scholars prefer the terms "indigenous/primal/folk/ethnic religions".

[edit] African
Main article: African traditional religions

West Africa

    * Akan mythology
    * Ashanti mythology (Ghana)
    * Dahomey (Fon) mythology
    * Efik mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
    * Igbo mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
    * Isoko mythology (Nigeria)
    * Yoruba mythology (Nigeria, Benin)

Central Africa

    * Bushongo mythology (Congo)
    * Bambuti (Pygmy) mythology (Congo)
    * Lugbara mythology (Congo)

East Africa

    * Akamba mythology (East Kenya)
    * Dinka mythology (Sudan)
    * Lotuko mythology (Sudan)
    * Masai mythology (Kenya, Tanzania)

Southern Africa

    * Khoikhoi mythology
    * Lozi mythology (Zambia)
    * Tumbuka mythology (Malawi)
    * Zulu mythology (South Africa)

[edit] American
Main article: Native American mythology

    * Abenaki mythology
    * Aztec mythology
    * Blackfoot mythology
    * Cherokee mythology
    * Chickasaw mythology
    * Choctaw mythology
    * Creek mythology
    * Crow mythology
    * Ghost Dance
    * Guarani mythology
    * Haida mythology
    * Ho-Chunk mythology
    * Hopi mythology
    * Huron mythology
    * Inca mythology
    * Inuit mythology
    * Iroquois mythology
    * Kwakiutl mythology
    * Lakota mythology
    * Leni Lenape mythology
    * Longhouse religion
    * Maya mythology
    * Midewiwin
    * Native American Church
    * Navajo mythology
    * Nootka mythology
    * Olmec mythology
    * Pawnee mythology
    * Salish mythology
    * Seneca mythology
    * Selk'nam religion
    * Tsimshian mythology
    * Urarina
    * Ute mythology
    * Zuni mythology

[edit] Eurasian
Main article: Eurasian Indigenous Religions

Asian

    * Bön
    * Chinese mythology
    * Japanese mythology
    * Koshinto
    * Siberian Shamanism
    * Tengriism

European

    * Estonian mythology
    * Eskimo religion
    * Finnish mythology and Finnish paganism
    * Hungarian folk religion
    * Sami religion (including the Noaidi)
    * Tadibya

[edit] Oceania/Pacific

    * Australian Aboriginal mythology
    * Austronesian beliefs
          o Balinese mythology
          o Javanese beliefs
          o Melanesian mythology
          o Micronesian mythology
                + Modekngei
                + Nauruan indigenous religion
          o Philippine mythology
                + Anito
                + Gabâ
                + Kulam
          o Polynesian mythology
                + Hawaiian mythology
                + Maori mythology
                      # Maori religion
                + Rapa Nui mythology
                      # Moai
                      # Tangata manu

[edit] Cargo cults
Main article: Cargo cults

    * John Frum
    * Johnson cult
    * Prince Philip Movement
    * Vailala Madness

[edit] Historical polytheism
Further information: Prehistoric religion and History of religion

[edit] Ancient Near Eastern
Main article: Ancient Near Eastern religions

    * Ancient Egyptian religion
    * Ancient Semitic religions
    * Mesopotamian mythology
          o Arabian mythology (pre-Islamic)
          o Babylonian and Assyrian religion
                + Babylonian mythology
                + Chaldean mythology
          o Canaanite mythology
                + Canaanite religion
          o Hittite mythology
          o Persian mythology
          o Sumerian mythology

[edit] Indo-European
Main article: Proto-Indo-European religion

    * Proto-Indo-Iranian religion
          o Zoroastrianism
          o Historical Vedic religion
    * Baltic polytheism
    * Celtic polytheism
          o Brythonic mythology
          o Gaelic mythology
    * Germanic polytheism
          o Anglo-Saxon religion
          o Norse religion
          o Continental Germanic religion
    * Greek polytheism
    * Hungarian polytheism
    * Finnish polytheism
    * Roman polytheism
    * Slavic polytheism

[edit] Hellenistic
Main article: Hellenistic religion

    * Mystery religions
          o Eleusinian Mysteries
          o Mithraism
          o Orphism
    * Pythagoreanism
    * Early Christianity
    * Gallo-Roman religion

[edit] Neopaganism
Main article: List of Neopagan movements

[edit] New Age, Esotericism, Mysticism
Main articles: New Age, Esotericism, and Mysticism

    * Anthroposophy
    * Christian mysticism
    * Esoteric Christianity
    * Hindu mysticism
    * Martinism
    * Meher Baba
    * Nazi mysticism
    * Occultism
    * Rosicrucian
          o Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis
          o Ancient Order of the Rosicrucians
          o Rosicrucian Fellowship
    * Surat Shabd Yoga
          o Tantra
                + Ananda Marga Tantra-Yoga
    * Sufism
    * Thelema

[edit] Left-Hand Path
Main article: Left-Hand Path and Right-Hand Path

    * Luciferianism
    * Satanism
    * Setianism

[edit] Magic
Main article: Magic (religion)

    * Hoodoo (Rootwork)
          o New Orleans Voodoo
    * Kulam - Filipino witchcraft
    * Magick
          o Chaos magic
          o Enochian magic
          o Demonolatry
                + Goetia
    * Pow-wow
    * Seid (shamanic magic)
    * Vaastu Shastra
    * Witchcraft

[edit] New religious movements
Main article: List of new religious movements

[edit] Shinshukyo
Main article: Shinshūkyō

    * Church of World Messianity
    * PL Kyodan
    * Seicho-No-Ie



That's why its easier to just stick to the one you were born into and 'hope' that you were born into the 'right' one.
Or use your own intelligence and understand that they can't all be right, but they can all be wrong.

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Quoted from wikipedia

"A religion is an organized approach to human spirituality which usually encompasses a set of narratives, symbols, beliefs and practices, often with a supernatural or transcendent quality, that give meaning to the practitioner's experiences of life through reference to a higher power, God or gods, or ultimate truth.[1] It may be expressed through prayer, ritual, meditation, music and art, among other things. It may focus on specific supernatural, metaphysical, and moral claims about reality (the cosmos and human nature) which may yield a set of religious laws, ethics, and a particular lifestyle. Religion also encompasses ancestral or cultural traditions, writings, history, and mythology, as well as personal faith and religious experience.

The term "religion" refers to both the personal practices related to communal faith and to group rituals and communication stemming from shared conviction. "Religion" is sometimes used interchangeably with "faith" or "belief system,"[2] but it is more socially defined than personal convictions, and it entails specific behaviors, respectively.

The development of religion has taken many forms in various cultures. It considers psychological and social roots, along with origins and historical development.

In the frame of western religious thought,[3] religions present a common quality, the "hallmark of patriarchal religious thought": the division of the world in two comprehensive domains, one sacred, the other profane.[4] Religion is often described as a communal system for the coherence of belief focusing on a system of thought, unseen being, person, or object, that is considered to be supernatural, sacred, divine, or of the highest truth. Moral codes, practices, values, institutions, tradition, rituals, and scriptures are often traditionally associated with the core belief, and these may have some overlap with concepts in secular philosophy. Religion is also often described as a "way of life" or a life stance."


Definition of religion from dictionary.com
"re⋅li⋅gion
–noun
1. a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, esp. when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.

2. a specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects: the Christian religion; the Buddhist religion."

Why do some people try to distance their belief from being classed as a religion when it clearly is? Is the word religion so badly tainted that it is now a dirty word to be avoided at all costs. Just accept that you are religious and be proud of it for gods sake! There is no shame in being part of the world biggest religion.

My friend, only a third of the worlds population are christians. Two thirds are not, and are not going to just go away, so you need to learn to live with that fact and learn to get along with people who have different gods to yours. This is what i mean by common sense.  Muslims are your brothers and sisters too you know, they just have different beliefs to yours. As do the hindus, buddhists, jews, rastafarians, athiests etc, and all the other different branches of christianity that you dont believe in.

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Altruism is simple common sense. We evolved brains intelligent enough to understand that we all benefit by acting altruistically to each other. The fact is; we are all equal, and we are all originally come from the same place, AFRICA. Regardless of what race or religion you are.


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Altruism is about selflessness and, in my view, an equal regard for others regardless of race, sex, culture and religion.

ALTRUISM is best for mankind.

I much prefer the four door sedan, but have booked a test drive of the 2 seater roadster when the showroom opens in london later this month.

Ok. apologies for being rude but your question seems to be implying that the source of morality comes from the bible.

If this is true and you are saying that everyone who is not a believer in the bible is immoral, then i would like to know why.

I agree, i cant think of any time in history that i would rather be living than now.
Can u imagine what life was like just 50 yeas ago when black people where segregated and not allowed to vote in america. We were deprived of education and seen as dumb, second class citizens and even sub-human.

Now we have a black man as president of america (the most powerful country in the world) and everyone knows that all humans evolved from africa.

100 years ago, all of europe was at war with millions dying. The theory of nuclear energy had not been discovered yet. There was no such thing as human rights and equality.

200 years ago we were slaves and being sold abroad whilst at the same time missionaries were trying to save our 'souls' so that we can have a better life when we die. The theory of electricity had not been discovered yet.

500 years ago the mayans were cutting out people hearts. We had no understanding of the fact that we are living on a planet revolving around a star. Germ theory of medicine had not been discovered. Mortality rates were ridiculously  high.

1000 years ago, virtually every country/ tribe/clan was at war with its neighbour. This was the so-called  'dark ages' when ignorance and superstition was rife.

And it just gets worse the further you go back until you come to the stories documented in the old testament where people were encouraged to massacre their own family and neighbours for not worshipping the same god as them.

So that is the reason why i think the world has become a much better place to live in, and is getting better as people become more understanding and respectful of others regardless of race, sex, culture, and RELIGION.

"whats moral? whats immoral? where did u get the ability/teaching to distinguish between both?"

Do you think that the ability/teaching to distinguish between what's moral and what's immoral comes from the bible?

Check out this video of the new 4 door model s electric car from tesla motors. They already have a two door roadster in production that does 0 - 60 in under 4 seconds!, has a range of 220 miles between charges, and a top speed limited to 125mph.

http://www.oncars.com/

What do you think, would you buy one?

There have been many flying objects which can be classed as unidentified by people who have seen objects flying in the sky which they cannot identify. However, this does not mean that they must have come from an extraterrestrial source. In fact, i dont think that it is a coincidence that most sightings are seen close to secret military bases where top secret flying objects are tested.

I think that if there were alien ufos flying around and visiting earth, people would have videoed them on their mobile phones and posted footage on utube by now.

All of my Christian friends say that the world is getting much worse than it used to be. They say that morality is decreasing and evil is increasing and that we are in the last days before the end. Why is this?

I used to share this pessimistic outlook on life too when i was a Christian, but now i completely disagree and think the world is becoming a much better place to live in than it used to be.

What do you think? Is the world becoming a better place or worse, and how do you justify your opinion?

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