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donnie:
Prince Charles of England reads Rhapsody of Realities.

What? Please tell us what leads you to believe this. Any evidence?

Step 1: Create a problem. "all men, women and babies have sinned and shall be burnt in hell fire. after they die"
Step 2: Solve the problem. "but if you accept our saviour, you can escape torment and enjoy bliss. after you die."

sassyboochic:
So what's your point?

Following the God of the bible doesn't make a nation successful. You need peaceful educated citizens who work hard, good governance, etc.

If the God of the Bible made countries that served him great, Israel would have been the greatest nation in biblical times, because they had the highest concentration of Yahweh worshippers in the entire world. Instead, they were constantly conquered and enslaved by pagan nations.

If you have sex with someone in a dream, it shows that you are sexually attracted to that person. That is all. Sexual attraction is natural; it’s what motivates us to “be fruitful and multiply” like most other animals. Stop indulging in baseless fantasies.

4reala:
Pls allow her follow her heart, so dat when the benefits starts flowing, both of u will enjoy it

No they won’t. The benefits of money go to the people who get to spend it.

Inspiring.

None of those things are unique to our time. They have been happening throughout history and will continue to happen until we go extinct.

The term “Holy Ghost” is definitely weird, considering what the word “ghost” means.

If your mind wanders during prayer it may be because you have said everything you want to say to God at the time. Instead of repeating yourself unnecessarily, why not just end the prayer session at that point and find something more interesting to do with your time?

hakeem4:
religious knowledge is not important at all, it’s just basically teaching 21st century children about Bronze Age beliefs. Religious knowledge will make sane and normal humans do things only insane people can do. How do you teach the story of Adam and Eve or oduduwa and lamurudu with evolution?

You teach the stories of Adam and Eve and Oduduwa and Lamurudu as stories that different groups of people believe to be true, not as hard facts that students must believe. And you teach evolution as the scientific consensus. If we are to get along better with people whose beliefs are different from ours, knowing what they believe is the first step.

Religious knowledge is important. Every student should be able to describe the beliefs of Christians, Muslims, traditionalists, and atheists.

butterflyl1on:
Nobody needs to provide any evidence for you especially since none would suffice (as you would always try to find a way around it). The only one who can convince you IS YOU. So you alone can source for what you can convincingly term as "evidence" for God.

Why does all the evidence for God have to be so flimsy that it falls apart when you subject it to any amount of intellectual scrutiny? If God exists and wants us to believe that he exists, he can surely figure out how to convince every atheist beyond any reasonable doubt. Since that has not happened, we can conclude that he either doesn’t exist or, if he exists, then he doesn’t want us to believe that he exists.

Ironically a lot of what we painstakingly want to look for as evidence in far places have actually been right in front of us all along.

Like what?

tartar9:
Likewise in Islam

A woman can wear gold but a man can't

A woman can wear silk but a man can't

A woman can dance but not the man(makruh)
@Seun.

Would you allow your wife to marry 3 other husbands and beat you when you disobey her in exchange for letting you wear hidden jewellery? The 'benefits' that Islam offers to women are trivial things that are also beneficial to men. The benefits it offers to men are important things.

A man must provide for all the needs not the woman

Which makes the woman completely dependent on her husband and incapable of leaving him when he beats her and marries other women.

karllemah44:
As a novice that I am I went to a cousin who is also a pastor to explain why women now speak in churches but his argument was not convincing so I pressed further and he became slightly angry(he's way older) so I had to quit it.

Here I am, I want someone to kindly help me with a concrete explanation I'm really confused here... thanks and God bless

To answer your question, women now speak in churches because many churches realise that misogynistic practices are not beneficial to them anymore due to the popularity of feminism and the more prominent role that women now play in society. The fact that Paul was totally against it doesn't stop them because they can just say that his misogynistic directives were only meant for the early Christians that he was writing to.

tartar9:
Of course,adherents of a religion call theirs the best

Whether atheism is a religion or not, the fact is that there is no objective evidence for the existence of God, therefore it makes sense to refrain from believing in any God that people preach to you about until they provide you with some objective evidence that the God actually exists.

1 Corinthians 14:34-35 (written by "Apostle" Paul)
“Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says. If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.”

1 Timothy 2:12-14 (also written by "Apostle" Paul)
“I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. ”

My interpretation: "Apostle" Paul didn’t believe that women should be allowed to speak in church or to lead men. He was a fervent Jew before his conversion and Jews don’t allow women to speak in the synagogue either, so he just carried his misogynistic views into the new religion.

If you believe that the words of "Apostle" Paul are the words of God, then certainly, God doesn’t want women to speak or lead men in church.

But Paul never actually met Jesus. He was not one of the twelve apostles. He was not Simon Peter, the rock upon which Jesus promised to build his church according to the gospels. Yet his writings and ideas have come to dominate Christianity. His words are seen as God's words. Wow.

urahara:
Actually they aren't. These books were written many many many years after Solomons time by unknown authors

Noted. Thanks.

My understanding of your write-up is that the portrayal of God in the Old Testament is inaccurate. He’s not what the Old Testament says he is.

If so, why do you think God allowed himself to be misrepresented in scripture? Why didn’t he communicate his true nature to the prophets?

If it is a medical or mental problem, the solution is medical treatment. You need to see a good doctor and also do some online research.

nancyv:
He believes in God but says he detests going to church cos he sees it as politics. my mum advised my sis not to marry him but she refused becos she loves him and time is not really on her side.

Your sister should marry the guy if she doesn’t mind allowing her future kids to stay home with daddy instead of going to church on Sundays. If she is willing to accept that her husband and kids could become full atheists who don’t believe that God exists and speak openly about it.

FaithfulServant, what ailment was that? What were the symptoms? Thanks.

Islam started out as a peaceful religion, but later it became violent. Verses written in the earlier, peaceful period contradict those written in the later, more violent period. Sadly, Islamic scholars resolve the contradictions by going with the later revelations, which are more violent.

festwiz:
The book of Proverbs is the only book of the bible worth any attention.

Ecclesiastes and Songs of Solomon are probably better. Unsurprisingly, they are from the same author.

awesomeJ:
How can you be sure nobody can be totally free of doubt? Don't say if you don't know.

Okay, I guess I am not 100% sure.

Mathematically, if something has been true in 9 out of 9 times, the probability that it'll be true once more is 100%.

Not true, but go on...

I have experienced God's faithfulness in ways that can only mean that I trust Him more, so there are issues I can pray to Him about, without any ounce of doubt.

What are some of those issues that you feel you can pray to God about without any doubt?

If any man's prayer 'fails', it's often due to ignorance, which peeps like yourself possess but hardly recognize or admit.

Let’s pick one example. Millions of Christians have prayed for the total eradication of Boko Haram and ISIS. Why has this prayer failed?

Ishilove:
Please tell me you're kidding...

You are aware they have a child together, right?

By Old Testament standards, she is his wife. When you took a woman into your house and “knew” her, she became your wife. Simple. Modern society has made marriage very expensive and complicated, which is why a lot of people are living together without being officially married.

@Oricha62: If I accepted all your points, that wouldn’t mean that there is equality in Islam. You’d have merely justified the inequality in Islam.

You say that men were allowed to marry poor and widowed women in order to help them, but if that was the concern, men could have been commanded to donate money to poor women and widows in their communities. You don’t have to sleep with a woman before helping her.

You say that men are allowed to marry additional wives so that men won’t divorce their infertile wives in order to marry new wives, but this problem could have been solved by simply forbidding men from divorcing their wives. If your wife is barren, then God doesn’t want you to have kids. Also, if there is equality, why aren’t women allowed to marry more husbands if their first husbands are impotent or infertile?

You say that men are allowed to marry additional wives so they won’t commit adultery. If there is equality, why are women not allowed to marry additional husbands instead of committing adultery? It’s clear that men’s needs and problems are prioritized over women's needs.

You say that polygamy is permitted because there are more women than men, therefore there would be many unmarried women without polygamy. This would have been your best argument if it were true, but it is not true. The population ratio between males and females is roughly 1 to 1. Even Syria, which is currently at war, has a sex ratio of 101 males to 100 females. This means that, by your argument, it is the women of Syria who should be allowed to marry many husbands, so that 1% of Syrian men won’t have to remain unmarried.

In short, there is no good reason to allow men to marry 4 wives and deny women of the same privilege. This inequality is totally unjustified.

KushyKush:
When e happen, we no go pity you oh

Teaser4:
joke of the century, are you for real? you must be kidding sha...stop being myopic... you can doubt the existence of God, but never doubt Juju

I don’t doubt the existence of evil, but I believe that evil exists primarily in the thoughts and actions of wicked people, who inflict pain and suffering on other people through non-supernatural means for personal gain or sadistic gratification. Evil spirits don’t exist, but evil people do.

aigboeben:
Does it include going nude or almost nude?

Nudity is relative. The dressing of a typical Nigerian Christian sister would be considered indecent in some muslim countries. Once people get used to seeing a particular body part all the time, it ceases to be a source of “temptation”. **edited**

Ok, let’s talk about equality.

When a man can marry four wives while a woman can only have one husband, is that equal?

When a man can beat a disobedient wife, but a woman can’t beat a disobedient husband, is that equal?

When a woman’s inheritance is half of what her brothers inherit, is that equal?

When the testimony of 2 women is equal in weight to the testimony of 1 man, is that equal?

When a rape victim is imprisoned in Dubai and her rapist is allowed to leave the country, is that equal?

Emmanuel045:
The quickest and surest way to keep getting from God is by thanking him for his blessings everyday.

Did you get that from the Bible? Jesus said “ask and you shall receive”, not “praise and you shall receive”.