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i will suspend my disbelief for a second and say this: God is our father and he's nowhere to be found. People like me have no objection to accept him and love him, but we require more proof, more care than spontaneous believers. The arguments that we are not open to him or that we have to find...

but we're such imperfect creatures! if his embrace is as loving as you make it out t be, if his mercy knows no bounds, then why are we punished for being merely human?

and because we would be etrnally damned to hell otherwise~ (a) If he really wants us to acknowledge his existence and love him, if he wants us to fell that he deserves our love why doesn't he show himself more? and (b) Why would he be forced to punish us if we didn't? If he sent all evil...

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Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter...

lol i would't mind a response. but we can agree to disagree~

I would say that it's Christians in general who think of God in the most 'human, worldly terms'. The Christian conception of God often suggests that worshipping him, acknowledging him is, like you said, necessary for salvation and that God is 'good' and 'loves us'. I can really only...

yes, we know this is possible. the issue, though, is whether people who know that they will birth affected babies should be encouraged to go through with it anyway.

it was quite useful, the reflection statement stuff in particular

i agree with you, freedom should be the primary concern here. i'm still not sold though, what about the freedom of the eventual child to live a fulfilled healthy life? @forks: interesting idea. abstinence FOR THE GREATER GOOD. afaik that wont work with herditary diseases (citation needed?)

I wanted a poll :(:(:( answer yes or no or undecided in your posts plz EDIT: somebody seriously needs to fix this 'two minutes after post' polling rule

Hereditary (either totally debilitating or mortal) diseases are difficult burdens to bear. If you had a condition, say cystic fibrosis or huntington's disease, that had a high chance of passing on genetically to your children or grand-children, would you subject, nay, sentence your offspring to...

lol I like how he says 'sort of' an ideology. ALSO, I fear my wall of text is being sadly ignored :(:(:(~~ give me an answer, religious bosers!

hahaha will keep in mind!

I had an interesting discussion with a christian friend which basically boils down into this neat summary: I asked her why the Lord of all creation/God/Jesus (all fictitions aside) demands from his intelligent creations, that were (and lets not forget this) modestly made in his own image...

trick question lololololol

like in brave new world? you know what, i actually agree with you on this one. corpses wont be doing anything in the ground, death is nothing but the end of life. why not use bodies as biofuel?

depends on how wasted i am

songs for the deaf is one that really shouldve been mentioned earlier

Suddenlee-hee, all your history's ablaze Try to breath as the world disintegrates!