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Religion & Spirituality
Welcome To Religion & Spirituality.Here is the place to discuss religious and spiritual matters.
"Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations."
- Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Not sure where to put this question, but has anyone here been hypnotised, and if so can you describe it, was it 'real'?...
...address a lady bishop in the C of E? Not that I have any intention of meeting one.
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I Do Not believe in God. However, I could be proved wrong if there are ABers who can account for the reasons that 'God' subjects us mere mortals to Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Lightning, Volcanic...
America’s biggest Islamic ally in the middle east – Saudi Arabia -has sentenced a man to ten years in prison and 2,000 lashes for expressing his atheism on Twitter....
Is there little future for atheists?
UNESCO has joined forces with Islamic State. The fundamentalists now have a new weapon: resolutions passed by servile international bodies. An earlier delay and the opposition of UNESCO's chief, Irina...
The same week that Mr Yousaf was extolling the idea that Britain is a proto-Nazi state and Pakistan a potential safe-haven, the Pakistani authorities saw the latest round of the interminable and...
//For someone to become a saint usually a miracle needs to have been declared but that can be waived if there is evidence that the individual is a martyr.//...
I, along with millions more muggles, absolutely adore the Harry Potter books, but turning Harry and his wizarding world into a new religion? That’s taking adoration rather too far, don’t you...
B.G. Socks it to 'em, (and without notes too)....
I thought I’d heard most things but this is a new one on me. A friend, an Italian Roman Catholic, tells me that when Jesus was a child playing with his little friends, he slid down a rainbow – and...
For fellow religious historians …. and anyone else who may be interested. //toilet placed in temple was “the ultimate desecration” to end the cult who worshipped Ba’al. The second book of...
I was looking at paradoxes today and one came up about god. I assume it applies to the Abrahamic god but I'm sure it applies to many others. In the bible god is omnipotent. He has total power and...
//It is becoming “essential” to grasp the logic of people driven by an obsessive belief that the end of the world is nigh// They're not. //It’s very difficult to understand the things that impel...
'In thirty years, France has undergone an accelerated process of Islamization. Yusuf al-Qaradawi, spiritual leader of the main Islamic movement in France, explained how Muslims living in the West have...
My mum loves poetry and is a great believer in god. She also has late stage Alzheimers. Unfortunately she is very detached from us now, but we can still connect with her by reading to her. She loves...
Happened to come across this quote. Can anyone argue with this? Is God willing to prevent evil, but he can not? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he...
So recently I have found out that a Youth leader at church has been having an "affair" for two years with a 19yr old volnurable adult from the same church. He has been reported to the authorities and...
Who Do Christian Leaders Serve? Nima Gholam Ali Pour, writes; In Swedish Christianity, Jesus has been reduced from being the son of God, to an activist fighting for multiculturalism and open borders....