25% Of People Believe In Angels Apparently !

[mikey4444]

Interesting article in this mornings BBC News website ::

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24576115

According this survey, 25% of people interviewed for the survey, think that angels actually exist. You know, those creatures that look like man-sized pigeons. You couldn't make it up if you tried !

[tamborine]

My girly is an angel but not when she hides my cigs

[naomi24]

Cupid, //Hebrews.13:2 - Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for by doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.//

I wonder how they missed the wings? ;o)

Khandro, I agree with Birdie. Telling people they’re talking nonsense without explaining why means nothing - and you do it constantly.

[mibn2cweus]

As I recall, Satan was an angel too. So how do you distinguish one from the other . . . before it's too late?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pha-fsuPk_I

[sandyRoe]

Wasn't it pride that brought Satan down. 'Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven...'
Is there a salutary lesson there for the goodly, though haughty, unGodly?

[mibn2cweus]

Domination and submission appears to be a recurrent theme within many religions.

[naomi24]

If some of the faithful here are to be believed, Satan hasn’t been brought down. He reigns supreme over the entire earth, doesn’t he? Got to wonder why the omnipotent God doesn’t just zap him and make it all right.

[Zacs-Master]

If it's good enough for Agnetha Fältskog it's good enough for me.

[Khandro]

Fred; //do you not live in a world governed by and explained by the laws of physics?//
Using your physics (or anything else) please answer the following question and disprove the assertion.
Question; What banged?
Assertion; God created the universe.

[naomi24]

Khandro, you were doing alright until you said ‘Assertion: God created the universe’. Something may have created it, but since there’s no evidence for the existence of ‘God’, it’s plainly illogical to assert that ‘he’ was responsible.

[jomifl]

//my specialism is in Physics, which provides the most complete and accurate description of the world known to date.//
Khandro, perhaps you would care to try to explain what is wrong with the above statement, despite your apparent inability to explain anything.
Here is one you can add to your library of quotations
//If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough...
A. Einstein//

[jomifl]

Khandro, please disprove the assertion that god didn't create the universe.

[naomi24]

This is my favourite quote - so appropriate in so many areas. ;o)

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” Stephen Hawking

[jim360]

Such a sophisticated argument there by Khandro isn't it?

[jomifl]

Yes jim, if nothing else Khandro is a master of testosterone affected bovine anal ejecta.

[jim360]

Incidentally, the illusion of knowledge may be a problem, but the illusion of ignorance also is a problem. And the implicit assumption in the line "they only think they know more than you do" that the collective wisdom of humankind in the modern age somehow coincides with your own knowledge, Naomi, is a statement that is arrogant in the extreme. I both know what I do not, and what I do not -- I am aware that there are many limits to my knowledge, even within my area of specialism. But it's simply a statement of fact to say that those limits are rather further along the scale than most people's. Indeed, assuming all goes well, within the next four years there will for a short while be at least one (admittedly small and technical) area of knowledge that I will be aware of, but no-one else in the world will.

[jomifl]

The most pernicious form of ignorance is ignorance of ignorance, or
'he knoweth not that of which he hath not knowledge' just for those who like ancient sounding pearls of wisdom.

[naomi24]

Curious that people who willingly concede that they don’t know are regarded by those who think they do as arrogant.

[sandyRoe]

Didn't one of George Ws minions give that a modern twist with 'known unknowns'.?

[jim360]

It's because those who say that they don't know then also assume that no-one else does either. So the arrogance is in assuming that your own ignorance corresponds with the entire human race's.

[naomi24]

//So the arrogance is in assuming that your own ignorance corresponds with the entire human race's. //

Since no one knows, it does. Simple logic. Nothing arrogant about that.