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"beliefs are protected, behavior that negatively impacts the community and violates civil law would prohibited and prosecuted. " Homophobia and misogyny violates the spirit of civil law does negatively impact the community. That was my point for disbanding religions that will not comply w...

[quote="iskanderWhy do you think some people believe in the resurrection of the dead and others don't?. Doctor Leila Leah Bronner says in ,A Journey to Heaven: The Jewish Search for Life Beyond . My contention is that one finds precursors of belief in a bodily resurrection at an early point in ...

Good morning and welcome. :) It is plain silly to say it is a forgery because Mark 16:9-20 is missing in some copies . Is the resurrection a fabrication? It is not a fabrication if one is a believer , and it is a fabrication if one is not a believer. As far as the Resurrection goes, objectively it ...

"Saud al-Sarhan, the director of research at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, said he doubted that the manuscript found in Birmingham was as old as the researchers claimed, noting that its Arabic script included dots and separated chapters — feat...

So you think that a government that insures that the non-homophobic and non-misogynistic laws of the land is not denied it's citizens by homophobic and misogynous religions , by having religions adopt the law of the land in their theologies, or be disbanded is to show itself as an oppressive and vi...

I do not consider Mark 16:9-20 a forgery nor fabrication in the context of the evolution an origin of all NT scripture. Sure, I believe it is a later edition to the gospel, but all the gospels are the product of evolution of cut and paste text between sources and gospels, translation issues, additio...

The Harmony of science and religion Based on my assumptions there are many problems with the cosmogony* of ancient worldviews based on their scripture. There is a lack of guidance in the scripture of ancient religions to harmonize the evolving view of the cosmology of contemporary science with the T...

At present violent religious cults are illegal pretty much everywhere. It would be difficult to compare 'religious cults' as such with the oppressive Christian State Religion of Rome in the first millennia. A better comparison would be the Christian and Islamic nations that were oppressive against o...

There are some good archeological evidence concerning the origins of the Hebrews as originally minor pastoral Canaanite tribes in the hills of Judea. The earliest known scripture of the Pentateuch including the Psalms are found in Canaanite, and pre-Babylonian cuneiform tablets. The Hebrew evolved f...

As a Baha'i I believe in the strict form of Monotheism the same as Judaism and Islam. I consider the Trinitarian Doctrine a Hellenist Roman Religious cultural construct to explain the nature of Jesus Christ and the relationship with humanity. Paul was the main initial promoter of the Trinitarian Doc...