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Although slaughter for sacrifice contradicts a basic belief of Christianity, it is practiced by local Catholics, Greek Orthodox and other Christians at the ruined Byzantine church of Saint George in the village of Taybeh, 20 miles from Jerusalem. "Around 70 to 80 lambs are sacrificed here each...

Thanks Toto, Signed up and looking forward to it.

Would they be content with an acknowledgement that Jesus might not have existed or are they arguing that the lack of evidence for his existence proves the events described in the gospel don't go back to an actual historical individual? I can speak only for myself obviously. It doesn't matter to me ...

It's funny how timing works. I was was just listening to some of George MacDonald's sermons narrated by Lloyd James, and in one of MacDonald's sermons he made a statement of Hell Fire as the fire that cleanses sinners (a paraphrase of his statement) however, I have it marked in the audio book to re...

So, what have you learned here so far? :)[/quote] I have learned to laugh and shake my head a lot :thumbup:[/quote] I am glad you feel welcome and find us sociable. After visiting this forum I understood what “ritual impurity” means to the religious and the need to cleanse the evil clinging to my me...

First off, acknowledgement and many thanks to Peter Kirby for his compassion to this tremendous site! Thank you Peter. My faith as it grows: I believe in the teachings of Christ not Christianity I believe that Christ is part of the Divine Mystery of our Infinite Creator I believe in the One Divine ...

The question I ask, is to see what responses are given by atheist. I am not looking to refute the answers, only to observe the replies. The question is simple: How do we know that evil and suffering exists? Suffering exists because remaining alive necessitates a mechanism to produce the sensation o...

Bernard Muller wrote:to Eric,
The passage you commented upon was written by Carrier, not me. If you object to some points, put your stuff on Carrier's blog.

Cordially, Bernard

Ooops. My bad.

From an excellent blog post by Richard Carrier (which I advise anyone on this forum to read entirely): http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/archives/4973#more-4973 That's too bad he chose the mythicist case with that crucifixion in heaven. He is very good in almost every other fields but I am afraid...

Nothing like a Mark Twain quote to release frustrations and make it laughable: (though I would have liked him to include atheists along with religion and politics) In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from...