Schieffer: All religions share one truth
Although humankind has been haggling over the details for eons, to me all religions are basically true, at least the western religions that I know about - and the truth they share is that love is more powerful than hate and that we'll be happier if we treat others with fairness.
I have no answers to the questions humans have debated from the beginning: "If there is a God, why does he let bad things happen to good people?" And "Where does evil come from?" I have no idea.
My answer to most religious assertions is, "Perhaps."
Yet, I am a believer. I have always thought - maybe felt is a better word - that there was something out there more powerful than we are, but so powerful it is beyond human comprehension.
I think that when I see the beauty of a sunset, or the pure innocence in a baby's smile, or recognize the things we can't see: a mother's love or the strength that we can sometimes find deep within us when all seems lost.
To me those are the miracles. Maybe they're not.
But when I think of them in that way, it always gives me hope and makes me happier.
Congrats JJG777 on find a few nutcases that dont believe in evolution
_________________
Here are some more nut cases. All of these scientist are Ph.D degrees
and I can supply more names if you want.
Creationists holding science doctorates
(partial list, in alphabetical order)
Do real scientists believe in Creation? Answer...
Why do so many scientists endorse Evolution? Answer
How is it possible for reasonable, intelligent, well-educated people to hold such diametrically opposite views as Evolutionism and Creationism? Answer...
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Recommended Resource:
IN SIX DAYS:
Why 50 Scientists Choose to Believe in Creation
Click here for more infoAgard, E. Theo
Allan, James
Anderson, Kevin
Armstrong, Harold
Arndt, Alexander
Austin, Steven
Barnes, Thomas
Batten, Don
Baumgardner, John
Bergman, Jerry
Boudreaux, Edward
Byl, John
Catchpoole, David
Chadwick, Arthur
Chaffin, Eugene
Chittick, Donald
Cimbala, John
Clausen, Ben
Cole, Sid
Cook, Melvin
*******, Ken
Cuozzo, Jack
Darrall, Nancy
Dewitt, David
DeYoung, Donald
Downes, Geoff
Eckel, Robert
Faulkner, Danny
Ford, Dwain
Frair, Wayne
Gentry, Robert
Giem, Paul
Gillen, Alan
Gish, Duane
Gitt, Werner
Gower, D.B.
Grebe, John
Grocott, Stephen
Harrub, Brad
Hawke, George
Hollowell, Kelly
Holroyd, Edmond
Hosken, Bob
Howe, George
Humphreys, D. Russell
Javor, George
Jones, Arthur
Kaufmann, David
Kennedy, Elaine
Klotz, John
Koop, C. Everett
Korochkin, Leonid
Kramer, John
Lammerts, Walter
Lester, Lane
Livingston, David
Lopez, Raul
Marcus, John
Marsh, Frank
Mastropaolo, Joseph
McCombs, Charles
McIntosh, Andrew
McMullen, Tom
Meyer, Angela
Meyer, John
Mitchell, Colin
Morris, Henry
Morris, John
Mumma, Stanley
Parker, Gary
Peet, J. H. John
Rankin, John
COME TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST BECAUSE GOD COMMANDED HIS LOVE TO YOU THAT WHILE YOU (AND I) WERE YET A SINNERS CHRIST DIED FOR US. NOW IS THE ACCEPTABLE TIME OF THE LORD
---
Maybe you're here to spend your life being subservient to some invisible being in an inviible pace but, as for me, I'll not spend my existance on my knees to anyone/thing.
Over my entire lifetime, most especially when I was a child. Every preacher in every church, on television, or over the air, and now on the Internet has used impossible promises (eternal life and happiness) to convert the gullible, and fear (hell fire) to scare those who question into submission. And in almost every instance it is solely to gain money/power. Or, in some instances, by those who are so frightened by the logic of those who disagree that they desperately try to keep defending their illogically claims
http://www.philly.com/philly/health/132456883.html
We can see millions of light years away, but not one God, ever, has been seen by anyone. We continue to eat away at the explanations using science at things a God used to get credit for. We don't accept sickness being caused by demons or stars being windows into heaven. No one walks on water anymore, no more people being raised from the dead.
Maybe - just maybe - those supernatural beliefs of 2000 years ago are outdated by now? Maybe you believe them because you were told they were true? Science requires proof - if you believe in religious superbeings, why don't you?
"Without faith it is impossible to please God." Now that is God's standard not mine.
As far as communicating with us he has spoken by his bible, by his SON, and by the prophets. That is all he is going to do so as a mortal you either accept it or not.
As far as an update for the Bible it was directed by God and it does not need an update.
Science is way behind the Bible and needs an update. The most recent update of science that was behind the bible was the fact that the Bible says that "God streches out the Heavens like a curtain." That statement is thousands of years old. On the other hand, man only discovered that the Universe is expanding in 1929 ala Hubble.
Another needed science update is the origin of man. No body has proven that man originated from APES and they will never. See my post below about 10 down regarding many scientist who now doubt Darwin.
Another scientific musing that needs to be changed in Stephen Hawkings claims that the universe came from nothing. When have you sat at a junk yard and seen everything come to gether to form anything useful with out a creator.
AND FURTHER MORE THOMAS JEFFERSON WILL NOT BE ABLE O SAVE YOU from the description of HELL..
---
Tell you what drone, I don't tell you to stop believing in mythology so stop trying to tell me what I should believe in.
Joseph Ramirez, 30, took three of his children to the Mount Hope Cemetery about 4:30 p.m. local time where he used a knife to slice his 8-year-old's forearms before cutting his own, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
"We're going to Jesus, we're going to Jesus," the dad was overheard saying by witness Jaymisha Pires.
Pires, a 21-year-old mother of two, said she confronted Ramirez and begged him to stop.
When Ramirez ran off, Pires' friend, Corey Granberry, pulled the children together. The 8-year-old child was bleeding badly and Granberry wrapped a T-shirt around one of his arms.
According to the Union-Tribune, Ramirez had heard his dead grandmother's voice telling him to sacrifice his son.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/29/california-dad-reportedly-slashes-son-arms-in-cemetery-acrifice/?test=latestnews
Here is a complete list of the signers of the declaration and there religious affiliation. The overwhelming majority were Christians. Also note the comments at the end and the place that this list came from.
Name of Signer State Religious Affiliation
Charles Carroll Maryland Catholic
Samuel Huntington Connecticut Congregationalist
Roger Sherman Connecticut Congregationalist
William Williams Connecticut Congregationalist
Oliver Wolcott Connecticut Congregationalist
Lyman Hall Georgia Congregationalist
Samuel Adams Massachusetts Congregationalist
John Hancock Massachusetts Congregationalist
Josiah Bartlett New Hampshire Congregationalist
William Whipple New Hampshire Congregationalist
William Ellery Rhode Island Congregationalist
John Adams Massachusetts Congregationalist; Unitarian
Robert Treat Paine Massachusetts Congregationalist; Unitarian
George Walton Georgia Episcopalian
John Penn North Carolina Episcopalian
George Ross Pennsylvania Episcopalian
Thomas Heyward Jr. South Carolina Episcopalian
Thomas Lynch Jr. South Carolina Episcopalian
Arthur Middleton South Carolina Episcopalian
Edward Rutledge South Carolina Episcopalian
Francis Lightfoot Lee Virginia Episcopalian
Richard Henry Lee Virginia Episcopalian
George Read Delaware Episcopalian
Caesar Rodney Delaware Episcopalian
Samuel Chase Maryland Episcopalian
William Paca Maryland Episcopalian
Thomas Stone Maryland Episcopalian
Elbridge Gerry Massachusetts Episcopalian
Francis Hopkinson New Jersey Episcopalian
Francis Lewis New York Episcopalian
Lewis Morris New York Episcopalian
William Hooper North Carolina Episcopalian
Robert Morris Pennsylvania Episcopalian
John Morton Pennsylvania Episcopalian
Stephen Hopkins Rhode Island Episcopalian
Carter Braxton Virginia Episcopalian
Benjamin Harrison Virginia Episcopalian
Thomas Nelson Jr. Virginia Episcopalian
George Wythe Virginia Episcopalian
Thomas Jefferson Virginia Episcopalian (Deist)
Benjamin Franklin Pennsylvania Episcopalian (Deist)
Button Gwinnett Georgia Episcopalian; Congregationalist
James Wilson Pennsylvania Episcopalian; Presbyterian
Joseph Hewes North Carolina Quaker, Episcopalian
George Clymer Pennsylvania Quaker, Episcopalian
Thomas McKean Delaware Presbyterian
Matthew Thornton New Hampshire Presbyterian
Abraham Clark New Jersey Presbyterian
John Hart New Jersey Presbyterian
Richard Stockton New Jersey Presbyterian
John Witherspoon New Jersey Presbyterian
William Floyd New York Presbyterian
Philip Livingston New York Presbyterian
James Smith Pennsylvania Presbyterian
George Taylor Pennsylvania Presbyterian
Benjamin Rush Pennsylvania Presbyterian
The signers of the Declaration of Independence were a profoundly intelligent, religious and ethically-minded group. Four of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were current or former full-time preachers, and many more were the sons of clergymen. Other professions held by signers include lawyers, merchants, doctors and educators. These individuals, too, were for the most part active churchgoers and many contributed significantly to their churches both with contributions as well as their service as lay leaders. The signers were members of religious denominations at a rate that was significantly higher than average for the American Colonies during the late 1700s.
These signers have long inspired deep admiration among both secularists (who appreciate the non-denominational nature of the Declaration) and by traditional religionists (who appreciate the Declaration's recognition of God as the source of the rights enumerated by the document). Lossing's seminal 1848 collection of biographies of the signers of the Declaration of Independence echoed widely held sentiments held then and now that there was divine intent or inspiration behind the Declaration of Independence. Lossing matter-of-factly identified the signers as "instruments of Providence" who have "gone to receive their reward in the Spirit Land."
From: B. J. Lossing, Signers of the Declaration of Independence, George F. Cooledge & Brother: New York (1848) [reprinted in Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, WallBuilder Press: Aledo,
Thanks jade84116
The world adhors [sic] truth!!
---
Which is why 90% of it subscribes to mythology instead......
It is also interesting to note that ALL of the theist's comments are based in their belief that the bible is a book of facts, rather than a compilation of the many religious sermons that were prepared in advance by traveling preachers/prophets for preaching to their congregations. Which, in effect, is like saying; What I'm saying is the truth and if you don't believe me, just ask me.
More frequently their responses to comments based on pure logical facts, descend into personal insults or name-calling. (Not very Christian behavior).
They often use writings they may have found to make their point like the following comment:
"Let me point out that evolution, though Darwin polished it off, was actually first propounded by an ancient pagan Greek philosopher named Axinander (Eerdmans' Handbook to the History of Christianity, hdbk ed., p. 538)."
While ignoring other things like:
Almost everything Jesus supposedly did was done (sometimes centuries earlier) by Greek/Roman, gods/men like; Walking on water; turning water into wine; bringing back the dead, and more.
Religion are mortal enemies
There is no other name by which men must be saved but Jesus Christ!
IT IS UP TO ACCEPT HIM OR LEAVE HIM. I PRAY THAT YOU ACCEPT HIM.
Zeus then rescued the body of Dionysus (his son) and stitched him into his thigh until he was old enough to be born, thereby conferring immortality upon him,
Later, Dionysus was resurrected a second time after being ripped to pieces by the Titans.