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Stress, stress disorders, and sin. Is there a connection? One feeding off the other? Do you see stress and/or stress disorders leading to, or a major cause of sin? Thoughts on stress as it relates to sin...

As another 15-year-old has commited suicide in Massachusetts, what do some of you think are ethical and moral ways to counter cyberbullying on the internet? And, should cyberbullying that has lead to death be considered a crime? (The parents of the current cyberbully victim in Massachusetts...

Cyberbullying has been shown to lead to suicide. What should be done to stop cyberbullying? (in your opinion)

Why do you chose to be identified as an atheist rather than a humanist? Is there a difference?

Play It 4-Ward What do you think? And what is finding Nemo about? :D

Soap operas have manipulated women and their minds. Soap operas have made women feel insecure if they do not work. Soap operas have made women insecure if they aren't getting enough physical attention from their men. From a movie in 1950, Kim Novak states to her currently disinterested...

As the title states, is "fornication" pagan temple prostitution? Or something else? Please explain what fornication is.

I remember as child of about 7 in my class was a girl with one arm and a wooden prosthesis on the other arm. She was an amputee. She had one arm, and no friends. Kids wouldn't even talk to her. So, I decided to ask if I could walk home with her after school and visit, and she said "Yes!" and...

If God loves me and chose the time for me to be born, why did he put me here? And by here I mean this post modern society, which where I grew up I'd call more of a "Sex, drugs and Rock and Roll" society. I'm from the Hippie Generation, though I was a child in the 60's. Now my childhood was...

If you had to answer in a questionnaire what God created us for, which would you say? 1) To have a personal one-on-one relationship with Him. 2) To have a collective relationship with Him through loving people. 3) Both. 4) Other (all replies welcome.)

The gay marriage issue is being fought in the courts of California right now. What I heard (not sure if it's true) is that the courts may deem all the gay marriages that took place last year (approx 18,000) will be allowed to stay as legal marriages. However, no more gay marriages will be...

I was watching Annie Hall the other evening. A line came up in the movie where Woody Allen says, "there are two categories of life -- horrible and miserable". The point the Woody Allen character was trying to make was that the holocaust was horrible. Many other things we face in our life...

Adultery and idolatry led to 'unclean' sex which may produce STD's, birth defects, AIDS, and may led to death. Yet, our flesh creature is very much like Adam and Eve in the garden that wants to eat of this fruit. God said 'do not eat it or we will surely die'. Love is compassionate...

It seems to me that a lot of churches just want to put people into some type of state of hypnotism with ohms and ritual rites rather than feeding them the solid food. Does anyone else feel this way? I felt led astray by my churches in my lifetime (except for later in life, in my middle 30's)...

What did we get liberated too? Too much work? More like slavery to be honest. We aren't taught to keep our virginity and the Virgin Mary is even put down in Protestantism. Maybe we should think about incorporating more about the Virgin Mary when we talk to our girls? Why do we put down...

You know, 20 to 25 years ago it was talked about that Priests and Nuns should be allowed to marry in the RCC. It was thought this would be a move a compassion for those who wanted to be priests and nuns and to have a family, BUT it was never mentioned nor thought that priests in any Christian...

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In the Christian religion. This thread is going to work like this: 1) Only those claiming that homosexual sex is not sin in the Christian religion may post for the first three pages only. 2) After three pages are completed, others may debate the points of homosexual sex not being a sin in...

Okay, this is a real life situation. A young adult female has lost her grandfather. Her grandfather's last wishes were that his ashes be scattered at sea with his wives' ashes. The grandmother's ashes were stored at a cemetery that is now under police investigation for the misplacement of...

As the title states: What is the 'dark night of the soul'? I've heard Christian's express that someone may be going through their "dark night of the soul". Does anyone know the philosophy of this? What does it mean?