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I think it is a truism that the person who is desperate to be president is the very person who should be kept away from the position. And I suspect the same is probably true of those who are desperate to live forever.

We make mirrors.

Hm. Here you give examples of women in the bible who were independent leaders and in positions of higher authority to men. ...and here you seem to say that a woman shouldn't be in a higher position of status than her husband. To me these comments seem contradictory. It should be...

Up to a point. I happen to value criticism which constructively used can help us test our feelings and intuitions, our observations and understandings till they become something a lot more concrete, useable, real...or sometimes until they disappear like a whisper in nightclub. This is what...

Connections- with ultimate truth which some call God. And with each other. Patterns- stuff that helps us to link other stuff so we can live better, more successfully, or more profoundly. Meaning- Why are we here? What is my life about? How I can best live my life?

It's true, you're odd ;) But I was really just putting the other side of the coin to the more rose coloured OP. Actually I think religion's true basis is simply a human desire to find connections, patterns and meaning to our lives. Trouble is, religion is very, very slow at dumping the ideas...

The true basis of religion is a combination of tradition, authoritarianism, and a human need or desire for roots and certainty. Perhaps underlying all of that is a fear of death.

On the contrary, I had a life changing spiritual experience that led to me coming to my present agnostic atheist world view. I had been seeking God for a number of years in an environment that very much expected God to make themselves known to the honest seeker. I had certain experiences of...

Let's read between the lines here: So, not quite pleasure but something not wholly dissimilar based on the fact that God will allegedly wipe out in tortuous pain people who's don't believe what you believe. And carrying on, because God allegedly did similar horrific things in the bible, you...

I think that's quite a generalisation. I personally feel I'm doing a bad "idiot painting" if I'm getting everybody who is in the same religion or tribe or worldview into the frame. And, 'tis true, I have done some bad paintings in the past. But I think as we grow and learn we begin to get more...

I wish people would frame these questions in ways which would allow the religion-less among us to participate without saying: well, I'm not religious but...(Mr Awitch...I excepted better of YOU :P ) I'm not religious but...um... the most prominent spiritual agnostic atheists I know is...

I refer to people who build walls between people. Walls of race, religion, sexualilty, and pretty much anything else you care to mention. Truth is, we all do it at times. Wallmongers do it as a way life. I don't think of you as a wall monger for what it's worth. I think where I am is...

In many ways, that is all I need to know. In fact it is all that I would seek from anyone of faith in relation to my own life journey. Thanks for your passionate account of a part of your own journey. It honestly uplifts me to see belief expressed passionately but without a hint of judgement...

I was speaking about people who have heard of God but don't believe. They don't choose not to believe; they just don't have faith. It's not a sin, anymore than it would be a sin to be unable to believe that the earth was flat. How about you say it in your own words? Or not. But I can't get...

You might not have noticed, because it won't have happened to you, but posts, and particularly threads, that are directly critical of Christianity have a tendency to get reported, removed, edited etc. To be blunt, it is not possible to go into the depth, and remorseless criticism of Christianity...

Thank your for saying this better than I could. It's often like being in a room with a person who's smoking a cigarette while standing over a baby, and watching another person walk over to them, also with a cigarette in their mouths, telling them about the dangers of passive smoking. Then...

Oh. Well, I don't think I can say it any clearer I'm afraid. People do indeed make choices every day, but there is no choice if the one who is supposed to be choosing cannot see the choice being offered. Romans 2 takes care of this How does it "take care" of this? I don't see a connection at...

Except these doors, to two different rooms, are mythical anyway. Some people claim to see them, clearly labeled. Even then there isn't any choice involved because these people already believe...they don't choose to believe. Meanwhile there are people who can't see the doors, and don't believe...

I like making music more than listening to others play. My wife thinks that I would be impossible to live with if I didn't get the chance to sing my heart out. There is no doubt that music and song can touch us in places way beyond the conscious mind. And as an agnostic atheist I think that...