I love your story kurama!
actually I chose the name nirvana because nirvana is a rock band that happens to be my favorite band!
nothing to do with Buddhism or anything I promise! I just love playing guitar and listening to music!
Ahh yes, I know of Nirvana but never heard the music (I'll check it out, it'd be great if I had Youtube though...banned in China).
I'd stay away from Buddhist theology, but its teachings are so great. The act of disregarding the obsession of material wealth (i.e. money) and the importance of spiritual wealth (i.e. happiness) is very respectable in my opinion. Along with non-aggression, I think this teaching is compatible with Christianity.
Thanks, I feel flattered
, yeah, I wish I was older so that I could post in more forums. And I'm not a great speller, I have good grammar and it seems my computer has some sort of spelling correction function. I wondered where I heard that word before.
Excellent grammar, when I was your age...well I'd appear illiterate here! I believe that my greatest skill in writing is my vocabulary. Free Rice helped me quite a lot...you should check it out! Won't say anymore about it...it's really good for your writing as well as helping the poor.
Just so you know, you can be a Christian and still accept evolution as a scientific fact. That's what the Catholic Church believes.
Don't mind me for preaching
. Take it as a little introduction to the Catholic faith...
Catholics have always been drawn to one thing:
truth. Some of the greatest scientists were Catholic, a few being monks (such as Austrian monk Gregor Mendel, the father of modern genetics). We see the Scripture as infallible and we revere the teachings of Jesus Christ [the Sacred Tradition] in high regard. We fund scientific research and we are at the forefront of development. We see science as something that will greatly benefits the human race, as well as something to help us understand our world more (God works in mysterious ways, He has not revealed everything to us...science is there to do just that). That is why we do not support the horrors of stem cell and human cloning research, which kill innocent lives. We are ardently against eugenics (the crimes the Nazis committed to create the ''master race'').
We do not believe that the Bible should be taken word-for-word literally, unlike the Quran, and we see that the book is not God's last word. We believe that Holy Spirit is among us, and guides us through the Church. We're more active that way, we uphold the Sacred Tradition of Jesus by being the largest aid organization in the world.
I have to say that, as an Old Earth Creationist, evolution has so much evidence to support it that it is simply mainstream knowledge now. I believe it would be blasphemy against God to disregard all the geological evidence which states that the world is billions of years old, and the various bones and artifacts which show that we descended from other animals. God works in myserious ways...He wouldn't hide this evidence from us, it was all waiting to be found.
As one of my atheist friends said, ''You are one of the only Christians I can reason with, God must really love you if he made you so special among other species.''
