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Recent content by light upon light

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    Interfaith

    This really embodies the core message of my own Faith. Sounds wonderful, and thank you for serving God in this way!
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    Mormonism and the Free State of Jones

    I would have to say that it appears to me that the greatest problem in the world right now is that most all these different groups, political parties, ideologies and religions see themselves as monopoly holders of the truth, and that those crappy people over there are either ignorant...
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    Mormonism and the Free State of Jones

    As a general rule, I believe that we each have our own row to hoe, and if we spend very much of our time thinking, much less talking about how someone else's religion is wrong, we lose sight of implementing our own beliefs in our lives and take our eyes off the goal. Worse yet, a significant...
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    Does religion need to be exclusive?

    "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear involveth punishment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love." - 1 John 4:8
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    Interfaith

    One thing I truly appreciate about the Baha'i message is that it really does recognize other religions as truth.
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    Interfaith

    I find that Catholics are, in general, very open to this and I appreciate very much participating on the prayer forum over at CAF.
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    Interfaith

    The more we really get to know and talk to those of differing beliefs, the more it erodes beliefs in exclusivism and the more it fosters a more universalist understanding. Because when we see that others are in fact like us in many ways, believing that God will roast them on a spit over a fire...
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    Interfaith

    I think they are sorely needed. This forum is itself a form of interfaith gathering, and we can use it as a way to learn how to accept and appreciate those of different religious and philosophical beliefs.
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    Interfaith

    Yes, we really must learn to jettison that sort of theology and come to a different understanding of how to see people whose beliefs are different from ours.
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    Mormonism and the Free State of Jones

    I think someday not too far off we will view religious and political prejudice as just as backwards and benighted as racial prejudice is.
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    Teaching children about death

    Which experiments are you referring to? Thanks!
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    Teaching children about death

    Any links? Thanks!
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    Where Is Muhammad Ali Now?

    I don't blame educated, scientifically-minded people for refusing to believe in this kind of axial-age mythology when it is presented as a literal, physical reality instead of being understood as an analogy.
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    Teaching children about death

    They are convincing to almost all the people who have them, even the ones who used to be materialists / atheists. People who have NDEs and drug use experience say they are nothing like drug-induced hallucinations. This is a tautology, of course those people whose bodies are permanently...
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    Teaching children about death

    Yoder, Those supposed "explanations" (and I have read all of them that I've ever come across) remind me of the fundamentalist Christians who think that they find dinosaur footprints overlaying human tracks disproving evolution. They simply don't hold up to the actual facts about NDEs in any...