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Thank you all for your replies. I'm feeling better about the whole thing today. I think the reason I felt so bad yesterday was because I bought the God Delusion. I felt this intense guilt, not because I thought God would be angry with me, but because I was afraid that my parents would be. I...

I was raised in a fundementalist, Pentecostal, Christian household. I believed in a literal Genesis (creationism, Noah's Ark, etc) until around my late teens, when I began to learn more about science. I accepted evolution, etc and my beliefs in a literal Genesis fell away. However, it hasn't...

Assuming MMR vaccines do cause autism - is autism so bad that you would rather your child die from measles, mumps or rubella than have autism?

But how are people supposed to "accept salvation" when they don't have any reason to believe that they need saved from anything.

QFT :thumbsup:

I have a Belfast accent (I'm from Northern Ireland), but not a really broad one.

Perhaps this is the supposed link?

It involves using logic and reason... A concept which no doubt seems foreign to you.

This seems like a fun game - annoying fundies until you get banned 8) To be honest, a lot of fundies here are like mindless drones, unable to think for themselves, and instead must recite Bible verses to support their "argument". They're like members of the Borg collective "you must comply"...

So using your logic we shouldn't try to help children with leukaemia, Thalidomide babies or babies suffering from Erythroblastosis Fetalis, because God created them that way, and that is how they should stay. Another tactic used by fundies such as Renton and co involves running off to the Bible...

In Renton's world anything that is different, or that he is simply not used to, is evil. It makes life wonderfully simple - you never have to think about anything, because if you don't like it then it's evil. God is against anything evil and they will burn in hell for all eternity. Gay =...

So you would prefer them to die from Measles, Mumps or Rubella, than to have autism? Not to mention the impact on herd immunity.

Why would you need cured from something that is not a disease?

Last Christmas I took an overdose because I could not cope with the stress of my university exams. I was allowed to resit them in the summer, but anxiety took over again and I couldn't sit them. So I was allowed to repeat the semester. Now I'm back in the exam period and feeling anxious yet...

The Golden Compass is about how the church suppresses knowledge (and people in general). The church wants to sever the link between humans and their daemons because think dust is original sin, and that daemons attract dust. However, dust is what allows humans to gain knowledge, and is a part...

I suggest those of you who can't distinguish fact from fiction ask your doctor for some anti-psychotics. It might help you come back to reality.

Getting back to the OP: Take a look at this http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/09/18/new-view-cohost-sherri_n_64864.html

pottedplant, if you want real support (i.e. not "it's a sin and you have to change!"), I would advise you to post here: http://foru.ms/f401-whosoever-will-may-come-liberal.html

Yes, and of those 38%: So, their homosexual feelings didn't completely go away. Chances are the people in this group were simply bisexual. Doesn't sound like success to me. So they either lost their sexual attraction all together or their homosexual attraction decreased slightly. They have...

Yes, because the Bible says "Believe in the Nicene creed and be baptised" in order to receive salvation... No wait, it actually says "Repent and be baptised". It's silly to push people away because they don't have the correct "theology". Surely all you need is Jesus?