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Because of the teaching of hell. The idea that all the humans in this world are destined for either an eternity of extreme tortue, or an eternity of extreme bliss. It doesn't seem consistent with the reality of human moral character. It always seemed that since most people are mediocre, not...

They're still making a few good sitcoms. I like Stacked and The War at Home. Stacked stars Pamela Anderson, and it's kind of like what Legally Blonde would have been like if it had cast Pamela in the starring role. Oh, and that "average" chick, Katrina, is cute as well. I think those two are...

True. You like the sound of the word "badger."

True. You've watched at least three episodes of Buffy.

Well, I used to consistently score as a Unitarian Universalist. I'm not one, and I understand that's just how it pigeonholes the people who don't fit anywhere else. But these days, my answers to the questions have changed sufficiently that it pegs me as a neopagan, which is certainly the...

Anti-monopoly legislation doesn't cut it with Bill Gates. It makes Bill Gates angry. There's a devil? [b] I, and some of my fellow polytheists, argue that Yahweh is not the god of all humanity, but only of those he has succeeded in converting or conquering. Which people are those? While...

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Here you go, Jesus Covered.

From Willow's diary, as of the end of The Harvest: There's a new girl in school, named Buffy. She was hanging with Cordelia for a little while, but she's actually very nice. Xander has a thing for her as well. I don't know what's up with that. It'd be nice if he noticed me, but he's always...

Here's a couple of fanfictions I've written. They're entries from the diaries of characters on Buffy. From the Diary of Amy Madison, as of an evening towards the beginning of The Witch: This morning I woke up in my mother's body. At first, I thought it would be cool. Like maybe that movie...

My mom's dog actually protects my brother's birds from the cat. She knows that the cat isn't supposed to stare at the birds, and enforces the rule herself. (Of course, this stance doesn't stop her from being an avid participant in the great dog sport of mole-hunting.:cool: )

I do not know. A bipedal, hairless ape that can learn hundreds more things than other apes, and is interested in doing so. I do not know. By consulting the general consensus of human experience. Human history is the playing-out of the wills of various gods, who are in competion with...

:notworthy: That was my first attempt at believing in a non-Christian religion, at age fourteen. It was good for a first try, too, and Michael Moorcock's gods influence my beliefs to this day.

Skepticism and innovation have produced immeasurable benefits, but it's possible to have too much of anything. As G.K. Chesterton reminds us, "It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias, whereas in fact he has a very obvious bias in favor of skepticism." That quote describes this guy quite well...

That's a different question, though, yes? That question is about the Christian God. The answer to that is not necessarily the same as the answer to the question of why we have chosen the alternative to Christianity that we did.

My point was that the word "idol" comes with presuppositions that non-monotheists disagree with. So if the OPer wants to engage in dialogue with non-monotheists, he shouldn't use that word. Suppose an atheist starts a thread asking, "Christians, why do you prefer faith to reason?" The question...

I'm serious when I say that it just makes me think of toys from the eighties. Lite-Brite primarily, and Rainbow Brite to a lesser extent. The power of free association, I suppose. Since that presumably isn't the reaction you're shooting for, I voted that "I'm a Bright" is slightly more...

Indeed. If by "believe in idols," you mean, "believe that a god is identical with a particular statue and vice versa," then idolatry is either nonexistent or rare; it's a strawman that originated because the Jewish prophets hadn't bothered to check the facts about what pagan worship consisted...

An idol is a work of visual art that represents a god and is used for purposes of prayer. Nothing more, nothing less. I have no idols in this sense, although I don't have a problem with idolatry. I do however worship pagan gods. Especially the Roman goddess of the past, Postverta. Why do I...

Dogmatism is a stage in the evolution of particular religions. Religions are all attempts to say something about everything, and therefore they sometimes attract people who want to use them to say everything about everything. Dogmatic religionists are annoying, but it's not their particular...