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I once went to a Satanic website when i was trying to see how different or similar all the religions were. It seems that overall, Satanists seemed to fist in several overly broad aspects. One aspect was that it is anti-Christians. Some disliked what Christianity preaches or what has been done...

I tend to see it like dewaddict84 does. There is a basic idea that Jesus is the son of God who died and was resurrected. After that, it varies widely. I think t is very easy in Christianity to pick your morals first and then pick your denomination based on your morals.

Imagine how it would sound if this were turned around. Just replace "Christopher Hitchens" with "Pat Robertson" and "atheists" with "Christians."

There are many possibilities. In quantum physics, we can have events that influence each other, but their order in time makes no difference (quantum entanglement). So it can range from anywhere from "the Big Bang is caused by some event within the universe (like a Big Crunch)" or "The Big Bang...

There are a lot of atheists who agree with his anti-theism, but do not like the guy that much for his other views. For example, he was a big supporter of the Iraq War. I don't think he is a messiah or savior any more than Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, PZ Myers, etc. are. Atheism gains are a...

It seems that "is" and "is not" are not used logically very well here. Maybe it should be more like The Son is a member of God; The Father is a member of God; and Holy Spirit is a member of God. One of the interesting "theories" of this is that it should be a Quartet with Satan being the 4th...

I use to have some JWs who would show up regularly. I find it fun to discuss religion. Sometimes it was inconvient, but most times, I would chat for a bit with them. One day they showed up and my wife was doing some housework. She had found some devil horns from the Halloween party and stuck...

I would be careful with that type of thinking. I know people who wanted to be faith healed. If they were not, they blamed themselves. You have shown more faith than many other people I have talked to, so I hope you don't feel the fault is yours.

It sounds equivalent to multiple personalities.

I think it puts a strain on the relationship. I had a girlfriend back in college who skirted between agnostic and Christianity. We talked about the effects of her belief on our relationship. I told her it was ok for her to believe anything as long as she did not try to force me to and she did...

If God communicated through prayer, then you could easily prove He exists. For example, one person picks a random number, writed it down and seals it. You pray to God to give you the number. This could be done scientifically and prove God exists. As it is, we have billions of people praying to...

I think more evidence is needed for the wilder the claim and the more impact it will have on my life. I think God falls into both categories of being a wild claim which also has a big impact on someone's life (maybe the Deist God doesn't have much of an impact on a person's life).

I read the book awhile back and liked it. I had heard most of the stuff before. I thought Dawkins did a good job of bringing it all together. There were a few things that stood out to me even today. The first was the story about the Christian babysitter (or was it a nanny?) who baptised a...

At that point inmy life, I had been baptised and believed that Jesus was my savior. I was just starting to have doubts. So if I got the lottery numbers, I would have stayed a believer. But knowing myself, I would have attemoted to find out which version of God was the right one. Was He the...

Why not trust in Zeus's way? Or in Odin's way? Or Ba'al's way? Or in the way of Mother Nature? It seems very arbitrary to pick omne of the gods and live you life as just that one (or set) is real without anything else helping you make a decision. I remembeer hearing sermons on hell. The...

Think of how it sounds to say that people believe in something due to no logical reason or evidence. The more I searched the less evidence I found. For example, most Christians I talked to said that God communicated to them through prayers. But if you look at what people "hear" from God, they...

I lost faith in God because I saw no proof that God exists. Other Christians told me that God answers prayers, so I made a simple one. My prayers were not answered. I even looked to see if prayers worked to heal people in studies. My conclusion is that God does not affect our world by prayer...

When all religions start to look alike, something has to set one apart so I can know it is true. Say I pick one based on old holy book, then I have many religions to pick from because many have old holy books. The only thing left is scientific evidence because nothing else really separates out...

It is more than just mild curiosity. People were telling me that i would suffer eternal damnation and torture if I chose or believed wrong. If God is going to put forth such a situation, I think He should be clear what salvation is. There is so much disagreement on what is needed for salvation...

In essence, that is what I did. After the failed attempts at seeing coins and lottery numbers (and many other attempts), I prayed for God to show me anything that is convincing. But I had pretty much lost my belief by that point. I stayed open-minded to see if He would ever reveal Himself to me...