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  Uk members ?

  by midnight in

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  hi anyone from the uk ?

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  cofty

  Northumberland.
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  Why do some Jehovah's Witnesses choose to be atheist or agnostic?

  by Cassaruby in

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  "traumatic as the initial transition may be, it can lead to the development of a truly personal relationship with these two greatest friends [the father and the son] .

  .. "whatever sense of 'belonging' that membership in some religious system may create, it can never compare with the power and beauty and strengthening benefit of the intimate personal relationship the scripture presents .

  from reading joseph campbell i've come to understand that there are functions to religion or mythology.

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  I value their emphasis on evidence

  That is like saying you value the Jewish emphasis on foreskins.
  
  
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  Now I'm Convinced There Probably Is No God

  by pale.emperor in

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  yesterday i made a visit to the museum in my city.

  the top floor is the planetarium, which has a connecting room with a huge dome ceiling where they project lessons and lectures and you have a 360 view of the night sky etc.. this particular lecture explained about our galaxy, and how it's only one of billions in the universe.

  and then we learned about each planet, some of their moons and the sun.

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  If we extrapolate known planetary systems then we can safely assume the universe contains many billions of planets many of which have one or more moons. A percentage of those planets will have conditions favourable for life. Some of those will far more accommodating than our planet.

  Positing magic to explain the moon is risible.
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  Oi Cofty

  by Landy in

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  new series of timc started monday.. one of the episodes is on evolution - should be good knowing cox's antipathy towards religion.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b088f2vv.

  sorry you colonials - it's on the bbc so you won't be able to get it.

  serves yourself right for voting for trump!

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  Is the bias in this case pro or anti-English?

  Neither. It lives in a "liberal" bubble.
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  Are there any doctrines which all Christian religions follow.

  by jwfacts in

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  i cannot think of a single doctrine that is so clearly laid out in the bible that every christian sect teaches the same point.

  are there any doctrine where there is total consensus amongst all christian religions, including jehovah's witnesses?.

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  I think it is ludicrous to say JWs are not Christians because they do not accept the Trinity.

  I agree.

  What he rejected was the idea of "substitution"-that Christ died instead of us, that by his death Christ paid the penalty for sin for Adam's offspring.

  Barbour denied that Jesus received the punishment for your sins and mine on the cross. That idea of vicarious punishment is at the heart of the Pauline version of the work of Jesus. I think that is the closest thing to an idea that is common to all christian denominations. It it usually the first one to be denied by "cults" like the Watchtower. Rutherford made the ransom to be about an Adam=Jesus legal transaction and robbed the doctrine of it's power... (puts evangelical hat off again)

  
  
  
  
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  Oi Cofty

  by Landy in

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  new series of timc started monday.. one of the episodes is on evolution - should be good knowing cox's antipathy towards religion.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b088f2vv.

  sorry you colonials - it's on the bbc so you won't be able to get it.

  serves yourself right for voting for trump!

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  Compare...

  Either you know nothing about Scottish politics or you don't know what the word jingoistic means. - SBF

  One of the most popular independence slogans during the referendum "Bairns Not Bombs" - SBF

  As for the other slurs they are also the oppsotive of the truth. - SBF

  What does oppsotive mean?

  The anti-English slur is a canard

  The anti-English rhetoric I witnessed constantly during the campaign was shameful.

  Bunch of small-minded ignoramuses who thought that Braveheart was a documentary.
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
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  Oi Cofty

  by Landy in

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  new series of timc started monday.. one of the episodes is on evolution - should be good knowing cox's antipathy towards religion.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b088f2vv.

  sorry you colonials - it's on the bbc so you won't be able to get it.

  serves yourself right for voting for trump!

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  I disliked SBFs post.

  The BBC produces some of the best programming in the world. Of course the news has a bias - every news source does. As a Scot I have no patience with the Nationalists jingoistic, small-minded, English-hating nonsense.

  
  
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  Oi Cofty

  by Landy in

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  new series of timc started monday.. one of the episodes is on evolution - should be good knowing cox's antipathy towards religion.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b088f2vv.

  sorry you colonials - it's on the bbc so you won't be able to get it.

  serves yourself right for voting for trump!

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  Oi Landy

  Thanks for the heads-up. I will check that out.
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  Why do some Jehovah's Witnesses choose to be atheist or agnostic?

  by Cassaruby in

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  "traumatic as the initial transition may be, it can lead to the development of a truly personal relationship with these two greatest friends [the father and the son] .

  .. "whatever sense of 'belonging' that membership in some religious system may create, it can never compare with the power and beauty and strengthening benefit of the intimate personal relationship the scripture presents .

  from reading joseph campbell i've come to understand that there are functions to religion or mythology.

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  There is no contradiction between being rational and feeling a sense of awe and wonder. It's not an either:or

  Let your beliefs be commensurate with the evidence.
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  Why do some Jehovah's Witnesses choose to be atheist or agnostic?

  by Cassaruby in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  "traumatic as the initial transition may be, it can lead to the development of a truly personal relationship with these two greatest friends [the father and the son] .

  .. "whatever sense of 'belonging' that membership in some religious system may create, it can never compare with the power and beauty and strengthening benefit of the intimate personal relationship the scripture presents .

  from reading joseph campbell i've come to understand that there are functions to religion or mythology.

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  For instance, say a parent tells a child what to believe and the child accepts the story.

  We are not children.