Just for something a little bit different from Politics... Religion!

Can I say that being a BFC fan myself, that respects other folks differences is why most of us are on here. We have a great young team & manager. The world's problems will not be solved on this forum, but we are free to talk about them. I realise in some countries that is not the case. Keep talking, i'm out for a bit. great season ahead. We are back in the Championship (or second divsion).

 

I think nearly every religion as it's own God, I think I read somewhere that the human race worship over 200 of these sky wizards.
I wish I did believe that when I die i will see all my family again, it must great and so reassuring to believe this. For me I find it heart wrenching that I believe I will never see my loved ones once I have shuffled off this mortal coil, infact its depressing if you mull over it too much

 

Not right though is it ... 12 ....

 

Life and meaning are infinitely complicated subjects. Unfortunately the majority of people believe in the scientific claim that all reality is material or physical and that God only exists as an idea in human minds. But this is as much an act of faith as any belief in God. I get that science replaces religion as the centre of power and replaced the priests of God with the priests of science, but what it did was change one unchallenged power structure with another, science has never disproved God The materialist philosophy achieved its dominance within institutional science in the second half of the nineteenth century, and was closely linked to the rise of atheism in Europe. There are millions of devotees to this church of science now who don’t even understand it, an ironic twist on the devoted followers of God from the Past days who are accused of the same mistake!

 

Nope. Neither is six but no mention of that.

 

No because one is very widely quoted while other one conveniently skipped over. No mention of the bible just the Koran....

 

Nobody is defending Islam in this thread. You're looking for things that aren't there.

The truth is that Christianity is much more widely observed and talked about in this country, so obviously people will know more about that and focus on it.

 

Well in the interests of fairness we've mentioned them both. It was probably normal to marry aged 12-14 2,000 years ago. It was probably normal six hundred years ago. It's never been normal to marry at six.

 

Never said they were defending it.

 

That's not entirely true, but I get your point.

In many parts of the world, it was normal to marry as soon as you hit puberty (in some places, it still is). Some people will go through puberty very young, thus marrying very young was normal.

 

So which bit isn't entirely true?

 

When I first started work, my boss was a Jehovahs witness. I made the mistake of asking him what he believed in, and he proceeded to talk about it at every opportunity.

We worked for lots of his fellow JWs so for several years I was in contact with them, and the lad that currently works with me is one, though he never discusses religion with me and we have a great working relationship - he's a credit to himself and my business.

My old boss used to bang on about the world ending and only the righteous would survive and live for ever in a new system. He took the bible literally, especially the old testament and believed that God created everything and when the world ends it will signal the 2nd coming of Christ.

He used to talk about bible prophecy and current world events, and smugly say "there ain't long left".

Now I might be a bit daft, but surely if God was powerful enough to knock together the universe and embellish it with life forms, surely he would have made us a without the 'falling out' gene?, or is he a tad twisted?

Anyway, getting back to my boss, who was always a bit of a pervert and fantasist. By the time I'd had enough of his mind games and facking about with my wages, and set up on my own, he was smoking, drinking and having affairs with women he'd met on the new fangled Internet, and had left the religion behind.

He was later arrested and found guilty of having thousands of indecent images of children on his hard drive.

Shame on people like that telling me I'm not living my life right.

 

Marrying at

Bearing in mind no consuals laws were introduced in Britain until 1200's it was probably more normal than you think - even then the age was set at 10.

 

Where? By whom?

 

Now that’s the most sensible post on this board in the last 6 months. The man didn’t walk on water, he tiptoed on the dew on the hallowed turf and transcended physics as we know it.

 

I always thought the best thing about belief was that it happens in your head, and there's no ******* reason to tell people about it. Unfortunately we've decided that belief in a certain subset of fairytales is sacrosanct, so we permit a group of bigots to picket schools because they don't think kids should be told it's fine to be gay. Or other bigots try to enforce their views on abortion and force rape victims to carry to term and then force the victim to let their rapist see the baby. Or we turn to the Archbishop of Canterbury to give his views on poverty when his company pays no tax whatsoever.

Hate the lot of them.

 

Who is picketing schools?

 

This is a comprehensive article on this topic. You don't have to agree with it but it's worth a read for anyone wanting to understand the perspective of people on all sides of the debate fully https://yaqeeninstitute.org/asadull...e-an-interdisciplinary-approach/#.XQbp82TTU0P

 

But science is not an act of faith if you make the effort to try and understand it. It's very clearly objective fact, which is testable and verifiable, giving the same result, time after time. While science has not disproved the existence of God as such, it has slowly chipped away in fields where God is supposed to have "contributed" (evolution, or the formation of the earth being good examples), reaching the point now where there is very little room for the existence of any divine being. God may not have been disproved, but the mountain of evidence conclusively proving how and why the natural laws of physics are responsible for a multitude of phenomena we see, have drawn me and many others to the conclusion that the existence of God is extremely unlikely. This is nothing to do with faith. It's pure rationality. Yes, there are certain things that have not been explained as yet - the discrepancy between how the laws of physics work on an atomic and quantum level, and how unicellular life came into being from chemical compounds are two of the biggies which remain unanswered. But that doesn't mean that we won't answer these questions. Far from it, in fact. I'm sure that we will, hopefully within my lifetime. And I'd be very confident in placing a bet that when we do find the answers, they will have absolutely nothing to do with a supernatural being.