August 2009

  • Top Ten Reasons That God Doesn't Exist

    By roskopp on 8/26/09 8:47am
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    God?God?I’ve heard a lot about this God bloke over the years and he sounds like a very nice idea but I must confess to some genuine misgivings about his existence. In fact I have a nagging doubt that simply won’t be shaken off despite hours of singing round a camp fire and sitting very still in a big room while a series of boring old men go on and on about their special book. Here are my top ten reasons why God doesn’t exist.

    1 - I have never met him. I keep hearing people going on and on about how God is everywhere. Well I’m pretty well travelled and I’ve never once bumped into him. I also notice that lots of people claim they have heard him speak to them but none of them can give you a physical description. That’s pretty suspicious in my book.

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  • Let's Not Bash Catholicism--Or Any Other Religion

    By lisala on 8/7/09 7:25pm
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    I'm responding to a post; this one, in fact.

    It's offensive, erroneous and blatantly anti-Catholic. To start san vitale apsesan vitale apsewith, the poster asserts that within Catholicism "Masturbation or any kind of recreational sex is a mortal sin." No, it's not a mortal sin, not now, and not for the previous thousand years. Mortal sins are those that, according to the Church and St. Augustine "Dictum vel factum vel concupitum contra legem æternam," that is, a mortal sin is something said, done or des

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  • Five Weird Religious Relics

    By selecter on 8/7/09 12:14pm
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    Head of St. CatherineHead of St. CatherineReligious relics are part of all faiths, for the most part, and can often make up a very creepy and weird part of a faith. In Christian traditions these can be anything from the life of a saint or even Jesus himself. Relics range from clothing worn by a saint to parts of the saint or even the entire saint themselves. Listed below are five of the weirdest religious relics. There is a black market for religious relics despite the sale having been forbidden by the church.

    1. The Shakyamuni Buddha’s Finger Bone

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