Why does it seem the SL population hates Christians?

This response was amazing. Such a thing makes the truth very clear. God wants to have a presense in SL. God is calling for the gospels to be spread through this new technology and give an alternative to the filth and sin that exist here. Many of you need, and are wheeping behind your harsh words to be saved by Jesus. It reminds me of Moses going up into the mountains to get the commandments while all the sin was going on by his followers at the bottom of the mountain.

Well, after this got moved, the original poster (who has yet to respond in this thread)

No - it would be 'having people smitten'.

Not everything done in God's name throughout history agrees with the Bible - and you'll find the same with Islam and other faiths too.

Lewis

Well, after this got moved, the original poster (who has yet to respond in this thread) created a bitchpost in the General forums asking why it was moved and claiming that Christianity was being descriminated against.

Which to me tells me that all this debate has been simply feeding an evangelistic troll.

At least, the debate is intelligent. For the most part. I've seen a few dumb things, like Pascal's Wager and assumption that all religions that believe in a form of Magick are tripe, but for the most part, very intelligent.

I will submit, though, that man created religion. Religion is not God. Religion was discovered the first time a rock fell off the top of a mountain and killed someone.

I don't think people should be held accountable for what they believe, but should be held accountable for how they express it to others once they claim the belief. Each person according to their own definition of sin. If you can't face yourself, regardless of belief, you're certainly not going to be able to face your deity.

This response was amazing. Such a thing makes the truth very clear. God wants to have a presense in SL. God is calling for the gospels to be spread through this new technology and give an alternative to the filth and sin that exist here. Many of you need, and are wheeping behind your harsh words to be saved by Jesus. It reminds me of Moses going up into the mountains to get the commandments while all the sin was going on by his followers at the bottom of the mountain.

Actually, he has. Go back about three pages.

Why does it seem the SL population hates Christians?

Which is one reason I don't like religion. It can be used to justify the most atrocious behaviour.

This response was amazing. Such a thing makes the truth very clear. God wants to have a presense in SL. God is calling for the gospels to be spread through this new technology and give an alternative to the filth and sin that exist here. Many of you need, and are wheeping behind your harsh words to be saved by Jesus. It reminds me of Moses going up into the mountains to get the commandments while all the sin was going on by his followers at the bottom of the mountain.

Ha! pipped you at the post, old bean.

You know, if God wanted something... I would think he, in his all-powerfullness, wouldn't need you to figure it out for us, and then act on it. I think the big man can take care of himself.

Catholic girls in plaid skirts are *hot*.


I don't hate them at all!

One of the most exquisite memories of my life:

Moving into a secular college dormitory, and meeting girls that had known nothing other than an all-female catholic school beforehand.


The only thing even close to that experience: meeting a group of female "English as a Second Language" college students fresh from Japan about five years later.

I still have male friends giving me high fives for introducing them to the latter, and that was twenty years ago.

ANSWER:
Wrong. Humans did not create religion, but are hard-wired for religious thought. Would you say that man ever had the choice to be social animals or solitary animals? I would argue that man never had that choice, just like man never had the choice to not have religious thought.

But thanks for your attempt to make me appear self-contradicting.

I was unaware anyone was trying to persuade anyone to not believe in something.

It has been a nice chat here. You will not pursade me into becomming a non believer and you have heard the message and made your choice.

It has been a nice chat here. You will not pursade me into becomming a non believer and you have heard the message and made your choice.

I accept your choice and will not be bothersome trying to change you. As far as I am concerned the message was delivered. It is up to each person to accept or reject.

Come on Lewis San lets get out of here before we become Christian Niku!

See this is something I always have a hard time with in debates, when people state opinion as fact and insist all others must believe it.

I am not "wrong", you are not "wrong".. we are each merely stating opinions.

Allana, (re: "hardwiring" have you ever read the book "Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief" by Newberg & D'Aquili? It was a fascinating recount of studies into the effect of rituals on our brains. Their conclusion was that, yes, ritual worship (including meditation) has a pleasing effect on our brain chemistry and thus our outlook.

The authors didn't seem to me to push any particular agenda, approaching the topic from a data-driven scientific standpoint. And their conclusions allowed for more than one assumption depending on whether the reader believed in deities or not. I enjoyed the book even though it got a bit thick and heavy at points with the data.

Personally, I took from it that while we may not be hard-wired to believe in Gods, there is a physiological aspect to belief that does tend to encourage dopamine production, making worshipers (or meditators) feel good. And which makes them want to keep going it.