Martha said:Time to defenestrate some topics?
Martha said:It feels as if this board is suffering from a certain sense of ennui.
Time to defenestrate some topics?
Martha said:It feels as if this board is suffering from a certain sense of ennui.
Time to defenestrate some topics?
Laurence said:All right, I had to get out the thesaurus, I admit it! I know y'all are richer than me, but why do y'all have to be smarter, too?
Let's see, this board needs more polemic pontification...
Patrick said:What, only 8 pages on this topic? Bump.
wabmester said:And for the atheists, what do you tell your kids about death, and do you engage in some sort of death ritual for your dearly departed?
What do you think? Do kids need the idea of heaven?
Cal said:Don't have kids but hey, I'll answer any way. My family is Christian (mother not really practicing protestant and father a fallen catholic) and I was exposed to some of the bible stories growing up. When I was very young, I did take comfort in the idea of a god and heaven and angels. However, the bible was never presented to me as an absolute truth. I was always encouraged to believe what I felt was "personally true" for me.
When I was real little, I was told that thunder and lightening was angels bowling and taking pictures when one of them got a strike. Made the thunderstorm less scary for me and at some point I realized that it was "just a story" like Santa Claus and the tooth fairy.
For kids it's a hard call. I think it might be pretty scary for a child to think of no existence after death - especially if they loose someone close to them. On the other hand, it was pretty scary for me as a first grader to be told by one of my catholic playmates that I was going to spend eternity in hell because I wasn't a catholic. (And the girl wasn't trying to be mean, just expressing her faith as she best understood it.)
My dad has a hard time with me not believing in an afterlife. From time to time, he'll quiz me on my beliefs - not in a judgmental way - he just doesn't understand the point of view. Just like I sometimes have a hard time understanding those that believe.
Zipper said:................."all we are is dust in the wind"! 8)
charlie said:The clincher for me, Wab, is that there had to be "somebody" who
lit the fuse for the big bang. Every thing else sort of flows from that
for me.
charlie said:The clincher for me, Wab, is that there had to be "somebody" who
lit the fuse for the big bang. . . .
The written word and its demonstrated accuracy.wabmester said:For those who believe in god(s) God, is there one thing that you feel confirms your beliefs more than anything else? Is it the Written Word, the complexity and order of the universe, the feeling that humans are special, or something else?
JWR1945 said:The written word and its demonstrated accuracy.
Consider, for example, Psalm 22. It was written about 800 to 900 years before the Romans invented crucifixion. Yet, it detailed and explained what happened on the cross.
Have fun.
John Walter Russell
Cal said:. . . How do you know each translation is faithful to the original intent.
Apocalypse . . .um . . .SOON said:May I defenstrate this thread for a wee bit and join the "The Fair Tax" thread (your domain) for an opportunity to shiver an ennui timber or two, please?
JWR1945 said:Consider, for example, Psalm 22. It was written about 800 to 900 years before the Romans invented crucifixion. Yet, it detailed and explained what happened on the cross.