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But surely your point about whether Jesus actually said "Love your enemies "is a separate argument and irrelevant to our discussion. The point is, it's written in the Bible that Jesus said it and therefore christians follow this teaching. Some of the horrific things that the Koran Attribute to...

You've ignored my last response to you? Again it's bizarre you seem to label all religions as basically the same, I.e they've all got good bits all got bad bits and it's followers just chose which bits to follow. This is completely ignorant. If you compare the life of Jesus to the life of...

I'm trying to work out whether this is a serious post! You say nobody is bible bashing and yet every thread about terrorism or religion results in large numbers of people specifically bashing Christianity and the bible. Even in this post you single out Christianity as being violent and lay into...

Christianity has been the bedrock of our society (like it or not) for centuries. It teaches it's followers to love their enemies and pray for those who persecute them, to help the poor and sick etc. It also believes in the idea of heaven and hell - i.e. there will be a final judgment and we...

What's that got to do with the point I made!?

The Catholics follow a faith which clearly prohibits paedophilia. If there have been parts of the Catholic church that have enabled this to happen then they are clearly going against the teachings of the religion they claim to follow. There is no justification for it anywhere within their...

Yes. Definitely.

I was surprised at how low the turnout was today. I know it's far but it was an important game. Thought there'd be at least 1,000.

So what about those people who give up everything they have to serve the poor (Whether or not they were motivated to do this by faith in their "imaginary" God), what about those who give up high flying careers, material possessions, comfort etc to go and serve people they've never met or who...

So what else am I assuming exactly!? I didn't say everyone appreciates beauty the same way, I simply said we have the ability to appreciate beauty (in things or in people). To say that ideas such as morality, mercy altruism must have a "Darwininan explanation" seems like the easy way out and...

Really? Since when have “primates and other mammals” been able to appreciate truth, wisdom and beauty, the loathing of evil etc…Where does human compassion for humans of other races, creeds, nationalities come from, where does our idea of selfless love come from…surely this goes completely...

A genuine question for atheists/materialists: If you genuinely believe that there’s no spiritual world and that all there is in the world is just matter (atoms and molecules, the cells that comprise our body etc), how would you explain our appreciation of truth, wisdom and beauty, the loathing...

I started watching Brighton just before the Archer/Bellotti regime so the earliest memories I have was of a club run by a chairman/board who were trying to destroy the club......watching some of the most awful, depressing football in a decaying, rickety stadium with crowds of barely more than...

Try telling that to the thousands of people over the centuries who've lost their lives/been persecuted because of their faith in Jesus.

The idea that a premiership referee would racially abuse a player during a game is ridiculous. As for the black football players associations - I can already see it causing more problems than its solving!

Simplist definition of sin I can think of is: "The breaking God's moral law." It came as a result of us being able to choose to do right and wrong rather than being created as robots who have to obey. Looking at Jesus' teaching it goes a lot deeper than what we do or don't do but what's in our...

To which I would reply yes, as they're doing it out of love (and not necessity or fear.)

I don't know. quite possiby. However I know for a lot of people I know it's their faith that motivates them and their desire to obey God and the teachings of Jesus, which is evident in the way their lives change when they become Christians.

True, although the difference between Millwall and Christianity is that the heart of the message of Christianity is love. People that spew hatred and segregation don't belong to the true church as the church is supposed to reflect Jesus. Most of the churches I''ve been to contain people from all...

Wow! You cannot be serious. Coming from someone who's been to church most of his life and know's Christians all across the world this is absolute rubbish. I know many Christians who go out there way to help and serve the needy and they do it purely because they're motivated by love for God and...