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I am a member of the Catholic faith and belief system. My priest considers me a member of the Church, regardless of whether or not I believe in God. I don't reject Christianity or Catholicism. Otherwise I wouldn't go to Church.

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I'm asking these questions to show that everyone has beliefs or ideals that they do not follow. Or are not capable of following.

Any religion that includes people will change with the people.

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I was simply responding to Boothby's comment. Why did you respond to me?

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I am a Catholic and Baptized as such. I attended Catholic Schools and still do go to Catholic church.

I am a member of the Catholic church whether I believe in God or not.

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Planets aren't mentioned in Genesis.

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That's my entire POINT. Jesus.

the ancient Hebrews didn't have the modern understanding of planets.

Man you are thick-headed.

The words do not apply to planets as we know them today.

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Rei he is disobeying Judah. That's why God is displeased. He is disobeying his father. Not because he wasted his seed. Honor thy Father and thy Mother. Isn't there a commandment about that.......... It's interpreted as masturbation long after it was written. And EL if Birth Control is immoral you be...

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"star" -- כוכב "walking star" or "planet" -- כוכב-לבת Doesn't it look just a little bit like they're related words? Perhaps it might not be as clear-cut as you're trying to make it. I'd post the etymology, but there don't appear to be any free online etymological dicti...

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If there is a God we cannot claim to know God. If we create something does it know us? Can it relate to us? How can we comprehend something that could create an invisible pink unicorn if it had the desire? I never said God wouldn't come to Earth ever. Read what I said again. "I can guarantee yo...

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But that someone can only be your god? No one can know God. And cannot expect to know God. I am saying that the version of God in the Bible and the version of God Christians believe in are not the same God. And yes it applies to Jewish people as well. Judaism doesn't view God as he is depicted in th...

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And you do a shoddy job of it. At least you realise that it doesn't do any good to get into an argument over whether God exists or not as neither will convince the other, although discussing WHY one believes one way or the other may be productive. Probably it'd be more productive than assuming the ...

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Your comparison of a cat to God makes your arguments ridiculous. You don't believe your cat is able to answer your prayers. Neither do the Christians you are arguing with. Why should they care that the cat didn't grant your request? They're sitting at their computer screens thinking Duh? A cat isn'...

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That's pretty correct Steve, about the planets. In Latin the word for them is stella . Same word for star. If you got into a serious theological debate or wanted to be specific, you would call them stella errata , wandering stars. Also Rei, the Trinity is not based on scripture. It is "interpr...

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Oh, and as a member of a five-child family, I'd kindly ask you to stop using that as a slur. It's not appreciated. Apparently a number of my sisters and brothers shouldn't exist. Which ones would you like me to go kill off? I did not mention "killing" anywhere. Preventing a birth from eve...

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I was talking to luminous, not you EL. And I never said believing in God is an opinion. I think you read what I wrote incorrectly. I meant you have an opinion on birth control whether or not you believe in God. "Quit sinning" was a joke. You aren't getting my point. How is one sin differen...

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I am an atheist.... An idea is a creation. According to the old testament God created the stars, Earth, moon and the Sun. Apparently he didn't create the other planets. No mention of them in Genesis.. but thats a whole different argument. It is never stated that he created the heavens and the Earth ...

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No I am an atheist.

In my posts I usually don't say it because then it becomes a war about proving whether or not there is a God. And the discussion becomes very pointless.

I assume there is a God for the sake of argument.

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It's impossible. Every grain you can think of has trace amounts of insect parts.

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You cannot know that. You say he is saying no to her prayer. I am saying he ignored it.

I love talking about my cat. So if I ask my cat to get me a new pair of shoes and he doesn't do it; he is saying no?

The more likely thing is that the child survived by chance and my cat ignored my question.

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I am saying that we are an idea of God. A creation.

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We already have the technology, contrary to popular belief. But that one's ever-so hard to prove, so we'll go with the idea that we don't have it. So what? We'll develop it soon enough. If we'd start working on that instead of spending so much effort worrying about conserving what we have, we'd get...

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Some individuals choose not to eat meat of any kind - does that make human beings herbivorous? No, of course not.

We're omnivorous. Try to find a human being that has eaten nothing but plant life from birth. Not gonna happen.

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We aren't the "sum of our parts". We are a piece, a very very small piece of God. God's idea. If God created everything... then we aren't even a blip on the radar. Anything we create, we control. Hell we control everything. Or at least try to. If God has infinite power and the ability cont...

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God has, in that case, answered her prayer and said, "I'm sorry, but I will take one of your children to be with me." Now it's up to the woman to accept this and, while she most certainly is allowed to be deeply hurt to lose a child, rejoice in the life of the other child. I'm not saying ...

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We do not know if there is any otter place for us to live. And we may never develop the technology to go there if we do find it. No I'm saying all these religious people saying using contraceptives interferes with God's Will when a hundred of their other actions have. Please don't use Gods will as a...

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How can it be "our" conception of time when God must have created it? It is God's conception of time that we live in. God must at least be able to exist in time as we do and experience it. If he is omniscient. There is a past and there will be a future. If God can see the past then it must...

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"Guest" humans are a pedophillic species because up until about 200 years ago people were allowed to have sex with young children. It was "normal". People giving away their daughters for marriage at age 10. Inherently, "raping" is also in humans. It's natural. A way to ...

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People are afraid of more things than God. I would guess more people don't break laws because of jail time rather than offending their God. Most kids are more afraid of their parents than their God. Hell almost all kids are. If there were no consequences in doing what we want.. i.e. no punishments t...

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No I do not. I do intend on having children. This has nothing to do with population control. If the government issues mandatory birth control. I'd be the first one in line. If they try enacting laws against having a certain number of children I'll be supporting it. Population control is not one pers...

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Still leads to God deciding who lives and who dies. By answering prayers that deal with life and death. We all die. Every last one of us. It's part of being human. No decision necessary. God could have given us immortality. Isn't that choosing that we all die? He could have made heaven our only exi...

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Statistics of birth/death rate. Immigration rates. Population over the last 10 years. Infant mortality rates. That would help h_k. Population control is an inevitable necessity. Why wait till more than half of the native species are destroyed? Just to have a few more billion humans? We have no fear ...

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Matty that's good and all but it has no conclusive evidence to be that way. God has to experience time sequentially. How else could he have created the world in 7 days? Surely he understands and experiences time the same as we do.

Doesn't mean they didn't force you to think it either Rei.

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Proof?

Data?

One could argue India is a developed country. It has the fourth largest economy in the world.

Why would you not count immigrants?

Show me a decrease in population of the world. Or maybe a prediction of when it could happen.

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How can there be original thought if all of our ideas are from God? If God knows everything all our of thoughts and inventions are just the ideas of God.

Could a human have an idea or thought that God has not?

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