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Religions. Tribal units and a good way to appease our love of drama and war. But we need something better. At their roots, religions were created as entertainment for us as well as to appease our tribal need of fellowship, drama and love of war. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T64_El2s7FU We are all...

[ Morals I don't believe with the first four. My understanding is that these commandments were the main ones designed for descendants of Abraham, I suppose in part to keep them together as a people. The first four seems to bond these people to God and the latter six to define a moral relationship b...

- Leviticus 26:1 God isn't an idol (simply). Again this tastes like the words of an Atheist when one is accused to worship an idol. No, quite something else, God and Truth become one! With the 10 Commandments, one is true in believing. Cheers! There is no such thing as the ten commandments. There a...

"'Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the LORD your God. - Leviticus 26:1 God isn't an idol (simply). Again this tastes like the words of an Atheist when one is accused to worship an ido...

believers in God are following an entity that they only know by what other people have said about that God. LOL!!! ..are you actually aware of what you are saying, or ..is this a bad drunken stooper babble writing? Hey Hex, maybe your own "bad drunken stupor" makes everything sound like b...

Are all believers in God automatically idol worshipers? All believers in God are following an entity that they only know by what other people have said about that God. Few, if any, know their God from apotheosis or first-hand information. That fact makes whoever that God is, an idol. It must be so,...

No argument. I can understand when there is some challenge heading in someone's way, that that might cause even a non-believer to hope enough to give a quick prayer, stemming from hope and not faith. But to pray regularly without results brings Einstein's word of doing the same thing while expectin...

Not necessarily. But I would say it is probably true with goddesses. Why do you think so many male college students hang pictures of centerfold spreads? They are simply looking forward to participating in an ancient ritual of idol worship. Worship is not the word I would use for what those students...

Are all believers in God automatically idol worshipers? Not necessarily. But I would say it is probably true with goddesses. Why do you think so many male college students hang pictures of centerfold spreads? They are simply looking forward to participating in an ancient ritual of idol worship. Wor...

[ quote="Greatest I am"]Are all believers in God automatically idol worshipers? All believers in God are following an entity that they only know by what other people have said about that God. Few, if any, know their God from apotheosis or first-hand information. That fact makes whoever th...

Are all believers in God automatically idol worshipers? All believers in God are following an entity that they only know by what other people have said about that God. Few, if any, know their God from apotheosis or first-hand information. That fact makes whoever that God is, an idol. It must be so,...

Doesn't the Bible say that God is a jealous God who doesn't tolerate idol worship? PhilX Yes, yet all who believe in a God can only be idol worshipers of what other humans have said of God. Most believers will not admit that they are idol worshiping the mental construct that they have invented for ...

Are all believers in God automatically idol worshipers? All believers in God are following an entity that they only know by what other people have said about that God. Few, if any, know their God from apotheosis or first-hand information. That fact makes whoever that God is, an idol. It must be so, ...

Not likely. In that day, a Rabbi basically had to be married. More has been coming out lately on Jesus having a wife. Standard fare to a Gnostic Christian like me but most are fighting that notion. Then again, it is the literalist idol worshiping Christians who are fighting it due to their dogma. R...

Let me point out that from the Christian point of view, they have used it in ways to live life but more the negative than the positive as Christians have used this myth to not only vilify women but also to discriminate against women and gays forever. It seems strange that Christians should vilify g...