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Re: Cypriot Educational System: Mandatory Religion Class?

Postby ZoC » Fri Nov 23, 2012 12:11 am

Get Real! wrote:
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potassium wrote:I do not find Christianity interesting, honestly.

Christianity is man-made so I’m not surprised you don’t find it interesting, but on the other hand God the creator is the most interesting entity in the universe!


i have to agree. i mean, if god created the universe, in all its majesty and complexity, who, in god's name, made god?

The good book says he is everlasting so I guess he didn’t need to be “made”.


but the 'good book' was written by humans, mainly male humans.

everything needs to be "made", surely... the alternative is evolution by natural selection over millennia, which precludes the need for a creator.
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Re: Cypriot Educational System: Mandatory Religion Class?

Postby GreekIslandGirl » Fri Nov 23, 2012 12:12 am

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GreekIslandGirl wrote:I know both systems inside out. (The UK was a non-contest :D ).

As if education systems stand still exactly as we left them many moons ago... :)


Mostly regressed, my dear. Deal with it daily!
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Re: Cypriot Educational System: Mandatory Religion Class?

Postby Get Real! » Fri Nov 23, 2012 12:15 am

ZoC wrote:
Get Real! wrote:
ZoC wrote:
Get Real! wrote:
potassium wrote:I do not find Christianity interesting, honestly.

Christianity is man-made so I’m not surprised you don’t find it interesting, but on the other hand God the creator is the most interesting entity in the universe!


i have to agree. i mean, if god created the universe, in all its majesty and complexity, who, in god's name, made god?

The good book says he is everlasting so I guess he didn’t need to be “made”.


but the 'good book' was written by humans, mainly male humans.

everything needs to be "made", surely... the alternative is evolution by natural selection over millennia, which precludes the need for a creator.

How can we accept the notion of a "God" yet expect such an entity to be “made”? :?
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Re: Cypriot Educational System: Mandatory Religion Class?

Postby Get Real! » Fri Nov 23, 2012 12:22 am

Just remember Zoc that evolution leads to nihilism whereas God leads to afterlife.

So choose carefully what you want things to be… a depressing dead end or a bright future?

And btw, we cannot evaluate God with earthly science but with a yet unknown celestial science.
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Re: Cypriot Educational System: Mandatory Religion Class?

Postby ZoC » Fri Nov 23, 2012 12:36 am

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ZoC wrote:How can we accept the notion of a "God" yet expect such an entity to be “made”? :?


my own view is we should accept the notion of absolutely nothing. and work our way from there trying to work it all out. like the universe did. and we are, after all, the universe made conscious.
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Re: Cypriot Educational System: Mandatory Religion Class?

Postby ZoC » Fri Nov 23, 2012 12:40 am

Get Real! wrote:Just remember Zoc that evolution leads to nihilism whereas God leads to afterlife.

So choose carefully what you want things to be… a depressing dead end or a bright future?

And btw, we cannot evaluate God with earthly science but with a yet unknown celestial science.


too deep for me. ok u win; imarton kirie!
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Re: Cypriot Educational System: Mandatory Religion Class?

Postby Get Real! » Fri Nov 23, 2012 12:42 am

ZoC wrote:
Get Real! wrote:Just remember Zoc that evolution leads to nihilism whereas God leads to afterlife.

So choose carefully what you want things to be… a depressing dead end or a bright future?

And btw, we cannot evaluate God with earthly science but with a yet unknown celestial science.


too deep for me. ok u win; imarton kirie!

There’s nothing complicated about what I said which was that our science cannot quantify supernatural spirits so there must be some kind of special rules for them up there in their supernatural world.
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Re: Cypriot Educational System: Mandatory Religion Class?

Postby repulsewarrior » Fri Nov 23, 2012 4:16 am

i might add that the gnostics, according to Engels, the original thoughts of the Gens, where that, everything dies on this planet, even mountains disappear to become sand, before they become mountains again; what is forever is the bigger sphere, like the stars beyond the earth everlasting.
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Re: Cypriot Educational System: Mandatory Religion Class?

Postby CBBB » Fri Nov 23, 2012 5:01 am

We were created by aliens!

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Re: Cypriot Educational System: Mandatory Religion Class?

Postby kurupetos » Fri Nov 23, 2012 1:35 pm

CBBB wrote:We were created by aliens!

You were created by Joseph Benson "Ben/Bugs" Hardaway. :wink:
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