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Response to Veteran: I know what Paul taught about alms, but that doesn't answer the question I asked. In fact, when discussing alms, you specifically contrasted it with sharing "Under state Communism," (post #16), which I have clearly and repeatedly stated I do not advocate. You go on to say "...

LDS is an acronym for "Latter Day Saints," which refers to Mormonism. I'm not a Catholic, but I've found the answers given by them to be perfectly satisfactory. They explained what they believed and why. The first post claims that this thread is not for Catholic dogma, but for the posters'...

On the more general subject, I think the Bible as a document is, at this point, historically susceptible to mortal errors in copying, either intentional or otherwise. Translation is always flawed, too, since some concepts never translate.

The only person who has suppressed any facts here is you; I asked questions, you refused to answer them; I brought counter-examples, you ignored them. It's unfair to say I'm suppressing facts when I haven't denied or ignored any of the facts you've brought up (even the ones you've refused to...

Okay, but I could still getting what I want by beating up others, why didn't I do that? It certainly wasn't because I was afraid of punishment (I had no problem doing plenty of other things for which I punished), I didn't do it because I didn't like hurting people. Most people are the same. Look...

Sure, maybe, but I was refering to: A: Bite my mom, who will be hurt by getting bit B: Not bite my mom, thus not hurting her. I never got hit by my parents, they just let me know the consequences of my actions for others and I stopped doing them. This logic would be sound if moral people were...

Sure, it does. My statement has nothing to do with respecting religions, it has to do with making laws with respect to religion, which includes religious expenditures covered in the state budget or religious activities undertaken with public funding, which is where schools often come in. Huh...

I didn't say people were inherently perfect and without sin. I said people were inherently good. By which I mean that their natural instinct is to help each other and work together, not to climb over the bodies of those they have shoved down on their way to the top. It's pretty easy to see this...

My point wasn't that they should be arguing over it, but that it's sort of inevitable that everyone will think their church/denomination is the "best," or why else would they belong to it rather than another; what I was trying to say is that I think it's important that everyone remembers that...

Sure, but it's also a matter of historical fact that Christians have made other Christians suffer for their faith and beliefs. Does this mean that faith in Christ is evil and all who follow Him torture and murder Christians? Of course it doesn't, that would be ridiculous conclusion to draw. It...

I think the influence of Satan had a little bit to do with that. I believe that people are inherently good, and outside factors can turn them to wickedness or keep them on the path of good. Even if there is some predisposition to selfishness, before society has its say, it will draw its...

After a fashion, though, each church makes this assumption; everyone assumes their own interpretation at least to to some degree to be the correct one (otherwise, why would they believe it?), or at least the "best" reflection of the truth. It may sound condescending when it's actually...

There were specific ground rules set up for this thread in its first post, many (even most) of which are not being followed. Even the subtitle "be nice" is being largely ignored.

I think that the purpose of this thread, originally, was to ask questions and have Aspen or Selene answer according to their beliefs. I've seen a lot of questions endlessly repeated while Aspen and Selene repeat the answers they have already given, or their own interpretations of Catholicism and...

I hear that a lot, but I don't know if I believe it. I don't think being greedy is human nature, I think it's something we learn from what's around us.

Most of the examples so far (school assignments, projects, and school-sponsored events) simply reflect the establishment clause (the first half of that quote you use twice but only ever mention the latter portion of), which essentially prevents anything which could be considered endorsing a...

Sorry, but, I'm done with this. I feel like you aren't actually responding to anything I say with anything but tautologies ("My view is right because it is right"). I feel like you aren't even listening enough to my posts to understand we are using the terms differently and actually address my...

That's not really a fair criticism. For one, there is a difference between what "consumerism" denotes and any cursory participation in advanced capitalism. Consumerism articulates the philosophies of encouraging massively unnecessary consumption, of "keeping up the Joneses", conspicuous...

How is it worse to lose rights one already had than to never have been granted them in the first place? That's basically saying it was wrong for African Americans to resist slavery or women to campaign for the right to vote, because they never "lost rights they already had," they just wanted to...

You mentioned this before, and I asked you where it had occurred, to which you provided no answer. At the hands of which "communists" did they suffer? The Soviet Union? They weren't communists, they were state capitalists. The PRC? State capitalists. Secondly, just because some "communists"...