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I would think for one who marches in here with such a flair for bravado, you would be well aware of these things, but perhaps in Romania the education system is somewhat flawed. The mathematician and theologian Antoine Arnauld, for one. Many consider him the greatest mathematician of all time...

You beg to differ? Take a look at Pakistan. Or Rwanda. Or anywhere, really. It may not be Jesuits anymore, but it's the same old schtick. And only for your reality then, and for the reality that you choose to believe in. Reality for the individual is subjective, which is something that...

Hardly. They devised an entire society around doomsday. I find that rather noble, such passion and purpose in a culture.

This all sounds perfectly well and good. Luckily, I don't need to pay much attention to economics. If I could make the world. Ah, that is the question isn't it? I wouldn't create humans, that's for sure. Or would I? As much as I sometimes claim to despise them, I find them terribly...

See, that's the thing. Faith is a basis for many people's real life decisions. Because you choose to not accept this does not in any way deny it, it just makes you out to be narrow minded, and a bit of a drag. Loosen up a bit, and try to actually debate issues rather than making them a...

Don't ever say that too loudly. You-know-who could be listening.

And what exactly does this make you, in the grand scheme of things? And how in any way does this relate to god or the topic at hand?

There are plenty of things that could destroy the planet instantaneously. Aliens with incredibly advanced technology. Strange creatures from another dimension. Angry deities. Things out of H.P. Lovecraft's novels. I find your lack of imagination to be somewhat disheartening. This is a...

No. Good try though. Many of them began their academic careers as students of science, and then went over to religion and theology later in life. Although many members of religious orders did contribute greatly to the advances in mathematics and science, but I would hardly call most of these...

To you religious types, what happens to the souls of the aborted? I mean, they are never given a chance to sin or not sin, so how are they elligible for heaven or hell?

The Greeks were big on homosexuality. Some, such as Plato, went as far as to say that heterosexual relationships were inferior to homosexual ones. Of course, the reasoning Plato gave was that women were inferior to men, and a relationship between a superior and an inferior was therefore...

Interesting then that some of the most intelligent and well educated individuals in recorded history were theologians.

And if so, what exactly is he? I have a vested interest in this particular thread, so you would do well to please me.

You tell me what I am. An abstract concept created by humans with too much free time on their hands, and too much guilt in their collective subconscious? A biblical figure who's escaped from its pages? A demon-king hellbent on enslaving humanity? An angel who "fell" due to his excessive...

I like the way your mind works. I could have some jobs opening up, if you're at all interested. Human life though, has no more value than that of any other animal.

However, I'm not a man, so I'm somewhat out of that particular jurisdiction you mention.

Science really has not taken any ground from religion. Take a look around at the world you live in, the complete world, not your own little pocket of it.

Yes, it has its upsides as well. You forgot some of my favourites, such as stoning men who don't cover their temples with their hair, and stoning farmers who grow more than one type of crop in a field. Most of the true barbarisms endorsed by the Old Testament can be attributed to social codes...

Some theologians have actually speculated that God limits his omniscience, as someone in this thread actually posted. It looks like they in fact lifted it right from wikipedia, with the bold faced words and all. Theologians have struggled with this paradox for centuries now, and come up with...

"Love one another as I have loved you." "Thou shalt not kill" "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour" Et cetera. These moral teachings are all well and good, except that Christians seem to have a difficult time abiding by what their good book says. In the New Testament...