Dominant Force in West Today According to Dennis Prager is Fear of Left

The point is I think most westerners believe Hell is a Christian invention, and finding out it is almost universal makes sense out of Christian doctrines of salvation that are presented as universally needed.

What it shows, M'Lady, is how universally evil religion is.

or it shows that there is a universal evil. I believe though cannot obviously prove that God created the possibility of evil which was actualized initially by rebel spirits and inherited by humans. Faith is right. Jesus Christ, God's incarnate character, was and is the solution. I realize that the whole story sounds quaint and archaic to some. I also realize that I will never find a way to prove it to anybody.You will go on thinking it all a made-up fairytale and I will continue studying the apologists, challenging jar and ringo on Biblical interpretation, and listening to Faith, our champion poster of all. But you guys have to admit---she has worked very hard to attempt to be civil and not assassinate personal character. She and I may not agree on Biblical Creationism, but we do likely agree on the saving grace of Jesus Christ. I too would likely think it all a made-up story had I not gotten saved in 1993. Edited by Thugpreacha, : No reason given.

That is what I said. There is a universal evil and we call it religion.The rest of your message is fantasy attempting to justify your snake oil remedy to the evil your creeds create. May you soon awake from this long nightmare with your intellect intact.

I'm not going to listen to this but did want to comment on the Unitarian Universalist religion. It is a bastard religion of no spiritual value formed by the merger of the Unitarians with the Universalists. The merger destroyed Unitarianism as Universalist non-religious dogma took over. A few independent Unitarian churches do remain.--Percy

The podcaster actually comes to the same conclusion..UU is not for him.

and ignoring the fact that there are many belief systems that don't, and moreover, that those that do, have several versions where some similar punishment is not forever, or some where is not as extreme ... So only Christianity offers a "savior" to avoid eternal punishment, while the other religions have alternate ways to get out of jail. Other religions deal with morals and positive or negative behaviors in different ways, and it seems to me that the fundamentalist Christian method was the worst. According to your worldview. There are many Christians who disagree with you. According to your worldview. There are many Christians who disagree with you.For myself I look at who walks the walk rather than just talk the talk, and I find liberal Christians more "Christlike" in their behavior that fundamentalist "Christians" and it seems we have more to fear from the right than the left, and I do this by looking around the world at alt-right movements and violence.Enjoy

I'm still waiting for you to present anything resembling a challenge. Faith is the last person you should listen to. Shame on you.

It only shows that the scam is universal. None of those religions can offer evidence that Hell exists. Apparently, we need salvation from a place that only exists in the human imagination.

More than that, it implies that the only way to get people to behave "properly" is to threaten them with the worst possible outcomes.Enjoy

Christianity is very clear that behaving properly won't accomplish anything. We're destined for Hell from birth. So there is no ground for threatening anyone with Hell for bad behavior.

What a dismal outlook on life! How do you force yourself to get out of bed in the morning?Edited by Coragyps, : Tpyo

Only the perversion called Fundamental Christianity markets that; it's a profitable conjob.

That's not a threat?Enjoy

To me it's just a fact. And it explains a lot too, IMHO of course. The human condition in general. And the need for a Savior, which is why I brought it up. We can't avoid Hell by being good was the point.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.