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Mankind needs religion
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since the beginning of recorded time; mankind has had the need to believe in something that somehow would be able to help them when help was needed most.
These needs of mankind to believe in a superpower that could help them when they needed help has slowly modified and has become religious beliefs; and so, God and religion was born out of this fear of the unknown, and religions have been like that since the beginning of recorded times. You see, the leaders of ancient times were aware of their people religious needs, so they used them to their own advantages then. Of course nowadays people usually feel safe in the communities that they have created for themselves, therefore, now there are some people that say that God and religions do not exist, but luckily they are still a minority.
Now, the proof of the existence of God or the non existence of God is very hard to prove whichever way you look at it; but the need of religion and beliefs of a superpower like God is still there, because mankind needs it; because, religion and believing in God could be said that it is strength for the weak and hope for those who need hope most, this is the reason why; Mankind needs religion nowadays.
To prove my point I would like to see one of those unbelievers in a dangerous situation which they could have no control whatsoever; and this situation would be so grave that it might cost them their lives: then, would they still think that there is no God, or would they wish there was a god to help them?
I am sure that they would wish that there was a god to help them, wouldn't they?
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The origins of religion
Let me have my personal say about the origins of religion.
Now, we all know that in the Bible is says that God created everything in seven days, and that we have known since then, the beginning of time that God created us, and therefore God exists.
But on the other hand there are people in the world that may not believe in this explanation, some of them may not even believe in the existence of God. So, how do we explain that most people believe in a religion and in God or gods; my personal views is that we believe in God and religions because we need to believe in something for our own peace of mind.
If we look close enough at religions one is led to conclude that religions have started because of our inner fear of the unknown. We become so worried sometime that we wish there is a super being that would help us.
Now, what I have just said may indeed hurt some people feelings, but we are a fearful lot. We are looking for security all the time, nowadays we live in communities to feel safe. You may argue that it is human nature to feel this fear of the unknown and it is good because in the long run it helps us survive.
So, I believe that the origin of religion is an extended reaction to our inner fear, which we try to control by simple reasoning of our mental capacity. So, religion was born when we were facing unexplainable things that would bother us, we found that by believing in God and religion it was easier for us to control this inner fear as we would believe that God would help us overcome this obstacle whatever that obstacle would be.
I believe that religion is good at explaining the unexplainable and at the same time religion can give us some security.
I do not know if I could voice this for the rest of the community; but this is what I personally believe.
Conclusion: whether God created the world or not, whether God exists or not we still need to believe that God exists as this helps us overall. You see, one has to keep in mind that even Sigmund Freud (Dr. Psychiatrist) said that man needs God.
I personally believe that the most likely acceptable explanation would be that God and the universe have always existed, and that the life force of God helped create life on earth and perhaps in other parts of the universe. This may not sound like the existing religions, but if one wants to modify existing religions, one has to start somewhere.
However I believe that God may indeed exist, even if it may turn out to be that God is a bit different from the God that we believe in nowadays. So, from now on in these religious writings we are going to assume that God exists and that we need to pray God for guidance and help, as this is the only way to continue our search for truth.
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Let me write a prayer for guidance and Help
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I AM PRAYING GOD FOR GUIDANCE
(Before I write my prayer let me explain something which could help the reader to understand why I am starting my prayer in this particular way, and why they could or should start their own ways: You see, because I am a Roman Catholic born and baptised I am linked to the eternal life force of God like a Roman Catholic, so this is the way that I have to pray; if I were of a different religion, then I would have to pray in a different way: For example the name of God for me in my religion is Yahweh, but if I was one of Jehovah witness, the name of God would be Jehovah and if I were a Muslim then the name of my God would be Allah, I believe that we need to call on our own God name and pray our own prayers according to what we believe, if we want God to hear our prayers. Now, that I have explained myself let me write (say) my prayer)
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PRAYER
Yahweh, Our Father in heaven, to you I turn God Most High, and I start to pray with all my heart, my soul and my mind. In the name of The-Father The-Son and The-Holy Spirit I am praying, hoping that the ever present guiding force of the Holy Spirit on earth would guide me; So that, I would be able to write my religious writing as humanly as possible according to your will. Father, hear my prayer and guide me! Amen.
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SO, WHAT SORT OF GUIDANCE WE NEED TODAY FROM GOD ONE MAY ASK?
Look, now that I have prayed for help and guidance I feel better already, so let us talk about it. We need help and guidance from God so that we would be able to find our own way about, on how to reason within our own minds in order to find our own way, about what we are, what we were, and what will we be in the future in the eyes of God?
To do all this reasoning we need to use our own mental imagination of course and with our intelligent minds examine everything that we presently know today, and also learn as much as we can from existing record of common knowledge, so that we would be able to understand many things if not everything about God and religions.
So, let me put into practice what I have just said above and together with the help of my friends start this process of self examination of everything that we know, in the hope that by praying to God and then writing what comes within our heart and minds, we could then be able to write something useful for all humanity. I believe that I need to go back to our religious writing in common and review from the beginning Prayers of Reconciliation; so, next time I will be starting again the first chapter of, Prayers of Reconciliation. With this in mind I am praying God to help me.
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Religious step in the right direction
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To say the truth I have been waiting for this religious event, I have been waiting because it is another step in the right direction. The pope has done very well by showing leadership, since with his visit he is trying to tell the world that christian religions need to stay together, one may add and hope that other religious leaders follow in the right direction he has shown us.
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EXPRESS COMMENT
POPE HIGHLIGHTS THE NEED FOR OUR OWN SPIRITUAL LEADER
Sunday September 19,2010
What heartfelt scenes of joy and rejoicing greeted the Pope as he celebrated Mass in Westminster Cathedral yesterday. Despite the best efforts of a small group of naysayers, the Pope’s visit to Britain has been an unqualified success and he is to be congratulated for his brave decision to apologise to victims of child abuse within the Catholic Church. It has been a shadow on the Church’s conscience and Pope Benedict XVI was right to tackle it head on.
Even more than that, however, it was enormously refreshing to have a great religious world leader stand up for Christianity itself. We’ve become accustomed to having our national religion denigrated on all sides, while being forced to embrace values that are not our own, with our church leaders often seeming more concerned with climate change than the spiritual good of the nation. So it is wonderful to hear the Pope defend this ancient faith.
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There is a lot more that one can say about this papal visit, but I believe that I have made my point.
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POPE HIGHLIGHTS THE NEED FOR OUR OWN SPIRITUAL LEADER
Sunday September 19,2010
What heartfelt scenes of joy and rejoicing greeted the Pope as he celebrated Mass in Westminster Cathedral yesterday. Despite the best efforts of a small group of naysayers, the Pope’s visit to Britain has been an unqualified success and he is to be congratulated for his brave decision to apologise to victims of child abuse within the Catholic Church. It has been a shadow on the Church’s conscience and Pope Benedict XVI was right to tackle it head on.
Even more than that, however, it was enormously refreshing to have a great religious world leader stand up for Christianity itself. We’ve become accustomed to having our national religion denigrated on all sides, while being forced to embrace values that are not our own, with our church leaders often seeming more concerned with climate change than the spiritual good of the nation. So it is wonderful to hear the Pope defend this ancient faith.
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There is a lot more that one can say about this papal visit, but I believe that I have made my point.
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Saturday, September 11, 2010
What sort of guidance we need from God?
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I AM PRAYING GOD FOR GUIDANCE
Our Father in heaven, to you I turn God Most High, and I start to pray with all my heart, my soul and my mind. In the name of The-Father The-Son and The-Holy Spirit I am praying, hoping that the ever present guiding force of the Holy Spirit on earth would guide me; So that, I would be able to write my religious writing as humanly as possible according to your will. Father, hear my prayer and guide me! Amen.
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WHAT SORT OF GUIDANCE WE NEED TODAY FROM GOD?
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Now that I have prayed for help and guidance, let us talk about it. We need help and guidance from God so that we would be able to find our own way about, on how to reason within our own minds in order to find our own way, about what we are, what we were, and what will we be in the future in the eyes of God?
To do all this reasoning we need to use our own mental imagination of course and with our intelligent mind examine everything that we presently know today, and also learn as much as we can from existing record of common knowledge, so that we would be able to understand many things if not everything.
So let me start this process of self examination right now.
First of all it comes to my mind that life on earth has kept going on all the time since the very beginning of times, and what we call time or times can never be stopped for a single moment to move towards the future because that is an impossible thing to do.
But what we call time, even though it is impossible to stop and to change in anyways within itself, it brings change to life and other things as it passes and moves on towards the future, so that, it is necessary for any form of life including our own life to try and adapt to the times that such lives including our own happens to be living in, in order to survive and thrive.
Therefore, any of these changes that the passing of time brings to us must be taken into consideration, no matter what they are even if they don’t seem important to us now; so that we could find a way to use them to our own advantage in the future, considering this position it becomes obvious to all of us that we have to do something in order to adjust to our new position. Therefore it would not be any good to stand firm in our previous practice or beliefs, whatever those practice and beliefs would be, even if those practice and beliefs have helped us many times and for many centuries before nowadays.
So, today we need to look closely at our practice and beliefs of our present times, and we should use our intelligence that God has given us, since it has been given to us from God for good reasons, so that we could look after ourselves diligently, so, it could be helpful if we ask ourselves; What sort of guidance we need from God?
I believe that today we the people of this planet earth have reached a very high standard of understanding and that we are able to reason and understand facts and things much more diligently than what we used to do in the past.
We should feel lucky nowadays just because we are living in a very fast progressing time. Now since progress means improvements over the past times, and improvements many times bring change of directions, we are the generation that will have to adjust to the present times, and then guide the future generations in the right directions.
I believe that nowadays we need a religion that covers both people and spiritual things together and bridges the old religions and the new ideas together.
How to start all this happening the right way is hard to say, but we have to make a start somehow, so I am going to write something about this subject, even though I am concerned about how and what to write.
So, I believe that all religions have changed with time, even if we think they do not, one has to look at history to know what has happened. I believe that it could be helpful if we talk about the religions of the world and why there are so many of them?
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RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD
Islam; Judaism; Buddhism; Christianity; Hinduism; Jainism and other smaller religions are the religions that exist in the world nowadays, since there are so many religions in the world one feels the need to ask:
Why there are so many religions?
God and religious beliefs; are they true or are they an invention of our mind?
If they are an invention of our mind, why they need to stay where they are?
Some would answer these questions thus: All the main religions of the world spring from this need that most people feel within themselves.
Hereunder is a study of World Religions that I found on the Internet
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Study of World Religions
From the earliest known evidence of human religion by Homo sapiens neanderthalensis around 100,000 years ago to the present day, religion continues to be a very influential aspect of human lives.
Today, there are numerous challenges and problems faced by humans from every possible background, location and social class. Every day people must face issues of health, safety and mortality. It is because of these daily challenges that religion continues to exist. Religion is the universal tool for explaining things which we do not understand through the context the known physical world.
Although there are countless religions, each different from the other, they all serve the same purpose. Each answers questions which all humans seem to be programmed to ask: Why are we here? What happens when I die? How shall I live my life?
Religion helps us to transmit our values from one generation to another, and influences the way we interact with the natural environment. It teaches us how to see ourselves in light of the universe and gives purpose and meaning to life.
The following pages serve as a brief introduction to several world religions. They are intended to whet your appetite for further study and to help you understand those around you better.
With our global society, it is likely that in your lifetime you will meet people from every corner of the planet. Understanding the religious beliefs of these people is one of the many steps which mankind must take in order to someday prosper together in peace.
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From the report above, it seems to me that we need religion in one way or another, so next article we will talk about why Mankind needs religion.
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First of all
I AM PRAYING GOD FOR GUIDANCE
Our Father in heaven, to you I turn God Most High, and I start to pray with all my heart, my soul and my mind. In the name of The-Father The-Son and The-Holy Spirit I am praying, hoping that the ever present guiding force of the Holy Spirit on earth would guide me; So that, I would be able to write my religious writing as humanly as possible according to your will. Father, hear my prayer and guide me! Amen.
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WHAT SORT OF GUIDANCE WE NEED TODAY FROM GOD?
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Now that I have prayed for help and guidance, let us talk about it. We need help and guidance from God so that we would be able to find our own way about, on how to reason within our own minds in order to find our own way, about what we are, what we were, and what will we be in the future in the eyes of God?
To do all this reasoning we need to use our own mental imagination of course and with our intelligent mind examine everything that we presently know today, and also learn as much as we can from existing record of common knowledge, so that we would be able to understand many things if not everything.
So let me start this process of self examination right now.
First of all it comes to my mind that life on earth has kept going on all the time since the very beginning of times, and what we call time or times can never be stopped for a single moment to move towards the future because that is an impossible thing to do.
But what we call time, even though it is impossible to stop and to change in anyways within itself, it brings change to life and other things as it passes and moves on towards the future, so that, it is necessary for any form of life including our own life to try and adapt to the times that such lives including our own happens to be living in, in order to survive and thrive.
Therefore, any of these changes that the passing of time brings to us must be taken into consideration, no matter what they are even if they don’t seem important to us now; so that we could find a way to use them to our own advantage in the future, considering this position it becomes obvious to all of us that we have to do something in order to adjust to our new position. Therefore it would not be any good to stand firm in our previous practice or beliefs, whatever those practice and beliefs would be, even if those practice and beliefs have helped us many times and for many centuries before nowadays.
So, today we need to look closely at our practice and beliefs of our present times, and we should use our intelligence that God has given us, since it has been given to us from God for good reasons, so that we could look after ourselves diligently, so, it could be helpful if we ask ourselves; What sort of guidance we need from God?
I believe that today we the people of this planet earth have reached a very high standard of understanding and that we are able to reason and understand facts and things much more diligently than what we used to do in the past.
We should feel lucky nowadays just because we are living in a very fast progressing time. Now since progress means improvements over the past times, and improvements many times bring change of directions, we are the generation that will have to adjust to the present times, and then guide the future generations in the right directions.
I believe that nowadays we need a religion that covers both people and spiritual things together and bridges the old religions and the new ideas together.
How to start all this happening the right way is hard to say, but we have to make a start somehow, so I am going to write something about this subject, even though I am concerned about how and what to write.
So, I believe that all religions have changed with time, even if we think they do not, one has to look at history to know what has happened. I believe that it could be helpful if we talk about the religions of the world and why there are so many of them?
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RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD
Islam; Judaism; Buddhism; Christianity; Hinduism; Jainism and other smaller religions are the religions that exist in the world nowadays, since there are so many religions in the world one feels the need to ask:
Why there are so many religions?
God and religious beliefs; are they true or are they an invention of our mind?
If they are an invention of our mind, why they need to stay where they are?
Some would answer these questions thus: All the main religions of the world spring from this need that most people feel within themselves.
Hereunder is a study of World Religions that I found on the Internet
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Study of World Religions
From the earliest known evidence of human religion by Homo sapiens neanderthalensis around 100,000 years ago to the present day, religion continues to be a very influential aspect of human lives.
Today, there are numerous challenges and problems faced by humans from every possible background, location and social class. Every day people must face issues of health, safety and mortality. It is because of these daily challenges that religion continues to exist. Religion is the universal tool for explaining things which we do not understand through the context the known physical world.
Although there are countless religions, each different from the other, they all serve the same purpose. Each answers questions which all humans seem to be programmed to ask: Why are we here? What happens when I die? How shall I live my life?
Religion helps us to transmit our values from one generation to another, and influences the way we interact with the natural environment. It teaches us how to see ourselves in light of the universe and gives purpose and meaning to life.
The following pages serve as a brief introduction to several world religions. They are intended to whet your appetite for further study and to help you understand those around you better.
With our global society, it is likely that in your lifetime you will meet people from every corner of the planet. Understanding the religious beliefs of these people is one of the many steps which mankind must take in order to someday prosper together in peace.
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From the report above, it seems to me that we need religion in one way or another, so next article we will talk about why Mankind needs religion.
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Thursday, August 19, 2010
There is a time for everything
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My dear friends, let me say just a few more words about this present time: I believe what I am about to say here I am sure that most people would agree with me that there is a time for everything; here I mean that things may change continually and what today seems just perfect as it is, tomorrow may seem completely out of place, therefore, some adjustment would be required to make it good again.
So, let me start again from another point of view that I have formed during my life, because during my life I have been through a mystical event that has made me believe that after all there are other beings in the universe, you see, I am trying to tell you that a supernatural event has happened to me.
I suppose that supernatural events happen to people that are predisposed to accept those supernatural events, because this may be why that supernatural event happened to me.
So let me explain to you my predisposition, before the supernatural encounter that I have mentioned took place, I was aware that the world’s religions clashed with each others in many ways, and that it was indeed time for somebody somehow to come up with some new ideas on how to fix those differences, in order to make the world a better place to live in. So, I was thinking and asking myself, what anyone could possibly do to improve this unrealistic damaging religious situation.
Because I had my own personal ideas I started to write those ideas down on the home computer, I want to point it out to you that I was writing them just for myself and I had no intention at that time to really use them, or place them on the Internet, because what I was writing was controversial and therefore it could make some trouble to me that any gains I could receive from those writings. Anyhow I was thinking about what I was writing very often and I was thinking that my ideas could even work, that was perhaps the reason why that supernatural event happened to me, this is the only reason that I can think of, as I was thinking about those religious things too many times. But now, let me go back to the present situation and discuss the timing of events as we are talking about that there is a time for everything.
In order to understand the situation better and for my own good also, I did some research and read a few religious books, and after thinking a lot about what I had read, by pure logic of reasoning I came to my own conclusion of the existing situation, and therefore I formed my own beliefs. I suppose, there is a time for everything.
Here I want to point out to you that I have reached my own conclusion by pure logic of human reasoning, and I want also to say this, I believe that we (the human race) are now ready and able to understand our own religious situation better than before, and therefore, we are able to do something about it, as we are now advancing rapidly in all fields of learning, thanks to the computer and other electronic devices that bring knowledge to the people at large. So the people in general are now entering the age of knowledge and therefore REASON, and everything that in the future will not be able to stand to our logic benevolent human REASON or reasons, which is the scrutiny of all aspect of life and beliefs will be rejected by humanity.
Now, having reached this stage of understanding, I was looking for some signs or news that humanity was doing something about it, in order to rectify this religious problem; but I was shocked to see that nobody was doing anything worthwhile which would be able to improve the situation.
So, I came to the conclusion that perhaps I should be doing something myself, and having this in mind I started to write a few articles just for myself to see if I could come up with any good ideas on how to achieve something useful, therefore I had already writing some of my own religious beliefs when that supernatural encounter happened. Perhaps it was just because I had written those religious writings that encounter happened.
You may ask why I started writing them. And I will tell you that deep within my heart my soul and my mind I was feeling that I had to do something about my religious beliefs, because in my mind eyes I felt as if I was called to write them.
Here I am not going to be able to write all the reasons why I am writing this chapter but what I would like to say is that in a way the human race has left it become overdue, even though at the same time one may say that humanity is advanced so much and we have reached the age of reason.
Since we have reached the age of reason, let us use our reasoning powers and do something that has never been done before; so, let us set aside our doubts about the existence of God and just say that God does exist, even if God maybe a little bit different to the God described in the Bible. At this stage I would dare to suggest that perhaps Yahweh is indeed God, or perhaps Yahweh is part of God-Most-High that guides the whole universe.
Having explained some of the most important views and other things as I see them, I believe that now the time has come for me and my friends to start writing religious things, so that we may find a way how to modify religions in such a way that it would be hard for those leader that use religions for their own advantage, even when they have to figure out how to fight each other in the name of God.
To think that we can just modify religions without praying God to help us is futile, because first of all we need permission from God to do that, then maybe that by trying our best we may succeed in our task. So, let us pray God for guidance and help; so that we would be able to find a way of reconciliation for all parties involved.
Looking at what has been said above; I believe that these religious writings should be called, Prayers of Reconciliation, since there is a need to pray God while we are writing them. I have to add that my prayers are going to be very much in line with the Roman Catholic ways, since I was born Roman Catholic, therefore this is my personal way for me to pray, any other people can start praying God in their own ways, as that would be the way assigned to them.
Therefore, let me write a prayer to God-Most-High that I can use to ask our heavenly Father for guidance, every time that I am writing these religious writings.
I AM PRAYING GOD FOR GUIDANCE
Our Father in heaven, to you I turn God Most High, and I start to pray with all my heart, my soul and my mind. In the name of The-Father The-Son and The-Holy Spirit I am praying, hoping that the ever present guiding force of the Holy Spirit on earth would guide me; So that, I would be able to write my religious writing as humanly as possible according to your will. Father, hear my prayer and guide me! Amen.
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My dear friends, let me say just a few more words about this present time: I believe what I am about to say here I am sure that most people would agree with me that there is a time for everything; here I mean that things may change continually and what today seems just perfect as it is, tomorrow may seem completely out of place, therefore, some adjustment would be required to make it good again.
So, let me start again from another point of view that I have formed during my life, because during my life I have been through a mystical event that has made me believe that after all there are other beings in the universe, you see, I am trying to tell you that a supernatural event has happened to me.
I suppose that supernatural events happen to people that are predisposed to accept those supernatural events, because this may be why that supernatural event happened to me.
So let me explain to you my predisposition, before the supernatural encounter that I have mentioned took place, I was aware that the world’s religions clashed with each others in many ways, and that it was indeed time for somebody somehow to come up with some new ideas on how to fix those differences, in order to make the world a better place to live in. So, I was thinking and asking myself, what anyone could possibly do to improve this unrealistic damaging religious situation.
Because I had my own personal ideas I started to write those ideas down on the home computer, I want to point it out to you that I was writing them just for myself and I had no intention at that time to really use them, or place them on the Internet, because what I was writing was controversial and therefore it could make some trouble to me that any gains I could receive from those writings. Anyhow I was thinking about what I was writing very often and I was thinking that my ideas could even work, that was perhaps the reason why that supernatural event happened to me, this is the only reason that I can think of, as I was thinking about those religious things too many times. But now, let me go back to the present situation and discuss the timing of events as we are talking about that there is a time for everything.
In order to understand the situation better and for my own good also, I did some research and read a few religious books, and after thinking a lot about what I had read, by pure logic of reasoning I came to my own conclusion of the existing situation, and therefore I formed my own beliefs. I suppose, there is a time for everything.
Here I want to point out to you that I have reached my own conclusion by pure logic of human reasoning, and I want also to say this, I believe that we (the human race) are now ready and able to understand our own religious situation better than before, and therefore, we are able to do something about it, as we are now advancing rapidly in all fields of learning, thanks to the computer and other electronic devices that bring knowledge to the people at large. So the people in general are now entering the age of knowledge and therefore REASON, and everything that in the future will not be able to stand to our logic benevolent human REASON or reasons, which is the scrutiny of all aspect of life and beliefs will be rejected by humanity.
Now, having reached this stage of understanding, I was looking for some signs or news that humanity was doing something about it, in order to rectify this religious problem; but I was shocked to see that nobody was doing anything worthwhile which would be able to improve the situation.
So, I came to the conclusion that perhaps I should be doing something myself, and having this in mind I started to write a few articles just for myself to see if I could come up with any good ideas on how to achieve something useful, therefore I had already writing some of my own religious beliefs when that supernatural encounter happened. Perhaps it was just because I had written those religious writings that encounter happened.
You may ask why I started writing them. And I will tell you that deep within my heart my soul and my mind I was feeling that I had to do something about my religious beliefs, because in my mind eyes I felt as if I was called to write them.
Here I am not going to be able to write all the reasons why I am writing this chapter but what I would like to say is that in a way the human race has left it become overdue, even though at the same time one may say that humanity is advanced so much and we have reached the age of reason.
Since we have reached the age of reason, let us use our reasoning powers and do something that has never been done before; so, let us set aside our doubts about the existence of God and just say that God does exist, even if God maybe a little bit different to the God described in the Bible. At this stage I would dare to suggest that perhaps Yahweh is indeed God, or perhaps Yahweh is part of God-Most-High that guides the whole universe.
Having explained some of the most important views and other things as I see them, I believe that now the time has come for me and my friends to start writing religious things, so that we may find a way how to modify religions in such a way that it would be hard for those leader that use religions for their own advantage, even when they have to figure out how to fight each other in the name of God.
To think that we can just modify religions without praying God to help us is futile, because first of all we need permission from God to do that, then maybe that by trying our best we may succeed in our task. So, let us pray God for guidance and help; so that we would be able to find a way of reconciliation for all parties involved.
Looking at what has been said above; I believe that these religious writings should be called, Prayers of Reconciliation, since there is a need to pray God while we are writing them. I have to add that my prayers are going to be very much in line with the Roman Catholic ways, since I was born Roman Catholic, therefore this is my personal way for me to pray, any other people can start praying God in their own ways, as that would be the way assigned to them.
Therefore, let me write a prayer to God-Most-High that I can use to ask our heavenly Father for guidance, every time that I am writing these religious writings.
I AM PRAYING GOD FOR GUIDANCE
Our Father in heaven, to you I turn God Most High, and I start to pray with all my heart, my soul and my mind. In the name of The-Father The-Son and The-Holy Spirit I am praying, hoping that the ever present guiding force of the Holy Spirit on earth would guide me; So that, I would be able to write my religious writing as humanly as possible according to your will. Father, hear my prayer and guide me! Amen.
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The beautiful ugly beast
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THE BEAUTIFUL UGLY BEAST WE CALL SEX
I know that you feel disgusted to read about sexual things in a religious post, but I think that it is very important to talk about it. So, please forgive me if I am upsetting your religious side in any ways while I say what I have to say.
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What drives the whole world of living creatures is sex, because without sex most life would be extinct, so we have to be very careful when we talk about sexual activities; in fact I believe that people avoid talking about sex, because it is very hard to talk about it without being driven to extremities. You see sex is an ugly beast and there are times when it will not stand to reason.
Looking at what I personally know, mankind has lots of problems to solve about their own sexual activities; it has been like this since the beginning of the world and today we are no closer solving it, so, what can we do? Mother Nature has given us this continuous sex drive, which does not let go all our life long, this may seem an exaggeration to some of you but it is so.
You see in the animal kingdom, some animals have got their yearly cycle, which helps them reproduce at the best time of the year, when their off springs have a better chance to survive, during the rest of the year their sexual activities seem dormant, so they go on as if sex does not exist. There are some species that have shorter cycle than that and also others that switch on and off; but for mankind the sex drive is never ending, and this may be true even when an individual is impotent, because he may still feel the desire to have sex. Therefore, sex may be said to be a beautiful ugly beast, because sex promises an individual sweet things, but then it never leaves that person alone, and this sex drive becomes sometimes a torment, which is not easy to control. Now that I have said something in general about sex, let me talk about pedophilia in religions, just because these writings are about religion.
As I have said above sex is beautiful but it also can be a torment to some of us; for this reason our forbears have formed their own ways to deal with it, like giving every man his own wife, so that their sex drive would be used according to Mother Nature, and at the same time would help them to control their sexual needs. I am saying sexual needs because sex cannot be avoided, it is like you have to eat drink and go to the toilet to empty your bowel, I know it may sound crazy to say that but it is so; you may argue that it is not life threatening as eating, drinking etc, but it is because if a man does not discharge his seamen regularly he runs the risk of going crazy, because his hormone will become too high in his body that it will malfunction soon or later, therefore sexual activities is a must to most people and cannot be avoided. Of course what I have said can be applied mostly to normal men, and I haven’t got a clue how women feel and react to sexual needs, therefore I leave this to the experts.
In the man sexual world I could go on telling you what I have seen during my life, but in this case I have to avoid it since we are talking about religious discussions here, so I better leave this argument to be written somewhere else in a place that is more suitable.
Now let me go back and talk about pedophilia in religion. As I have said above, I see sexual activities as needs that cannot be avoided. Now if I am right about this and here I am not swearing that I am right, as I would like to see what the sexual experts have to say, but let us assume that I am 9 out of 10 times right, if it is so, then religious people have made a mistake that needs to be fixed.
To my knowledge the biggest problem with pedophilia in religions is in the Roman Catholic Church, because they have this celibacy clergy and priests cannot get married. They may have their own reasons why priests should not get married, but this violates Mother Nature laws of survival of the species. In my personal understanding God and Mother Nature might be one and the same think, if that turn out to be so then they have made another grave mistake.
We have stated that man needs to have his normal sexual activities and that in the Roman Catholic Church priests cannot get married, what we do not know is the reason why they cannot get married, so let us try to understand their situation here, and let us see if there is anything in the Bible that suggests clergy celibacy. To my knowledge in the Old Testament the priests got married, in fact priesthood was passed from fathers’ to sons. In the Bible, Exodus 29- 4 ‘You are to bring Aaron and his sons to the Tent of Meeting and they are to be bathed’ this is how the priesthood in the Bible starts, so at that stage there was no celibacy in priesthood. When and how celibacy in priesthood started is hard to tell, I can only imagine that it slowly took place during the Middle Age, in order to solve some of the clergy greedy problems in religion, as someone has pointed out to me that priests used their positions to enrich their own family. One needs to remember that at some stage they were selling an indulgence, which is to say that if you pay me I will absolve you. What a great distortion of truth they used then, just because they were greedy about earthly things, they were selling heavenly things which were supposed to be free to anybody that would come forward to ask for it in God’s name.
Of course there are other issues, like if you have no one to worry about, then you would be able to serve the people better, since anybody in the congregation maybe said to be one of your sons or daughters. However this does not take into account that a normal man has his normal sexual needs to attend to in one way or another. We know that a man who is not a slave to the sexual stimulus can serve God better, because he is not thinking about sexual earthly things, therefore he can concentrate on the heavenly things and be a better priest and serve God better, but this does not solve his physical sexual needs, which very likely will make him sway away from his beliefs soon or later. Therefore, it is my view that if priest can get married they have a better chance to become good priests.
There are many other ways to look at this sexual religious problem, but I think that I have say enough to make myself clear about my own beliefs and what may need to be done, so I may as well stop talking about this pedophilia problem in priesthood until something else comes out.
What to do next one may ask? Well, looking at the ways religion is nowadays one has to wonder whether religious leaders know what they are doing nowadays: They seem to live in the past and want to continue to live in the past; they do not want to change anything for fear of getting it wrong; they want you to believe in God’s creation the way it is written in the Bible, even when there is evidence that it may well be different; they do not realize that in the world there are great changes specially in the way of communication and therefore knowledge and all this changes are going to bring about more changes even to religions, it is inevitable.
Religious leaders fail to look at all existing religions and old religions together; history tells us that people believed in many other sorts of religions in the past, these religions do not exist nowadays anymore, because they would seem archaic to the public, so they are extinct.
Let us just assume that there is a God and God somehow communicate through some people in making them believe what God wants us to believe. Now let us assume that I am one of these people and I know God is there and he wants me to write something, which would explain God’s existence to the world. How do I go about it? I am sure that I would ask myself what I can write. You see God is not dictating me what to write, God only makes me feel within my soul that I have to write something about his existence; now, I would be able to write only what I know at the highest level of my know how. This reasoning shows us that it is possible for a writer to write only those things that are known to him; also the writer has got to take into account how other people would be able to understand his writing and write everything according to these two reasons.
Therefore, whatever has been written before has been written according to what the writer knew, at the level of practical knowledge of those days. Now because these days we have advanced a lot since the last great updating of religions, it is time to modify religions and make them according to our times, I believe that there is a time for everything; so, this is what I am going to write next.
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THE BEAUTIFUL UGLY BEAST WE CALL SEX
I know that you feel disgusted to read about sexual things in a religious post, but I think that it is very important to talk about it. So, please forgive me if I am upsetting your religious side in any ways while I say what I have to say.
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What drives the whole world of living creatures is sex, because without sex most life would be extinct, so we have to be very careful when we talk about sexual activities; in fact I believe that people avoid talking about sex, because it is very hard to talk about it without being driven to extremities. You see sex is an ugly beast and there are times when it will not stand to reason.
Looking at what I personally know, mankind has lots of problems to solve about their own sexual activities; it has been like this since the beginning of the world and today we are no closer solving it, so, what can we do? Mother Nature has given us this continuous sex drive, which does not let go all our life long, this may seem an exaggeration to some of you but it is so.
You see in the animal kingdom, some animals have got their yearly cycle, which helps them reproduce at the best time of the year, when their off springs have a better chance to survive, during the rest of the year their sexual activities seem dormant, so they go on as if sex does not exist. There are some species that have shorter cycle than that and also others that switch on and off; but for mankind the sex drive is never ending, and this may be true even when an individual is impotent, because he may still feel the desire to have sex. Therefore, sex may be said to be a beautiful ugly beast, because sex promises an individual sweet things, but then it never leaves that person alone, and this sex drive becomes sometimes a torment, which is not easy to control. Now that I have said something in general about sex, let me talk about pedophilia in religions, just because these writings are about religion.
As I have said above sex is beautiful but it also can be a torment to some of us; for this reason our forbears have formed their own ways to deal with it, like giving every man his own wife, so that their sex drive would be used according to Mother Nature, and at the same time would help them to control their sexual needs. I am saying sexual needs because sex cannot be avoided, it is like you have to eat drink and go to the toilet to empty your bowel, I know it may sound crazy to say that but it is so; you may argue that it is not life threatening as eating, drinking etc, but it is because if a man does not discharge his seamen regularly he runs the risk of going crazy, because his hormone will become too high in his body that it will malfunction soon or later, therefore sexual activities is a must to most people and cannot be avoided. Of course what I have said can be applied mostly to normal men, and I haven’t got a clue how women feel and react to sexual needs, therefore I leave this to the experts.
In the man sexual world I could go on telling you what I have seen during my life, but in this case I have to avoid it since we are talking about religious discussions here, so I better leave this argument to be written somewhere else in a place that is more suitable.
Now let me go back and talk about pedophilia in religion. As I have said above, I see sexual activities as needs that cannot be avoided. Now if I am right about this and here I am not swearing that I am right, as I would like to see what the sexual experts have to say, but let us assume that I am 9 out of 10 times right, if it is so, then religious people have made a mistake that needs to be fixed.
To my knowledge the biggest problem with pedophilia in religions is in the Roman Catholic Church, because they have this celibacy clergy and priests cannot get married. They may have their own reasons why priests should not get married, but this violates Mother Nature laws of survival of the species. In my personal understanding God and Mother Nature might be one and the same think, if that turn out to be so then they have made another grave mistake.
We have stated that man needs to have his normal sexual activities and that in the Roman Catholic Church priests cannot get married, what we do not know is the reason why they cannot get married, so let us try to understand their situation here, and let us see if there is anything in the Bible that suggests clergy celibacy. To my knowledge in the Old Testament the priests got married, in fact priesthood was passed from fathers’ to sons. In the Bible, Exodus 29- 4 ‘You are to bring Aaron and his sons to the Tent of Meeting and they are to be bathed’ this is how the priesthood in the Bible starts, so at that stage there was no celibacy in priesthood. When and how celibacy in priesthood started is hard to tell, I can only imagine that it slowly took place during the Middle Age, in order to solve some of the clergy greedy problems in religion, as someone has pointed out to me that priests used their positions to enrich their own family. One needs to remember that at some stage they were selling an indulgence, which is to say that if you pay me I will absolve you. What a great distortion of truth they used then, just because they were greedy about earthly things, they were selling heavenly things which were supposed to be free to anybody that would come forward to ask for it in God’s name.
Of course there are other issues, like if you have no one to worry about, then you would be able to serve the people better, since anybody in the congregation maybe said to be one of your sons or daughters. However this does not take into account that a normal man has his normal sexual needs to attend to in one way or another. We know that a man who is not a slave to the sexual stimulus can serve God better, because he is not thinking about sexual earthly things, therefore he can concentrate on the heavenly things and be a better priest and serve God better, but this does not solve his physical sexual needs, which very likely will make him sway away from his beliefs soon or later. Therefore, it is my view that if priest can get married they have a better chance to become good priests.
There are many other ways to look at this sexual religious problem, but I think that I have say enough to make myself clear about my own beliefs and what may need to be done, so I may as well stop talking about this pedophilia problem in priesthood until something else comes out.
What to do next one may ask? Well, looking at the ways religion is nowadays one has to wonder whether religious leaders know what they are doing nowadays: They seem to live in the past and want to continue to live in the past; they do not want to change anything for fear of getting it wrong; they want you to believe in God’s creation the way it is written in the Bible, even when there is evidence that it may well be different; they do not realize that in the world there are great changes specially in the way of communication and therefore knowledge and all this changes are going to bring about more changes even to religions, it is inevitable.
Religious leaders fail to look at all existing religions and old religions together; history tells us that people believed in many other sorts of religions in the past, these religions do not exist nowadays anymore, because they would seem archaic to the public, so they are extinct.
Let us just assume that there is a God and God somehow communicate through some people in making them believe what God wants us to believe. Now let us assume that I am one of these people and I know God is there and he wants me to write something, which would explain God’s existence to the world. How do I go about it? I am sure that I would ask myself what I can write. You see God is not dictating me what to write, God only makes me feel within my soul that I have to write something about his existence; now, I would be able to write only what I know at the highest level of my know how. This reasoning shows us that it is possible for a writer to write only those things that are known to him; also the writer has got to take into account how other people would be able to understand his writing and write everything according to these two reasons.
Therefore, whatever has been written before has been written according to what the writer knew, at the level of practical knowledge of those days. Now because these days we have advanced a lot since the last great updating of religions, it is time to modify religions and make them according to our times, I believe that there is a time for everything; so, this is what I am going to write next.
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Saturday, July 24, 2010
Religious discussions and atheism
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Religious Reconciliation Doc
Religious discussions and atheism
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Religious discussions and atheism
( Frank M. version) Post 4
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Sorry I thought that I had said most things about the existence of God in my last post, but I have realized now that I have not, because today I found an article in the news that I have not written about, so let me post an extra post about the question about the existence of God, which deals with a new non religious trend, I am going to call this post, Religious discussions and atheism.
Therefore, my dear readers, once again I am going to go out of my way, because I feel the need to say something about what I have found in the news, so, instead of writing another post from our religious writing, I am going to comment what I found in the news.
You See, it has come again to my attention that there are a lot of learned people that would do anything to prove the non existence of God. But try as they may they do not convince me that there is no God, in fact I am convinced that there is a god-life-force in the universe that behaves perhaps the way these scientists describe their laws of physics.
In this post, Religious discussions and atheism, I will try to state my own religious views, while we are looking at, what are they talking about?
IN THE NEWS TODAY, September 2010
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Stephen Hawking, physicist argues in a new book;
God did not create the universe and the "Big Bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book.
In "The Grand Design," co-authored with U.S. physicist Leonard Mlodinow, Hawking says a new series of theories made a creator of the universe redundant, according to the Times newspaper which published extracts Thursday.
"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist," Hawking writes.
"It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going."
Hawking, 68, who won global recognition with his 1988 book "A Brief History of Time," an account of the origins of the universe, is renowned for his work on black holes, cosmology and quantum gravity.
Since 1974, the scientist has worked on marrying the two cornerstones of modern physics -- Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, which concerns gravity and large-scale phenomena, and quantum theory, which covers subatomic particles.
His latest comments suggest he has broken away from previous views he has expressed on religion. Previously, he wrote that the laws of physics meant it was simply not necessary to believe that God had intervened in the Big Bang.
He wrote in A Brief History ... "If we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason -- for then we should know the mind of God."
In his latest book, he said the 1992 discovery of a planet orbiting another star other than the Sun helped deconstruct the view of the father of physics Isaac Newton that the universe could not have arisen out of chaos but was created by God.
"That makes the coincidences of our planetary conditions -- the single Sun, the lucky combination of Earth-Sun distance and solar mass, far less remarkable, and far less compelling evidence that the Earth was carefully designed just to please us human beings," he writes.
Hawking, who is only able to speak through a computer-generated voice synthesizer, has a neuro muscular dystrophy that has progressed over the years and left him almost completely paralyzed.
He began suffering the disease in his early 20s but went on to establish himself as one of the world's leading scientific authorities, and has also made guest appearances in "Star Trek" and the cartoons "Futurama" and "The Simpsons."
Last year he announced he was stepping down as Cambridge University's Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, a position once held by Newton and one he had held since 1979.
"The Grand Design" is due to go on sale next week.
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My personal point of view in this post, Religious discussions and atheism is that, whenever and whatever this book is going to tell us, I feel that it is not going to make any difference to my religious beliefs. Therefore, what does this new book prove to me about the existence of God?
I suppose nothing at all, because my views are that God can co-exist within this Stephen Hawking physicist theory, if his theory can be proven to be right.
Now that I have said this, I will return back to post our usual posts next time. I know that even now I can think about many more articles that need to be discussed about beliefs and non beliefs, so, we will have to go back again and again to discuss them, when the need arises.
I believe that now I need to go back and talk about sex and pedophilia in religions and in everyday life. So next article will be about; the beautiful, sweet, treacherous and ugly beast we call sex.
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Religious Reconciliation Doc
Religious discussions and atheism
IS TO BE CONTINUED:
Next time with, what sort of guidance we need form God?
---------------------------------
You are all invited to take part in these writings.
The shortest of any comment will do, if you don't have time?
All emails are free to use. So, email us at;
Manfraco@gmail.com
I hope to hear from you soon.
To see more click on the link below;
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or Google
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Religious Reconciliation Doc
Religious discussions and atheism
YOU ARE INVITED:
You are invited to browse and take part in the discussions that follow.
Religious discussions and atheism
( Frank M. version) Post 4
-
Sorry I thought that I had said most things about the existence of God in my last post, but I have realized now that I have not, because today I found an article in the news that I have not written about, so let me post an extra post about the question about the existence of God, which deals with a new non religious trend, I am going to call this post, Religious discussions and atheism.
Therefore, my dear readers, once again I am going to go out of my way, because I feel the need to say something about what I have found in the news, so, instead of writing another post from our religious writing, I am going to comment what I found in the news.
You See, it has come again to my attention that there are a lot of learned people that would do anything to prove the non existence of God. But try as they may they do not convince me that there is no God, in fact I am convinced that there is a god-life-force in the universe that behaves perhaps the way these scientists describe their laws of physics.
In this post, Religious discussions and atheism, I will try to state my own religious views, while we are looking at, what are they talking about?
IN THE NEWS TODAY, September 2010
-
Stephen Hawking, physicist argues in a new book;
God did not create the universe and the "Big Bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book.
In "The Grand Design," co-authored with U.S. physicist Leonard Mlodinow, Hawking says a new series of theories made a creator of the universe redundant, according to the Times newspaper which published extracts Thursday.
"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist," Hawking writes.
"It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going."
Hawking, 68, who won global recognition with his 1988 book "A Brief History of Time," an account of the origins of the universe, is renowned for his work on black holes, cosmology and quantum gravity.
Since 1974, the scientist has worked on marrying the two cornerstones of modern physics -- Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, which concerns gravity and large-scale phenomena, and quantum theory, which covers subatomic particles.
His latest comments suggest he has broken away from previous views he has expressed on religion. Previously, he wrote that the laws of physics meant it was simply not necessary to believe that God had intervened in the Big Bang.
He wrote in A Brief History ... "If we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason -- for then we should know the mind of God."
In his latest book, he said the 1992 discovery of a planet orbiting another star other than the Sun helped deconstruct the view of the father of physics Isaac Newton that the universe could not have arisen out of chaos but was created by God.
"That makes the coincidences of our planetary conditions -- the single Sun, the lucky combination of Earth-Sun distance and solar mass, far less remarkable, and far less compelling evidence that the Earth was carefully designed just to please us human beings," he writes.
Hawking, who is only able to speak through a computer-generated voice synthesizer, has a neuro muscular dystrophy that has progressed over the years and left him almost completely paralyzed.
He began suffering the disease in his early 20s but went on to establish himself as one of the world's leading scientific authorities, and has also made guest appearances in "Star Trek" and the cartoons "Futurama" and "The Simpsons."
Last year he announced he was stepping down as Cambridge University's Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, a position once held by Newton and one he had held since 1979.
"The Grand Design" is due to go on sale next week.
-
My personal point of view in this post, Religious discussions and atheism is that, whenever and whatever this book is going to tell us, I feel that it is not going to make any difference to my religious beliefs. Therefore, what does this new book prove to me about the existence of God?
I suppose nothing at all, because my views are that God can co-exist within this Stephen Hawking physicist theory, if his theory can be proven to be right.
Now that I have said this, I will return back to post our usual posts next time. I know that even now I can think about many more articles that need to be discussed about beliefs and non beliefs, so, we will have to go back again and again to discuss them, when the need arises.
I believe that now I need to go back and talk about sex and pedophilia in religions and in everyday life. So next article will be about; the beautiful, sweet, treacherous and ugly beast we call sex.
---------------------
Religious Reconciliation Doc
Religious discussions and atheism
IS TO BE CONTINUED:
Next time with, what sort of guidance we need form God?
---------------------------------
You are all invited to take part in these writings.
The shortest of any comment will do, if you don't have time?
All emails are free to use. So, email us at;
Manfraco@gmail.com
I hope to hear from you soon.
To see more click on the link below;
http://www.manfraco.com/
or Google
http://manfracorecon.blogspot.com/
http://sites.google.com/site/prayersofreconciliation/
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