belief

Hello all, I was wondering if anyone knows of any videos, podcasts, etc. that give a broad overview of religions of the world. I am looking for what Mormons believe compared to JW to Catholics to Lutherans to Islam to the jewish faith. If anyone knows please post. Thanks

Spit from http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=59530 , this thread is not under special moderation. You are not fooling me, Steve. You have been on a crusade against skeptics ever since they explained why psychics can't talk to dead people.

I have a question for everyone, I've asked a similar question before but this version is a little more refined I think. As far as I see it, there are two approaches individuals take regarding "belief". I'll illustrate the two perspective allegorically: Say two people are blindfolded, and they...

This thread started at the suggestion of Interesting Ian, who in response to my open question in the original thread wrote: Provocative - looks like scope for a pillow fight. Originally posted by hodgy A nice response. I should say, I don't really have strong thoughts/feelings (there's...

Children Buried Alive in India Sure. You betchya.

"there is nothing wrong with believing in the paranormal if it makes you happy/ gives comfort e.t.c" What do people here think of this? (sorry if this has already been discussed, can someone post a link to the thread? Thanks.)

I was working on an essay a couple days ago concerning the problems with separating ideas based on direct physical experiance from those which are created within our mental realm. The problem seems to arise from the overlap. But that's not my question. I was looking are some sources, and...

"What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?" The Edge posed this question to a number of pretty smart people. You can read their responses for a limited time at the New York Times web site (registration required). TAM3 speaker Richard Dawkins answered the question as...

I'm getting pretty sick of 1inChrist's claims and insults, they are petty and insane... While there are a significant number of intelligent people with degrees and without, and intelligence is not measured with religious beliefs, educational does impact people's reasoning and critical thinking...

I'm a belief atheist, myself, Before answering, please see this: http://denbeste.nu/cd_log_entries/2003/05/Beliefinatheism.shtml

What do you believe in then? Or, is everything pretty much spelled out in terms of matter-of-fact to you? If, by your own admission however, you are a creature of belief, then that opens up the door of possibility that there is a God. Why? Because that tells us that man is religious by nature.

My country right or wrong but my country. How smart is that belief?

Question - could it be that one of the problems with those who have such powerful faith in things like religion be that they regard fact as another form of belief, rather than as fact? I know, for example, that I don't have to believe in a fact for the fact to be true; and therefore, if I'm...

People often talk about how they chose to believe in their god, religions, psychics and other nonsense based on their own experiences and evidence........I don't believe them, however. I think belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction. I really do want to believe that people have...

This is an excellent question that Randi doesn't directly answer. At the risk of sounding trite, I shall answer. The difference between having faith in your parentage (the example to which silly beliefs are compared to) and having faith in God is that that man is most likely my father. What is...

Tomorrow is the 25th anniversary of the Jonestown mass suicide. Here are some links for those who don't know the history. http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/mass/jonestown/index_1.html?sect=8 http://www.rickross.com/groups/jonestown.html...

This may be a better-phrased question than that other poll.

This distressingCNN article of August 15 describes the growing acceptance of mysticism in the USA compared to the rest of the world. I do not think it is a coincidence that the last 40 years have seen a rise in paranormal beliefs and a rise in the acceptance of the more fanciful religious...

I think everyone has heard the old saw "We should get back to the traditional American belief in God values that were so much a part of our country back in the" ...1950's ...40's....30's... etc. I seem to recall reading evangelist quotes in those era's ALSO recalling an earlier time when...

I have a few questions for skeptics. When I first joined I read in a post (sorry, I don't remember who it was) that stated "if you tell a skeptic that a lamp is in the next room, they will go look". The implication is that skeptics take nothing on faith. One question is do you as an individual...

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