"The kingdom of God, is just something for christians to hope for in the future" (Page 6) Lucifera: Nowadays, you can just use Google to get the answers to your questions. You don't need religions or their scriptures anymore, at least not as justifications for lame excuses to discriminate against others. Crocodilia: Yes, the Internet has done a lot to de-mystify issues that formerly used to belong to the religious domain. Particularly in less developed countries, we have experienced a tremendous enlightenment among people that were formerly dominated by religions and now can read alternative explanations for themselves, at least as far as their English skills allow them. LilMissAlexandria: When these religions started people were very naive and lacked some degree of intelligence most were illiterate if jesus was around these days he might be in the loony bin cyber4EVA: Yes, 2012 is definitely not the year of new prophets and founders of religion. Such thoughts make way for an interesting question, though. How would Judaism, Christianity or Islam have been treated if they were launched today? Would another Moses, Paul or Muhammad have had any real chance of success? Byakuya: back then people needed to follow someone to have stability in there lives thats why if there was to become a new religion now it would have to be very good to persuade people to follow it LilMissAlexandria: thi is going to sound simplistic but if you need devine intervention to help you live a good life that kinda makes you very weak indeed Lucifera: Isn't that precisely what the ancients did? Monday = the day of the moon god Tuesday = the day of Tyr Wednesday = the day of Odin Thursday = the day of Thor Friday = the day of Frey Saturday = the day of Saturn Sunday = the day of the sun god | Religion Chat Room 41 People Chatting Similar Conversations |