This isn't original but came about as a result of an article in today's Toronto Star.

It appears that more and more churches are using church signs to try to deliver a message, and attract people to worship.  Most of them are lighthearted.

Some of the wordings are as follows:

Pinga has a very informative thread on Wills and estates - who to leave estate to, how much and the rational.

This leads me to ask the question - Do our religions expect that our time on earth is to accumulate money and possessions so that we can leave it for future generations to use, invest or squander? Or does God have a different plan for our legacy?

For people who do not have a lot to leave children and grandchildren, are we setting up empiracle situations?

What is your take on this?

This evening, driving home from work, I came up behind a Christmas-red car at a stop light. The licence plate read "IWNT2BLV". Wow! I thought - now there's the Christmas Eve sermon...title and all. I wanted to get the driver to pull over, and ask "What do you want to believe? Why? What do you believe?" But the light changed to green, and we were off in the home-going traffic.

The questions remain. Was this person looking for some kind of faith? Not Christian, just faith. What did she want to believe? Why? Did she have any beliefs?

There is a very good conversation going on in P3's thread about the right and the left on the religion continuum.

Do you think that people at each end of the spectrum and all the way down to the people in the middle , have a different take on morality and humanity.

For example, both Fundamentalists at the far right and Progressives at the far left and most religeous along the line would feel the same about " helping neighbours, visiting sick and feeding the hungry." The only place that I think they may differ would be things like abortion rights, capital punishment and same sex marriage

 Think about it. 

 What do you think about this "doomsday machine"?

They were not able to start it up last year, because "it wasn't ready". Now I heard that the people behind it are going to try again this year, and this time, "it should be ready".

Personally I find it hard to comprehend how such experiments with Destiny are normal - sure, we may end up finding something great and amazing about life! But there is still just this tiny possibility that they may create a Black Hole. And send this galaxy AND us into Oblivion.

Isn't it about time we built a bridge over the troubled waters between the sacred and the secular?

Let's begin by accepting the fact that both have much in common and are valid ways seeing and living within what we experience as reality, the now.

As I stand at the Crossroad in my life with the choice to go the Christian path or to continue on my path to Enlightenment, I stand confused, pondering, because I want, with all my heart, to bring Jesus back into my life. But I have questions, one in which is, what is the point of Genesis 22:1-18? Being a father myself to one child not unlike Abraham, I have to state that if God advised me of the same as he did with Abraham I would blatantly say NO!!! Then I guess after taking cover I would try and have a conversation with God asking him why? Do you not see my loyalty to you?

Me and a friend got in quite an arguement. So, do you think Atheism is limited to the common disbelief of God, or does it have it's own aspects or "religion" such as beliefs, rules or followings?

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