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Reminds me of one of the avatars of Vishnu

and besides there is NO GOD

FINTI that's where you are wrong..... there is too.... not buddah, not baal, not any of those "gods" But Christ is...... He died for your sins, so that you wouldn't have to go to hell......

Aniica, I don't think Finti is listening...

Vishnu, Vishnu... Dim, remind me who Vishnu is...

let's just not open another religios disc. ......

There is just as much Budda as there is a christ or a christian god

ahahaha. that's comedy, tex! I'd like to see a re-enactment of the fish suddenly bursting out with profeties and hebrew religous speeches. kinda like that singing electronic fish you can buy and put on your wall.

Vishnu- multi-amred Hindu God, one of the three Hindu big ones.

btw..tex's avatar is spooky

But to be fair...all the Hindu gods have many arms...when they need them.

Anyway, lets not go bashing gods...that's when Dimmy gets pissy.

This is like that fence post that was in the news last month, viewed from a certain angle it looked like the Virgin Mary, people were going nuts over it....

Personally not a big fan or organised religion in any form. I prefer to believe what I believe and leave it at that.

Please though, before anyone starts preaching Christianity down anyone elses throat they should remember that despite being the largest religion, still less that 1/3 of the world population follow the Christian faith.

They should also remember that the Christian faith is actually a mix & match of various denomonational faiths including Jehovahs Witness, LDS, Catholics, Protestants and many, many more, all with slightly different viewpoints.

By God, that article was funny!

C22, the denominations are very much alike. I am learning about them in school and they all seem pretty much the same except for minor things, like one denomination being a pacifist and one denomination who doesn't believe in materialism.

Anyway, we aren't here to talk about Christianity anyway. I can't even get the link to work!

btw, Roman gods are cool.

for a true pic of god see the pic below....

mm..yeah..genuine leather also...

Yeah, I know this. I too have no desire to get into a debate on Christianity or any other religion, though the point I made about Christianity could be carried through to most of the major religions.

And I'm rather patial to the Egyptian gods myself....

Oh god religius debate... I don't believe in the Christian God however i only believe in the earth gods and goddess and I don't care what others think.

Besides that I can't say it did not happen since I was not there but many miracles today tend to be hauxes.

Earth gods and goddesses...Roman or Egyptian?

neither of them Rex

Are we starting to talk about Dungeons and Fragons now....?

It's too late, you are all already here.

indeed, hell is on earth

Corran's domain, huh?

thats bs. its the peeps 5000 yrs ago that made "god", "god" explains what they couldn't explain at that time.

Made god, or made God??? There is a difference.

just the capital g

But that change of capitalisation means a lot, and I'm not talking religion here specifcally.

God is a made man.

you wish

"hello homer this is God...........frey jones"

I only speak to the big guy when my football team are playing bad or I'm talking on the big white telephone. #

Other than that we keep ourselves to ourselves, but we both know where we are should one of us need the other.

Cool! Another religion thread.

As there is no one majority religion I guess that pretty much leaves a stalemate....

Celtic actually but I believe each god and goddess from diffrent parts of the world are the same... As Ares is the same as Mars and so on...

It's all the same Gods whatever your religion just under different guises, it's how it's all interpreted differently, Muslim, Christianity and Judaism ALL definately beleive in the same God, they just differ on things like the prophets etc like Christ or Muhammed etc.

Er, VP, look, Ares and Mars are LITERALLY the same- the Romans actually COPIED the Greek Gods.

It's not quite so simple if you start comparing ALL Gods...

The Romans were not actually much for original thinking in some areas, dieties being one of their major stumbling blocks.

So, what have the Romans ever given us then...?

You mean apart from Roads?

What they did have was a delightfully tolerant view on religion though

Take when they conquered Egypt and hear about their great Goddess Isis. Many a conquerer would tear down the temples to this God and declare her void and put their own in. Not the Romans. They go:

"Bloody hell, she sounds important. Better get worshipping her!"

And build a load of temples for her in Rome!

Odd people

Romans odd, why whatevr can you mean, gorging on food and wine and making oneself sick to do the same again whilst enjoying orgies with friends (and family) is not odd is it?

lol.. True... The Celts took allot of Egyptian and greek gods... Many of their beliefs come from the meditarian area... Thats were most of my beliefs go. But many gods do connect in some ways... I do not believe in one God however. I never did really even if I was raised too.

Bart - "hey dad, what religion are we again?"

Homer - "oh you know.. the one with all the well meanings rules that dont work out in real life....ah yes...christianity"


there are so many great quotes from the simpsons proving the hypocricy of organized religion... heres another....

Reverend love joy- "this new cult is nothing but a bunch of mindless repetitive chants created to steal the money of fools.... now lets say the lords prayer 50 times and pass around the collection plate"


classic...absolutely classic.

Amen

yeah

Lovely.

really?

Sure.

true?

*falls over laughing*

Anyway allot of cults are not like that though. I know a few around my area and few in some other places that do not collect money... But it depends on what group your in. Anyway most of the ones that collect money believe in some form of Christianity well most of your cults do follow God and the bible.

THey do???

As long as no ones gonna put a smite on you...

Smite ............sonian?

Guess so. What else could it be?

God is coming, but no one knows the time .......and they won't until the exact moment

Ah yes, one of the handiest phrases ever when trying to push religion.

Something is going to happen, but we won't tell you what, when, how, where or why. That way we can claim just about anything we want....

Sheesh!

it is the insecurity of the christianity that make them say things like that, they need to say it to reassure themselves as a reminder of what they believe in.