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Christianity to be blunt seems incapable of actually loving anyone outside of their bubble of acceptable morality. It also seems apparent that secularists show far more love to people as they are than Christians. Here is an example, yes I will be using homosexual relations because it's one of...

What is the view of destroying icons whether Christian or pagan? Is it a sinful act to be an iconoclast or does Catholicism leave room for Catholics who reject icons? Related to it, do Catholics have any moral standing to condemn ISIS destroying temples and icons when early Christians did the...

I'm thinking the similar thoughts as the Gnostics did in separating the OT God from the NT God. My reason is, from what I gather adultery laws only were sentenced to married women and their lover but married men could have sex with unmarried women all they wanted (IE: prostitutes, sex slaves...

Do heathens who follow their societal morality which goes counter to God's will gain salvation? To use an extreme example. The Aztecs practiced human sacrifice, cannibalism and homosexuality. All which were seen as moral good. Would an Aztec who never learned about Christ gain salvation for...

Despite reading and knowing what it means I have trouble understanding what this implies. If Mary lacked original sin does that mean she didn't know good or evil? Could she still have fallen into sin through temptation even with an immaculate state? Did Jesus have original sin? Finally why...

Does God permit sinful acts to be done to save your own or others lives? I recall when that plane in S. America crashed and the passengers cannibalize the corpses they were told by their local clergy it wasn't a sin. Then you have the OT where polygamy and incest were permitted at a time...

Or in other words, what's the point of being the good son who remains faithful to the Father the entire time? The parable is actually quite perfect in showing how aloof God is to his loyal followers. The good son complains to his father that he has been faithful and yet his desires are denied...

God Intervened with the Hebrew in Exodus. So why does God do nothing for every other atrocity? God didn't stop the Khmer Rouge, it took the fellow Communists in N Vietnam to end them. He didn't stop the Holocaust or Armenian genocide. So what are you suppose to gather from this inactivity...

Why do you believe in God?

I'll be to the point, how can Catholics deny other deities as either non existent or inferior beings like demons when God only gives us no evidence of his existence or at the very least no more proof than Krishna gives Hindus, Amateratsu gives Shinto, Jupiter gave Roman pagans, ect.

you hear it from celebrities and laymen alike, that the Vatican should strip all it's art and building to do a lump sum charity. First what makes papal wealth and the Pope living on a manor different from protestant megachurch pastors? second what's the justification for keeping the art? God...

I feel like making a pile of everything I own and treasure and burning it in a oil covered fire...maybe even jumping into it. I have no purpose in life, no passions, no achievements that matter. Becoming a high school teacher is a horrible job with horrible pay and that's my future. I can't...

There was a lot of heated discussion recently over the treatment of North American natives by the Spanish and Saint Serra, which got me interested in browsing the history of Meso-America. This lead me to thinking about this question since it seems to be an extreme scenario of what we had been...

My question comes from thinking about the miniscule 1% population of Christians in Japan. How should we view missions that generally can be seen as failures? Did God want Christianity to fail in places like Japan as an example? How should the missionaries be viewed when all their effort lead...

I'm in a bit of a crisis after realizing that I'm only moral because God/life/whatever hasn't put me in a desperate situation. When I think about it though, not having bad things happen to me is the only reason I can view myself as more good than evil. However going over different scenarios I...

I'm currently reading a lot of statistics on education as I work on my teaching certificate and I find myself depressed that I'm Hispanic. Reading things like 50% of Hispanic 17 year olds write at a 13 year old white teens average skill level, knowing what a corrupt nation Mexico is and that...

In 23 years I've just existed...not lived. I've never dated or had any real friends, the last time I had people I could call my friend was a neighbor from middle school who still moved away a year later. Choosing to believe in Christianity also feels like a mistake. I look around and all the...

Has anyone else ever felt infuriated having to read or listen to other people who seemingly have a more "valid" reason to be depressed? Using myself for example, I feel like a worthless waste of life and you'd all probably want to beat me bloody when you discover that I have both my parents who...

I'll try to be to the point, I find myself having no ambition or enthusiasm toward anything in life. I feel completely detached from the Christian community and what they stand for, not only that but I've lost faith in God. Every sign seems to point to God either being aloof to our existence...

I must ask my more faithful brethren a question about God. It's been argued here repeatedly that since God is our creator he can do what He wants with us, which can include blessing us or outright killing us when He desire it and no matter how awful the death toll may seem God is still...