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By what criteria do you attribute veracity to your faith's sacred text(s,) and thus the basis of that faith? Is that criteria objective?
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   (25 Comments) Given that evolution is a fact and that the evidence for it is incontrovertible, I find it very difficult to understand how religious people, mostly Christians, can deny it. Can you enlighten me?
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   (69 Comments) What is your standard of truth? How do you determine what is true?
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   (114 Comments) Did Jesus preach non-violent submission?
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   (36 Comments) Why does God require an argument to defend it, unlike something obvious like gravity for example?
   Answers: Muslim, Christian
   (37 Comments) Why does religion 'permit' murder and why are people so eager to justify murders their people commited?
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   (17 Comments) If God really did create everything, how would anyone know?
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   (24 Comments) How do you know your god is good, and is not actually a satan making us think he is good?
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   (36 Comments) You say god cannot lie? He said that Adam and Eve would die if they ate from the 'Tree'.. yet they did not die. He said nothing about sin, he said that they would die.
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   (14 Comments) Is there a question to which you all would give the same - or almost the same - answer?
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   (2 Comments) Can there be objective morality with a God? If God is the source of morality, then morality is subject to the will of God, so isn't it by definition subjective?
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   (16 Comments) Can you conceive of any specific thing that, if it happened, would cause you to change your position on the God issue? If so, what is it? If not, then why not?
   Answers: Christian, Atheist
   (39 Comments) How can God be an uncaused cause?
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   (26 Comments) Couldn't God have given us free will without giving us the desire to sin?
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   (45 Comments) Since there can be no evidence for something that can't be measured, is it at least fair to say that there is no empirical evidence for god, and therefore no reason to believe he exists?
   Answers: Muslim, Christian
   (15 Comments) If God created everything and decided how it would be, wouldn't our sins be his fault?
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   (120 Comments) Can justice be done using punishment of infinite nature for a transgression of finite nature?
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   (25 Comments) If God has a "divine plan" for everyone, then does that mean he controls humans and animals to meet his plan?
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   (5 Comments) How is God any different than Santa Claus?
   Answers: Muslim, Atheist, Christian
   (11 Comments) The Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville FL is sponsoring an International Burn A Koran Day on 9/11/2010. I don't understand why they are doing this. I wanted to direct this towards the Muslim and Christian columnists.
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   (0 Comments) Is it possible for God to be both all-loving and all-powerful if he allows Hell in the form of eternal suffering and torture?
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   (2 Comments) How is the trinity monotheistic?
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   (3 Comments) Do we have free will? Please explain.
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   (8 Comments) Why do seemingly logical individuals arrive at such differing conclusions regarding existence, all the while maintaining that logic allows nothing else? Is the same information being evaluated? Is the same definition of logic being considered?
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   (0 Comments) Is there anything that troubles you personally about the belief system you adhere to? What is it and why is it troubling?
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