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@Reg thank you, that was so funny!

”The top Rabbinical authorities are only highly esteemed amongst themselves.”

*cackles*

Hi Michael, perhaps you’re looking in the wrong places. Have you been to Jamaica?  The Rastafarians in particular

“The Twelve Tribes of Israel is a Rastafari religious group and one of the Mansions of Rastafari. Its headquarters is on Hope Road in Kingston, Jamaica. The group was formed in 1968 by Vernon Carrington, who was known to the orga…[Read more]

I could really do with a prophecy regarding a horse race, or better still a lottery number. If one of those comes up, I’d be at least a little inclined to believe.

Beasts and horns don’t really do it for me.  I’m glad you’re passionate about these things though. It’s nice to see joy, even interspersed with beasts 😉

Ok Michael, I’ll bite. What I read from your posts is that Prophecy (which is vague and needs interpretation) is there to demonstrate the existence of god and that this (generalised) foretelling of the future is a technique to persuade humans of god’s existence- and should people believe this, they will get eternal ‘life’.

That is my ten second…[Read more]

Even if I followed that – what does it recommend you do?  Is there any use to knowing ‘the beast’ is going to do something if we have no idea who that is and cannot prevent it doing it’s deed?

I still have no idea what the point of all these prophecies are, since they appear only to be recognisable after the event.

It seems to me a useful prophecy might help you to avoid misfortune, or gain success. But if you only recognise that something was prophecy after the event, that would defeat the purpose.

It’s a bit like reading last w…[Read more]

Johan, you are welcome to post thoughtful or original comments here. You are not welcome to proselytise (or preach or post chunks of religious texts.)

If you want to publicly share your religious insights, please don’t expect interest from an atheist membership. After all, the only reason atheists exist, is because of theistic impositions.

There was a bumper sticker on a car in front of me yesterday that said:-

IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED EVOLUTION

so I guess the churches are trying to accommodate science and yet remain relevant.

*spoiler alert – they won’t*

I’m not so clear on the rational side.

I also think that what the Catholic Church covered up by way of abuse, puts them squarely in the unacceptable range. However, in other news…

They accepted that the Earth moved around the sun, only because the evidence that was surfacing was so damn obvious that they had to. So they switched sides to kee…[Read more]

Alright, Michael, now I understand – prophecy is a sort of evidence to help people feel their faith is well placed.

How does this prophecy lead specifically to the abrahamic god?  Why could this prophecy not be pointing at a different root cause, or god, or even a group of gods?

If we accept that prophecy is real and is a ‘magic’ phenomenon (for…[Read more]

Michael, in your belief system, what purpose does the prophecy serve?  Please try to answer me without ‘beasts’ and ‘horns’, etc. I’m not asking about the content or delivery mechanism of these prophecies, just their purpose