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Christianity

17 (23.3%)

Islam

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Buddhism

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Scientology

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Other (please tell)

7 (9.6%)

Athiest

35 (47.9%)

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Agnostic

10 (13.7%)

Total Members Voted: 70

[Teneb]

Meanwhile, I do not support this heretical non-railgun thread.

[TD1]

Oh, shoot, I didn't realise. I accidentally blasphemed.

I must leave this place of impiety and immorality.

[Egan_BW]

Huh? This is railgun thread. Religion is a synonym for Railgun.

[Starver]

May the mercy of Schwerer Gustav be upon you all.

[Pwnzerfaust]

No no the Gustav was a railway gun, not a railgun.

[Starver]

I was just taking us on a different track... 

[Rolan7]

I found this chalk drawing while walking around the university tonight.  Not exactly sure what it's going for...  Anyone have ideas?

Spoiler: Photo (click to show/hide)

[hops]

Can the Christians here give their take on the Problem of Evil? I'm writing a story involving the Abrahamic God, and for once I want to give a fair representation instead of just putting in a random Pagan God and then saying that it's Yahweh. How do you explain the existence of an omnibenevolent, omnipotent, omniscient entity in a world where evil exist? I want to write him in a way that is believable for me, so I need some help here.

Additionally, some advice on how God would act would be helpful. I find it unlikely that God would act exactly like he did in the Bible in the modern day and age, what with changes in societal values. Do you think that God changes his methods of dealing with humans as we mature as a species, too?

And also, would it make sense for God to be able to create a dice that he himself cannot predict? I'm using the idea of him being almost omnipotent, rather than literally being able to do anything.

[TheBiggerFish]

I found this chalk drawing while walking around the university tonight.  Not exactly sure what it's going for...  Anyone have ideas?

Spoiler: Photo (click to show/hide)

You want the Gender Thread for this one, I think.

[hops]

I think it's an attempt at summoning me.

[TD1]

Yea, it's obviously male, female and trans. Coming from one source.

[TheDarkStar]

Can the Christians here give their take on the Problem of Evil? I'm writing a story involving the Abrahamic God, and for once I want to give a fair representation instead of just putting in a random Pagan God and then saying that it's Yahweh. How do you explain the existence of an omnibenevolent, omnipotent, omniscient entity in a world where evil exist? I want to write him in a way that is believable for me, so I need some help here.

Additionally, some advice on how God would act would be helpful. I find it unlikely that God would act exactly like he did in the Bible in the modern day and age, what with changes in societal values. Do you think that God changes his methods of dealing with humans as we mature as a species, too?

I believe that we're sent here to learn and grow and so we don't get a perfect world. We get a world where we have challenges and overcoming them teaches us. If this life was all there was, it would be cruel, but because it's not then there is value in learning from a difficult world.

I think that God still acts fairly similarly to the way he did in the Bible. I believe that he still calls spokesmen/prophets just as he did in the Old Testament (and in the later New Testament) - I'm LDS and believe that the head of my church is a prophet. In addition, things like the Ten Commandments and related commandments in the New Testament are still in effect. However, they are updated to account for changes in society. For example, in my church illegal drugs are specifically prohibited, but they aren't even mentioned in the Bible (or even more recent scripture that my church also uses) because most illegal drugs didn't exist 2000 or even 200 years ago.

Hopefully that helps a bit. How are you planning on writing about God? What kind of role will he have - as a character or as the god of a religion that some characters are part of?

[Starver]

It's the symbol for "Church with spire that also has a broken wind turbine and another broken wind turbine used as a spare chapel", as appropriate for a Religion thread...

HTH, HAND.

[TheDarkStar]

It's a drawing of a roundabout on the road with arrows indicating different direction to go.

[penguinofhonor]

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That is a modified gender symbol used by some LGBT people, I believe to symbolize people who do not fit into the gender binary.