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    Christians, have you tried Yoga or meditation?

    If so, was it beneficial?
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    What's the difference between progressive Evangelicals like Rob Bell, Shane

    Claiborne, and Brian McLaren, and? standard Mainline Protestants?
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    Anti-gay Christians, if God-publicly announced that-homosexuality-wasn't a sin...?

    would you be open to having a gay relationship? (if you are married, assume you were single)
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    Buddhists, is *all* suffering caused by desire and therefore illegitimate?

    To me, saying that suffering is caused by desire makes such suffering sound illegitimate and unreasonable. Yet it seems eminently reasonable and human to suffer if a loved one has died from an illness or a natural disaster. It seems insane and inhuman not to suffer in those cases
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    To those who complain that Liberal Christians don't stand up to Fundamentalists,...

    ...what do you think of this? Religious Left Form Alternative to Nat'l Prayer Breakfast http://www.christianpost.com/article/20100202/uganda/
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    Which do you think is a more powerful image: the life-long spiritual seeker, or the...

    ...devout monastic? If it were possible to die from blushing...((((ungodly))))
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    Have you complained that moderate Christians don't speak out?

    What do you think of this: http://www.christianpost.com/article/20110114/evolutionary-christians-to-discuss-science-as-divine-revelation/
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    If you think of yourself as a "militant atheist," how do you feel about Liberal

    Christians? The kind that accept evolution and question their theology reasonably with an eye towards updating it if it proves problematic
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    Mormons, if Missouri is the Garden of Eden, why was the true church ejected from it?

    Wouldn't God show more favor to the Mormon church than he did to Adam and Eve, and allow them to stay in Eden? Also, how did humans get to Missouri in the first place if there is an angel with a flaming sword at the gates of eden?
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    Creationists, what happened to the Garden of Eden?

    Where was it and why haven't we found it yet?
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    If God does not change, is he indifferent to his own creation of the universe?

    If God is happier now that he's created universe, isn't that a change? "created the universe"
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    Creationists, would teaching why creationism/ID isn't science satisfy your

    desire for it to be taught? in public schools? After all, the kids would learn about it.
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    Atheists, have you ever intentionally baited a Christian or other theist so...

    ...you could smirk about? how judgmental/immoral/hypocritical theists are?
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    Christians, how do we give things like desires, regrets, etc. to God?

    What is the procedure involved, does it always work, and what should be experienced afterward?
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    Christians, how do you answer the contention that we are projecting our own psychology..

    ...on to the universe...? and that's why we believe we sense the presence of God behind it?
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    Is God telling us what to do superior to learning morality through reflection on...

    ...experience? If so, why, especially when people cannot agree on what God actually told us to do and whether those commands applied only at the time or always?
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    If God's covenant with Israel required an innocent person to suffer, isn't

    that an unconscionable contract? How could any system of justice allow such a contract to be enforced? Jesus was the innocent person.
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    Christians, does the Bible teach that creation is part of God?

    Genesis 1:31 - God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. Mark 10:18 - "Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good--except God alone." If creation is good, and nobody can be good except God alone, then...
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    Can religious experiences be fairly characterized as mental illness if they

    make a person's life better? Better than what it was before the experiences, I mean.
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    Christians, are there knowable reasons behind God's moral decrees?

    Or is that pointless because the only real reason is "because God said so"?
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