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We had the same issue with my goddaughter, now six and a half.
Two rabbits, one hamster & two cats [one drowned], karked it over the course of eighteen months.
Not being superstitious types, her parents talked about pets having shorter life spans, not suffering and their spirit living on if they are remembered.
So far so good, but she is incredibly bright for her age and more difficult questions are sure to follow soon.
What disturbs me though, is that my friends garden is starting to resemble a pet cemetery. We all know how that book ended. 😯
rightplacerighttime,
You needn't bother.I'll go slower then.
You mention sweatshops in a non Christian country. Read Leviticus 25:44-46.
Of course those things have ethical 'dimensions'. That wasn't my point - which was they you don't need religious texts to tell you how to handle them.
Ah I see... your point was something different to what you actually wrote.
I don't think you do!
Read my second post ... and the other suggested material 😀
And why are you asking me to read the bible BTW after just rubbishing Christianity?
Hang on.
You wrote this:
Secular morality [b]doesn’t concern itself with ethical non issues such as[/b] — what we eat, read or wear, when we work, or whom we have sex with.
But now you tell me that your point was that:
[b]Of course those things have ethical 'dimensions'.[/b] That wasn't my point - which was they you don't need religious texts to tell you how to handle them.
So I was supposed to see that your point was the exact opposite of what you wrote was I?
Just a short apology will do.
Oh, and going back and editing posts to make them sound more reasonable AFTER someone has responded to them is considered unethical in some quarters.
BigJohn - Member
Ask him if he remembers what it was like before he was born and tell him it's just like that. No horrible feelings etc.
Then what happens if under regressive hypnotherapy he recalls his previous existence as a sixteenth century witch burned at the stake?
To the OP, in all seriousness you need to emphasise there is so much we don't know in life, but that it is a common held belief that we come back time and again until we get it right.
Then tell him about the Force.
Atheists = lazy Agnostics
I hope I can assume that the religious amongst us understand that Atheists don't accept the idea that a god exists?
Strange then, how one constantly hears the attempt from them to convince the Atheist of their argument, by reporting on this god's (or "sky fairy's" if you prefer) plans and intentions, as if that is going to sway someone who thinks the very idea of such an unproven super-being is essentially just plain silly...
No offense.