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Divinity014:23, 11 April 2016
Comments from feedback form - "What motion do you refer to in..."422:47, 5 January 2011
Comments from feedback form - "no objection"015:11, 1 December 2010
Comments from feedback form - "more detail of argument would ..."004:23, 1 December 2010
Comments from feedback form - "This is quite old news really...."102:02, 1 December 2010
Comments from feedback form - "Excellent!"022:51, 30 November 2010
So216:51, 30 November 2010

Divinity will be the final state of the Universe as it evolves , in the end there will be Pure Information in the nature of Light.

Comments from feedback form - "What motion do you refer to in..."

What motion do you refer to in the closing paragraph? Nowhere could I find a logical antecedent.

184.36.124.57 (talk)01:37, 1 December 2010

The motion is in the lede: "That religion is a force for good in the world".

Tom Morris (talk)01:59, 1 December 2010

Consider how the [true] religions of God served the world of humanity! How the religion of Torah became conducive to the glory and honor and progress of the Israeli nation! How the breaths of the Holy Spirit of His Holiness Christ created affinity and unity between divergent communities and quarreling families! How the sacred power of His Holiness Muhammad became the means of uniting and harmonizing the contentious tribes and the different clans of Peninsular Arabia -- to such an extent that one thousand tribes were welded into one tribe, strife and discord was done away with, all of them unitedly and with one accord strove in advancing the cause of culture and civilization, and thus were freed from the lowest degree of degradation, soaring toward the height of everlasting glory!

(Abdu'l-Bahá)

189.58.120.190 (talk)20:57, 5 January 2011

Heh. Ignoring the first 2 bits of dren and moving on to the third, Muhammad united the arab tribes completely did he? No internal strife at all, eh? Cause, it's not like there exists any strife between the Shi'ite and Sunni movements, right? Nope, none at all. In fact there is so little strife that it would be completely incorrect to claim that there has been a low grade (and sometimes not so low grade) civil war going on within Islam for the past 1350 years.

Gopher65talk22:46, 5 January 2011
 
 

yes I think someone should edit that part...

24.57.113.184 (talk)02:16, 2 December 2010
 

Comments from feedback form - "no objection"

no objection

212.149.48.42 (talk)15:11, 1 December 2010

Comments from feedback form - "more detail of argument would ..."

more detail of argument would have been fab.

41.174.21.159 (talk)04:23, 1 December 2010

Comments from feedback form - "This is quite old news really...."

This is quite old news really. Not very recent.

Jay-Sebastos (talk)21:34, 30 November 2010

The reason I felt it was important to post it, even though it was a few days late, was that it was of some significance: namely, that Tony Blair was involved. If it was just some random religious apologist, it wouldn't be significant but Blair was (and to some extent still is) an important political figure, so while it isn't news in the sense of being up-to-the-minute breaking news, it is news when someone of the political importance of Tony Blair is involved in something like this.

Tom Morris (talk)02:02, 1 December 2010
 

Comments from feedback form - "Excellent!"

Excellent!

69.126.227.51 (talk)22:51, 30 November 2010

The world is moving away from religion. It would worship itself, instead of asking for help from a higher source, imagined or otherwise. Is that good or bad?

58.170.155.14 (talk)14:06, 30 November 2010

That is certainly debatable. See Secularization.

Tom Morris (talk)16:13, 30 November 2010
 

Always a good target for provocative comments. Many renowned philosophers have commented on religion. Take your pick: Marx described it as 'The opiate of the masses'. Emile Zoe spoke more strongly: 'The world will not know peace until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest'.

Neither of these points posit that human beings are universally substituting themselves, or material wealth, for what I assume you consider 'god'.

Brian McNeil / talk16:51, 30 November 2010