An excellent book which deals with with some ideas of parallel universes and time warps, etc.. is the book Black Holes and Time Warps : Einstein's Outrageous Legacy by Kipp Thorne. It doesn't deal directly with things like the world being a brane, but it deals with a lot of things in a similiar vein.
But I thought one of the more interesting aspects of this book is how it describes the way certain findings became accepted - it makes me wonder what happens behind the scenes in articles like this one...
The forward by Stephen Hawking is very interesting, as well.
To answer your question: I posted because of other comments that I read, which said in effect that they hoped that people (specifically, religous people) would not see her death as a good thing, or answers to prayers, etc. So I thought that I would throw out my perspective on this, as a religous person who does not like South Park. I don't see this at all as an answer to prayers, specifically for the reasons stated in my previous posts. And I did make the concession that I did not know her salvation status, but I was trying to make a broader point.
You are right, it is very possible that many clergymen are not believers. I should have simply said "fellow Christian" versus "clergyman or fellow Christian".
I think it would be fascinating to find life on other planets; however, as far as I see it, this would not sound the "death knell" for Christian fundamentalist beliefs (i.e., creationism). I do not think that anything (as far as I have read - I have just recently come to Christ) in the Bible absolutely rules out the possibility of other life created in the universe by the Lord. I could be mistaken about this - anybody have a different opinion?
In any case, I am very sorry you feel that true Christianity is a "mental illness". It is true that false Christians have caused innumerable hardships on the world... but those people are wolves in sheep's clothing. True Christianity recognizes the truth of the Lord Jesus Christ - and the Truth of the Bible.
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An excellent book which deals with with some ideas of parallel universes and time warps, etc.. is the book Black Holes and Time Warps : Einstein's Outrageous Legacy by Kipp Thorne. It doesn't deal directly with things like the world being a brane, but it deals with a lot of things in a similiar vein.
But I thought one of the more interesting aspects of this book is how it describes the way certain findings became accepted - it makes me wonder what happens behind the scenes in articles like this one...
The forward by Stephen Hawking is very interesting, as well.
Hmm... interesting tagline: "Organized Religion: The only thing preventing people from being civilized."
As I can see from most of the other responses to my post, everybody else is so civilized...
To answer your question: I posted because of other comments that I read, which said in effect that they hoped that people (specifically, religous people) would not see her death as a good thing, or answers to prayers, etc. So I thought that I would throw out my perspective on this, as a religous person who does not like South Park. I don't see this at all as an answer to prayers, specifically for the reasons stated in my previous posts. And I did make the concession that I did not know her salvation status, but I was trying to make a broader point.
You are right, it is very possible that many clergymen are not believers. I should have simply said "fellow Christian" versus "clergyman or fellow Christian".
I think it would be fascinating to find life on other planets; however, as far as I see it, this would not sound the "death knell" for Christian fundamentalist beliefs (i.e., creationism). I do not think that anything (as far as I have read - I have just recently come to Christ) in the Bible absolutely rules out the possibility of other life created in the universe by the Lord. I could be mistaken about this - anybody have a different opinion?
In any case, I am very sorry you feel that true Christianity is a "mental illness". It is true that false Christians have caused innumerable hardships on the world... but those people are wolves in sheep's clothing. True Christianity recognizes the truth of the Lord Jesus Christ - and the Truth of the Bible.