Author Topic: SOB. Spirituality Out of the Box.  (Read 11657 times)

Offline GaryTheDemon

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Re: SOB. Spirituality Out of the Box.
« Reply #15 on: July 18, 2012, 11:34:39 PM »
One Uniting Church minister I know considers the Bible as 'Mans response to God' which I think is a very interesting approach.  The concept that it is 'the word of God' when clearly it is written by man is something I continuously find hard to take ...

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Re: SOB. Spirituality Out of the Box.
« Reply #16 on: July 19, 2012, 12:38:33 AM »
I'm going to create some infrastructure.  I wonder what paperwork is needed to actually get a new religion 'recognised'? 

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Re: SOB. Spirituality Out of the Box.
« Reply #17 on: July 19, 2012, 12:17:45 PM »
Not sure. Maybe it's like starting a political party?
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Re: SOB. Spirituality Out of the Box.
« Reply #18 on: July 19, 2012, 01:31:51 PM »
ABN ?   All donations are tax deductible!  Lets build a compound ! LOL

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Re: SOB. Spirituality Out of the Box.
« Reply #19 on: July 19, 2012, 02:32:44 PM »
I think you would have to be able to produce some sort of manifesto  out lining the 'Church's' aims and principles.  You would also need a base line of followers too.


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Re: SOB. Spirituality Out of the Box.
« Reply #20 on: July 19, 2012, 06:27:58 PM »
Well they started the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster lol
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