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1. The Swedes use the word Thor or Tor in a lot of names. 2. Seriously - that made no sense at all! 3. So not true. I searched and found... nothing! 4. Climbing a tall mountain is especially sweet because of the sense of achievement from so difficult an endeavour. However, flying by simply...

I have already settled this for you. Weak Atheism is a belief that something is not proven - this point has already been made. Ask a strong Atheist where his proof of God's non-existence is!

You can act in any way that you see fit - as can the site and the site members and the site staff. However, you cannot dictate thought and belief to somebody else. I have successfully navigated the minefields of membership here for many, many years. Holding the ten commandments to be part of...

*shrugs* Sorry if I'm addressing the text and not the subtext. If you don't say what you mean, how can you mean what you say? ;)

That doesn't matter. People are sheep, people are stupid. When they see Pat Robertson saying those things they assume that he speaks for Christians. Ask yourself whether the people you know were more forgiving towards moderate muslims who, for decades, didn't speak out against extremist...

You know, you're right MP, I didn't express myself clearly enough. The only issue left to resolve between the two of us, I think, is this matter of objectivity. When I said that in order for me to accept something it had to be internally consistent and externally consistent with matters I...

For your delight and edification, the first four commandments in the King James Bible are... Now can you possibly see why I, as an animist, might have issues with being held to those commandments?

Well I agree with you Atown, but what does this "Storing up of treasures in heaven" business refer to then?

Pat Robertson - keeping the spirit of the Salem witchtrials alive into a new millenium! Anytime you guys ask yourselves "Why do so many people hate Christians?" just take a good long look at who you allow to speak for you.

It's hardly surprising that the Arabs and the Jews have some of the same hangups, is it? They both share the same early tribal history! Westerners / Northerners have ALWAYS kept Pigs. I suppose we managed the curing process in such a way that our pork didn't kill us - probably because of the...

Do you want the naff, third class, version of hte afterlife? How much does an upgrade to second class cost? How much to First class? Do Buddhists get a 'Frequent Flyer' discount?

Here's some answers for you, MP. First of all, I don't like the word Freethinker, as it suggests that it's some sort of club or organisation that you can join, which requires you to hold certain beliefs. When I use the term it doesn't have a capital letter and it solely means someone who...

The rules of the game are quite simple - evolution is there to be attacked if the scientific principle can be used to remove the foundations of the theory. The problem is, though, that Creationists seem to feel that the only way they can affect the theory of evolution is by proving...

Whilst I totally support and cheer the idea of not focussing solely on material things, I am kind of disturbed by the idea that it's replaced with the idea that Heaven will have some sort of multi-streaming class system based on the acquisition of property. No utopia of my design would have THAT!

Well, as the spirit of the law was to stop people from getting food poisoning, then so long as you don't eat Pork that's beyond it's "Best Before" date, you're obeying the law of Yahweh. I bet it was murder keeping pork sanitary in the Middle East with no proper chilling.

Whilst it is impossible to prove something DOESN'T exist, it is possible to logically prove that assertions used to support the theory of it existing are false. That doesn't mean that it DOESN'T exist, merely that it is not proven to exist. If you're happier with the phrase "It has not been...

I actually disagree with the idea of the bible being used as the rules for this forum - since much of what we do here involves taking pot shots at sacred cows that don't have anything but scriptural support. In addition many of the ten commandments are certainly not ones that I use as a guide...

Not according to one gentleman here, whose comments seem to indicate that early indoctrination is better than the truth. I agree with YOU though.

I think it was entirely because: 1. It was religion being introduced to science class under false pretences. 2. It was devoid of any shred of scientific value. Whatever you want to claim as Truth the fact is that in Science class you teach only that which has a foundation in the...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4545822.stm And the Creationist wagon loses another wheel in court today, as a Judge banned any further attempts to introduce Intelligent Design to the school science curriculum. The summing up goes on for awhile, but to give you a precis he also...