AuroraOrodel

On the contrary, MMM, love is very much worth wondering about. Whether or not you believe it's a social construct overlaid onto a biological process, the sensation and state of ...

When people tell me I "don't believe in God", I give them funny looks and say "What are you talking about? I have TONS of gods!" :wink: Religious persecution is ...

Perhaps I should flesh out my assertion. Obviously there is an adaptive quality to religion, otherwise it wouldn't have evolved as part of our culture. In a religiously homogeneous society ...

Also, I think there's this weird belief that faith always blocks science? It really doesn't. Science tends to push through regardless, because it's awesome like that. It can just take ...

Most of the original contentions are, frankly, offensive so I can see why Kamas and OverEasy were bothered. "Wrongly influences other students"? There are many, many aspects of individuals which ...

The way I see it, all war is about the same thing, regardless of how you label its motives, and it goes something like this: "Those people over there have ...

I'm with Blink on this one...I haven't seen one instance of "hate-mongering" or bashing of anyone's beliefs in this thread, not from anyone. Ideas have been discussed civilly throughout.

A forced change? In evidence? In reason? In environment? In technology? In science? Classic example, Galileo. The first Pope to officially accept that he was right was John Paul II. ...

Absolutely. But there’s an almost perfect circularity to suggest that children are introduced to religion simply because it’s a part of their culture, which is made up of the same ...

At this point, that the globe is warming is confirmed. The crux of the debate now is "Is it our fault?" and "What, if anything, should we do about it?". ...

It used to. For more than a thousand years. But then people were like, what are you doing, you nutters. It had no choice but to give way to secularism ...

We made a terrible discovery when we unlocked the atom, but we can not go back to the days before then. Like it or not; we're in the age of ...

Religion, as in the beliefs about the world, practices, and codes of behavior for X group of people, cannot in and of itself cause problems. It is possible for two ...

Hmm, this made me think about something. The winter solstice is the shortest day of the year. They worshiped the sun. The day with the least amount of sun would ...

[size=85]I think that Abstinence is the only logical decision for those who think long term. Not for those who live just for the it becomes obvious why a majority of ...