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I retract my statement about Biblical literalists and modify it: "You can't argue with most literalists, they tend to be irrational people." I feel as though people spend too much ...

Flemzo, literalists cannot be argued with. They're pretty irrational. I can't figure out how looking at the Bible as myth and allegory makes you a bad Christian, or not a ...

The Bible was used to justify slavery just as often as it was used to speak out against it. I don't even know that God did much freeing. God help ...

Just like the Greek myths, the Bible is a series of stories that have been used over centuries to explain the world that surrounds humanity. We do not like what ...

Early J.K. Rowling. Early Stephen King. I loved Terry Goodkind when I was in high school. I recent reread the Sword of Truth and wanted to smash my face in. ...

Technically speaking, the United States isn't a true democracy. We're a republic, its different.

Griff is right. Sexual preference and love are not the same thing. I don't like to call myself bisexual, because people like to make wild assumptions about what that means ...

Surprisingly enough, I agree with a round about way. An over all attitude change in going to be absolutely necessary in this country (America) for any positive change to occur. ...

That's all well and good, thunder, but Incan has already pointed out that many books span age groups. Harry Potter is a great example. I know many "adult" who enjoyed ...

Propaganda is never a good thing, because it encourages blind faith in a cause. Whether that cause is good or bad doesn't matter. Blind faith in anything is never a ...

I'm not changing my vocabulary because a few people here don't understand some of the words I use. It's good for you to have to look up words, it means ...

Why five years? That seems rather arbitrary to me.

While there has been a dramatic increase of acceptance of same-sex marriage in Canada preceding the enactment of The Civil Marriage Act in 2005; it should be noted that the ...

I don't feel like they're split anymore. I think, if anything, the Democrats are talking, which is extremely important to party unity. If McCain wins, I'm moving to Canada. I ...

How would we fund another invasion? Where would we get the man power? How could we possibly manage such a thing? Its at the very least completely impractical. (Incidentally, my ...