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  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The totalitarian nature of religion

    It was addressed to you, ZLYF, as you're the one who asked. My opinions are based on my general knowledge about both the crusades and 911. They're logical in the ...

    Feb 29, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The totalitarian nature of religion

    Just because an Atheist does not have a deity to fall back on when it comes to morality does not mean that there is no foundation for compassion. I love ...

    Feb 29, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The totalitarian nature of religion

    The Crusades are a completely relevant and legit indication of how dangerous religion, and particularly Christianity can be. They were wars, where people tortured in the name of religion. An ...

    Feb 29, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The totalitarian nature of religion

    I realize this wasn't directed towards me, but did you really ask that question? Really? The simple answer to that would be, if religion is totalitarian and that it is ...

    Feb 29, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The totalitarian nature of religion

    Hayden, thanks for the additional info., which I agree with. By the way, there is a refutation of that book called "The Dawkins delusion", I think. Another point as to ...

    Feb 28, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The totalitarian nature of religion

    JordanWilson, according to C. Richard Dawkins, The universe has design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.’ (River out of Eden ch. 4) and, ‘Let ...

    Feb 28, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The totalitarian nature of religion

    The Crusades are a completely relevant and legit indication of how dangerous religion, and particularly Christianity can be. They were wars, where people tortured in the name of religion. While ...

    Feb 28, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The totalitarian nature of religion

    If you're talking about crusades and wars, most wars did not involve religion. For example, Falklands War, Vietnam and Korean Wars, WW2, WW1, Gran Chaco War in South America, Russo-Japanese ...

    Feb 28, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Is mankind bad?

    I would say that it depends on how you define good and evil. What you take to be an absolute right or wrong. Without such absolutes, anything can be good ...

    Feb 23, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The actual Jesus probably didn't exist

    Ok, I got the studies, online...but what I’m intending to say about is totally off topic and so will not post. Not here, anyway.

    Feb 22, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The actual Jesus probably didn't exist

    If you go to a university library, find the anthropology section, and start reading about food, you pretty much get that general idea of what HBM said. The evolution of ...

    Feb 22, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The actual Jesus probably didn't exist

    Noninjaspresent, And have you ever wondered why the same farming techniques appeared at opposite ends of the globe at roughly the same time (not large enough gaps in time to ...

    Feb 21, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: God vs.Science

    Here are some of my suggested reads on the subject of God vs. Science, (In favour of God being included in science): The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural ...

    Feb 20, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The actual Jesus probably didn't exist

    Noninjaspresent, I believe Jesus did exist, but not as a son of God or someone with supernatural powers, but as a good man who believed all men were equal and ...

    Feb 20, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The actual Jesus probably didn't exist

    This "theory" (it's a hypothesis, not a theory. Get it right.) has no factual evidence supporting it. It is entirely disregarded by modern science because whoever came up with it ...

    Feb 20, 2012


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