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Karzkin, I love you for being such a sharp and well tempered voice against a tidal wave of stupid. The world needs more people like you.

Thanks Snoink, I just wanted to be extra clear for the fundies out there.

Just to clear something up that I'm seeing a lot of: RELIGIOUS DOGMA =/= SCIENCE It does not matter if the Bible, or any other religious text, contains something that ...

Well, if we widen our perspective for a moment, we realize that a lot of drugs are consumed unquestionably, be it pharmaceutical drugs or caffeine. This is rightfully so, because ...

Well that, sir, is just not true so don't propagate it. Clear explanation: Before you were born, and after you die are the same states. Life is finite, and facing ...

NPR fact checks the Kony 2012 video. Interesting quote from it: "you don't have the Syria movie, but you have the Kony movie. How do we decide what moves us ...

@skw I would think that as a society progresses technologically, there is an increasing amount of free time, and thus an increasing amount of time to go to church and ...

3/10 Christians interpret the Bible literally. Enough to ruin three out of ten Christian encounters. Also: the Bible and The Little Mermaid both feature talking animals. :wink:

What I'm getting at is one person claiming that the man is Christian for espousing the Ten Commandments and Bible, whereas, like you said, the Church has a different way ...

For those of you not aware, and implying otherwise, this is not some new movement. It's been around for at least six years, because that was how long ago I ...

Culturally, yes, the label "Christian" can connote many things. What I think you're getting at though is what I freely call sect-denial. Often Protestants refuse to call Catholics or Mormons ...

"In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty." — Thomas Jefferson

The classics are classics for a reason, they're timeless. I find it hard to truly criticize books written decades ago that still hold our attention, suspend time and space, challenge ...

Tears are -- for me at least -- the sign that the movie was really good. If I don't cry of happiness, sadness, anything, then something must be wrong. :) ...

I was under the impression that God took away their immortality. He punished them with the certainty of death, as in, they will die eventually for their actions. We as ...