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Originally posted by Freeborn
Yeah, I get that about Karma etc, but who has set the criteria?
If I'm to be reincarnated who determined the criteria that dictates which lifeform which I am reincarnated as, an amoeba or a mouse or another human being say????
Originally posted by Freeborn
Yeah, it all sounds a bit implausible to me.
But if a mish-mash and full of if's and but's and maybe's.
I guess that's another reason why I'm agnostic.
It's all so unprovable.
Sorry, I would love to discuss further but I've got to go to the pub now and worship the one true God; BEER!
Originally posted by madnessinmysoul
...actually, we promote the inclusion of either all religious symbols pertaining to the season or none at all...
if there was a jewish display, we'd ask for a christian one to be added (so long as it's on public land and not a matter of private choice)
and, honestly, that whole idea of a "war on christmas" is something bill o'reilly made up to get higher ratings.
we don't care what holiday you celebrate, it's why we say "happy holidays" to cover all of them
atheism isn't a philosophy it's a single position. if people do something, they don't do it in the name
i say religion is bad if something is bad, you get rid of it.
ben franklin thought a lighthouse was more valuable than a church
we just like to point out that many of the founding fathers were deists instead of the common myth perpetuated that they were all christians founding a christian nation..
"fortunatley the founding fathers who hated christianity made sure that couldn't happen by creating the separation of church and state in the constitution"
uh huh...freedom of religion for everyone except those with no religion...
you're betraying your ignorance on the theory of evolution...a theory which so many theists accept
wow, a scientist made a mistake...and then another scientist proved it wrong!
...science is the study of the natural... so that statement is not stupid. the point is that we'd need a new branch of study to tackle the supernatural
ok...another example of how evolutionary biology showed itself to be wrong on a particular issue.
...um...no
see, you clearly don't understand evolution if you think anyone is saying we descended from gorillas learn to understand a theory before you criticize it and again...evolutionary biology proved it to be wrong
ok...you've attacked 3 specimens out of hundreds of millions and you think you have a case?
Originally posted by madnessinmysoul
on the other hand, christians are trying to change the constitution to explicitly ban gay marriage...
Originally posted by Conspiriology
You call an Atheist Scientist finding a pigs tooth and building an entire skeleton around it writing documents for peer review a MISTAKE!
...
That was an intentional and egregiously fraudulent act to prove the lie of evolution
You call it ignorance I don't and ill debate you any day on how idiotic evolution is ANY DAY YOU LIKE. As for so many theists??
how many is "so many"
Originally posted by Conspiriology
WHO THE HELL IS "WE" Madd? You do this all the time,, you say their is no "we" whenever I say all Atheist's claiming they don't belong to anu "group" and that I don'ty have a right to lump them all together in the same way you have with all religions, yet here YOU ARE telling me the very things I saw going on MYSELF in this forum and at the malls YOU position yourself as "spokesman" for "THEM" .
Do I need to copy paste the ignorant posts made by you in the thread taking jesus out of Christmas? I will if you like? They certainly weren't indicative of the philosophy you are saying you espouse here in this post.
whats it gonna be mad??
Ive cross referenced all your posts,
DID YOU OR DID YOU NOT SAY THIS
atheism isn't a philosophy it's a single position. if people do something, they don't do it in the name
DID YOU OR DID YOU NOT SAY THIS
i say religion is bad if something is bad, you get rid of it.
So DON'T TELL ME YOU DON'T ESPOUSE THE OPINION OF PEOPLE LIKE HARRIS AND DAWKINS WHEN YOU HAVE SAID WORDS TO THE SAME EFFECT BECAUSE I GOT NEWS FOR YA BUDDY!!!
YOU HAVE! AND I GOT PLENTY MORE WHERE THESE CAME FROM !
ben franklin thought a lighthouse was more valuable than a church
Guess what madd,, BEN FRANKLIN WAS AN ATHEIST! SO I GUESS THAT ONE WAS A NO BRAINER HUH!
"fortunatley the founding fathers who hated christianity made sure that couldn't happen by creating the separation of church and state in the constitution"
Let me tell you something MADD to this very day the supreme court starts each session with (close your eyes everyone) GOD SAVE THE UNITED STATES.
NONE of the founding fathers had a damn thing to do with separation of church and state IN FACT YOU WON'T EVEN FIND IT IN THERE UNTILL 1947.
Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion
excuse me madd,, BUT IT IS FREEDOM OF RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION!
YOU are the one saying Atheism isn't a religion so don't complain when you got no religion to express! If you have no religious expression that isn't our fault. You can become a Christian or what ever you like.
I don't see why this would infringe on your so called buddist faith do you!!
But NOOOoooOOO we see the same MIMS method of flip flopping back and fourth from one side to the other whenever it suits your argument.
MADD IT'S LIKE THIS,,
YOU STAND FOR ONE THING OR I AM GONNA KEEP POINTING IT OUT SO YOU FALL FOR EVERYTHING.
So which is it?
You call it ignorance I don't and ill debate you any day on how idiotic evolution is ANY DAY YOU LIKE. As for so many theists??
how many is "so many"
You call an Atheist Scientist finding a pigs tooth and building an entire skeleton around it writing documents for peer review a MISTAKE!
Again you want to blind yourself to the facts that this was an out and out SCAM.
Ill tell you what the mistake was, finding an Atheist scientist like Darwin who had serious issues with religion and like the pigs tooth they built a skeleton around,, this idiot build an entire science around that very kind of mistake!
I am not saying it's stupid I am saying UNTILL THEY GET THAT NEW BRANCH OF STUDY,,THEY SHOULD QUIT THINKING THEY KNOW SO DAMN MUCH!
YEP!
You're damn right I don't understand it,,
NOT WHEN IT LIES
NOT WHEN IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE
NOT WHEN ANOTHER ATHEIST SCIENTIST FUDGES DATA IN FAVOR OF PERPETUATING THE BIGGEST SCIENTIFIC HOAX EVER CREATED.
Let me tell you something madd I have looked this topic inside and out up and down and those I sited were FAMOUS DISCOVERIES now you want more I got more all you have to do is ask but the point I am making and you keep missing is this.
You keep MISSING THE POINT
And making excuses for it while NO amount of proof will convince you.
Originally posted by dbates
Originally posted by madnessinmysoul
on the other hand, christians are trying to change the constitution to explicitly ban gay marriage...
No, that's not specifically a Christian point of view.
Even from the government's secular point of view, it's in the best interest of the country for male-female couples to join in union since that's the only match that produces offspring and provides a future for the country.
Male-male or female-female matches are the equivalent of driving with the car still in park. You can start the engine, turn the wheel, and even use the accellerator and break but you never get anywhere.
If you're rebuttal is that same-sex couples can raise children, that still doesn't rule out the fact that it took a male-female couple to produce the children.
Same sex unions are pointless except for the emotional or sexual gratification that those involved get. There is no extra benefit for society from these unions.
Seeing how it is more advangeous to have male-female couples why shouldn't the government discourage same-sex unions? You can completley remove any religious aspect and still have a valid arguement. The arguement that it's just a religious war is invalid.
(I think it's pointless to add this into the Constitution. This is an area that the states should individiually decide on. )
Originally posted by madnessinmysoul
there are many people incapable of producing offspring that can get married
Originally posted by madnessinmysoul
then we shouldn't let barren women and infertile men marry either...
Originally posted by dbates
Medical science can do nothing for same-sex couples
Originally posted by Clearskies
Uh, NO!
Why would people deliberately pervert nature and deny children a mother or a father ON PURPOSE???
Isn't the world bad enough without subverting nature itself by cloning?
Originally posted by Clearskies
Again, no.
My boys are VERY much like their Daddy.
Two Mommies would NOT have given me my boys!
At least not in a 'natural' sense and I believe natural, when it comes to children is best.
Originally posted by melatonin
I do love it when people make comments like this. I guess we are talking about Henry Fairfield Osborn here.
Can we have evidence that he was an atheist?
Please?
OTA BENGA: "The Smarts of Science"
Ota Benga was captured in 1904 by an evolutionist researcher in the Congo. Chained and caged like an animal, evolutionists displayed him in the St Louis Worlds Fair calling him the "the closest transitional link to man". Later, they displayed him like a beast in the Bronx Zoo in New York.
The zoo's evolutionist director Dr William T. Hornaday, said how proud he was to have this "transitional form” of mans evolution in his zoo. Treated like a caged animal, missing his family, his kids, Unable to bear the mis treatment he was subjected too, Ota Benga committed suicide.
www.evolutiondeceit.com...
Originally posted by Conspiriology
*Clickety Click*
This so called science is nothing more then a pack of lies NO Science, NONE, has been more deceitful, more full of liar’s cheaters and crooks, as Evolution. Is it any wonder why though? I mean it has its moral base in Atheist philosophy.
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They would lose their sole over a Science that has done nothing
But lie.