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Originally posted by guillotinegleam Also, do you not realize how many innocent people have been killed in the name of religion? Probably way more than science has ever killed.
Originally posted by DuceizBack
...This site has too many religious nuts...
How do you delete your account?
Genesis: Capt 2 / Vers. 17
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Originally posted by chanel
reply to post by Section31
Do you relize.... that you just put words in the god that you worships mouth. According to your religion, thats blaspheme of the holy spirit.
Originally posted by chanel
reply to post by Section31
Have fun deciphering and beating yourself up over that, while I live my happy gay life free of any guilt or persecution.
Interesting... Historically, Christianity has been fighting a defensive war. Terrorists fight an offensives war. Big difference in perspective. One fights to establish peace, and the other attempts to entice fear. When it comes to the nine Christian crusades, they were in reaction to an invasion force entering southern Europe. Our relationship to the (unnamed) invasion force has always been a defensive course of action. If you do not believe what I am saying, you might want to do some research about the Dark Ages. It is very insightful. True, some periods were about expanding order after the fall of the Roman Empire; however, the BIGGER wars were about defending against the (unnamed) invaders.
Originally posted by chanel Right...ok, so you've got the same viewpoint on that as a terrorist would being a suicide bomber. Don't you think that there's something wrong with that? Step back and look at the big picture.
Since I am not trying to convince people that something invisible exists, I will pass you up on answering that question.
Originally posted by chanel You are a human being living on planet Earth. It is YOUR responsibility to ensure your survival based on the choices that You make for YOUR own life. "God" is not here.... where is he? On toast in Mexico?
Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.
Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.