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mises · Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Location: retired

Now if Rteacher would apologize for saying retarded kids are part of karmic justice..

Underwaterbob · Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Location: In Cognito

It's Karma, so many people think Rteacher's faith is a load of crock that he has to believe in it so blindly and unquestioningly. In order to balance all the negative absolute original personality Vedic knowledge or whatever. It's certainly a complex faith, I'll give it that much.

Sorry, I'm just flaming now, I can't be rational anymore.

mises · Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Location: retired

He wasn't rational to begin with.

ED209 · Joined: 17 Oct 2006

Thought that was advancevariation, made me jump a bit.

itaewonguy · Joined: 25 Mar 2003

Justin Hale · Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Location: the Straight Talk Express

merkurix · Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Location: Not far from the deep end.

Rteacher · Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA

Bhagavad-gita is not just for Hindus (and I certainly don't consider myself a Hindu) but this "Hinduism's Bhagavad-gita Message" is a nice clip -
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8484980055724102442&q=vedic&hl=en

ED209 · Joined: 17 Oct 2006

tomato · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 10:52 am Post subject:

Hello, Mikey Boy!

A believer might use deathbed conversions as an argument that God exists,
but really, it amounts to nothing more than an argumentum ad baculum.

Hello, Kuros!

There is a scientific explanation for those near-death experiences.
Children don't know very many people who have passed away, so when they have near-death experiences, they imagine themselves visiting their peers.
That casts serious doubt on the notion that the soul is in Heaven during those experiences.

Hello, Merdurix!

Religion made a mess out of me, and I would love to prevent the same thing happening to other people.
I am writing a manuscript exposing the deceptive arguments advanced by the the Creationist crusader Duane Gish.
So there is no doubt that I am what you would call an anti-theist.

Hello, Quack Addict!

I don't know if secular thinking can help a widow left with three children in diapers.
But evolutionary psychology has helped me understand both myself and others.
And it has done the job far better than religion.

Hello, ED206!

I'm not sure that's right.
I don't have the source on this, but I heard somewhere that 40% of scientists believe in God.

Hello, Mises!

The Quaker church and the Unitarian church are two groups which seem to be for people who are fed up with dogmatic religion but who can't quite make a clean break.

Hello, Stevie B!

The God-exists party can't prove their case and neither can the God-doesn't-exist party.
That's why I pronounce a plague o' both of your houses.

Hello, Kirby Magnus!

It is in our instincts to want to be part of a tribe.
That is why people have organized crusading armies not only for religious and philosophical beliefs, but for 'most any interest.
That is why barbershop quartet singers have adopted "Keep the Whole World Singing" as their theme song.

Hello, Omkara!

I remember when it was only "one nation, indivisible".
I remember the teacher reading to us a memo announcing that from that point on, we were to add the words "under God."
McCarthy and his gang pushed to have those words added because they were under the conviction that a person could'nt be a loyal American without believing in God, and that any person who didn't believe in God was a threat to national security and should be locked up.

And Christians wonder why people can't see that they are loving people.

Hello, Traxxe!

I was taught to believe that Christians act out of genuine benevolence, with no thought of reward or punishment.
So I never could understand why we were told about Heaven and Hell.

Omkara · Joined: 18 Feb 2006 Location: USA

Tomato Wrote:"Hello, Omkara!

I remember when it was only "one nation, indivisible".
I remember the teacher reading to us a memo announcing that from that point on, we were to add the words "under God."
McCarthy and his gang pushed to have those words added because they were under the conviction that a person could'nt be a loyal American without believing in God, and that any person who didn't believe in God was a threat to national security and should be locked up.

And Christians wonder why people can't see that they are loving people. "

Many people don't understand why I would have such a problem with that addition to the pledge. They do not see the danger or the insidious political symbolic meaning in it.

"Under God." Under who's interpretation? Under what objective criterion? That law would follow from a fiction? And who would question this is unpatriotic?

Jefferson would roll over in is grave!

Stevie_B · Joined: 14 May 2008

[quote="tomato"]

Hello, Stevie B!

The God-exists party can't prove their case and neither can the God-doesn't-exist party.
That's why I pronounce a plague o' both of your houses.

/quote]

Hello Tomato.

Well you have fun smugging away up there on your fence, T. The God-doesn't-exist party doesn't NEED to prove their case as the onus of proof is on the God-exists party. By your rationale, nothing could ever be proven.