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Churchill Accused of Sealing UFO Files, Fearing Public Panic
Newly released secret files show that Winston Churchill ordered a cover-up of an alleged encounter between a UFO and a RAF bomber because he feared public panic. From the article: "Mr Churchill is reported to have made a declaration to the effect of the following: 'This event should be immediately classified since it would create mass panic among the general population and destroy one's belief in the Church.'"
I hope they do land in Arizona with the intent of abducting cheap labor to build things and pick crops on their home planet. They can have all of our illegal Mexicans free of charge! All they would have to do is stop by almost any street intersections, Home Depot, and Lowes and pick them up.
Infinite resources like what? You have to FIND resources. And space is a resource... planetary space, places to live, breed. If their planet had similar (or somewhat greater) mass compared to ours, and similar atmosphere, our planet may prove habitable for them. I mean the nearest known Earth-like planet has 9 times the mass of Earth!
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Incorrect. Hebrews 11.1 says, "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Therefore faith is complete hogwash.
Do you believe in magnitism? You can't see it, but you can know something of it by studying its effects. Have you studied fate in such a manner, sufficiently to know that its unreal? Part of the scientific method is to form a hypothesis. If you had no confidence at all that your hypothesis could possibly be true, how far would you get? Particularly if you were studying a difficult problem that took many years to crack?
Can you see mental illness? The possibility of sincerity? Would you have believed that the moon had a back side before a spacecraft was sent around it? How can an engineer ever create anything without a vision of things that don't yet exist? A person needs at least a little faith, however provisional, to pull themselves out of ignorance. Otherwise you can never discover or create anything that you did not already know.
I agree that faith isn't based on evidence. And I have a hard time respecting people who just make shit up and pretend they know it. And I have no respect for the Bible as a source of authority. But to say that faith is complete hogwash is quite a stretch.
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Ah, I see. Same stupidity, different bullshit.
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
My objections to the Pledge has nothing to do with the words "under God" (which I agree do not belong there, but for reasons different than yours) and everything to do with it's socialist origins.
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
The Big Bang has not been proven as the source of the universe, yet many scientists believe it happened.
Evolution has not been proven as the origin of life, yet many scientists believe it is.
Ptolemy believed in a geocentric universe; Copernicus in a heliocentric one. Both were beliefs in things not proved, and thus faith, yet both are considered great scientists of their times -- just wrong.
Aristotle believed there were five elements. John Dalton imagined atoms as small spheres with tiny hooks. Pons and Fleischer believed fusion took place at room temperature. All beliefs that were clearly not proven.
The fact that something is believed through faith does not mean it is wrong, just that it hasn't been proved. Some things cannot be proved (like the big bang as THE method through which the universe came into existence), some things cannot be proved until technology catches up with the human thought process (like subatomic particles -- long hypothesized, eventually measured.)
The point being, to dismiss religion as "fake stuff all based on faith" is to point a finger at science, too. It was "faith" that the locks on the file cabinets at Los Alamos were secure; Feynman came along and disproved it.
No, religion, the kind that gets people to not just believe irrationally but to act irrationally is the biggest curse mankind has ever suffered.
To lump all religious belief into "irrational" is both insulting and inflammatory, the kind of inflammatory that creates the kind of reaction that you clearly denounce. "Come see the violence inherent in the system" spoken by someone who has just walked up and slugged a cop is dishonest debate.
Gay marriage. Adoption by gay couples. Those are just the two more outrageous things that traditional, conservative people find objectionable. And, I don't use the word "conservative" in the political sense. The vast majority of people find homosexuality objectionable - and the gays are demanding that we accept them as equals.
Before some wise guy pops off with "Yes, but slavery was accepted . . . " he needs to google LZ Granderson. Gay is not the new black. Stop using black as the tool with which you can force everyone to accept anything. It may be "politically correct" in this day and age, but I'm not a communist, I don't answer to Moscow, and I don't give a rat's ass about being politically correct.
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>>The Bible was written 300 years after Christ's death
You don't really know anything, do you? The Bible was written relatively quickly. It was compiled into a codex much later.
If you're based your hatred for religion on astonishingly wrong facts like this, it's no wonder you're angry and bitter. It's like those morons on here that rant about teachers all secretly conspiring to eliminate all critical thinking from schools, while not having any personal experience or done any research on the subject, but just repeat their screed anyway.
>>True faith is about maintaining a belief no matter what tests it,
You know what they call people that just repeat whatever they hear, don't question it, and repeat it louder and louder when people tell them that they're wrong?
It's not faith, it's dogmatism. Which is exactly what you're guilty of.
Believe it or not, many Christians have questioned their faith and chosen to believe in it anyway on the balance of the evidence. Unlike fucktarded atheists like you that just repeat anything they hear the other cool atheists say, because you "want to be like them".
Great, I'll take two pints then.
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