How could any modern person believe that and not think that it was kind of crazy?
Many, many people believe that and can provide logical, scholarly reasons for that. In my opinion, either the Bible is correct or it is useless. I don't see why an omnipotent being would allow his writings to be corrupted in any significant manner.
Being almost 40 years old, I can say that history is malleable, even over the long term.
History doesn't change. History is fact. It's the people who try to twist the facts through deceit who are responsible for this malleability. If teachers and writers didn't have an agenda, but simply recorded the facts, ideally there would be no issue.
Shouldn't you make your decision to become an atheist based on what you know, not what others don't know? You just said that the ignorance of religious people was key in you becoming an atheist. How about your ignorance? Are you reasonably well versed in the Bible? Most other atheists are, although I disagree with their interpretation. Wouldn't it be ironic if you dismissed these people because they opposed D&D without even reading a manual, while you dismissed all religion without reading the Bible (or maybe the Qur'an or the Bhagavad Gita)? If you have read some of these texts and found them wanting, then I will give you that.
This opens up an amusing set of questions in the game. Clerics have to pray for their daily spells. Who does the cleric of atheism pray to? And where does his power to turn the undead come from? And wouldn't the resurrection spell be against his core beliefs?
We're not the USofA so we don't have a D.A. or felonies, and he was arrested and questioned - he has not yet been trialled and indeed has not yet even been charged with anything.
He must have been; the article says he was released on bail. Or do you hold people indefinitely without charges as well?
Didn't read the link, huh? That's OK... don't. It's a belligerent blog entry that can be summed up like this: "Rush Limbaugh is an asshole and hates Obama so much he's willing to let Haitians die." It's not true, of course, but we get the kind of media we deserve.
I'd like my Windows recycling bin to point to the trash can under my desk. And/dev/null to the toilet. And my bank account number to point to Warren Buffet's.
Banks made loans to those people because they were minorities and refusing to do so would have gotten them in trouble. I have an article right over my desk from 1999 that explains how the Clinton admin pressured the FMs and the banks to make these loans, and the entire industry warned then that this could cause a collapse. Barney Frank then spent nine years saying that everything was fine. THE DEBATE IS OVER.
Unfortunately, there is enough ambiguous content in the bible that you can get almost any interpretation you want out of it, if you go into it with already strongly held beliefs and an intent to do so.
I just quoted examples that aren't.
I won't comment on your second argument, other than to say that in order to accept it you must accept that homosexuality is a natural state, like skin color or being deaf. If you consider homosexuality a chosen behavior (like drug abuse), then it's flawed.
Way back when when you went to bed you turned off our TV and it was actually off.
That would have been about 1970, as right about the color TV era is when we started installing capacitors to keep the tube precharged and reduce warmup time.
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Many, many people believe that and can provide logical, scholarly reasons for that. In my opinion, either the Bible is correct or it is useless. I don't see why an omnipotent being would allow his writings to be corrupted in any significant manner.
Perhaps if you believe the antireligious definition of "fundamentalist"-- whatever that is. It's bad.
History doesn't change. History is fact. It's the people who try to twist the facts through deceit who are responsible for this malleability. If teachers and writers didn't have an agenda, but simply recorded the facts, ideally there would be no issue.
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With people having to call the staff all the time, it removes the most important point of having self-service banking.
Shouldn't you make your decision to become an atheist based on what you know, not what others don't know? You just said that the ignorance of religious people was key in you becoming an atheist. How about your ignorance? Are you reasonably well versed in the Bible? Most other atheists are, although I disagree with their interpretation. Wouldn't it be ironic if you dismissed these people because they opposed D&D without even reading a manual, while you dismissed all religion without reading the Bible (or maybe the Qur'an or the Bhagavad Gita)? If you have read some of these texts and found them wanting, then I will give you that.
This opens up an amusing set of questions in the game. Clerics have to pray for their daily spells. Who does the cleric of atheism pray to? And where does his power to turn the undead come from? And wouldn't the resurrection spell be against his core beliefs?
We don't need to outrun our prey; just outlast it. As far as defending against attackers, that's where the brain comes in.
I'm glad that you drink Code Red so that the full bottles may be readily distinguished from the ones containing your urine... I hope.
Dan Quayle, is that you?
He must have been; the article says he was released on bail. Or do you hold people indefinitely without charges as well?
Anti-American troll coming in 3... 2... 1...
Didn't read the link, huh? That's OK... don't. It's a belligerent blog entry that can be summed up like this: "Rush Limbaugh is an asshole and hates Obama so much he's willing to let Haitians die." It's not true, of course, but we get the kind of media we deserve.
I'd like my Windows recycling bin to point to the trash can under my desk. And /dev/null to the toilet. And my bank account number to point to Warren Buffet's.
They lost because you don't send in troops until you have air superiority.
Banks made loans to those people because they were minorities and refusing to do so would have gotten them in trouble. I have an article right over my desk from 1999 that explains how the Clinton admin pressured the FMs and the banks to make these loans, and the entire industry warned then that this could cause a collapse. Barney Frank then spent nine years saying that everything was fine. THE DEBATE IS OVER.
He didn't create most of the crap as I see it around me.
By rolling them in with all evangelical Christians, you're being closed-minded as well.
I just quoted examples that aren't.
I won't comment on your second argument, other than to say that in order to accept it you must accept that homosexuality is a natural state, like skin color or being deaf. If you consider homosexuality a chosen behavior (like drug abuse), then it's flawed.
Don't forget your towel!
Any good marksman knows that you try to squeeze the trigger, instead of pulling it. So in that way, Windows 7 is more like a rotten egg.
You really don't want the government dictating this. Really.
That would have been about 1970, as right about the color TV era is when we started installing capacitors to keep the tube precharged and reduce warmup time.
Garak is one of the greatest characters in Trekdom, and you are denying yourself the pleasure of experiencing his slimyness. That is all.
"Standard" is spoken in Starfleet, although that fact doesn't seem to mentioned much outside of TOS and the novels.