It is such a shame that all Christians didn't live up to St. Paul's devotion in his time.
With all Christians celibate, your cult would be long gone today, hardly even be remembered by history.
Of course with human nature being what it is, you'd probably still be wasting your life worshiping some other imaginary being today, not knowing that the 'right' religion had already faded away long ago.
Whether or not Jesus was a real person is irrelevant to the fact that there is no god.
Like so many other supposedly divine persons, he was simply selected and told he was divine. The Dalai Lamas are a good example. That Jesus' parents got away with lying about their pre-marital sex to hide the shame of Mary's pregnancy just adds to the 'miracle' now doesnt it?
You only believe the delusion because your parents passed on their cultural disease to you when you were to young to reason, and you never went back to re-asses it properly.
You are mistaken. Proof that there is no god is not necessary for Atheism. You must be so wired to your faith that you can't comprehend a total absence of faith. Only proof that there is a god could invalidate Atheism, something you and no one else will ever be able to produce.
And if you really believe your flawed reasoning, then you must believe that all gods ever worshiped are real and separate entities from Ra to the Flying Spaghetti Monster because you have no proof otherwise.
Anyone who has been sucked into the Conservative fear-mongering lies about the Liberal Carbon tax will run away fast from the Green Party. The plans are essentially identical.
Raising corporate taxes from 22% up to 30% as we get sucked into the US made financial crisis would make us so uncompetitive. He promises to do this to raise money for his child benefit plan. But we won't need his child care plan, we'll be stuck at home all day with the kids without jobs.
Layton was doing well in the polls (for the NDP)... right up to the day the official NDP platform was released and Canadians let out a collective WTFOMGRUN !!!
Layton has to support P2P... all the people his plan makes unemployed will need some way to pass their time, and they sure won't have any spare money to spend on actually buying their entertainment.
Bush apparently has learned about Georgia's oil. This must be the case since he's been all over the news demanding that Russia pull back from Georgia.
Expect in the next week or two for Russia to be renamed by Bush as the pinnacle of his axis of evil, and for the warm of to WWIII to get underway. We already know Russia has real weapons of mass destruction, Bush won't have to lie half as much this time around.... and we were only a couple months away from Bush's reign of stupidity ending.
I'm going to recall that no one has ever found any verifiable, repeatable, true invalidation of the second law of thermodynamics, and that this alone proves that Jesus did not rise from the dead, that there was just some misunderstanding, some embellishment, or some outright lies to make a ho-hum story more exciting.... And then carry on with my life, treating others as I would prefer to be treated, without requiring religion to empower my good morals.
Your post became irrelevant the moment you agreed with 'enlightened christians' who have somehow deemed themselves worthy to judge that parts of the bible are literal truth while other parts are not.
You've fallen into the same old dirty hole that all christians fall into. It pretty much defines your religion. You are accepting an obvious interpretation as truth because you happen to agree with it, and raise your nose at other christians with other interpretations (americans in this case).
The moment you decide that it's ok if some parts of the bible are not literal truth, and that it's ok for you to decide which parts are not literal truth, you admit that many interpretations and choices are possible and call into question the ENTIRE bible and destroy the foundations of your beliefs.
All religion is nothing more than our attempts to feel safe in the face of our own mortality, and a mechanism induced by evolution to form cohesive tribes for more successful procreation.
There are ancient cities far older than those built by Solomon that never had a christian, jew, or muslim set foot anywhere near. Using your reasoning, shouldn't we figure out what religions these ancient people followed and convert?
You are an Athiest of sorts and don't even realize it. You don't believe in any of the thousands of gods we worshipped long before the christian god was invented. Come on, take the last step! You are so close!
When the possibility of coincidence is removed, all supernatural happenings vanish.
you pretty much said it, confirming my post... Universe = One Whole Verse. Which fits in perfect with our natural language adaptions that occur when greater concepts are encountered... such as Omniverse.
I'm talking about highly skilled and educated people, you won't see their movements in the large-scale movement of uneducated labourers... but while you get your lawn cut for cheap by some illegal alien, you might not notice the scientists at your local university leaving after having their tenures threatened for daring to excersize free speech, or for reading the wrong books from the university library... as tracked by your 'patriot' act.
I personally know of professors from educational institutions in California that left for Canada due to such repression.
First in how the US government actually wants to keep highly skilled and educated people in the USA where it's just going to dilute the pervasive ignorance and fear that have made Americans the dangerous fools they are today.
Second i'm shocked that any highly skilled and educated people are even going to the USA, It's certainly far fewer than the huge numbers that are leaving the USA to escape the repression of the 'patriot' act and the destruction of the US Constitution.
I think this is all just a desparate attempt to lure a few more of these important people to the USA that would have otherwise moved to enlightened / non-fundamentalist / Constitution respecting / un-feared countries... countries where we don't allow banks to intentionally commit trillion dollar bank frauds for short term gains, where we don't invade countries over WMD's that we know damn well don't exist, where we question our leaders instead of blindly waving our flag he tells the world 'youre either with us, or against us'.
Do I have to say it?... yes, countries like Canada.
If you're moving to Vancouver from Australia, as an IT person, you have one SERIOUS hoop that you may not be able to jump through!
Our internet is FAST and RELIABLE.
You won't be able to blame internet problems on Telstra or the isolation of your continent... so damn isolated that apparently satellites and undersea cables just can't do it... according to the guy I complained to when i visited Sydney in February.
Complaining about Americans and Religion can be somewhat redundant since they often are the same problem.
Certainly Canada has it's problems... but a hyper paranoid gun loving population of crusading christian fanatics that screw each other at any and every chance they can?... that's South of the 49th.
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Only people deluded by faith attempt to make Atheism a religion ... stop trying to bring us down to your level, you won't succeed.
Huh, that's funny, God spoke to me too ... and said your 'prophet' Mohammed is false, that you've all wasted your lives.
Sucks to be you huh.
Sadly, the followers of your imagined creator will just keep on killing for 'his' glory.
It is such a shame that all Christians didn't live up to St. Paul's devotion in his time.
With all Christians celibate, your cult would be long gone today, hardly even be remembered by history.
Of course with human nature being what it is, you'd probably still be wasting your life worshiping some other imaginary being today, not knowing that the 'right' religion had already faded away long ago.
Whether or not Jesus was a real person is irrelevant to the fact that there is no god.
Like so many other supposedly divine persons, he was simply selected and told he was divine. The Dalai Lamas are a good example. That Jesus' parents got away with lying about their pre-marital sex to hide the shame of Mary's pregnancy just adds to the 'miracle' now doesnt it?
You only believe the delusion because your parents passed on their cultural disease to you when you were to young to reason, and you never went back to re-asses it properly.
You are mistaken. Proof that there is no god is not necessary for Atheism. You must be so wired to your faith that you can't comprehend a total absence of faith. Only proof that there is a god could invalidate Atheism, something you and no one else will ever be able to produce.
And if you really believe your flawed reasoning, then you must believe that all gods ever worshiped are real and separate entities from Ra to the Flying Spaghetti Monster because you have no proof otherwise.
I want one tooo
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haha now if only chickens could fly ... we'd finally have our flying cars!
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Now that Micheal's gone, I guess it's just Walmart that has little boy's pants half off.
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My comment has been moderated 5 times so far ... 4 Funny, 1 Troll
Apparently 1 out of 5 Slashdot Moderators is a brainwashed god loving fool! hahahahaha
Why would Palin care to delete any emails, or even try to hide them?
Palin is a young earth creationist. She has no understanding of Evidence.
Wow man, what have you been 'Puffin'?
Anyone who has been sucked into the Conservative fear-mongering lies about the Liberal Carbon tax will run away fast from the Green Party. The plans are essentially identical.
Layton's platform would kill so many jobs ...
Raising corporate taxes from 22% up to 30% as we get sucked into the US made financial crisis would make us so uncompetitive. He promises to do this to raise money for his child benefit plan. But we won't need his child care plan, we'll be stuck at home all day with the kids without jobs.
Layton was doing well in the polls (for the NDP) ... right up to the day the official NDP platform was released and Canadians let out a collective WTFOMGRUN !!!
Layton has to support P2P ... all the people his plan makes unemployed will need some way to pass their time, and they sure won't have any spare money to spend on actually buying their entertainment.
Bush apparently has learned about Georgia's oil. This must be the case since he's been all over the news demanding that Russia pull back from Georgia.
Expect in the next week or two for Russia to be renamed by Bush as the pinnacle of his axis of evil, and for the warm of to WWIII to get underway. We already know Russia has real weapons of mass destruction, Bush won't have to lie half as much this time around. ... and we were only a couple months away from Bush's reign of stupidity ending.
What am I going to do about it?
I'm going to recall that no one has ever found any verifiable, repeatable, true invalidation of the second law of thermodynamics, and that this alone proves that Jesus did not rise from the dead, that there was just some misunderstanding, some embellishment, or some outright lies to make a ho-hum story more exciting. ... And then carry on with my life, treating others as I would prefer to be treated, without requiring religion to empower my good morals.
Your post became irrelevant the moment you agreed with 'enlightened christians' who have somehow deemed themselves worthy to judge that parts of the bible are literal truth while other parts are not.
You've fallen into the same old dirty hole that all christians fall into. It pretty much defines your religion. You are accepting an obvious interpretation as truth because you happen to agree with it, and raise your nose at other christians with other interpretations (americans in this case).
The moment you decide that it's ok if some parts of the bible are not literal truth, and that it's ok for you to decide which parts are not literal truth, you admit that many interpretations and choices are possible and call into question the ENTIRE bible and destroy the foundations of your beliefs.
All religion is nothing more than our attempts to feel safe in the face of our own mortality, and a mechanism induced by evolution to form cohesive tribes for more successful procreation.
There are ancient cities far older than those built by Solomon that never had a christian, jew, or muslim set foot anywhere near. Using your reasoning, shouldn't we figure out what religions these ancient people followed and convert?
You are an Athiest of sorts and don't even realize it. You don't believe in any of the thousands of gods we worshipped long before the christian god was invented. Come on, take the last step! You are so close!
When the possibility of coincidence is removed, all supernatural happenings vanish.
Ask yourself this: Why won't god heal amputees?
http://www.whywontgodhealamputees.com/
"It has served us well, this myth of Christ" - Pope Leo 10th
you pretty much said it, confirming my post ... Universe = One Whole Verse. Which fits in perfect with our natural language adaptions that occur when greater concepts are encountered ... such as Omniverse.
Can I toss a Dumbass! into this? Is it too soon?
Absolutley everything ever = Omniverse
Not to be confused with Multiverse.
Our pocket is but one Universe.
Can you re-read my post?
... but while you get your lawn cut for cheap by some illegal alien, you might not notice the scientists at your local university leaving after having their tenures threatened for daring to excersize free speech, or for reading the wrong books from the university library ... as tracked by your 'patriot' act.
I'm talking about highly skilled and educated people, you won't see their movements in the large-scale movement of uneducated labourers
I personally know of professors from educational institutions in California that left for Canada due to such repression.
I'm pretty shocked by this.
... countries where we don't allow banks to intentionally commit trillion dollar bank frauds for short term gains, where we don't invade countries over WMD's that we know damn well don't exist, where we question our leaders instead of blindly waving our flag he tells the world 'youre either with us, or against us'.
... yes, countries like Canada.
First in how the US government actually wants to keep highly skilled and educated people in the USA where it's just going to dilute the pervasive ignorance and fear that have made Americans the dangerous fools they are today.
Second i'm shocked that any highly skilled and educated people are even going to the USA, It's certainly far fewer than the huge numbers that are leaving the USA to escape the repression of the 'patriot' act and the destruction of the US Constitution.
I think this is all just a desparate attempt to lure a few more of these important people to the USA that would have otherwise moved to enlightened / non-fundamentalist / Constitution respecting / un-feared countries
Do I have to say it?
If you're moving to Vancouver from Australia, as an IT person, you have one SERIOUS hoop that you may not be able to jump through!
... so damn isolated that apparently satellites and undersea cables just can't do it ... according to the guy I complained to when i visited Sydney in February.
Our internet is FAST and RELIABLE.
You won't be able to blame internet problems on Telstra or the isolation of your continent
It isn't bigotry when it's true.
Please frame a picture of yourself next to my message, with a suitably adorned title. 'Dumbass' should be sufficient.
Complaining about Americans and Religion can be somewhat redundant since they often are the same problem.
... but a hyper paranoid gun loving population of crusading christian fanatics that screw each other at any and every chance they can? ... that's South of the 49th.
Certainly Canada has it's problems
Damn Americans ... never willing to deal with the source of problems, but always quick to smack down people suffering from the problems they cause.
Don't you suppose the greedy room-mate who's using all the bandwidth should be the one who stops cheaping out and gets his own damn connection?