If i was a burglar i'd want to know what weapon to take to a house. If i know the owner has a hand gun, i can take a bigger one. And then i'd also know which houses i didn't need to take a weapon with me.
I'm hoping that the hardware is going to be the bigger screens so they can get back to producing a phone that has a slightly larger real keyboard, like the old 6710 or 37 series.
Why don't you check his bio and the previous articles he has written about linux desktop environments and openoffice, then you can find out who he is and if he's worth it.
" but I do not think that religion should be abolished."
Nobody is saying that at all. All they are saying is keep it to yourself and out of government, law, schools etc
" My parents never raised me to believe in Santa Clause, but the older I get the more I realize that it seems to be a human trait to want to believe in something bigger than oneself."
i don't want to believe in something bigger than oneself (i.e. in the supernatural way). The older i get, the more pissed off I get at myself when i look back on the vast amount of time wasted on thinking this shit (and alternatives) may exist and trying to believe it.
"I don't think any religion is inherently good or bad - it is as good or bad as its followers."
If you read the bible or the koran they both promote horrible things like stoning kids to deaf, genocide, homophobia so read one of them and see if you still agree with your statement. Dawkins is saying what he says because the fundamental muslims carry out the message to the letter because they die doing it, they will get martyrdom and 72 virgins when they reach their heaven. The fundamental christians generally don't go that far because i guess they are not 100% sure there is a heaven and they haven't got the luxury of 72 virgins to play with up there.
You continue to misunderstand the non-Fundamentalist Christian view. There's a reason we call them the "OLD Testament" and the "NEW Testament"."
Thats the view of a cherry picker of which bits of Gods law to obey. Why not throw away the Old Testament then? If you can separate the bad from the good then it means you are part of the way to being free of the religious dogma
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yep, owned by people who thought having a gun made them a "big" person
"....so dangerous that their residents think they need guns."
i think its more of not wanting live where a lot of dickless live who think they need a gun to have a dick.
its also useful to people who want guns to wait until the occupier leaves and then steal the gun to use else where.
If i was a burglar i'd want to know what weapon to take to a house. If i know the owner has a hand gun, i can take a bigger one. And then i'd also know which houses i didn't need to take a weapon with me.
"Why do we even have obscenity laws?"
Probably too many anal, religiously backed idiots around
I'm hoping that the hardware is going to be the bigger screens so they can get back to producing a phone that has a slightly larger real keyboard, like the old 6710 or 37 series.
Its called a catfish for a reason but i guess that was pure luck in hindsight
Evidence that evolution has escaped you.....
Nor do christians, they don't stone people anymore, they eat pork, prawns etc... typically christians are hypocrites
Atheism ! = Religion
Cain and Abel must have shagged their Mom as they were the first family
damn, and i thought "Anonymous Coward" was a unique nick
"Why do you need transparent and wobbly windows again?" simple.. because i can
its a crime against God......
"It's a fascist plot to allow the oil industry to get even richer"
Why don't you check his bio and the previous articles he has written about linux desktop environments and openoffice, then you can find out who he is and if he's worth it.
typical response from someone who hasn't read the bible, or has read it but not comprehended it or read it and ignores the bad bits.
" but I do not think that religion should be abolished."
Nobody is saying that at all. All they are saying is keep it to yourself and out of government, law, schools etc
" My parents never raised me to believe in Santa Clause, but the older I get the more I realize that it seems to be a human trait to want to believe in something bigger than oneself."
i don't want to believe in something bigger than oneself (i.e. in the supernatural way). The older i get, the more pissed off I get at myself when i look back on the vast amount of time wasted on thinking this shit (and alternatives) may exist and trying to believe it.
"I don't think any religion is inherently good or bad - it is as good or bad as its followers."
If you read the bible or the koran they both promote horrible things like stoning kids to deaf, genocide, homophobia so read one of them and see if you still agree with your statement.
Dawkins is saying what he says because the fundamental muslims carry out the message to the letter because they die doing it, they will get martyrdom and 72 virgins when they reach their heaven. The fundamental christians generally don't go that far because i guess they are not 100% sure there is a heaven and they haven't got the luxury of 72 virgins to play with up there.
yep, but have a look whats currently happening in Myanmar with the Buddhists beating on the muslims
whooosh me thinks
"Unless they have no clue at all about their religion"
that is true of a lot of christians too, proved by a survey done a year or so ago, Atheists knew more about the bible than the christians
You continue to misunderstand the non-Fundamentalist Christian view. There's a reason we call them the "OLD Testament" and the "NEW Testament"."
Thats the view of a cherry picker of which bits of Gods law to obey. Why not throw away the Old Testament then? If you can separate the bad from the good then it means you are part of the way to being free of the religious dogma
"Calling it one of the great evils of the world is at best accurate,"
fixed that for you
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