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Quite frankly, I have no idea how I've managed to remain as sane as I am, likely being watched over by Cthulhu or Xenu, or some other such dark power in order to accomplish fiendish perversions later in life, or something. But sane I am, as I am a skeptic, though I fail to see how as both nature...

In an interview with ESPN.com, - Tillman's Mom testifying about the comment in the Senate hearing on the falsehoods in both the Tillman and Jessica Lynch incidents. http://youtube.com/watch?v=WP5qN-8enR8 Did the colonel not think she would hear about the comment? So could this a-h0le...

Sounds like a bit more than "veering". link Quoting the bible is now critical thinking, eh?

Nothing pushes my buttons like this statement. Whenever I hear someone say this or make some kind of argument along these lines...my blood pressure just goes SKY HIGH. It's so incredibly ignorant and against everything the whole country was founded upon. Does anyone get exceptionally irritated...

This thread is to discuss one thing: standard "scripts" that Christians (or others) use to proselytize, and how they can be neutralized or turned back on the proselytizer on an emotional / rhetorical level. Preferably in a way that does not allow them to launch into a long rambling debate, or to...

A little history: I was raised Lutheran in a small town in Minnesota. I never *really* believed that Jesus was God, but at the same time, it was a little town and some people know what that is like. You just go with the flow or you are ostracized. So...I was baptized as an infant, I went to...

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/mg19325903.000-christian-faith-in-the-iotheri-good-book.html It's always good to remember that not all religious people are raving maniacs. Creationarians are really just a small minority and it's nice to see pressure coming from other Christians and not...

...and they'll hang themselves. Nice. A school is threatened into distributing religious advertising handouts, and the Pagans use the same system to distribute their own, and the people for "religious freedom" show their true colors. :gear_wink2:

Today I was sitting with my wife at a popular coffee shop in Portland, Oregon and had the great displeasure of hearing the conversation of a group of seniors discussing the rapture. Two of them were trying to convince others of the impending doom that non-believers will face in the near future...

http://www.trnty.edu/faculty/robbert/SRobbertWebFolder/ChristianityMath/ Hmmmm...

What do you think the symbol of christians would be if jesus was executed by a method other than crucifixion? Here's what I have: Electric Chair: Quartered: Keelhauling: What do you guys think?

Just read Sam Harris' new book, currently on the NY Times best seller list. It is the follow up to his "The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason". His arguments are nothing new, but the strength of the work is its brevity (it's small, about 90 pages, and I read it in less...

Hello all. Have been a fan of Randi and this forum for a while, but in "lurking mode" until late. This site should be absolute must-reading for any scholar and teacher alike. I am a 41-year-old "noob" here, an engineer by trade, a skeptic, and good friends with way-more Atheists than...

http://www.christianexodus.org/ South Carolina the first step in a new, better Xian America!

My review: This book just was not for me, and I mean that in the most literal sense possible. Harris didn't write this for me. He wrote it for the 150 Million fundamentalist Christians in America, unfortunately these are the people least likely to read his book. It's not that it's difficult to...

"Path to 9/11" director is son of conservative Christian group founder and... Full story at this Source

Has anybody here ever heard an apologist use the argument that anybody living in the enviroment the gospels were written in, must have been mad to risk their lives like that?

So, I was arguing on myspace (I know, I should probably stop right here....) and the topic came up about what makes one a true christian. Christians want the "get out of evil free" card by dismissing an evil committed by a christian by claiming, "well, they are not true christians". I argued...

Someone has been stuffing Christian tracts in my letterbox for months but yesterday I found a bag of books outside my door, these titles : Occult Bondage and Deliverance, Satan Cast Out, Deliver Us From Evil, 2 different titles called Spiritual Warfare, Victory Over Darkness and What Demons can...

...and I'm almost wondering if this is the same sort of thing...

http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=RELIGION-FAITH-06-07-06 From the Scripts Howard News Service article: I find this interesting and I'm curious what people on the board think about it, although I suspect that many probably agree. Personally, I'm not sure I'm ready to...

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I just read this news this morning. I don't usually hear many favorable things about the ACLU but here is one: http://www.nj.com/newslogs/starledger/index.ssf?/mtlogs/njo_ledgerupdate/archives/2006_06.html#148180

A friend of mine posted this on another forum. I thought I would post it here and see what response it got, as it's not generating much discussion in the other place. He says... Thanks for any input.

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A news story that broke on local TV news last night: http://www.kmov.com/topstories/stories/030206ccklrKmovreligionbill.7d361c3f.html Essentially, one of our august legislators want Christianity to be declared the state's "official" religion. As well with the recent introduction of a South...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/nigeria_sectarian_violence “LAGOS, Nigeria - Christian mobs rampaged through a southern Nigerian city Tuesday, burning mosques and killing several people in an outbreak of anti-Muslim violence that followed deadly protests against caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad...

I have read on this forum some commentary that there are Christian fundamentalists who are a real threat to American life. Do people agree with that? Frankly, some of it sounds like paranoia to me. I look at what is going on in America, and I don't see a huge wave of fundamentalists about to...

I just wanted to know.

Given the universal-ness of the term 'Christian', the supposed two billion or so of them in their various guises/denominations, I was wondering if the term 'Christian' could be defined. I don't mean a Greek to English transliteration of the word, I want to know what you think a Christian is (and...