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  1. Looncall

    Is it a fact or not?

    Quoting from scripture is not enough. You must also justify the authority of the scripture, then the existence of the scripture's god etc. Others do not take for granted everything that you do yourself. If you had evidence that backed your claim directly, you could save yourself the trouble...
  2. Looncall

    Is it a fact or not?

    So you say. What's your evidence? Without evidence, your opinion is not transferable to other people.
  3. Looncall

    Richard Dawkins Facepalms at Deepak Chopra

    So far, I see no reason to suppose all this impressive sounding stuff is not all in your head. I do not find fancy word salad at all convincing. Mysticism is just another religion-type scam. The mystics may live from a begging bowl, but they are not the ones spending all day up to their knees...
  4. Looncall

    Gay

    Current advanced societies have renounced slavery, torture, limiting compassion to one's own family or tribe, autocracy etc. These were all taken for granted until distressingly recent times. Some societies still haven't caught up. America is a strange case. It's advance seems slow, with...
  5. Looncall

    Gay

    Who is "we" here? Where I live, health care is regarded as a right. I think that the often-touted environmental virtues of the ancients are oversold. They just lacked the technologies needed to make big messes. Aboriginal peoples are notoriously apt to be murderously xenophobic. Consider the...
  6. Looncall

    Gay

    I think you may have hold of the wrong end of the stick here. Some idea being old indicates that it is less likely to be reliable not more likely since the ancients were more ignorant and uncivilized than moderns. The bible, for example, shows that very clearly.
  7. Looncall

    Evidence Macroevolution Does Not Exist

    I notice that you failed to provide a citation to back up your claim that humans and dinosaurs coexisted. Please do so, or admit you are repeating idiotic nonsense.
  8. Looncall

    How do we know we are right?

    If so many people come up with so many answers to a question, I think the obvious conclusion must be that the question is bogus. All the religions cannot be right, but they can all be wrong.
  9. Looncall

    Do you KNOW God does not exist?

    False dichotomy. There is the third response of witholding opinion until evidence is found. The "if there is not yet a natural explanation then a supernatural one must be true" gambit is dishonest.
  10. Looncall

    When science goes gibberish; what does it indicate?

    A good post. Especially as some fields make a virtue of gibberish these days. Post-modernist writing comes to mind. Remember the hilarious Sokal incident?
  11. Looncall

    Why is Confidence in Organized Religion At All Time Low?

    All sorts of settings can develop into a community. For example, the people who walk their dogs at a local park look out for each other: they care for each othrr's doga, lend a sympathetic ear, provide advice etc. No mumbo-jumbo is needed, no conman clergy are involved. If anything, religious...
  12. Looncall

    Why is Confidence in Organized Religion At All Time Low?

    Deepity. Trivial. Nothing follows from this, even though it sounds impressive.
  13. Looncall

    God Recreated the Earth 6,000 Years Ago!

    Time has already told. Supporting the flood myth in the face of so much contrary evidence is clearly perverse.
  14. Looncall

    Is Masturbation A Sin?

    As it happens, I have worked with sheep. They make the fence posts around them look smart. I would be outraged to be described as a sheep, or as part of a flock of them. I wonder if the constant use of the sheep metaphor by christians is some kind of snide joke from the seminaries.
  15. Looncall

    Now that the door is open, where does it close?

    Noah? Genesis? Why should anyone not infected with your brand of superstition pay any attention to your collection of campfire yarns cobbled together by ignorant savages? Religionists should keep their nonsense to themselves.
  16. Looncall

    Is Masturbation A Sin?

    There is no reason. The reason the religious are so uptight about it is that they have been taught to hate their own humanity and to live in a state of morbid guilt. That keeps the pews and collection plates full. It's all the most vicious scam around.
  17. Looncall

    Now that the door is open, where does it close?

    Marriage is a commitment between people. It does not necessarily involve your superstitions. The religious have no business insisting that everyone measure their corn in the religious half-bushel.
  18. Looncall

    Now that the door is open, where does it close?

    You christians are trying to denying them equal rights. What else can you expect? You need to realize that your superstitious taboos apply only to you and your fellow religionists.
  19. Looncall

    Why is Confidence in Organized Religion At All Time Low?

    Quite right. People are finally getting wise to the scam.
  20. Looncall

    Now that the door is open, where does it close?

    How stunningly inane it is to accuse someone of choosing not to worship an entity they do not believe exists. Religion truly does degrade the human intellect.
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