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    NoToReligion and SA Huguenot creation evidence.

    Sadly, the descriptions collide. Therefore, (according to your argument), there is no creator God.
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    How to protect religious freedom and conscience rights

    Seems like the polite thing for businesses to do is to post a list of who they will and will not do business with -- so we don't have to embarrass the poor cashier who informs us he/she can't sell to us (or the poor bus driver who must ask us to move to the back of the bus). Maybe everyone...
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    How to protect religious freedom and conscience rights

    I can imagine a future day in which these secular rules of the state will be oppressive for everyone.
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    How to protect religious freedom and conscience rights

    Yes, this is a very strong argument.
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    How to protect religious freedom and conscience rights

    The problem with allowing for all these religious exemptions is that they are so artificial. For example, why should an employer have to try to appease everyone's special needs? Imagine how difficult it would be to host a banquet if everyone has a special diet?
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    How to protect religious freedom and conscience rights

    Seems like some people want to be exempt from any law they don't like. Maybe we should just abolish the rule of law altogether, and have anarchy?
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    How to protect religious freedom and conscience rights

    Yes, good point. I think a problem with laws is that they don't reflect considered beliefs of society for two reasons: People in society are at odds, having opposing views. The legislatures making the laws are not able to make good laws because of all the influences from voters and lobbyists...
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    Mangling others' religions

    Is it justified to interpret someone's scriptures differently than those the scripture belongs to? For example, the New Age teaching that Jesus was a guru who lived in India, and that he was teaching a form of eastern religion. No he didn't and no he wasn't. Seems to me, we have to understand...
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    UFO mystery solved

    There are thousands of kinds of UFOs which have been with us for many decades. Why are all these thousands of advanced civilizations interacting with our world, probably billions of years away from home?
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    UFO mystery solved

    Yes, this is a good thing to consider.
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    UFO mystery solved

    Yikes! I guess we should all stop thinking right away!
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    awe + amazement = pantheism

    Yes. But implicit in your argument is that, for every topic, the truth will eventually be teased out and will become known. Truth isn't relative or subjective, rather, our knowledge is increasing. We should be careful not to believe cutting edge ideas that are not proven with adequate evidence.
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    Why is morality a problem?

    Yes, I think your assessment is a good one. I notice you first determined the argument using reason and critical thinking, and only after that, provided a Bible verse that matched. In other words, you could have left out the Bible verse and your argument would have remained unchanged. Your...
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    Why is morality a problem?

    Yes, democracy. As long as the needs of the minority are considered as important by the majority. And as long as the voters are not duped into believing crazy ideas by unscrupulous charismatic leaders.
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    Why is morality a problem?

    Yes. I wonder if people claiming that morality is too subjective unless you have a religiously dictated moral system; I wonder if they would be willing to accept a moral system based on this kind of rational reasoning?
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    Why is morality a problem?

    Yes, a good point, that suffering is the key metric. In considering what evil is, it seems that suffering is the key ingredient; if no one suffers, there was no evil. (Even someone planning on doing "evil" suffers psychologically, even if he/she never gets to do the evil deed.)
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    UFO mystery solved

    Maybe it's not such a good idea to approach a UFO to have a better look?
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    UFO mystery solved

    I suspect there are all kinds of secret military craft we don't know about. Were you near a military base where they develop such things?
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    UFO mystery solved

    Are you saying a psychologically normal person became permanently psychologically disturbed? What could this UFO possibly be doing that affects peoples' brains like that?
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    UFO mystery solved

    Maybe it was a military craft, top secret in development, or something like that? Accidentally spotted because of an unplanned and unintended landing?
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