He goes from advocating murder to advocating kidnapping. What a humanitarian...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050824/us_nm/venezuela_robertson_dc_12
He is obviously scrambling to try to regain whatever credibility he might have left. There really aren't too many ways to interpret the...
I'd be tempted to have an honest conversation with him and see what he fears you might say to them. It's pretty closed-minded of him to say that you can't even be around his kids for fear that you might exude some sort of religion (or irreligion) with which he is not comfortable. I can see his...
Interestingly, Christianity is so pervasive (at least here in the US) that people who find themselves heading down the path of becoming an agnostic or atheist often feel that they are Satanists simply because they question the existence of a Christian God.
-- Mat
Unfortunately, "The 700 Club" is taken seriously by millions of people, which is why I'm worried about this. It's not as if it's some unknown off-the-wall crackpot saying these things. It's a VERY well-known crackpot. ;-) Seriously, though, you see my point. Just because he's well-known, his...
Isn't it kind of a nicety of US foreign policy that we don't go around whacking every foreign leader with whom we diagree? For Pat Robertson to suggest this sort of thing goes WAY too far, in my opinion.
-- Mat
I am no longer searching for a religion -- I am merely seeking to understand. My feeling so far has been that traditional religions tend to have very hard-and-fast rules on specific issues, and that these are meant for exclusionary purposes rather than to foster understanding. It is currently my...
As someone who has passed through a great many religious stages in his life (and who continues to do so) I would feel very disingenuous about condemning someone for their religious choices. The only time I am tempted to disapprove of someone's religious lifestyle is when they try to force their...
This is the crux of the issue. People can say all they want that burning the flag is "disrespectful" or "demeans history" or any number of things like that, but you don't have to be holding a burning flag to do that. Someone can go around expressing hateful opinions about veterans, railing...
You are describing yourself into a corner. If a person is unwilling to devote themselves totally and unyieldingly to be a parent, then in your opinion they are unqualified to become a parent. However, someone who is fine with giving up everything in their life - everything which previously has...
While I agree with the sentiment that people should think carefully before deciding to have children, I think that some of your eleven reasons are pretty condescending:
5) You are single.
7) You know you will have to hire help to assist you in caring for your child.
To...
I know what you mean, and I sort of feel the same way. Although I must admit that I still feel a familiar "pull" whenever I hear the old lines about, "Jesus died for your sins," and when people say the various chants (Lord's Prayer, Hail Mary, etc.), I feel like I could never going back to...
Whether your conspiracy theory is correct or not, the end result is the same. As it is, kids are already showing up in college classrooms with no formal knowledge of evolution because schools and teachers are becoming so reticent to take a stand on the issue that they are simply not teaching...
Unfortunately, it often is difficult to debunk these sorts of arguments in the settings in which they're presented. An intelligent design proponent can stand up at a school meeting and say, "Now, nobody here believes that humans came from monkeys, so don't go giving us that old line. I read a...
This is probably true, but the Christian Right's rhetoric about universities being havens for all the terrible things that secularists do is becoming more pointed by the day. There have already been a few recent cases of religious students / groups taking on professors who they felt to be...
A new book shows the depths which religious paranoia has plumbed:
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44670
"Fish Out of Water: Surviving and Thriving as a Christian on a Secular Campus," suggests that universities are actively trying to turn Bible-believing...
I'm as close to humanism as anything else, so here goes:
Humanism is a cosmic worldview, based upon the belief that physical laws of the universe are not superseded by non-material or supernatural entities such as demons, gods, or other "spiritual" beings outside the realm of the natural...
I would be pretty surprised if someone who is truly an atheist (and not just someone who disagrees with the conceptions of God promoted in the major world religions) would say they believed in a God, even such a vague description of one. I would think that most atheists believe that the universe...
Doesn't this just go back to the same problem of why there are one-dimensional strings, though? Why is there anything at all in our universe, in any amount of dimensions, and not nothing?
I suppose it could be said that we exist only in three dimensions and so the way we see things, the...