I don't think we disagree that much. As to microchips being implanted there must be regulations that limit what the chip does. If the chip's function is to stabilize heart rhythms, block epileptic neuronal discharges and no effects on mental function, I see no problem.
I oppose any chips...
WOW, your post is quite interesting and scholarly. It is difficult for me to debate any of it, since I already share your view that Jesus was not a fictional person. You have already brilliantly made the case.
My favourite line is: "I don't believe Jesus walked on water, let alone on land."...
1. Archaeologists two years ago unearthed under the Nile Delta mud the remains of the partially built City of Rameses on which the Hebrews were reported to be working. Moses who was looking for a sign, spotted a huge column of dark smoke on his left. Ex 13:21-22 "And the Lord went before them by...
1. Do not worry. You cannot sell your soul to anybody. The soul is just a metaphor for the entirely physical mechanisms of your brain. The soul is not an object. Primitive people believed that our thinking was due to something invisible which they called the soul. It is just a fantasy. You...
It is simple. HMO's can do the following.
Christian Cults (Christian Science) can be denied all modern medicine so as to not violate their belief in prayer.
JW's could be denied surgery if blood replacement is necessary.
Southern Baptists can be denied care if African American doctors and...
The same Fundamentalists consider freedom of speech to be evil.
They consider not believing in the Jesus virgin birth to be evil.
They consider freedom to choose another religion to be evil.
They consider not believing in Virgin born Jesus resurrecting to be evil.
They consider scientific...
You just admitted it was hearsay.All we have is the supposed word of James, if there was a real James.
Josephus never met Jesus. His controversial verse describing Christians or Chrestus is clearly fraudulent. Scholars have shown that the brief statements about Jesus was written in a different...
I do not believe that gods speak to humans for the simple reason that every god tells a different story to the gullible human being. Does the American God have three personalities? Does the Arabian God only have one personality? Does India have several gods?
This makes me sceptical about all...
ALL CLAIMS OF JESUS DERIVE FROM HEARSAY ACCOUNTS
Did Jesus exist?
"No one has the slightest physical evidence to support a historical Jesus; no artifacts, dwelling, works of carpentry, or self-written manuscripts. All claims about Jesus derive from writings of other people. There occurs no...
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You are correct. As the equivalent of provincial governor of a rebellious province, Pilate would not have been repentant. His job was to discourage rebel leaders or those who challenge authority of the Jewish...
This makes no sense.
1 Man offends God by seeking knowledge (eating the fruit)
2 God demands retribution by Man with a blood sacrifice.
3. Retribution would demand human sacrifice not god sacrifice.
4. Killing the son of God, the supposed offended one, is illogical.
If Jack kills Henry's son...
In some ways the early universe was not complex. It was just a vast expansion of hot energy. Matter formed because the properties of energy included up and down quarks whose properties as the universe cooled was to form particles such as neutrons and protons. These particles (really a form of...
We need laws to prevent people from stealing anything that is not theirs..
People have different ideas about what is right for the safety of society at large. Some groups (religions) bully legislators to enact laws that reflect their religious views and not the good of society. Christianity and...
Intelligent design is a concept by religious people to accept the FACT of EVOLUTION without giving up God. How does God fit with the real events of evolution?
I do not need to mention the history of evolution and life on Earth from 4.4 Billion years BCE to the present. That is a fact in this...
There is no reason that God could not have performed the Big Bang, massive stars, galaxies, consolidated dust in solar disks to form Earth, directed a planetoid to collide with Earth to form the Moon, and designed deep-sea vents at subducting zones. Then God could have commanded life to form DNA...
Original Sin was the sin of inquiry and seeking knowledge.
Genesis is the story of mankinds ascent not fall. It begins with the Garden of Eden metaphor. Eden originated in the remembered stories of Hunter-gathering. In the garden (hunter-gatherers) man and woman could just pluck fruit from...
Complications, risks, adverse effects of circumcision
Is over 200 medical studies on complications enough to prove a point????
EL-BAHNASAWY REPORTED THAT CIRCUMCISION IS THE MOST COMMON FORM OF PENILE INJURY.
Ablation of the Penis
Adhesions (see also Treatment of Phimosis)
AMPUTATION OF THE...
Genital mutilation male and female children is barbaric. It was started for very irrational superstitions. When I lived in Africa I saw the horrors on the faces of children facing genital mutilation. It is a perversion and abomination. People performing such horrible assaults, should be punished...
We humans are also members of the animal kingdom. There are intuitive moral values and immoral inhibitions, species specific and moulded by evolution. I am an Agnostic Evolutionist. Intuitive Morality is genetic and entirely brain based. Genes programme the hardware structure of the Moral...
Many people who hear voices of an invisible god or demon have long filled rooms of Psychiatric Hospitals. The problem is that the voices too often tell mothers to kill their babies because Satan is in the babies. Too often hallucinations lead people to do harmful acts against themselves or...