Looks like society disagrees. Ah well.
5. My religion is the only true one. 5. If you believe in it, good things will happen to you. 5. If you don't believe in it, bad things will...
Definitions may be immortal but they're not immutable. Something said today may mean something totally different tomorrow. The rest is just the...
This is just fucking nonsense. Obviously it's unfair on a blind guy if he asks for directions and you just say "it's over there, dumbass"....
Well okay. But if you're going to pick holes, maybe tell me some other explanations? Assuming we have a belief (in this context I see no point...
I'm gonna recommend Diaspora by Greg Egan as well. Just as an interesting perspective on where the human race might find itself in time.
I guess it depends on what he's here for. If he's reiterating the same message, he'd probably be the same. If he's giving a different message,...
People write books about mirrors?
I find that a lot, to be honest. People prefer stuff that sounds like it should be right (everything is one thing, open-mindedness is awesome,...
Holy shit, I just found a little goldmine of fundie retardation: http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Carico Might not be worksafe, but...
So are we any closer on this? I'm just rewatching some South Park and wondering whether anyone expects non-Muslims to respect Muslim beliefs in...
This may be the only smart thing anyone's ever said on this forum :)
I'd say that there's a difference between claiming values to be positive and claiming assertions to be true. Society may teach us the value of...
You can have books that have already had religions based on them if you want. I think I'm going to read Moby Dick, and then say Moby Dick. Not...
Well yeah, I think from what I saw, Religulous is just making fun of religion by stating the bleedin' obvious. Plenty of comedians from Christian...
Every other one seems to be. Most societal values are imbued by fear of the alternative. We do right by one another because we fear the...
Thing is, if a non-literal interpretation of the Bible is totally acceptable, why not a non-literal interpretation of Moby Dick, Fight Club, or...
Well given the subject of the thread I don't think that it's an unfair assumption that someone would have some belief about the nature of the...
Which would be really persuasive if the people in question gave a shit about the scripture. Which, pretty much by definition, they don't. That...
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