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Serv, I also like the Monty Python movies. I have watched them over many times, especially Life of Brian, and loved so many scenes such as the Knights of Nigh, Arthur's exchange with the French at the Castle, the fight of Arthur with the Black Knight where Arthur hacks of the knight's arms and...

Most European Countries have tried to be neutral in the Arab-Israeli conflict. I prefer that as well. We have no right to aid either side in this senseless conflict. We (UK) caused much of this to happen by betrayal of the Native Palestinians as well as Jordanians, and Iraqis. Our country...

America had a right to seek out and kill Al Qaeda terrorists. It did not have a right to invade and occupy a fragmentary country because Bin Ladin used an area for training. Bush claimed to conquer Afghanistan to build a democracy. What a load of bollocks! Afghanis have resisted foreign...

You are definitely American. You are ignorant of your own history. Seven states have laws barring an atheist from holding public office. Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and three other states do block atheists from office. These 7 states ban Atheists from holding public office |...

I agree, the Jews have a right to national self-determination. That does not mean founding a nation exclusively for Jews and expelling all Native Non-Jews (Muslims and Christians). That does not include terrorist attacks by Irgun and the Stern Gang blowing up Arab children's school buses, bull...

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Excellent countrepoints Mate. You have a unique way of looking at issues outside of the conventional box. Thanks even for your skilled sherracking of my weaker points. Amergin

The names Israel, Palestine, and Canaan are just transient periods of history. I will call it the Jordan River-Dead Sea Transform Rift Valley. That is a lot to say. So I will use the letters JRDSTR Valley. The earliest human remains in JRDSTR Valley were found in Ubeidiya, some 3 km south of...

Gatekeeper, that was a fine post you wrote to start this thread. I would say that Christianity has split into too many sects or cults. I like what Jesus said. The words of Jesus are wise and good. How come the Roman Catholic Church and the many Protestant Evangelical Cults teach the opposite...

Sorry, I did not mean to say the NAME of God. Every politician puts "God" multiple times in every speech. Even Republicans say "Jesus" often but paradoxically they are the ones who denounce his teachings. They oppose healing the sick, redistributing wealth to the poor, feeding the starving...

Yes, you elected a man with a very narrow minded religious cult mentality. He did not go after Bin Ladin for bombing New York. He even called the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, a crusade. His invasion of Afghanistan was an anti-Taliban Muslim War. He even let Bin Ladin escape in a motorcade from...

The DOI was a splendid document. I liked its emphasis on life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness. They needed the Constitution to establish rights and protections to maintain that personal freedom. That personal freedom has been slowly eroding in the USA in the last half-century. The only...

You missed my point. I was not indoctrinated to be an atheist. I do not think I even hard the word, "Atheist" until the 4th or 5th grade, when I heard American propaganda about the Korean War. It talked about the REDS. They were Atheists who denied God. That was the reason America had to fight...

The better question is how many Americans believe the Bible is literally true, metaphorically true, or untrue? I saw a poll that 49 to 50% of Americans take the Bible as literally true, denying Evolution, the Age of the Earth, plate tectonics, and the soul not the brain as the source of...

I do not believe in channeling. I do not rule it out but think channeling is a form of hallucination or outright trickery. Daniel's book was a type of Apocalyptical Pseudo-Prophesy used to rally the Jewish people in times of danger. Scholars smarter than I, think Daniel lived in the brief period...

You are spot on. I use the word Palestine knowing it is possibly and anachronism or came from the Philistines. My grandfather was a British Soldier who with Arab allies to capture Jerusalem from the Ottoman Turks, who called the area Palestine. Palestine is not a legitimate name. I hate using...

I am the forth Atheist in my paternal line of a Scottish Family. That is a linear branch of a tree. My mother was Irish Catholic as were most of her mainly Irish family. Overall, nearly all branches of my family going back to 1600 were Christians (mostly Catholic with some paternal...

The marked similarity between schizophrenia and intense religious faith. I am an Atheist in a four generation Atheistic Family. All were educated, and quite rational and sceptical. During medical school at U. of Edinburgh and my Neuroscience post-grad residency, I first encountered...

It is a matter of the increasing gap between rich and poor. The gap is also between intelligent and non-intelligent, the educated and the uneducated, the freethinkers and the religious fundamentalists. What could separate them could be a form of social selection. Educated people tend to marry...

Ooooh the pain! Guinness is the best beer and widest selling in the world. It is the reason Celts are smarter, Celtic women more beautiful, and Celtic men being more handsome. It is why we Celts are all poets, great singers, the best fiddlers, best pipers, and best playing the Bodhran.:):) Amergin