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I think it is completely wrong for parents to force a child to go to church. Unlike something like going to the dentist (the example someone gave above) or going to school, spiritual matters are very personal and should not be forced on anyone, even a child. This is not to say that children...

I'm sorry, but I am offended, Chela. But more than that, I am saddened that you hate your own species so much.

I voted for evolution. While I understand that the details of the mechanisms involved have not been fully discovered and understood, I am confident that evolution occurred. I also feel the need to reiterate Brian's statement that evolutionary theory really does not deal with how life came to...

Sorry it took me so long to get back to this. I honestly don't know that they feel constrained to figure out the four rivers description. I can't say that I have ever heard it discussed, although it could well be that there is an answer. I don't have access to the books that might answer the...

On the idea among the Japanese that Christmas celebrates Jesus' death: I wouldn't laugh too hard. A few years back I went to a Christmas tree lighting in a small California town, and the minister who had been invited to speak barely mentioned the nativity, but he did about 20 minutes on the...

The Queen of Sheba would have had to have been very long-lived in order to have become a Muslim. She lived in the 10th century BC, while Islam was not founded until the 7th century AD. Hope that helps.:)

I think it is fine, in the context of a discussion about religion, to say. "I don't believe what you do and here's why". It is not, I repeat not, okay to add, "And I think you are an idiot (or evil) for believing it". I think it is very important to know when to just stop discussing something...

I've always had a suspicion that people worry about the repercussions of not believing in God more than God does, if God does indeed exist. We humans are very good at giving our own attributes to plants, animals, cars, and even to God. We are also very good at trying to tell God what he/she/it...

But we shouldn't be teaching what the "majority" thinks science is. You can't take a poll and then say, well, that's what we'll teach as science. The thing that scares me is that this is just what happened in the Soviet Union back in the bad old days - their science, especially in biology, had...

And then there are the Mormons, who teach that the Garden of Eden was on the North American continent, more specifically in either Jackson County or Daviess County, Missouri. As I understand it, that is also where they believe that the Second Coming will take place.

I'm reading an interesting book right now called "Evolution, Creationism, and Other Modern Myths: A Critical Inquiry" by Vine Deloria, Jr. Deloria seems to believe that neither theory is correct, and that in fact they are really the same theory, with the only difference that the one uses...

Well, the egg, of course. Dinosaurs, or some of them anyway, laid eggs. Birds evolved from dinosaurs. Therefore, the egg came before the chicken.

I've long believed that much of the Bible can be interpreted as a series of encounters with extraterrestrials. This is not to say that I necessarily believe that to be so, just that it is one interpretation of many of the happenings reported there. In fact, one day I might sit down and do a...

Lemonade - fresh squeezed when possible. What can I say, I grew up with a lemon tree in my front yard that bore lemons all year round. I got spoiled.:) But if I can't find fresh squeezed, Crystal Light lemonade mix will do just fine, thanks. Which reminds me, I need to mix a new pitcher of...

This one wasn't on a bumper sticker, but on a license plate frame: "The few...the proud...California native". Being a California native myself, I like that a lot.:D

Hot air, indeed.:D A bit of trivia that absolutely fascinates me. Do you know what kind of fuel SpaceShipOne uses? Laughing gas and rubber. I just love that. Sounds like something out of a David Lynch film, doesn't it?

Um, I think it's Gibson's father who is the Holocaust revisionist, not Gibson himself. In the interviews with him I saw and read around the opening of the film a few months back, Gibson would not openly criticize his father's views, but it seemed that he was doing this out of respect for the...

You could always write your posts off-net in your word processing program, and then after saving them, cut-and-paste into the box like this one for posting purposes. I know some people on other forums I frequent who do this all the time. I only do it if I know it's going to be a long post, or...

This is true. See the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament, chapter 6, I believe (I don't have my Bible in front of me at the moment). Anyway, they talk about the widows there, when the Greek Christian widows were upset and complaining that the Jewish Christian widows were getting...

This is an idea that really intrigues me. I often say, half jokingly, that I think I got sent to the wrong planet this time around. But, honestly, I don't mean it as that much of a joke. I've felt this way ever since I can remember, mostly because I often feel quite out of place among people...