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Despite the First Amendment of the US Constitution separating Church and State, freedom of and from religion has eluded Americans. That law has never been enforced. Even more so now than in the past, the USA is a de facto Theocracy. Professing Christianity is essential for election of a...

God makes nothing perfectly clear. God is composed in the brain circuits of human beings. That is why there are so many. Like the human warlords on which God's are based, they are horribly imperfect. Some mentally insane, and many amoral or psychopathic. That is why they don't make sense...

I agree. It is almost all idolatry devoid of reason and scepticism or analytical thinking. I think the concept of a personal god or a god with a humanoid personality is too silly to debate. Nobody knows if God the creator is a conscious being, or a natural cosmic force that is not conscious and...

I defend God on this one. God has a perfect alibi for not preventing violence, for giving babies brain tumours, creating disease, creating epilepsy (demonic possession, oppression of women, etc. etc. His perfect alibi is NON-EXISTENCE. If there were a naked humanoid god sitting on a cloud over...

One problem is that the Roman Empire after forcing Christianity on its population, burned many records and made up many lies about the transition. Rome tradition was the most tolerant of multiple religions. They could not care if some group invented another god to their already numerous...

I have a perspective of extensive tours to the Middle East. I have the advantage of hearing both sides of the conflict. You Americans have been deprived of hearing the Palestinian, Arab, or Muslim sides of the issue. Your one sided propaganda, from largely pro-Zionist newspapers and TV barely...

I know that Aramaic was spoken for many centuries. I honestly do not know if the Jews at the time of the Babylonian exile spoke it or not. Was Chaldaean an Aramaic language? Not to make a big deal of the language, I am not expert enough so I will have to defer to scholars on this point. However...

I don't think a WWIII is likely. Terrorism is not capable of conquering distant non-Muslim countries with modern high-tech armies, air power, and navies. The struggle in the Middle East involved such high tech armies backed by Western Europe and mainly America. The victims of European Jewish...

I would not want a Mosque or Christian Church on my property. My front yard and back yard are my property. If you mean, would I tolerate a Mosque next door not on my property, I would say OK. I don't want any religion taking any parcel of my private property. Being nearby is legal. I am...

I guess it is in the hundreds of millions 98% for American believers in Paganized Christianity. The number of American published Bibles probably outnumbers rational science texts and books at least 100,000 to 1. That is why the USA ranks so low compared to First World Nations in Science...

I do not doubt you. Aten was an attempt, a widely opposed attempt to merge the old polytheism into one based on One God. It has flaws. Remember Christianity claims to be Monotheistic but is far from that. It is an Indo-European Pagan Trinitarian Religion. Weak thinkers like Athanasius and...

One must remember that the Bible is not just a book. It is an anthology of hundreds of essays by hundreds of different shamans who called themselves prophets. Those essays were not compiled into a single book until millennia later. Some were included in the book and others not. Despite trying to...

There was Alexander (Macedonian), Skanderbeg (Albanian), and Iskander (Turkish?} The Stooges say, "Yuck, Yuck, Yuck," "woop, woop, woop", "I'll moida ya," and "spread out." What is Macedonian Greek, Albanian, and Turkish for yuck, yuck, woop, woop, "I'll moida ya," and "spread out"?:) Amergin

The two rivers have had many names over the past 8,000 years. Many of those have been lost to history. The "Caucasians" who first inhabited the area obviously named these rivers. Sumerians (non-Semites) had names. The Proto-Semites from Arabia gave names as did follow-up migrations of Arabians...

Damn, I thought Seattle was one of the smarter cities in the troglodyte USA. Are you sure you are not from Alabama or Texas? We Scottish scientists pose no threat to your genital tract. Any vital stem cell research is not done against the will or consent of a donor. Those who want key to your...

, I agree with you. In fact, the history of Christianity is one of 1700 years of bloody religious wars (against Pagans, infidels, and other Christians.) Christianity fostered savage treatment of women (witch trials or killing women who spoke up for what was right.) Christianity and its...

Old scriptures were excluded from the Hebrew and Christian Bibles. Hebrew Scriptures banned indicated that there were two creations. In the first, God created man and woman. Genesis 1 does not give the woman a name. The hidden texts indicate that the first couple were Adam and his first wife...

Evolution was an observation of the natural world, intelligible only to intelligent observers like Darwin who saw the evidence of evolution with his own eyes. I have done the same thing in the fossil rich Grampian mountains of my homeland. Say that only the ignorant believe humans evolved from...

Re: The Joy of Freedom The Joy of Freedom When I became convinced that the Universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood, the sense, the feeling, the joy of Freedom. The walls of my prison...

I think religion is a organised set of beliefs about the matter-energy universe, and unseen beings, spirits, gods that must be believed on someone's authority rather than evidence, reason, examination, or scepticism. The content of such beliefs varies widely, influenced by tribal and clan...