On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 07:21:20 -0600, "." <.@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>"6andretti" <dequardo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 09:42:12 -0000, "Mike P" <privacy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >"Von Fourche" <kho****ong@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >> The first time in my adult life I did something special today. I
>did
>> >> it on
>> >> my own too (well, I had the missionaries sitting with me and the
>Heavenly
>> >> Father and Jesus was leading me) - I went to Church! You don't know
>> >> how hard it was for me to do this. I did it tho. I had faith, put
my
>> >> trust
>> >> in the Heavenly Father and Jesus, and showed up this morning for
>> >> services.
>> >
>> >Why?
>> >
>> >"The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins is a very interesting read..
>>
>> So is the Bible. Try it sometime.
>>
>> Prof. Dawkins should have a chat with Stephen Hawking.
>
>
>I'm somehow not at all surprised that Mr. Know-
>Nothing responds and regales us with yet another
>canard and pathetically feeble attempt at misdirection.
>Will he N E V E R either stop or become contrite?!
>
>The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists
>of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
> - Friedrich Nietzsche
>
>Faith, noun. Belief without evidence in what is told by one
>who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel
> - Ambrose Bierce
>
>Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the
>occurrence of the improbable. - H. L. Mencken
>
>Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.
> - Friedrich Nietzsche
>
>Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on
>facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
> - Thomas A. Edison
>
>Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere
>superstition. - Alexander Hodge
>
>Question with boldness even the existence of God; because,
>if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of
>reason than that of blindfolded faith. - Thomas Jefferson
>
>A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith
>does not prove anything. - Friedrich Nietzsche
>
>Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning
>faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely
>vile! - Kurt Vonnegut
>
>In the affairs of the world men are saved, not by faith, but
>by the want of it. - Benjamin Franklin
>
>I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening;
>I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin
>in the morning. - Aleister Crowley
>
>The smallest of minds are the easiest to fill with faith.
> - Pope Alexander VI
>
>Once there was a time when all people believed in God
>and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages.
> - Richard Lederer
>
>When the churches literally ruled society, the human
>drama encompassed: (a) slavery; (b) the cruel subjection
>of women; (c) the most savage forms of legal punishment;
>(d) the absurd belief that kings ruled by divine right; (e)
>the daily imposition of physical abuse; (f) cold heartlessness
>for the sufferings of the poor; as well as (g) assorted
>pogroms ("ethnic cleansing" wars) between rival religions,
>capital punishment for literally hundreds of offenses, and
>countless other daily imposed moral outrages.... It was the
>free-thinking, challenging work by people of conscience,
>who almost invariably had to defy the religious and
>political status quo of their times, that brought us out of
>such darkness. - Steve Allen
>
>There was a time when I believed in the story and the
>scheme of salvation, so far as I could understand it,
>just as I believed there was a Devil.... Suddenly the
>light broke through to me and I knew this God was a
>lie.... For indeed it is a silly story, and each generation
>nowadays swallows it with greater difficulty.... Why
>do people go on pretending about this Christianity?
> - H.G. Wells
>
>We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity
>has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
>- Richard Dawkins
>
>Religion is the brainchild of fear, and fear is the parent
>of cruelty. The greatest evils inflicted on humankind are
>perpetrated not by pleasure-seekers, self-seeking
>op****tunists, or those who are merely amoral, but by
>fervent devotees of religion. - Emmanuel Kofi Mensah
>
>The man who is always worrying about whether or not
>his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't
>worth a damn. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
>
>Men become civilized, not in pro****tion to their willingness
>to believe, but in pro****tion to their readiness to doubt.
> - H. L. Mencken
>
>I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom,
>and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
> - Clarence Darrow
>
>One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing.
> - H. L. Mencken
>
>If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he
>commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed
>in polygamy; that he persecuted for opinion's sake; that he will
>punish forever, and that he hates an unbeliever, the effect in my
>judgment will be bad. It always has been bad. This belief built
>the dungeons of the Inquisition. This belief made the Puritan
>murder the Quaker. ~ Robert Ingersoll
>
>There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the
>former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
> - Hippocrates
>
>Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record
>of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of
>science. - Upton Sinclair
>
>Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic
>of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental
>characteristic of Western science. - Gary Zukav
>
>The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon
>a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it
>holds its truths to be eternal and immutable. - H. L. Mencken
>
>Just to the extent that the Bible was appealed to in matters
>of science, science was retarded; and just to the extent that
>science has been appealed to in matters of religion, religion
>has advanced - so that now the object of intelligent religionists
>is to adopt a creed that will bear the test and criticism of
>science. - Robert Ingersoll
>
>Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is
>science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house
>and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
> - Henri Poincare
>
>Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists
>have certainty without any proof. - Ashley Montague
>
>The im****tant thing in science is not so much to obtain
>new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about
>them. - Sir William Bragg
>
>Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted
>intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
> - George Santayana
>
>In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know
>that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and
>then they would actually change their minds and you never
>hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It
>doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are
>human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens
>every day. I cannot recall the last time someting like that
>happened in politics or religion. - Carl Sagan
>
>What can be asserted without evidence can also be
>dismissed without evidence. - Christopher Hitchens
>
>My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards
>the Universe and denies only gods fa****oned by men
>in their own image to be servants of their human interests.
> - George Santayana
>
>It was the experience of mystery, even if mixed with fear,
>that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein
>
>"The most im****tant thing is not to stop questioning."
> - Albert Einstein
Proof positive the dumber a person is the more they talk. In your
case type.
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