6andretti wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 17:38:29 -0600, "." <.@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> "6andretti" <dequardo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 07:21:20 -0600, "." <.@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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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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>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> "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.
>> Religious zealots dread the advance of science as witches
>> do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger
>> announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they
>> live. - Thomas Jefferson
>>
>
> Do you spew this in a faux britsh accent like Britney? Pedantic
> diarrhea.
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