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> 6andretti wrote:
> > On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 17:38:29 -0600, "." <.@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> >> "6andretti" <dequardo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> >> news:8f4nq3lbn3d8em71296sooh026aol055mj@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>> On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 07:21:20 -0600, "." <.@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> "6andretti" <dequardo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> >>>> news:vbulq3hc5ah0f9eb33tdsvrp2mav342c48@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>>>> On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 09:42:12 -0000, "Mike P" <privacy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> "Von Fourche" <kho****ong@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> >>>>>> news:13qcnokj868du70@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> 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.
>
> 'Tis the troll's autofellatio
>
> --
> forty
>
> "There's a very fine line between not listening, and not caring. I like
> to think that I walk that line every day of my life."
Oh look, the as always continuously bested losers are once
again commiserating and licking each others wounds (and I
shudder to think what else); isn't it truly ...disgusting!
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