Yeah, OK, I signed it, I don't have much hope, but I signed it and shared it on Facebook, not that many of my friends are going to go there. I'd like to see it off of the money too. A friend sent me one of those chain emails the other day. This one was with "No God but Allah" stamped on a dollar bill. The email asked that we refuse any currency so marked. I replied and pointed out that "Allah" is just Arabic for "God" I have offered to take all of his tainted money off his hands and safely dispose of it (you can't give it to anyone but an atheist without taking a chance on infecting their souls, after all).

The nice thing about science is that even if you don't believe in it, it still works.

Hey fellow Long Islander, greetings from Hauppauge.

Once we give up something it's almost impossible to get it back. I am not optimistic about our future.

Kevin

Unfortunately that's the case with every politician these days. You get a bunch of nothing or a change in topic, like "What about the faith based initiatives...?" answered with something about new jobs or taxes or some other b.s.

When a politician does come out talking all strong and hard line for a good cause it inevitably ends up with them caving and giving an apologist type answer for why it's important "for the American people at this time that we... blah blah blah"

Basically, unless you're a billionaire or politician, we're fucked.

Well you know what they say... Those aren't REAL Christians :-)

To be fair, one should also try to remember those times when you were absolutely, unshakably, positively certain you were right, but then were proved to be wrong. Certainty goes both ways. We have to be aware of how our brains evolved and work to recreate memories that reinforce our beliefs about ourselves.

To be fair that billboard obviously calls for the burning of all Christian churches to the ground. How incendiary!

;-)

<Quote>In this case, the school should have done two things to demonstrate that they were serious about the legal issue Damon raised. They should have warned any students speaking at the ceremony ahead of time that stunts like this would result in a forfeiture of their diploma <end quote>

I think if they had done this the student could have used it for martyrdom and it would have created an uproar from the Christians down there. Could you see the complaints? "How dare they persecute my son/daughter for exercising her God given right of free speech?" etc, ad nauseam.

Christopher, it's easy! Just read the bible and pick they one that's in there. Everyone knows that the one true God wrote the bible...

Tsk, tsk. Don't you know? God/Jesus gave us another pass because Harold was able to get so many new converts to Christianity, and so many lapsed Christians to start praying for their lives! He did, however, give a warning shot across the bow so to speak by erupting an Icelandic volcano just to prove He could.

So watch out unbelievers! Buddha/Jesus/Mohammad/Xenu is coming!!!!