Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Over 300 new 'Green' Startup businesses have opened in Orange County Ca. in the past 2 years. Solar mfg.'s Capacitor mfg.'s Electric car mfg.'s etc., we all like to drive by the Republican headquarters and give then the Salute.
Interesting, but you are only talking about a tiny slice of the total economy, and a single geographic location.
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john w. loftus responds to the "angry atheist" assertion.
are we angry atheists?.
.. if we are angry, christians will see this as a sign we are god haters.
it's about zealots that believe they have god on their side
It's about zealots, period. And when I say zealots, I mean anyone that thinks they should lie, cheat, steal or violate another's human rights and freedoms in the name of their zealotry. That is where it becomes a real problem.
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how science leads to naturalism (at least for me) .
we should be skeptics of extraordinary claims of miracles in the ancient past.
there are too many of them in every culture, too many mythical stories.. .
Your rebuttal of Plantinga's argument is persuasive, Bohm. Plantinga's evolutionary argument against naturalism uses arbitrary assignments of probability.
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this is going to be a short essay on a point i have been thinking about for a while now.. jesus explicitly stated in the gospels not to judge.
i think this a grossly overlooked statement from jesus from the witnesses and a lot of christian denominations.. judging could be defined as figuring out what's right or wrong for another person.
it's a pretty simple concept really, and jesus warned against it.. organized religion by definition creates doctrine and policy, some enforce them more than others (like the witnesses).. to create (or interpret) doctrine and initialize policy is to judge others.
NeonMadman's logic is irrefutable.
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this is going to be a short essay on a point i have been thinking about for a while now.. jesus explicitly stated in the gospels not to judge.
i think this a grossly overlooked statement from jesus from the witnesses and a lot of christian denominations.. judging could be defined as figuring out what's right or wrong for another person.
it's a pretty simple concept really, and jesus warned against it.. organized religion by definition creates doctrine and policy, some enforce them more than others (like the witnesses).. to create (or interpret) doctrine and initialize policy is to judge others.
Why I think Jesus spoke against Organized Religion
Please cite a specific scriptural passage to demonstrate this.
And by the way, any passages you do cite were written by members of an organized religion, and preserved until the current day by members of an organized religion.
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how science leads to naturalism (at least for me) .
we should be skeptics of extraordinary claims of miracles in the ancient past.
there are too many of them in every culture, too many mythical stories.. .
Here is an excerpt from their conclusion:
There is methodological naturalism, and metaphysical naturalism.
As a working scientist, you can do the former. In fact, you must, as a basic assumption underlying your work.
This does not however, mean that the latter is necessarily true.
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ireland swallows bitter pill, asks eu for loan .
debt-crippled ireland formally applied sunday for a massive eu-imf loan to stem the flight of capital from its banks, joining greece in a step unthinkable only a few years ago when ireland was a booming celtic tiger and the economic envy of europe.. european union finance ministers quickly agreed in principle to the bailout, saying it "is warranted to safeguard financial stability in the eu and euro area.
" but all sides said further weeks of negotiations loomed to define the fund's terms, conditions and precise size.. ireland's crisis, set off by its foundering banks, drove up borrowing costs not only for ireland but for other weak links in the eurozone such as spain and portugal.
PIIGS.
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john w. loftus responds to the "angry atheist" assertion.
are we angry atheists?.
.. if we are angry, christians will see this as a sign we are god haters.
"Why Atheists Care About YOUR Religion"
Awww. Makes me feel speshul.
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http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/11/20/christian-right-activist-blasts-medal-of-honor-as-feminized-s/.
MCQ at Blackfive has gone after him pretty hard.
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2010/11/moh-has-been-feminized-really.html
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2010/11/feminized-moh-guy-does-part-three.html
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how science leads to naturalism (at least for me) .
we should be skeptics of extraordinary claims of miracles in the ancient past.
there are too many of them in every culture, too many mythical stories.. .
For many years I was a naturalist – in belief if not in name. Naturalism is like the evolved cousin of materialism. Materialism states that all there is in the world is matter, and everything is utterly and exhaustively explainable in terms of matter. There are severe logical issues with this belief, and most former-materialists jettisoned this belief in favor of a slightly more tenable and vague notion of “naturalism”.
Naturalism still accounts for all things in terms of the whole universe (i.e. all of nature), but she allows for things like “energy” which is not strictly material. However, if naturalism is true, then ultimately all things that occur are ultimately entirely reducible to the workings of the system.
This would seem to be problematic for some beliefs, like that of freewill. It set’s up an utterly entirely deterministic universe whereby all things that occur had to occur. That, though demonstrative of our point, is not in and of itself our point.
The point is that if everything is utterly explainable by the system simply “working itself out” in whatever fashion it happens to, then all of my beliefs are utterly irrational; they are caused and not arrived at by any actual act of reason.
I'd like to underscore:
if naturalism is true, then ultimately all things that occur are ultimately entirely reducible to the workings of the system.
The point is that if everything is utterly explainable by the system simply “working itself out” in whatever fashion it happens to, then all of my beliefs are utterly irrational; they are caused and not arrived at by any actual act of reason.
