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Banning Occult Radio
Christmas songs: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
White Christmas
Frosty the Snowman
A Christmas Song, by Mel Torme' (Chestnuts Roasting
on an Open Fire)
Deck the Halls
Christmas Carols: O! Little Town of Bethelehem
Silent Night
See the difference? One group deals with Christmas as the time of
Christ's birth; the other group deals with Christmas as a winter
festival having to do with Santa Claus, winter feasts, and the like,
with no mention being made of Christ's birth at all.
NEW LISTINGS
There's a Humanist of some note who publishes a diatribe against the
celebration of Christmas in the Humanist Newsletter every year. His
name is Tom Flynn. I've often been tempted to write a letter to the
editor saying that Tom Flynn sounds just as fundie as those who insist
that we MUST recognize the birth of the same diety. If I want to
sacrifice a bird on the altar of gluttony, spend too much money trying
to make myself feel
Food for thought
Forget about the dipping. That isn't the issue. FORCING religion on
my child, albeit unwittingly on his part, is the issue. Coercing my
child into disrobing and participating in a superstitious ritual is the
issue. If my child can't get his ears pierced without parental
permission, then he shouldn't be coerced and/or into tricked into
participating in a superstitious ritual without my permission, or at
the very least knowlege either. And he certainly shouldn't be tricked
or coerced into participating
The Fact And Theory O 1/
Them's awfully big words, Kelsey, I doubt if he can follow them. Lemme
try to break them down to second-grade level for you.
Sometimes a piece of the genetic code is "misinterpreted" by
Mother Nature. When this happens, the kid looks different than
either of its parents sometimes in a significant way. When
this happens, we have what can be called "a new trait." .or, if it is born, will grow up to be a fundy
Pseudo-Factualist Fol 1/
Steven Jay Gould wrote a book called "Wonderful Life." It might be
worth the Factualist's time to read it and find out what SJG really
thinks, and get an explanation to all this from one whose life has been
devoted to the topic.
The paperback edition of the book is around $15. Seems like pretty
cheap tuition to me.
Gould dealt with the Cambrian explosion at great length in his lecture,
and I assume he discusses it at equal or
Not True Christian(tm)
Documents have come to light recently, thanks to the Freedom of
Information Act, that clearly show that Japan wanted to surrender
BEFORE the bombs were dropped, but Truman chose to drop them anyway.
Therefore, the Japanese deaths at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were totally
unnecessary, as was the genetic damage done to the survivors by the
bombs.
Aids Kills
Reality check time here, Steve. We are sex machines. In fact, it can
be argued that we are put on this Earth for one thing, and that is to
propogage (in the naturalistic sense don't get me going about
religious claptrap to the contrary). That being the case, it is most
unlikely you will be able to see your plan for controlling the AIDS
epidemic. So, unless you can come up with something realistic something that the average
Virgin Birth
Steve, we have been round and round about this. The gospel-writers did
not know Jesus personally, let alone know his mother. And, even more
important there is not one shred of evidence that any of them gave
Jesus' mother a pelvic examination to determine her physical status
prior to delivery of Jesus. You are grasping at straws, as were the
gospel writers who misinterpreted Isaiah and included this little
tidbit in their missives.
Bigot?
It is every bit as normal as left-handedness, as both embrace about 10
percent of the population.
Aids Kills
You're right. You can buy one helluva lot of fifths of your favorite
for the price of a vewy few rounds of drinks. (I'll be you already
knew that, though, didn't you?)
They can wish all they's like, but something tells me you and I will
continue to do exactly as we have been doing, whether they like it or
not.
Aids Kills
Drug use has nothing to do with getting AIDS, unless you are referring
to drugs that are made of blood products.
Other drugs do not in any way spread AIDS.
It is the use of used needles that spread the disease. If one stays
away from used needles, the risk of getting AIDS from drugs, whether
licit or illicit drugs, is virtually nil.
Russian Orthodoxy
I'm so honored! I just got a stolen tagline (re)stolen by the
moderator of my favorite echo!
<swoon>
MAYBE YOU CAN TELL ME
Hardly misleading. Both the NT and the OT were oral "history" for a
long period of time prior to being "written down." For centuries after
they were written down they only way to pass them from one person to
another was to hand copy them. The scribes who did this work had their
own agendas, their own accuracy quotient (i.e., attention span, lack of
mental lapses, etc.) and their own honesty quotient. If you think for
one minute that the
Morality
I have sort of a guideline that I live by (or at least try to). While
it is only the "first cut" and in no way can be construed as my final
decision regarding the rightness or wrongness of a potential action, it
serves very well as a means to throw out the obviously flawed behavior
before I have time to develop them into more clearly-defined plans. It
is a very simple question.
Suppose everybody in the world did this
MAYBE YOU CAN TELL ME
Hardly misleading. Both the NT and the OT were oral "history" for a
long period of time prior to being "written down." For centuries after
they were written down they only way to pass them from one person to
another was to hand copy them. The scribes who did this work had their
own agendas, their own accuracy quotient (i.e., attention span, lack of
mental lapses, etc.) and their own honesty quotient. If you think for
one minute that the
Aids Kills
an
no
Pascal's Wager. I'd know it anywhere. <yawn>
Religion of Dan
Let's put it this way: I'll take Hawking at his word a damned sight
sooner than I will Swaggart. 8-)
Gotta love it!
I see. Can you say "owymoron?"
Assault on Waco #8 of 8
On (03 Jan 94) David Rice wrote to All...
Number 5 was missing. Can you post it, or will I find that it is all
there and you simply can't count when I get down to reading the piece?
Proof
Very poor analogy. All of this (looking around...) is here because
that didn't work are, by virtue of the fact that they didn't work,
gone.
Just like all those organisms that didn't live long enough to breed
because they didn't have sufficient survival gear, all those plants
that didn't live to propagate for the same reason. Everything that
doesn't fit into the environment into which it is born, dies very early
in its life.
Try looking at the thing through