Adyghe Ha'Yapheh-Phiyah

I was reading a paper about the possible connection between Kassite and Hurro-Urartian.

Can anyone tell me if the linguistic methods in this paper are sound...it is in pdf format.

http://diachronica.pagesperso-orange.fr/TMCJ_vol_2...

Is Arnaud Fournet a legitimate linguist???

I have search Google like crazy and there are nothing but links about John T. Koch's book and paper...Where are the opposing opinions on this matter?

All I can find doing a Google search is all about John T. Koch's book, nothing that offers scholarly criticism. Why?

With the exception of marriage...

The have the right to vote, to a decent education, to adopt children, and every other right that is afforded to any other American...again, except marriage.

I don't believe in Homosexual marriage by the way...I think that is a gateway/ slippery slope thing.

Jesus -> Do unto others what you want them to do to you

If you don't like being lied about, then you don't lie about others...Imagine all the positives that can be achieved by living by the Golden Rule...

It really only makes people not like you...which is why people don't like you.

Arrogance is so unbecoming...especially when it is more out of fatuity than anything of serious intellectual achievement.

That is contradictory to what is exhibited on this site...one thing all atheists BELIEVE is that there is no God...despite your seemingly irrational attempts to deny what is so much in evidence...you have BELIEFS.

I remember them from way back...I have not been around the forum in awhile just came back recently...When I left the Atheist Mafia had formed and were running rampant...Whatever became of it?

They always had those AM things behind their names...I was one of their favorite targets. I always found it amusing.

you have never visited?

There is legitimate criticism...but for many, many people it goes beyond being legitimate criticism into this wild-eyed insanity that is, truthfully, terrifying and supremely off-putting.

The Amorites and Arameans seem to be from the same area...Just different time periods or the like...I know that in the Bible the Amorites are called the sons of Canaan that is because of their proximity and relationship with the Canaanites (the Amorites are Semitic)...But what is the relationship of the Amorites and Arameans besides the obvious Semite connection? Again, are the they same people group or were the Amorites replaced or assimilated by the Arameans?

This happened in Hartford, Connecticut...Is this a symptom of godlessness?

What is this world coming to when people just stand and look at the man and don't even try to help him!!!???

http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/artic...

http://members.aol.com/Patriarchy/definitions/huma...

The U.S. Supreme Court cited Secular Humanism as a religion in the 1961 case of Torcaso v. Watkins (367 U.S. 488). Roy Torcaso, the appellant, a practicing Humanist in Maryland, had refused to declare his belief in Almighty God, as then required by State law in order for him to be commissioned as a notary public. The Court held that the requirement for such an oath "invades appellant's freedom of belief and religion."

The Court declared in Torcaso that the "no establishment" clause of the First Amendment reached far more than churches of theistic faiths, that it is not the business of government or its agents to probe beliefs, and that therefore its inquiry is concluded by the fact of the profession of belief.

Actually, the Court in Torcaso rested its decision on "free exercise" grounds, not the "Establishment Clause." Abington v. Schempp, 374 U.S. 203, 264-65 (1962) J. Brennan, concurring.

The Court stated:

We repeat and again reaffirm that neither a State nor the Federal Government can constitutionally force a person to "profess a belief or disbelief in any religion." Neither can constitutionally pass laws or impose requirements which aid all religions as against non-believers,10 and neither can aid those religions based on a belief in the existence of God as against those religions founded on different beliefs.11

Footnote 11 concerning "religions founded on different beliefs" contains the Court's citation of Secular Humanism as a religion. It states

Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism, and others. See Washington Ethical Society v. District of Columbia, 101 U.S. App. D.C. 371, 249 F.2d 127; Fellowship of Humanity v. County of Alameda, 153 Cal. App. 2d 673, 315 P.2d 394; II Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences 293; 4 Encyclopedia Britannica (1957 ed.) 325-327; 21 id., at 797; Archer, Faiths Men Live By (2d ed. revised by Purinton), 120-138, 254-313; 1961 World Almanac 695, 712; Year Book of American Churches for 1961, at 29, 47.

It is important to note that this citation of Secular Humanism as a religion is not merely dictum. The Supreme Court refers to the important 1957 case of Washington Ethical Society v. District of Columbia (101 U.S. App. D.C. 371) in its holding that Secular Humanism is a non-theistic religion within the meaning of the First Amendment.

The Ethical Culture movement is one denomination of Secular Humanism which reaches moral and cultural relativism, situation ethics, and attacks belief in a spiritual God and theistic values of the Old and New Testaments.

The Washington Ethical Society case involved denial of the Society's application for tax exemption as a religious organization. The U.S. Court of Appeals reversed the Tax Court's ruling, defined the Society as a religious organization, and granted its tax exemption.

The Court Stated,

The sole issue raised is whether petitioner falls within the definition of a "church" or a "religious society" . . . . The taxing authority urges denial of the tax exemption asserting petitioner is not a religious society or church and that it does not use its buildings for religious worship since "religious" and "worship" require a belief in and teaching of a Supreme Being who controls the universe. The position of the tax Court, in denying tax exemption, was that belief in and teaching of the existence of a Divinity is essential to qualify under the statute. . . . To construe exemptions so strictly that unorthodox or minority forms of worship would be denied the exemption benefits granted to those conforming to the majority beliefs might well raise constitutional issues . . . . We hold on this record and under the controlling statutory language petitioner qualifies as "a religious corporation or society" . . . .

It is incumbent upon Congress to utilize this broad definition of religion in all its legislative actions bearing on the support or non-support of religion, within the context of the "no-establishment" clause of the First Amendment.

ne diyon lan...

Is that something mean?

It was a bunch of Atheists who put their kids in this "Sunday school" for Atheists...

It was strange...The kids were regurgitating what their parents were telling them just like religious kids in regular Sunday school...

It seemed weird that this one little girl said she was learning to think freely, but she was being fed what to say by teachers and her parents...What she said sounded so contrived...

What are the Atheists trying to accomplish with this?

It seems funny that they criticize Christians and religious people in general for raising there kids in a religious environment "without free-thought" when they are indoctrinating their children too...Hypocrisy anyone?

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Nightline/FaithMatters/s...

the existence of a god...Is he just bitter?

I am an independent...I don't vote solely for Republicans or Democrats...I have voted for both in my short voting experience...

I want Hillary to win the Democratic Party's nomination...

It will make it easier for my candidate John McCain to be president....

So, shall we further pray?

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee...

This is the best I could do...

No amo a papillio , Punctum amo a aedes