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I've noticed that conservatives, and groups like the Tea party patriots will always imply that our nation was based on the Christian God. But to my knowledge God is not mentioned in the constitution at all. Am I missing something? Or am I correct in my assumption that these people who love to scream about the constitution have honestly never read it or done any studying aside from reading creationist propaganda sites?

If every pediatric and medical organization in the industrialized world says there is no medical benefit to the baby, wouldn't that violate the Hippocratic oath of "Do no harm"?

I understand that it can help reduce the spread of disease. But The loss in nerve endings and sensitivity seems to be a horrible thing to take from someone without asking them. Bottom line seems to be that it is healthy functioning tissue being removed from someone without consent for no legitimate health reasons. How do doctors justify doing this?

so why don't cops focus on real crime? None of us care if someone smokes pot, or that some trashy trailer park couple is having their 100th domestic dispute. What we want is bait cars set up to catch people that affect the people who make the wheels of society turn, the worthwhile people. I understand this is not a PC way to look at it, but honestly. The only thing the cops have ever done for me, and educated tax payer, is write me a ticket. Whats up with that?

From what I've read, nobody wants them there, these people drug their kids into a warzone, and for what? whats the point? is it just to fulfill the prophecy? its not the the palistinians are going to wake up tomorrow and say "Meh, were cool" Its like if the native Americans woke up one day and said "Hey, we want oregon back, DEAL WITH IT!"

From what I've read, the only creationist working in the scientiffic field to ever submit anything for peer review is Michael Behee, and none of his published research actually deals with creationism. If I'm wrong please correct me. If not, please explain how anyone could tack the word "Science" onto the word creationism if they choose not to participate in peer review, which is the backbone of scientific research?

Like an actual lagitimate one? Not the kind where you say horses represent tanks, or "In the end of days times will be bad" type stuff that applys to any era, actual specific prophacy, I hear Christians talk about All the prophacies that come true, but I've never actuelly heard of one.

The top seven most peaceful world nations are prodomanently atheist, Atheists make up under 20 percent of Americas prison population, statisticly we are less likely to commit crimes then Chrisistian are. And we don't need the threat of an angry God sending us to hell to do it, so who is more noble? Atheists or Christians who live in constant fear of angering their big scary invisable sky monster?

"Is not a man entitled to the sweat of his brow and the fruits of his labor? NO says the tax man, it belongs to everyone! No says the man at the pulpit... It belongs to GOD!"

My fuel pump died and I want to order a new one. But I can't seem to find any place that sells it, I probably don't know how to search it out properly, little help?

I was also wondering if anyone knows a cost affective way to do this. Is there a fuel pump that would work that may be less expensive then whatever suzuki would recommend?

Thanks.

I'm a college student, last term there were a couple of "young earth creationists" In my biological anthropology class. While we were studying the 13 methods scientists use to date fossils, these guys were actually talking about how "Scientists don't know how old fossils are because they look at strata"

This was after most of us had already learned about plate tectonics and emulsion. The idea that scientists date fossils purely strata was so crazy a couple of students openly snickered at the Christian students. (And rightfully so, sorry)

Have any the christians out there been in this situation? aren't you embraced when you try to interject Ken Ha mm, or Ray Comfort stile pseudo science into a legitimate academic science discussion? Its been my experience that the religious people get openly mocked before anyone even explains to them why they are wrong. That's Gotta be rough.

What do you get out of that? Is it like dancing for you? I mean its basically easy listening from the eighties, yet nobody else listens to that type of music that way. Just Christians.

Normal sentence "I believe in a creater"

Christianese "I believe in the creater lord God throughwhome all things are possible"

Did you notice all of the unnecessary words? The point was made half way through the sentence?

And stop with all the bibleversess. What if Atheists started injecting Dawkins or Harris quotes into every response?

Atheist "There is no proof of God the made up father for whom there is no proof, for he is likely imaginary.

"faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence" The great book of Dawkins page 234."

See how silly it looks?

Rather a nation built on freedom of religion. How much more clear could the founding fathers have made it? Read these quotes, and then tell me what more its going to take to get you to stop uttering the phrase "We are a Christian nation built on bible"

George Washington: "The United States is in no sense founded upon

Christian Doctrine"

Thomas Jefferson: "It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there

are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."

Thomas Paine: I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church,

by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the

Protestant Church, nor by any Church that I know of. My own mind is my own

Church.

Roger Williams: God requireth not a uniformity of religion.

Thomas Jefferson: The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus,

by the Supreme Being as his Father, in the womb of a virgin, will be

classified with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of

Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and the freedom of

thought in these United States will do away with this artificial

scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of

this most venerated Reformer of human errors.

James Madison: During almost fifteen centuries the legal establishment

known as Christianity has been on trial, and what have been the fruits,

more or less, in all places? These are the fruits: pride, indolence,

ignorance, and arrogance in the clergy. Ignorance, arrogance, and

servility in the laity, and in both clergy and laity, superstition,

bigotry, and persecution.

Thomas Jefferson: I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming

feature.

John Adams: The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity.

Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths,

Doctrines, and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in

Christianity.

Thomas Paine: Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in

religion is the worst."

Abraham Lincoln: The Bible is not my Book and Christianity is not my

religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of

Christian dogma.

And finally....

Benjamin Franklin: As to Jesus of Nazareth, I think the system of Morals

and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or

is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting

Changes, and I have, with the most of the present Dissenters in England,

some doubts to his divinity.

This study http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/31/health/31pray.ht...

Shows that prayer had no influence whatsoever on the health of cardiac victims. In fact it had a measurable negative affect when the patients were aware of the prayer.

I'm not saying prayer doesn't work in your daily life, it can, just like a daily affirmation would, you think more positively and feel like you have controll over what happens to you which can make you feel better.

However Christians have these prayer chains and such, this study shows that all of this prayer has no affect at best, and can even have a negative affect on patients who know they are being prayed for, so will you continue to participate in these things knowing it is wasted time?

There is no proof of, or against God, so the rational conclusion is "I don't know, and neither does anyone else, so its kind of moot"

Yet Christians insist that "faith" is proof, I see it all the time "I believe because I have faith!", it seems to me that faith is in no way evidence.

If you were on the jury of a murder trial, and the prosecutor said "I have faith that the defendant is guilty" Would that be enough for fundamentalists to convict? If not, how is faith relevant when it comes to the debate over God?

The Sumerian Empire's writings predate those of the old testament, they were by no means biblical Christians, yet they participated in what we would define as marriages.

Pair bonding and commitment has been around for as long as humanity. So what does the bible have to do with it? Not only does the bible NOT say that gay people can not be married (Prove me wrong, show me the verse word for word, I've never seen it) But even if it did, its irrelevant as the entire institution is inherent to humanity in general, and in now way defined by any historical text.

And don't give me the "Founding fathers built this country on the bible" Nonsense, the founding fathers we deists. And many of them rejected the bible outright as irrelevant folklore. Google it if you didn't know.

I'm not being sarcastic. You're ideas about science, culture, life, are beyond me. I want to get into your heads and understand why you think the way you do. I honestly believe that many of you are probably logical regular people. I don't want to go to church because... Ugh.. But I want to have a conversation with one of you, nothing confrontational, just to understand what is happening in your heads. WHere would I go to get that?

When Christians listen to music they put their hands up and do a little sway, sometimes its hands way up, other times its hands partially up, It's always accompanied by the eyes closed and the mumbling under the breath.

I go to concerts, I understand interacting with music and getting itno it, but what is with the God antenna? can't they act like normal human beings long enough to enjoy a concert for Gosh sake? What are they getting out of that? is it a vanity thing? being seen as more spirtiual by piers? When I was a little kid growing up in the curch people never did that, but they did "Speak in tongues" which you never see anymore, is chuch just that superfiacial and trendy?

I asked this earlier and, and got responses saying everyone has heard of God because the bible says so. That's of course crazy because before Abraham people had Gods, but the Christian God didn't exist. So through no fault of their own, these people didn't believe in the Christian God.

Before the 17th century many remote tribes had never heard of the Christian Gods, they had sun Gods and the like, but the concept of believing Jesus died on the cross for them was not in their wheelhouse. Which means salvation as the bible defines it would have been impossible. So without this silly "Everyone in history has heard of the Christian God" nonsense. What does the bible say will happen to people who never had the opportunity to accept Jesus? I mean were talking hundreds of millions of people throughout history. And if it is that they will be judged on their deeds, then how do you justify as Christians spreading the "Word of God" to places that didn't have western religion if they would have gone to heaven if they were good people anyway? This makes no sense, and I'd give anything for some one to give me an objective logical explanation.