Reg, the other gods (of which there were to be none) were the pagan gods that other people in the region were still worshipping. Baal was one of them.

Beth, about the trinity. It’s to test your gullibility. If you don’t question the trinity story, you’re gullible enoughn to join the religion.

A man I knew in SF, call him Ed, told me his daugh…[Read more]

When you argue with Xians, they will want to say we treat evolution as a “fact” but that we can’t prove it, and they will throw things at use that we can’t explain or demonstrate like “We’ve all seen the charts purporting to show the evolution of the horse, do why can’t you show us one with the evolution of the cow?” or “Show us an extinct…[Read more]

It’s a scientific theory (not “just a theory”), with mountains of evidence supporting it. Some people might call that “a fact”, but that really does it injustice.

Why do you ask, Unseen? Just stirring the pot?

I don’t feel that #metoo is calling me an “asshole”.  I think that any backlash comes from: 1) sexist rapey men like Trump; 2) Men Going Their Own Way types who always resist any increase in women’s autonomy.

Why does society as a whole, blame women for getting raped?  It’s when they are perceived to be “out of line” – to take responsibility for their own sexuality.  As such, it’s just a generalised continuation of primate mate-guarding of females by dominant males.

@Davis — Do girls prefer bad boys? Some do. .Many do. Just go out to a meat market bar and see all the asshole guys with a desirable female on their arm. “Show me a mentally, physically, and emotionally abusive sociopathic narcissist and pathological liar and I’ll show you a guy who has a date on Saturday night.”

For a lot of girls, dating and r…[Read more]

Anyone who understands narcissistic personality disorder at all (ahem Trump) knows that if you engage, you give them power. Trump can (and has) easily flip ANYTHING around to make him look good to the idiots who support him. The more women that come forward now, the easier he can cry “fake news” because he can now claim that “poor Brett” and men…[Read more]