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@Davis thanks for keeping us updated and filtering through images to bring these to us. Much appreciated and enjoyed 🙂

In the Uk we banned pit bulls about 15 years ago. I don’t think much happened, and there were lots of claims that it was the owners responsibility, etc. To be honest, I think a certain type of person seeks a dog that reflects their image. If you took pit bulls out of the equation, another breed would replace it in terms of aggressive…[Read more]

@SteveinCo that’s a really funny irony, because it looks true to me! In the UK the monarch is also supposed to be defender of the faith, and Charles wants it to be more embracing, so to make it faiths, not faith. Nobody cares in the UK because the monarchy hasn’t got any real power in the political arena.

Conversely, the Prime Minister does…[Read more]

There is a great deal to criticize about religion or the religious, but it should be done fairly and rationally.

Says who, @DrBob ? This is an atheist website and all our atheist members are free to be as unfair and irrational as they like. You are a visitor, as you have often clearly recognized in posts. Don’t think for a minute that you…[Read more]

@Davis. Madeira has great bananas

Hey Tools, welcome aboard!!

@guest1. Apparently they wear nylon, eat shellfish, get divorced and cure hangovers with bacon sandwiches. LGBT wasn’t a big stretch 🙂

@Simon. I’m with you until you get to the bit where you say “this is equivalent to gods love”. That’s a non sequitur. I could type the same thing but replace “God” with “Peach”, my dog. Actually I can demonstrate my dogs devotion to me.

I still see no “mysticism” but perhaps we are defining the word differently. What is your understanding of…[Read more]

Well, the evolutionary basis of mysticism is the same as the evolutionary basis for compassion.

What is the evolutionary base for mysticism?

@Davis. What do you mean there’s no Atheist national anthem? *wanders off singing, “always look on the bright side of life“*

Interestingly, up here in Vermont, all the Lutherian and Episcopalian churches had huge rainbow flags draped from their entrances the day after the SCOTUS ruling. Obviously they’d have had to have them ready, and they are aiming at inclusiveness. I was impressed.

Note the Catholic Pope Cuddles is still unable to react to the 21st Century. As…[Read more]

You know, when I was down in Louisiana, I discovered the people there do not call it the “American Civil War”. They call it the “War of Northern Aggression”. They also claim some of the northern states still had slaves, and that the war was fought because the north was losing out on import taxes etc when the southern plantations decided to…[Read more]