David Boots

Belle you are a wonderful person. You are that same person whether you believe in god or you conclude there is no evidence to believe in god. I personally value your contributions to this site now as I have in the past. As I am sure many others do.

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Perhaps it is a defensive reaction to exposure to western culture.

Your English is great. The question I have for you is why do you think islam became much more conservative after the 1970’s?

_Robert_ wrote:
I would say it’s the clinic’s fault for not requiring a notary. The father should have the right to avoid the child support if the couple divorces, if he wishes.

Are you saying that payment of support should be linked to his access?

Some contract indeed. A job for life even to the point of driving the entity into oblivion.

Putting aside the legal aspect – which is quite fascinating really – was she right to do what she did? Is there something to be said for both children having the same parents?

Australia has already had an Atheist PM. Julia Gillard was an atheist, childless and unmarried to the man she had been living with for the preceding four years. She was openly in favour of freely available abortion.

That’s nothing. This rabbi is willing to drive his synagogue broke to keep his fat paycheck of $30,000+ a month.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/sydney-synagogue-may-have-to-close-after-court-rules-it-cant-sack-rabbi-20170624-gwxsty.html

Apparently the most successful form of conversion – statistically speaking – is ‘flirty fishing’.

I just assumed they would have had that in place years ago. And any parent who lets their child be alone with a priest?

Yes it does indeed.

Assume, for the sake of the exercise, you can categorically and irrefuteably know that no threat was made.

Strega wrote:
As far as verbal blessings and stuff are concerned, I think of them as a sort of Tourette’s affliction and try to be kind and look around them for real words.

A personal pet peeve of mine: being blessed. Just stop it you deranged loons. The arrogance is breathtaking.

PopeBeanie wrote:
In fact you couldn’t have chosen a more boring uneventful two days in my life at that time.Wait, you don’t think that’s a sign!? 🙂

On reflection it was a sign… a sign that it was not for me. And a very good point about these religions. They are terribly terribly boring. Not sure how they can stand it really.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
She stared at me for a minute, stood up, said “Yeah, fuck this”

LOL

In a British survey conducted in 2010: 73% of people believed that ‘people with very strong religious beliefs are often too intolerant of others’. (82% of people who described themselves as non-religious and 63% of those who described themselves as religious held this view.)