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They make heaven sound so wonderful, everyone would want to get there as soon as possible.  Without the suicide ban, all the devotees would be self slaughtering and no longer able to contribute to the coffers and the ongoing church.

@regthefronkeyfarmer You can get anything you want, at Alice’s Restaurant

Only if you breathe out through your ears.  It is aural energy after all.

What makes you think I am not an atheist bot?

For those who do not live in the USA, let me point out that the differences between states here and the difference between, say, countries in Europe, are pretty profound.  When a statement is made about domestic activity in ‘America’ it is made about a collection of states with incredibly different attitudes, philosophy and behaviours.

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Shitty relationships with shitty people can bring you down.  Great relationships with lovely people can elevate your mood.  The degree of intimacy in the relationship is relative to the degree of depression or elation.    (That is what the article says, with wobbly aura colors and magic language.)

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Yes, Unseen, I don’t think Marie Antoinette was providing any cake though.  So a tad different

Yes but the government is contemplating preventing the protests, not contemplating preventing the abortions.  Every country has whack-jobs who wave their religious literature around, but there’s no pro-life/pro-choice battle going on in the streets, the government or the churches.  It’s not a political issue.

I don’t know, Unseen.  I seriously could not tell you whether giving food would work better than delivering bombs.  I do think the attitude would be flavored differently though, for both the donors and the recipients.

Oddly, it seems to be something objected to solely on religious grounds.  I know the objections are couched as ‘humanist’ but obviously they aren’t, or there would be more effort put into funding children’s health care (CHIPS was permitted to expire on Sept 30th this year).

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Belle, there are no stupid questions.  I have always admired your willingness to open your mind, and ask for input.  I took some time to find you a short and simple summary with decent credentials :). Never apologize for your thirst to learn!

How the Six Day War brought elation and despair

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-40117270

This is a massively truncated explanation, Belle, from the BBC website – hopefully it answers your question regarding the origins of the dispute.  There should be links from that page too, if you’ve a mind to read further.

When you give billions of dollars to a government to distribute benefits, I think you probably lose the credit for it as the government claims it.  Distribution of food regularly, accompanied by mechanisms for those populations to create their own food source, may need to be done in a different way.

I wonder how many food and medicine packages we could drop instead of bombs, for the price.

He can’t, @trexdgr he’s in the sin bin and won’t be back.

What would you offer to the young men that would be a better option for them than joining the jihad movement and getting food and water for you and your family?

@renaissanceman (aka John Phillip)  May I point out to you that joining an Atheist forum and asking/telling us/me that I will be sorry when I bump into your mighty creator vassilates between a child running up and ringing a doorbell as a prank, and an act of aggression against people not of your faith.

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