Mike Long

@jake you sent me down a foxhole looking for Raëlism information.

In short, alien godlike creatures in UFOs were the intelligence that designed humans.

Had more fun looking for the umlaut for my ë

Love me some lawyer rap 🙂

I occasionally wonder if the Christians that come to this site, do so for some alternative titillation, since masturbation is a mortal sin for them.

Lol rhonjon- this is exactly what a Christian apologist sounds like.

Apropos of the child abuse aspect, the Catholic Church has a Captive insurance company (captives do not have public accounts) up here in Vermont that holds a $600 million reserve to pay off abuse victims with so they don’t go to court.
There are no other ‘child-abuse con…[Read more]

There was something akin to Science before the method was more frequent adopted for inquiry about the natural world during the Enlightenment. Even Aristotle had a psudo method for verifying information and the Greeks had worked out something along the line of critical thinking. To say that the Bible was written in a time when or even during a time…[Read more]

rhonjon at least you’re trying it. Thanks, Unseen – very helpful.

You may notice I don’t use the right way to quote. I just copy and paste and put ordinary quote marks in the text itself.

Unseen does it properly

Be like Unseen 🙂

No, they’re opposite as in not caring whether you want to be a Sikh or not 🙂

Rhonjon, wasn’t there some kind of basic ‘green’ tutorial in those Bible verses?  Something about burning a bush that spoke in voices?

Simon,

Have you ever heard of ‘Crime of Passion’ laws?

In France in the 19th century a killing done in a jealous instant rage, for example, like catching your lover in bed with another and killing them, was actually a valid defence and you’d get off altogether.

Ahh the good old 19th Century, when jealous men were entitled to kill their betra…[Read more]

‘Disowned’ sounds a lot better than stoned to death or another sort of ‘honour kill’. And I imagine if you choose not to have an arranged marriage which is a core expectation in your family, it’d be you rejecting them.

Sikhism is not evangelical. It’s the opposite. They give whatever you need and don’t ask your religion. If you want to know about their religion, you can ask, and a teacher will be found. It is not exclusive – all are welcome to believe in the Sikh way. They’re one god, reincarnation believers.

If I was going to choose a religion, I’d pick the Sikhs.

These guys live by the standards their religion proclaims. They feed the hungry and clothe the needy of any or no religion. They have enclaves where food is given to everyone, no questions asked.

They literally live their lives the way their religion tells them to. They’ll give shelter to…[Read more]

Matthew Vines gave an incredible speech about this very subject. The link below is a transcript which is well worth a read.

Transcript

Simon, how was it condemned in  the OT?

The truth will set us free, so..set us free!

I thought it was the aliens who built the pyramids who blew up the Nordstream. So confusing sometimes. Gee, I just don’t know who to believe these days.

Indeed Jake! I have always respected Unseen, even when I disagree with things (and this is only from time to time) in a flabbergasted manner. Same with Enco (who I tend to disagree with a little more often) but I see as a contributor in good faith. I have felt the same way about some Christian apologists who have come by and debated with us in…[Read more]

Tell me, what happened to Unseen? He seems to have been replaced by a Republican doppleganger. Now he thinks that scientific debate happens on YouTube and Twitter (and Lord help us, Facebook!).

Dr. Bob. You are a snake of a troll. I am not going to help to talk trash about a member of this community. While I disagree with some of the things he has…[Read more]

It’s curious therefore why you insist on trying to cast billions of Catholics throughout history into some monolithic, personified straw man. Institutions and belief systems are not people.

No…we are referring to the claims that you have made about the Church Dr. Bob. Stop deflecting. You claimed that the Church eventually embraces social c…[Read more]