Reg the Fronkey Farmer

The slave trade from Africa to the Americas (say the years 1500 to 1850) happens to coincide with the years the Christian church ruled absolute. It was burning atheists and scientists to death at the time. It aided and abetted the trade at all times. It “owned” slaves. One of the first ships involved in the trade was loaned by Queen Elizabeth to…[Read more]

have not studied formal fallacies in many years..

I just happen to have a video on that in Sunday School tomorrow.

Have you ever interacted with someone like Dr. Francis Collins – one of the scientist that helped to map the human genome, but is also a theist.

Yes I spoke with him once in Dublin 2 years ago. Ten minutes later I got to speak with Dan Dennett. Event.

What is your current situation? Are you retired? Still working? Teach philosophy at a U…[Read more]

You said, “…my main thing is debating with theists of all or any Faiths.” 

Some people do golf or football.  I am fascinated by the very nature of religious belief. That is my thing. I am always on fire 🙂

@Fullermingjr – I will re-purpose a debate question I setup on another site for a discussion here along the lines you suggest. There will be some rules to it  but the “the game” will only begin once you are happy with them. The main one is that quoting the Bible will not count as an answer. I suspect you already agree to that. It is almost 2am…[Read more]

I am in Ireland, the most Western part of Europe. It is not so much a forced separation of Church and State in most nations but rather that many are secular nations. What I mean by Secular is that the governments protect the pluralist nature of society with laws. Members of all religions and those of us with none are treated equally before the…[Read more]

It drives me crazy when I hear Pastors promote such things and make inappropriate and theologically unsound connections to nationalism.

Great to hear that. It is one of the reasons many of us atheists are anti-theists (not anti theist, as @Jakelafort said). They are only too happy to parade their “acts of righteousness” before others and I…[Read more]

Strega wrote:

Daniel, I agree Ted Cruz’s face is eminently smackable. 🙂

A little late with my reply but worth the wait….Jesus already smacked him in the face 🙂

The duality of Thomas Jefferson.

Does anyone think it possible that Trump will not run again if the gap between him and Biden worsens?  He has no agenda for a 2nd term and generic ballot polls put the Dems double digit figures ahead (5342). I know a week is a long time in politics but COvid19 will still be in the news and I don’t think BLM will be going quiet for November.

What are your policies for a 2nd term?

I think I look like the Lone Ranger with a mask on.

At least the swamp was drained!

We need to be careful not to edit out the parts of our histories that make us feel uneasy, ashamed or annoyed. We are formed by our shared histories. Denial or cover-ups are the wrong approach.

Written on the walls of the Ministry of Truth are the words IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH and each day, as history is rewritten, the old history is sent down the…[Read more]