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I object to any pastafarian nativity displays on public property depicting baby FSM, mon. Unless it is fresh and I am hungry.

We go all out. Tree, lights, dinners, parties, presents, carols, decorations. All secular, of course. I am a huge fan of the Nutcracker ballet, The night b4 xmas poem, Burton’s nightmare b4 xmas, and my favorite old movie, “A xmas carol” based on Dickens’ book. I like the spooky part of xmas. A scapegoat is born of a virgin (1/2 the DNA, I guess?)…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

I think Jesus has to be real. I mean why would vampires be afraid of a crucifix if he was not?

Jesus is just one of the several dying-rising gods that became popular across several cults across the middle eastern regions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying-and-rising_deity

The others like Osiris were not actual humans. I have little doubt that Paul’s Jesus was not real either…that may have happened later. Even many Jewish scholars…[Read more]

That’s grrreat Reg but Neanderthal Jeeeeeezus was here way before Homo Erectus Jeeeeeezus or More-ham-it, peace be upon him and he frikkin kills you off three times.

I found the latest “defenders” class by WL Craig. He starts out by saying that demons blind us unbelievers so we can’t see the truth. Yes, demons.  He would not dare talk this way in a public debate; knowing he would get laughed off the stage. Even his title “reasonable faith” is  oxymoronic b…[Read more]

I recall….step on a crack, break you mother’s back

…we just need Deepak Chopra to chime in on this.,,

Identical twins start with identical DNA but then the DNA begins to change. Environment and cellular level events that seem random to us have a huge impact on what we are at a particular moment. The point is that your consciousnesses is dynamic along with your brain. Can it be thought as some timeless “entity” that can be preserved? I don’t know.

Unseen wrote:

_Robert_ wrote:

I have little doubt that a day will come when people will be replicated using genetic information. The person will have the same nature but will be different because of an alternate experience. I suppose this because we evolved from animals that did not possess the magical entity called a conscience.

In other words,…

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I have little doubt that a day will come when people will be replicated using genetic information. The person will have the same nature but will be different because of an alternate experience. I suppose this because we evolved from animals that did not possess the magical entity called a conscience.

Hi Kenneth. No need to capitalize “Atheism”, LOL. Your journey ahead may be challenging but very few turn back. People ask why I don’t believe and I say that I literally have no choice anymore. I know too much, way more than they do. At the same time I also have an idea how little we do know, way more than they do !

Yes, it is certainly a unique situation.

Paul’s letters are literally on an astral plane and then generations after the supposed cruci-“fiction” we have unknown, un-witnessing  authors writing gospels in the wrong language, GAINING detail as time progresses. Gospels written with such symbolic force as to become an obvious compilation of previous…[Read more]

When I was young I remember meeting a lot of these super positive, up with jesus Christians. I was a natural skeptic who loved science. I also loved goth rock and wore dark clothes and probably seemed depressed. I drew these happy, shiny young Christians like moths to a flame during my University stint. They looked at me with puppy dog eyes and…[Read more]