UN to consider a "blasphemy ban"

[BlackRoija]

Fuck "faith" and fuck covering your ass out of fear. Have some balls in life and choose a side: Reason, science and logic or an imaginary Big Daddy who loves, protects and throws touchdowns for your favorite football team. (Not directed at you, Stew, just my life philosphy)

Science and religion are not incompatible, even though there are plenty of folks on either side of the fence that refuse to think so.

And I don't think literal interpretations of scriptural ideas benefit atheist or theists.

They're very compatible if people on either side would understand that science deals with the "natural world" and religion concerns everything that acts against or in spite of that natural worldt. For example: Within the limits of science, we find the earth to be 6.whatever billion years old. Maybe the earth IS only 6kya; but science would never tell us that. Something would have to act against those natural "laws" in order to make that true, and that's restricted to the realm of religion. Either way those creationsci ideas are hokie, cuz the Bible/other religious texts weren't written by scientists. Even if they were they would probably still be wrong as we see them today. I think we've come to a consensus that the brain, not the heart, does all the thinking, right?

[stewvee]

We're not saying anything different here.

[badcarburetor]

...lady who gets impregnated by aliens, and gives birth to a wizard who travels around with an entourage of gay lovers and blasphemes the church of rome until they flog him silly, he then dies comes back to life and starts a vampire cult.

I'm so in for when this is made into a musical. Preferably of the show tune variety.

Could I do it avenue q style with puppets or does it need to be queens in sequins like the wiz ?

Yes, please.

Fuck "faith" and fuck covering your ass out of fear. Have some balls in life and choose a side: Reason, science and logic or an imaginary Big Daddy who loves, protects and throws touchdowns for your favorite football team. (Not directed at you, Stew, just my life philosphy)

Science and religion are not incompatible, even though there are plenty of folks on either side of the fence that refuse to think so.

And I don't think literal interpretations of scriptural ideas benefit atheist or theists.

I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on that one.

[Moloc]

Fuck "faith" and fuck covering your ass out of fear. Have some balls in life and choose a side: Reason, science and logic or an imaginary Big Daddy who loves, protects and throws touchdowns for your favorite football team. (Not directed at you, Stew, just my life philosphy)

Science and religion are not incompatible, even though there are plenty of folks on either side of the fence that refuse to think so.

And I don't think literal interpretations of scriptural ideas benefit atheist or theists.

They're very compatible if people on either side would understand that science deals with the "natural world" and religion concerns everything that acts against or in spite of that natural worldt. For example: Within the limits of science, we find the earth to be 6.whatever billion years old. Maybe the earth IS only 6kya; but science would never tell us that. Something would have to act against those natural "laws" in order to make that true, and that's restricted to the realm of religion. Either way those creationsci ideas are hokie, cuz the Bible/other religious texts weren't written by scientists. Even if they were they would probably still be wrong as we see them today. I think we've come to a consensus that the brain, not the heart, does all the thinking, right?

The Earth is 4.5 billion years old.

Citation: Astronomy Today (an edition published before Pluto was demoted to a non-planet.)

[BlackRoija]

Ya I wasn't considering specifics there. That's a number I should know anyway.

[stewvee]

[muttondagger]

everyone here is smart and knows exactly what they're talking about.

[stewvee]

in bed