What a silly thing to say. Most of my family are Christians. But quote me on anything I've said that suggests I do. Go ahead. (And while you're at it ...
What percentage of Americans profess to take the Bible literally? And what does it matter? Does it mean they condone the rape of virgins etc? No, obvi...
I took a stance and provided evidence for it. I've conceded from the beginning that religion has some part to play in all this, but I've said that foc...
To the extent that they don't that would be a problem. But I would be highly surprised if any of your Muslim neighbours would not be willing to condem...
I was being rational. Sensible Muslims avoid taking moral lessons from questionable verses in the Quran as much as sensible Christians do from the Bib...
I'm not going to do all your work for you in this discussion seeing as you've been the laziest poster here and provided hardly a thesis not to mind ev...
Maybe and maybe it's tricky for Christians to condemn the rape of virgins after a battle because Moses commanded it. Or maybe you haven't talked to ma...
Other major sex trafficking hubs include Thailand and Cambodia, which are Buddhist. Tell me again how it's the religion that's the deciding factor her...
The issue here is sexual violence, against minors in particular, which considering your facetious reply and your consistently empty posts, you don't a...
Or maybe you should become a Christian. The Philippines also happens to be one of the world's major sex tourism centres. "Government and NGO estimates...
Well, if the thesis is that the allegedly heinous nature of Islam as revealed in its holy texts is what makes the difference in terms of violence, par...
And to be clear, I didn't see the anti-semitism in the first place or the intended point (couldn't see the relevance). Until Timeline clarified. And t...
If what Timeline said appears extremely anti-semitic, there's not much left over for actual anti-semites to say is there? I can think of lots of examp...
Yes, it went from the nihilistic to the romantic pretty quick at the end. It was never all that deep intellectually - you're not going to get that on ...
"Cultural appropriation" is a sloppily employed term. It's in a sense the very opposite of what is a real problem, cultural domination. When a minorit...
The religious motivation of course can be important and, no, it's not all the West's fault; but, yes, to focus on the religion itself in terms of what...
It's only one more step before you realize that as there is no absolute indisputable meaning of religion X (just shades of plausibility with regard to...
And all this guff about the New Testament. Isn't it gun-toting, hyper-capitalist Republicans who claim to be Jesus's biggest fans? Are they just bad r...
No wonder some don't want to talk about history as it demonstrates unequivocally that the religion itself is not the primary issue; it's the socio-cul...
Who told you that and what kind of tattoos did he have? Maybe you better make clear what that is. Which fascist regimes would fall under your definiti...
Yes, I was going to ask too: Are humans bad at philosophy compared to who or what? By what yardstick do we measure the skilful or unskilful carrying o...
Though Hanover has yet to achieve a monopoly on this questionable quality, he is close to cornering the market, and your apparently sincere disgust wi...
That would be it. Someone needs to refine the algorithm. The answer to the perpetual question "'To can', or not 'to can'...?" is most definitely not '...
This is not something we can conceptualize. If it were, we would be already doing so; so the effort to find a new question word related to it would be...
The "to can" refers only to the food preservation sense. There is no "to can" in the other sense as it's a modal auxiliary. It doesn't have a non-fini...
Leaving aside the self-flagellating irony of your Palestinan friend's comment for the moment, does the dicator have to be bloodthirsty? Are bloodless ...
How to get the bull out of the grammar china shop? ;) Just a couple of points. You haven't covered all possible question words / phrases nor all types...
Chief orangutan falls flat on his face again. I imagine at some point even Republicans are going to stop finding this endearing. Quoth the Drumpf "It'...
Only to the extent that appreciation is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of emotion - to do a Shakespearean reversal. But no, it wouldn't cause me to ...
He does tend to be overly dismissive of those who disagree with him. And I doubt he has that many fans around here. A lot of his work is more or less ...
Well, accused of being a naughty boy...on buzzfeed. Hope it's not true. I've listened to a lot of his lectures. I like his clear common sense approach...
Maybe it does, but I don't think that's the intention. I presume it's more about accurate description. A medical condition that affects you over time ...
Tractatus 6.43: "If good or bad willing changes the world, it can only change the limits of the world, not the facts; not the things that can be expre...
Yes, but then it won't happen and we'll keep the money anyway. ;) Anyone can of course nominate someone to be moderator at any time by sending a PM to...
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