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Take back control. Let's decide for ourselves who is deserving of being saved from drowning.

Damn, I must have lost concentration for a moment there. It's all Baden's fault. I don't know why it's Baden's fault right now, but I'll think of a re...

I'm glad that the owner of this site, along with the rest of the site staff, do not agree with you insofar as this forum is concerned. That would be a...

I find it much more odd to decide to refrain from using the term which is most commonly used just because you have a chip on your shoulder. Also, you'...

Is there a critical basis behind your seeming favouritism towards old Platonic metaphysics? Maybe it has been forgotten for a reason. Maybe it has lon...

Your name is Gerald. Peas.

You're right, I don't like vegetables. I like fruits, such as apples, oranges, bananas, strawberries, and broccoli. You win a shrubbery.

I count broccoli amongst my favourite fruits.

Yeah, well, your father smelt of elderberries.

No, it can't really be interpreted both ways when the context is clearly science, not maths.

What are you waiting for? This has been a case of mission easily accomplished. That you've decided not to accept the obvious isn't really my problem, ...

No, it isn't. That suggests that the parent or legal guardian is infallible when they make those difficult judgement calls, which is simply absurd. Th...

His mother was a hamster.

Sure, but that's beside the point. I'm not saying that there should be no beliefs which deserve special treatment of the kind that you're talking abou...

You must not be very good at logic, because you don't seem to understand that it only takes a single counterexample to refute your original claim. Tha...

Wait. Let me give this a go. You're suggesting that, because the non-religious have been persecuted throughout history, and because the religious have...

I don't think that that answers my question. You said that religious beliefs deserve special respect and tolerance, and the suggestion, given that you...

Thank you for confirming that you didn't get as far as even the fourth post from the opening post. There's only like five or so sentences between the ...

Give one yourself. All you have to do is think of a situation where the parents make a decision based on what they consider to be best for the child w...

I do reckon that if the shoe was on the other foot, and someone like me or you had made those kind of comments about many people with religious belief...

Depends. How much are you going to pay me?

Well, if you still genuinely don't agree, then I think that indicates that you can't see it from the other side because of bias.

So it's not patronising to be characterised as having a problem with religion not on any intellectual basis, but because of a 'fear of religion', like...

I wouldn't exactly say that it was respectful, because it was patronising in much the same way that you might object to the language used in the comme...

So anyway, why do think that, for example, the religious belief that Jesus walked on water, or the religious belief that God hates fags, deserve speci...

Okay. I don't.

That doesn't really make any sense. How can they prevent discussion?

It's a problem because studies show that the contributions of EU migrant workers constitute a net benefit to the UK economy, and a good economy is a b...

It tastes like gulag.

The question has an answer which can be googled. This isn't even philosophy.

And yours falls under the latter?

I'm still here. I'm always willing to give panpsychism and other crappy ideas a good bashing.

I hear you loud and clear: threaten them with extreme violence.

First of all, beliefs aren't chosen. I don't know why this category error is so prevalent. Secondly, the obvious difference between believing the one ...

Ha. Straight from the horses mouth. So you're just as bad as those "anti-religionists". You too are a hypocrite. You see the other side as prejudiced,...

The irony is that you're just as bad as those people on the other side in terms of the patronising way that you view them.

I stand by what Artemis said, which is that people opposed to those conflicted conversations can just self-segregate themselves from the offending thr...

He actually said that religious ideas aren't special in the sense that a bad idea is a bad idea, and he's right. You just seem to be talking past him ...

Didn't you read past the opening post? He clarified that by "prove", he means show to be the case. And we're obviously talking about science, not math...

I didn't. You've misunderstood. That was just a counterargument. False. Another false analogy. You're really bad at analogies. Basically a repetition ...

I don't agree that that's a miracle. That's just calling something currently unknown a miracle. A miracle would have to be more than that.

No, it's because I have the required critical thinking skills, whereas you do not. There's an obvious difference between believing, say, Matthew 14:22...

No, I don't think that anyone is denying that there are a comparatively tiny number of cases where there is yet to be an adequate explanation. Once ag...

Sure. Or you could take on board my actual criticism.

No, no, no. You're doing it all wrong. You need to be more vocal and nasty. What you should have said was, "Shut up and go away. You sound like a bloo...

If you were antisocial more often, you'd probably be more fun.

Yes, I read that part. But like I literally just said to you, it's not a problem for there to be discussions critical of religion. It would actually b...

Yes, yes, brilliant. You're a saviour. Keep up the good work. But it's not very interesting for anyone of intelligence.

That's not true though. It's not causing a problem to be critical of religion. Religion has much to be critical of.

That's not evidence of a miracle. That's just evidence that an explanation hasn't been found. Irrational god of the gaps style thinking.