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Well, you're still privileging this thing called "working or repairable conscious machinery," which I don't see the import of with respect to morality...

Noam Chomsky a "national treasure." Lol.

I will, thank you.

I could swear that some of my recent comments have been deleted in here....

I have a great deal of hostility toward that last apostrophe....

This makes zero sense.

This analogy is not parallel. Islam is a religion, whereas "German" identifies an ethnicity. There's nothing about having certain phenotypic features ...

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-arabs-are-semites-too-fallacy/ https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-authority Yeah. The sources of and influe...

Poppycock.

A worldwide caliphate. They could not be more explicit about this.

Debatable. There were numerous and quite brutal pogroms against the Jews along the Rhine during the Middle Ages. The Carolingian Empire and Holy Roman...

I disagree with this pre-supposition and so disagree with your argument. It is wrong to murder an unconscious person just as much as a conscious one.

God I hate Kroger. They have perhaps the most annoying ads known to man.

It's not clear, though. The Catholic Church, for example, hasn't definitively declared that anyone is in hell and one is allowed, even encouraged, to ...

How much history of Islam have you read? How, exactly, do you think it spread throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and beyond?

Where would you place Schopenhauer? This sounds like a false distinction to me, depending on how you define these terms.

Apparently, you're being sarcastic here, but about what I have no idea. To which my retort is, once again, that this is hyperbolic fear-mongering. If ...

This is as old as the hills. It's not going away pretty much ever. To the extent that both parties do it, there is some modicum of balance, but that's...

This is a tad hyperbolic and ignores the fact that Democrats attempt to do the same thing. And I don't want to see a "legitimate democracy" if by that...

James Thurber's short stories, which are hilarious.

Neat!

Yeah, this is just the thing I need to feel uplifted: https://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/images/smiley-joel-osteen.gif

I'm not a huge fan of his, but he recently pulled off another delicious Sokal hoax: http://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/conceptual-penis-social-contru...

Then they're not relativists.... Ignorance of the truth does not entail its nonexistence. I'm not seeing any great difference between asserting that s...

>:O

Right, so why would you believe what I said, hmm? Yes, child marriage is immoral no matter who's perpetrating it. There could not have been any other ...

Pretty simple, actually, for they are self-refuting. The claim that all truth is relative is itself asserted absolutely. The claim that nothing has an...

There was no ad hom. You are, in fact, a thick-skulled individual incapable of understanding even your own posts. So you admit that not all religious ...

Clearly. And right on cue, we have the uncharitable insinuation that I somehow believe that child marriage among Christians is less morally wrong than...

Yes you did. Stop being a bonehead. You said they were bad because they're false and then listed bad things religious people have done purportedly in ...

That's very debatable. The Sufis had such an approach, but they gradually lost influence, so it would be more correct to say that Islam's Augustines w...

That not all religions engage, if at all, in "crusades, child marriage, destroying art, rape, and war" to the same degree. You can think they're all e...

Well, as a matter of fact, you're wrong. He admitted he had in mind posts by @"tom", not necessarily the article you linked. So how about you go and r...

Then I really can't help you. I've been as clear as I can about what I object to in his comment.

Precisely! Here we see, @"Mongrel", yet another treasured leftist principle at work, namely, the idol of equality. All religions must be equally bad, ...

Tom appears to have presented facts, ones born out by statistics in addition to the instances he mentions. They are lamentable, but facts nonetheless....

Complete and utter nonsense. Go read his post again. Sure, keep peddling this tu quoque. You say I'm hypocritical because you think I was intentionall...

My arguments, if deemed "partisan" or "political" by you, are called out and castigated as such. If someone on your side instigates them or does the s...

Hey, look at that, Baden's still an unfunny hypocrite.

So they can. But look who's the coward now.

Yeah, post more sarcasm instead of addressing what I said.

What a laugh. Your pal unenlightened has already admitted that he's not interested in merely "learning more about the child marriage situation in Flor...

So? That doesn't affect anything I've said in the slightest.

Many leftists are not fans of Western civilization. They would prefer to destroy it and replace it with something else (usually some flavor of Marxist...

It was a point about the truth. It may have been political in addition to being true, but that wasn't its intended purpose.

That's probably true. Unfortunately for them, perception doesn't match reality.

No, I was correcting his impression about those who focus on Muslim child marriages.

Then why do I only see the left doing it? If you point out that, compared to places like the US, child marriage is much more socially accepted and pra...

Above we see the tactics of the left in a nutshell. Pretend like one anecdote evens the scales on a horrific practice like child marriage among popula...

Uh, no. I said freedom was the absence of compulsion. This could not be more crucial to understanding what I and Schopenhauer mean by freedom in this ...