Thorongil

Where's my vomit bag.... Define. And please tell me where they are.

And yet you are. Irony abounds with you.

Neither do most Muslims. You just referenced the founder of the Ahmadiyya sect. Most Muslims do not consider the Ahmadis to be true Muslims, and it is...

My "indirect bashing of the West and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan" senses are tingling: And yet they're pouring into Europe by the millions and by...

From the website: "The Prophet did not tell his followers to do anything other than what was reviled in the Qur'an." A delicious Freudian slip.

I'm not so sure about that. I suppose it depends on how large the scale is. Muslim immigrant populations are disproportionately responsible for crime ...

Not really. There are majorities in the UK and Europe that want less immigration. The elites don't care, though, because they aren't affected by it.

I can just as easily say that if you don't like my comment, don't respond to it. So you're a hypocrite. You also bring up, both tersely and nonchalant...

Vague, stock questions based on equally vague, stock assumptions that are asking for stock answers make for really, really boring and pointless thread...

Thanks.

Not sure if this has been suggested, but there should be the ability to preview PMs before sending them.

Stop reading Lawrence Krauss and his ilk please.

Yeah, that's fair and probably best for both of us. (Y)

Quite so. But I could also drop dead tomorrow for some random reason. What is the statistical likelihood that I will contract some serious disease and...

You appear to have a utopian standard by which you judge the efficacy of the free market as a solution to providing people with affordable health care...

You don't say.... Really? I probably do not need health insurance. I exercise daily, eat a vegetarian diet, do not drink (not even carbonated beverage...

Surely you know the fallacious nature of this statement.... Sounds good to me. Why do you equate these things with being opposed to "improving the hea...

Ratify what? The cloud cuckoo amendments you, un, and that article are soiling themselves over in fear or the ones they have explicitly said they woul...

Not really. You're generalizing here. They predicted it would be a failure and do the opposite of what it intended, which, lo and behold, has come to ...

I'll take that as a no.

That probably did not happen, as many Christians now realize and admit.

Why do you assume that all conservatives must support everything a Republican does? Conservatism ? the Republican Party. What exactly do you think the...

Debatable, but I'm not an apologist for Bush's domestic overspending. You don't know that, and I doubt you know how deficits are created.

I'm the one asking for evidence of a corporate conspiracy, one that neither you nor the article have corroborated. You also assume that the Kochs's in...

Sure. And I have, which means I feel justified in my judgment. If you asked me two years ago, I wouldn't have had much of an opinion, but I've had qui...

Then you need to read more. As I said, I'm not getting into an anecdote battle.

Which are bankrupting the country and don't result in what they purport to do; quite the opposite in fact: they lead to abuse and dependency. Which wa...

But it's not. They're explicit about the amendment they want to add. The article suggesting that, once a convention is convened, more amendments (read...

>:O He didn't quite say that....

You're backpedaling on your own and the article's insinuations. What do you think the statements "in case you thought the constitution would protect y...

But this is massively misleading. Were there such Christians? Sure, but there were many more who did follow the example of Jesus and the principles fo...

Vomit is an apt description of that article. No evidence was given that the constitution would be abandoned, amended beyond recognition, or be made to...

Baseless fear mongering.

Indeed.

Right, but the question is whether, given the scriptural and theological bases of both religions, these developments were more or less inevitable. I t...

I never intended to misquote you. No, I'm not. I'm talking about existing things. For them to exist, they have to become actualized, according to you,...

This was effectively my point. Aquinas was the one who basically created the formal distinction between preambles and articles of faith that I mention...

The pomo bullies in this thread more or less prove the point I made on page one.

There was a brief period during the Abbasid Caliphate when I think faith and reason coexisted in the Islamic world, especially in Baghdad and Persia. ...

General comment: Read the NT all the way through. Then read the Quran all the way through. Then compare. Arguments to the effect that "Islam hasn't ha...

Are you a Jew or a female?

What kind of corporations? That word covers quite a lot of entities. And why should we care if they deform democracy? The US is not and was never inte...

Or Roger Scruton's Fools, Frauds, and Firebrands.

Oh please. You have access to the Internet and Google.

The actualization of existence doesn't take place in time? What does "actualization" mean, then? This is a cop out. "We don't know what we're talking ...

The scare quotes are precisely the problem here. In what sense can an "act" or "movement" not be in time? Both words presuppose time. If God has alway...

Are you speaking only about reincarnation here or do you include rebirth as well? The Buddhist would say that there is no non-physical soul that gets ...

Not so. What you are suggesting appears to be a radical form of fideism. Historic Christianity, by contrast, has always maintained that certain propos...

I don't see a great semantic difference between "proof" and "argument" here. In the Middle Ages, they were called "demonstrations." All these words am...

So if he knew it was good to create, why didn't he create before he did? If he always ever created, then, once again, in what sense is he free?