Marinus

So alcoholism is caused by not denying the theory of evolution?

denial, huh? We need to get you in a 12 steps plan to get you off science.

And maturational development is reached after adolescent rebellion which is effectively a way to become independent of (sky)daddy. IGYYSOB!!!!11111 But I'll admit that many people who grew over their religion, including myself, went through a phase that has some resemblance to puberty. But that doesn't mean that anyone who bashes religion is going through that phase, especially not if the bashed religion is an abomination like Christianity.

If it's all about scale, why is there so little whining and bitching about the Arab slave trade? Personally I think that 150 years is more then enough time to get over it, btw. The Dutch were proficient slave-traders back in the day, but if someone thinks they can hold me accountable for that, that I somehow owe them anything because of that, they can... how do Americans say it... go fuck themselves.

And where do we need to go? the US of A? IIRC .5 seconds of Janet's nipple was already too much for the likes of you.....

You know what's also redundant? The soul and the spirit. If you take some time to study what happens to someone's personality when their brain is damaged, it's rather obvious that one's personality, the I, is a function of the brain. Especially with progressive brain diseases like Alzheimer this is clear to see. The personality alters, diminishes and in the end stage it's just an empty shell. What made the person himself, his brain cells, is broken beyond the most basic functions, and the personality seizes to exist. There's no essence (or whatever a soul is) of that person left to be found. We experience our mind as separate from our bodies, that's where the whole soul thingy probably comes from, but reality makes it clear our mind is nothing but a function of a organ system in your head. You change that organ, you change your mind. Literally

I can beat a black man to a bloody pulp for being black, but in the end he's the same race I am. Racism is an inaccurate term, just like spiritualism, that's all

Atheism is completely acceptable here, And I'm a non-believer in any sense of the word, still I consider myself to be spiritual. You sound like the next one that thinks agnostics are fence sitters, and so on.

And racism implies race, something that also doesn't exist (at least not in our species) still I use the term for want of a better word.

And neither do you. You seem bitter and insecure (and maybe even scared) to me, clinging on to some mantras and some claims about yourself. Claims that don't show in your posts.

Jesus is or is part of the same being that's the creator of the universe and had the intention to die on the cross. We can discuss technicalities whether it was suicide, assisted suicide or suicide by legionnaire but my statement is in essence correct. Christianity is just that insane...

I thought the banana pretty much proved beyond any reasonable doubt that jesuschristisourlordandsaviour, but I'm happy to see that even hardcore atheist extremist bleeding heart evolutionist satan worshippers like you begin to understand that everything is designed.

Perhaps, but in the end I'm not the one that thinks the creator of the universe committed suicide to save an undetectable part of my brain referred to as a soul. Einstein claimed the universe itself had divine qualities, and why not? Your god is a magician with a few magic tricks up his sleeve, nothing more, puny compared to even something small and significant like the solar system.

Christians often try to misquote Einstein to make him look like a theist, in reality he considered your God "a product of human weakness" and your bible "pretty childish" and your faith "blind". Einstein was obviously very spiritual, but that doesn't mean he adhered to religious stupidity.

No, you deserve it because you deserve it, not because I dislike you. I actually like you despite the douche-bagish foreign politics your kind usually practices. For example, you might want to rephrase the "American Service-Members' Protection Act" a bit as a people.

If a young child hurts his toe by bumping it against a table leg, the child will often get mad at the table. This behaviour is often seen in adults too, like when they encourage a car to start. We're such social animals that we even seem to treat inanimate things as entities that have intentions (the table hurt me, the car gives up on me). I sometimes think this is the basis of religion.

No he isn't. You're just a butt-hurt American that feels the need to piss on the man that defied your country and managed to embarrass it for everyone to see. Sure the US wasn't the only "victim" but you got most of the heat. "victim" because your country pretty much deserved it. You may not like Assange, and I understand that, but calling him a pussy is a bit childish, IMNSHO.

Then the "power hungry dissident" was a very common type of Christian in the history of Christianity. Or it points to the fact that Jesus should have been more pragmatic. It's plausible that Jesus existed. It's plausible that he was a royal pain in the ass of some powerful people. It's plausible that they wanted him out of the way. It's plausible that they made an example out of him by killing him in a particularly nasty and humiliating way. It's not so plausible he reanimated about 36 hours or so after he died. To me Jesus is like Robin Hood or King Arthur. Probably based on (a) real person(s), but most of the stories about him are legends or maybe even myths.

Then the Swedish government should come with a very clear public statement that Assange has nothing to fear, but they probably wont because they probably want to extradite him.

I look at the whole of it, not the last couple of decades, in which Christianity indeed became much more benign. That's of course good, but not near enough to redeem it, especially since most Christians ignore the bloody history of their religion. In other words, most don't seem to learn from the past. Because his ideas of how one should live are at best impractical. Look how he ended up, being peaceful is fine but shouting: "Can I have another. sir" when someone nails your wrist to a tree is a bit too much. I have feelings that I call spiritual for want of a better word, and I've pantheistic-ish tendencies. Note that whether a pantheistic god (or probably Spinoza's God is a more accurate description) exists or not is completely irrelevant for us. Also note I do care about those feelings because they're good, I don't care why they're there. It's rather classic apatheism. There's a lot of possible explanations as to why I feel what I feel, but it seems strange that your God presents himself to me as a completely other diety, which isn't even of the same type. Also feelings are great and stuff, but they're almost by very nature irrational. I think I mentioned the exact same reasons but in other words.

And Assange deserves guarantees to not be extradited to a country that tortures people, allows its inmates to be systematically raped and imprisons people for trivial reasons like smoking pot. I think it's obvious that's his main concern, not two woman with a story about rape that most probably won't survive 3 minutes of scrutiny, because they made it up.

I would, but they won't take my blood.

I quote from my source: This seems a slim change, butt considering that Mars is only one planet, and there's probably a gazillion planets in the universe, it's only a matter of time before they come.

Got any pics? Who needs pics if one can have the musical? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqvffGlJWCU

In my case those feelings were real, and I still have those feelings. That doesn't mean God is real, it only means I've those feelings. It leans to pantheism, btw, not that I believe that the universe is really God, I just sort of experience it that way. Probably just active temporal lobes or something. I neither mind nor care.