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  1. Andy9o8
    "4 out of 5 dentists recommend sugarless gum for their patients who chew gum." Oh - the 5th? Needs to pay off his student loans.
  2. Andy9o8
    Muslims are to parking as Asians are to driving. What? Too soon?
  3. Andy9o8
    Here are some raw data.
  4. Andy9o8
    Yeah. Wait til you find yourself in the 8x5 room in the nursing home they put you in. Unless you outsmart them first.
  5. Andy9o8
    Way to maintain the high standards of this discussion.
  6. Andy9o8
    Everybody knows that. Well, did you know that there is an oldest trick in the book? Madest thou look.
  7. Andy9o8
    Or, quite possibly, if not even probably, he killed because he's a whack job paranoid sociopath, with all other internal rationalization (which he chose to refer to as his belief system, just as those who wear foil hats to keep the zombie-rays out have a belief system) being part of his delusional process.
  8. Andy9o8
    I did dude already posted what the article used. They mentioned he has expressed hatred for religions on his social media. You've answered my question. Putting it kindly, you took 2+2 and came up with 5. No. He didn't. Yes, he said lots of crazy anti-theist shit. But he didn't say he killed these 3 people because he's an atheist.
  9. Andy9o8
    You either have the source of your assertion or you don't. Do you?
  10. Andy9o8
    My post #8 asks you to provide a source to the "he literally said" assertion you make in your post #4. You either have it or you don't.
  11. Andy9o8
    Hello?
  12. Andy9o8
    Everybody knows that.
  13. Andy9o8
    Sorry - I've seen a lot of detail published about this guy, but I don't see where he made a statement ("literally said") that he killed, or intended to kill, these particular victims because he's an atheist. But, I have an open mind, and the story is developing quickly - do you have a link that I've missed?
  14. Andy9o8
    You make an excellent point. A form of herd immunity, I suppose. That said, I think the answer to your question is: the specific detail of conversation along that line, especially re: the correlation/causation to male throat cancer in particular, would be a non-starter (to put it mildly) to many parents of juvenile daughters. Unfortunate, but there it is.
  15. Andy9o8
    Then you misunderstand the lecture, the FoxNews-esque spin of it notwithstanding. It's a lecture to not use the existence of radical Islamic terrorists as a convenient rationalization for broad-brush anti-Islamic bigotry. If you think about it... stay with me, now.... the point of the lecture is really quite Christ-like.
  16. Andy9o8
    Hmm, let's see... the South has certainly checked out... but yet it's still here, so.... hmm... Yes.
  17. Andy9o8
    If there were no humans on Earth, there'd be no oatmeal raisin cookies. Just wild oats and dried up grapes. Deep thoughts, man.
  18. Andy9o8
    I fully understand the notion of the psychological/emotional component of recovery. Even if an individual patient derives that from his personal belief system, that doesn't transform abstraction into fact. By and large, the beneficial effects of children's belief in Santa Claus probably outweigh the detrimental ones. But he's still just a mythical abstraction; the fact that a child earnestly believes him to be real and is even persuaded that she has seen evidence that he's real doesn't make him, in fact, real.
  19. Andy9o8
    They tried, but were stopped. Maybe they shouldn't have been stopped.
  20. Andy9o8
    https://www.google.com/search?q=cave+paintings&client=firefox-a&hs=7Bb&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=nts&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=kz_aVIvtGKi_sQTp7ICQDg&ved=0CEoQsAQ&biw=1080&bih=780
  21. Andy9o8
    You presumably can't get STD's, at least directly, from either a Porsche or a trip to Bali. So for me, the choice is a coin-toss.
  22. Andy9o8
    Speaking as a professional drug abuse counselor, that is exactly how those behaviors are treated. Treated so by others, for the most part. Atheism is not a belief structure; it is the absence of spiritual belief, nothing more, nothing less. It is a mere vacuum of spiritual belief. It is don't-give-a-shitism, not unlike, for example Dudeism. And notwithstanding the occasional loud person like Madeline Murry O'Hair, and to refute the common accusation, the vast, vast, vast majority of atheists really don't give a shit one way or another about other people's religion; they just don't want it shoved in their faces like they're being drunk tea-bagged around the bonfire. On video.
  23. Andy9o8
    http://www.theanalystworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/scarecrow-with-pistol.jpg
  24. Andy9o8
    Hmm. That really doesn't look like your writing style, Marc. Let's see... Ah! Seems it was written, word for word, by Thomas Madden of the University of St. Louis. Of course, regardless of authorship, the point conveniently ignores the fact that most of those lands had passed into Muslim control some 400 years prior to that. So cutting through the bullshit, Pope Urban II's actual main agenda was mainly economic and political, with the "liberation of of lands" meme being tossed into the mix as the cover story. In other words, the main agenda was to impose imperialism militarily, while the rest was mainly cover story to justify the aggression. See? A little research and effort goes a long way. Oh, so does citing one's sources of quotes, btw.
  25. Andy9o8
    Was it armed?