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HexHammer wrote: ... If I ask a dude where the nearest bar is, is that reasoning? No, that's just a question. A question to gain knowledge ....

yea... it is starting to become clear to me where you gain your knowledge ...

thedoc wrote:

HexHammer wrote:Are all these fracmented christians not decendants of chatholisism?

By that line of reasoning, all who follow one of the Abrahamic religions is Jewish.

he he he he ... good one

Then name me a non-chatholic president. You sit on the sideline of most conversation and throw in some shit to everybody about hos stupid they are, because every time you open your moth and try to say something intelligent something like this comes out ... " all American presidents are catholi...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhineland_massacres Certainly noticing a pattern with them pesky Germans. ;) j/k I think the question though despite being an atheist is not if God is good, is if men are idiots, and will justify any religious pogrom and act in the name of attacking people who believe u...

God did not send the flood without warning, Noah knew it was coming. Why didn't everyone else build a boat and escape? Well, if my father offered me a life vest, said he was going to sink our boat, and we did not believe him so we did not put on or even bring our life vest, - and then he proceeded ...

Never heard of it ... The second 9/11 - year 2001 - terrorist act on American soil was in new york - a massacre of many people by using airplanes. Now the first 9/11, terrorist act based on religion - on American soil was 9/11 - year 1857. The Mormons mascaraed almost 150 people - woman, children, ...

America was founded by religious splinter groups, fleeing oppression in Europe, you didn't stand a chance. ;) Ha ha ha... excellent -- Come to think of it, are you familiar with the first 9/11 in the US ? September 11 massacre in 1857 ? Mountain Meadow Massacre - slaughter of woman, children, entir...

Group think is subconciousness at play, in prehistoric times when we were but mere reptiles, we didn't have elaborate language, but mere sounds and gestures, to keep people in check a mere harsh look could (and still can) keep people in place, some will even voulenteerily abide the leader and take ...

HexHammer wrote:What was the morale of the biblical "good samaritan"?

To treat your enemy with compassion love and understanding, to help even your enemy if he is beaten and laying hurt on the street.
What is the challenge ?

The daughter will most likely not be religious because she got atheist friends, so yearh, that's not a religious society, what I was talking about is Asmish people, unelighten people in underdeveloped countries if the religion is strong, then people will most likely become religious. USA are VERY r...

Blaggard wrote:In modern times the reasons for believing are somewhat different although really they have not changed much.

What are these reasons - past and present -and what are the differences that you are referring to ?

People growing up in religious societies will have a greater chance of being religious, than a person growing up in a non religious society, becaue of the groupthink principle. Based on my own life, people i know, it seems that the daughter of a priest grows up in rebellion... more often than in ob...

No people believe in religion any religion for that matter because like all human beings they fear death, they fear not knowing how the Earth can kill people simply by being the Earth, and they fear such natural phenomena to such an extent that they have to in ignorance make up a reason for their l...

Have you actually understood what the Aschen vid was about? Did you understand which psychological phenomenom that was at play? Do you understand the concept of atheism vs theism? It seems you don't understand the basic nature of it all. An individual under strong influence from more than 3 other p...

You have understood excatly nothing of what I told you. I know i said that I'm trying to understand why half the planet seem to say that God is good. That may be very inaccurate - because i am not asking why they follow God, but why they actually feel in their heart and in their head that he is goo...