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I don't think it's Hannah who is confused. "My friend said, 'You didn't just compare people to animals, did you?'" said Hannah. So Hannah didn't say that anyway but nevertheless, "Comparing people to animals" is mostly used as a common figure of speech, an expression used to refer to...

"She called the comments "hurtful" and comparisons between gay love and bestiality upsetting. ..comparing the natural occurrence of homosexuality in all animals is same as comparing the natural occurrence of heterosexuality in all animals. Comparing homosexuality to bestiality, in a...

If you can't or won't understand someone else is deciding on behalf of the children, that they will go to a private catholic school, that they are supposed to be catholic, that they will attend a mandatory meeting to be preached at by the catholic church in ways that are discriminatory...

Bullshit. A grain of sand, any grain of sand, not a red herring to land on your finger. The analogy is that considering the one specific grain of sand out of all possible grains produces what are perceived to be enormous odds, but is totally consistent with the laws of physics, not a magic...

His analogy fails. The school children didn't agree with something for good reason - but they had no choice but to attend a captive meeting within an organization they are obliged to attend. They took exception at being instructed in a mandatory meeting, that their classmates, who, being...

The analogy was comparing meetings to captive audiences - and hateful preaching by catholics against the sexual orientation and antecedence of other children , some of whose adopted parents had decided for them they were catholic - being disrupted by more catholics, presumably by parents who...

Bullshit on your one too. Simplistic sweeping statements like that don't score. A private school cannot legally teach whatever they want. To use an extreme, are you trying to suggest a catholic school would be legally free to preach incitement to commit murder? Of course not. Free to preach and...

Yeah I know, and the reason you trot out the words lies and lying is because you don't want to consider anything that doesn't fit with your pre formed religious conclusions. You always want look down the wrong end of a 'probability telescope' and imagine you see science. Stand on a beach...

That's it Jem, when you can't think of anything, troll out the same old non scientific bs commentry on Penrose and Weinberg from a creationist website for the billionth time, just like an idiot would.

Schooling is an affair of state. Come on Mnpharts. Kids have to go to school. Private or public schools cannot do whatever the hell they want. The key word is school, not religious indoctrination camp. A bunch of bigotry preaching catholic 'mullahs' telling school children, adopted kids...

So what fuckface.

That the laws of physics work a certain way within a narrow range of values is the science. That those values can't come about by the laws of physics, is not science, and there is no science anywhere, which even suggests anything of the sort. You are still hopelessly trying to support a...

The 2000 year old Enron trade with a horrendous drawdown that had it's margin call way back during the Enlightenment, though many traders totally taken in by the oldest trick in the book, deluded by it all, still imagine there can be a sudden rise in the invisible stock, just so long as...

"The church" long obsessed with all forms of sex, asks people to abstain from a particular image of God they were made in. Getting a bit above themselves with that message.

You don't know there is no such thing as true scotsman or a true christian? But when imaginary Jesus conforms to what YOU believe, then I will know what "He" wants. Got that. But if you don't mind, I'll just keep thinking for myself.

"The Church" message here is one of intolerance. It is not a good message. Societies values are and were set despite "the Church" not because of it, and it's easy to see how those standards would decline overtime. Being constantly bombarded with the sort of crude ignorant christian values...

In this case Muslims were not trying to preach to a captive audience in a school. Catholics were. Some very enlightened people, even some religious ones, a couple hundred years ago very wisely concluded that it would be a very good idea to keep church and state separate. Keeping all...

Fine if you are attracted by a judgmental, intolerant, hypocritical, pious do as I say not as I do, holier than thou approach. Church has proven throughout history to be the ideal place for that.

You're right, it wasn't a good analogy. A mandatory assembly is not a meeting where people are taking part of their own free will. If the catholic church can do that, then so should PETA and the KKK, when they too can be resisted by school children obliged to attend. Then you or someone...

Science discovers there are fundamental physical constants. Science also finds the values of those constants fall within an extremely tight range. One suggestion is if the values were any different, there would be no universe or no matter in the universe. That suggestion has no science to...