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What you cats clearly need is a little Nietzsche Family Circus.

Oh man, what a bunch of sophistry. You are just making stuff up as you go, do you realize that? I mean really, you are just riffing a mile a minute. The bible can certainly be tested and falsified to a meaningful degree, in that many of the bible's earth-bound claims can be falsified. Take...

'Paul' already believed? Don't you mean Saul -- the guy who was going around killing Christians? Before the road to Damascus, what was the difference between Saul and the other Pharisees? By the standard of legalistc judaism, didn't they 'already believe' too? If God had wanted to turn some...

If there are 100,000 documented cases in Spokane alone, then miracles must be so abundant they are practically commonplace... or at least more frequent than a statistically uncommon but unremarkable event, like the birth of twins. (Having been in the church for ten or twenty years myself, you'd...

That's a bunch of horseshit. You're talking about the same God of the bible that knocked Saul / Paul down on the side of the road with a blinding white light and a booming voice to make him believe. The same God of the bible, in human form, that delivered a full-on miracle in front of...

"What makes you think she is a witch?" "Well, she turned me into a newt!" "A newt?" (mumbling) "I got better..." -------------------------------------- The, ah, frequency of occurence is a bit off don't you think? This type of thing has never been legitimately recorded or...

food for thought... To trace something unknown back to something known is alleviating, soothing, gratifying, and gives moreover a feeling of power. Danger, disquiet, anxiety attend the unknown - the first instinct is to eliminate these distressing states. First principle: any explanation is...

But who says God is never wrong? If God is beyond right and wrong, then how can God be a source of moral authority. A being that does whatever it wants rules by appeal to force, i.e., do what I want or I will make life miserable for you, or, in the case of absolute power, you will do what I...

Also, scientists have recently discovered mathematical proof for the existence of dark matter (see below). Given the relative abundance of dark matter--and the superabundance of dark energy, an even stranger concept--it seems logical to accept that the vast expanse of space is not so empty...

Quite possibly. It's new to me, but then I'm a bit of a physics dilettante. The article was recent so I thought I'd share it.

Expanding / collapsing universe anyone? See article below. This theory is interesting because it doesn't require a big crunch... the typical universe can continue expanding, as ours seems to be doing, until it reaches a high entropy state in which future quantum births are possible. (Stu...

This is ironic, as my experience was the opposite. Like lkh and vhehn, I was in the faith for many years. Looking back now, my experience of Christianity, and all the Christian friends and relatives I had (and still have), is this: they are either no more happy and well-adjusted than the...

And again I respectfully assert that you are mixing apples and oranges. Atheism is not a metanarrative; an atheist does not necessarily find meaning within the context of atheism. To speak of an "atheist lifestyle" is meaningless in terms of fulfillment because there are all kinds of...

You speak as a true relativist--as if only utility mattered, and the truth or falsehood of a belief system has no bearing at all. It is not the case. Fervent belief in falsehoods leads to a willingness to distort reality, and eventually even the necessity of distorting reality, which in turn...

Seems reasonable, though, to think that a creator with no holy books, and no attempts at direct communication, has very little interest in being understood, let alone worshiped. Such a being would almost seem to say, "Stop expending so much energy trying to know me or understand me--you...

Bit of a glaring contradiction there. If you accept Stu's "faith," and believe in freedom of belief "whatever that belief may be," then there shouldn't be any request for "remedy-seeking" because there is no problem. (As you in fact said, that you have no problem.) As for calling atheism a...

Kinda fun to observe bunnypink's descent into the abyss... like reverse evolution from man to chimpanzee. A sycophantic, sexually confused, ass-kissing chimpanzee.

Oh man, that is classic. Still laughing as I type... worst attempt at linguistic disguise I have ever seen. Admittedly I haven't seen many, but ye gods this is horrible. Here's a tip bro: masking one's writing style involves more than substituting an off-kilter key or manufacturing a...

On similar lines, a nice piece from Heather MacDonald: http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=OGYxNDFiMzdiZjZjMDExZjYxYmUxODExMzBkYmUyYmQ= Excerpt: Perhaps when believers speak of God’s “love,” they use the term in a way that has nothing to do with ordinary usage. Novak maybe...

An interesting mindset you have there... so why not take that ball and run with it? Consider the possibility, for example, that one day the wood nymphs might rise from their slumber, spirit you away to their magical land, and crown you Fairy King. No one can disprove this possibility--those...