i have the same claim on your property as you have on mine for your pet causes.
"federal governments in the United States subsidize religionâto the tune of about $71 billion every year."
republicans oppose teaching of âcritical thinking skillsâ
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i have the same claim on your property as you have on mine for your pet causes.
"federal governments in the United States subsidize religionâto the tune of about $71 billion every year."
Science tells us that at the Big Bang there was no time and space, matter, gravity, etc etc... Do you think that that's possible? Near the time of the start of the universe, all things were up and down and reality would look very different to people like us. The word "spoke" didn't have the same meaning as it does today, it could have meant "influenced through left-spinning neutron exchange"... who knows?
In that same chapter we read that out of nothing God created the Unverse and us, humans, in six periods (called days so that the Israelites of 3500 years ago could understand)... Just imagine what that was like. And you have a problem with the snake? That's the easiest part.
Parts of the Bible are symbolic, others are literal, and it's the Christian's responsibility to learn to tell the difference.
i think i asked you if you believe there was a talking snake as depicted in the bible?
you told me that christians used critical thinking every day. have you critically thought about this part of the bible?
You don't see a problem with this type of thinking?
You miss the point: I and most conservatives object to how this is done, not why. They take our money, pretend it's theirs, and pass it through the worst and least efficient process imaginable, creating thousands of middle class civil servants' jobs in the process, to deliver a dime per each dollar allocated, to the poor. Enough to keep them poor but not to get them out of poverty because they want those votes. it's cruel and unethical, stupid and hypocritical and it has to stop. instead, build a system of "workfare" where the unemployed work for whatever they receive and grow out of it with the new skills they acquire.
there is no problem. as part of a functioning society we all agree to do things we would rather not.
the only other way is anarchy.
you do know that republicans control the house now? that is where workfare legislation would originate. have you seen any yet?
they arent interested in solving any problems.
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If you read my responses you'll see that the answer is yes. It's your original question that makes no sense. Sorry
have you critically thought about why there are no talking snakes now? have you thought about the fact that science has shown us that a snake could not have the organs to talk?
That seems like very narrow thinking from someone who believes we evolved from algae.