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I'd agree with it being an effective method of control. One of the first shamans probably looked at the way everyone got jumpy when something moved in the darkness, and realized that he could manipulate them by lying about it. As soon as man learned how to lie he invented religion. A great...

By the way, I absolutely loved the nonsense about how the sun and seasons work. And the gibberish about Santa Claus was just priceless. Santa Clause is based on Sinter Klaas. Feel free to google that. This is just another one of those publications that throws around a bunch of "high concept"...

That's like handing someone dried cow dung and saying "Enjoy this delicious cookie." Then when they say "This tastes like shit!" telling them that they must eat the whole cookie before voicing an opinion.

In Revelation Wormwood is the name of the star that falls into the sea during the endtimes, and poisons the waters. So some con men have milked this to sell books about the end of the earth by a magical planet that hides behind the sun waiting to pounce out at us.

Don't do it! If you rep rep, then you'll spontaneously combust!

Yes it is. Atheism is a dead end to ignorance and faith based oppression. Atheism doesn't have honor killings. Atheism doesn't support Prop 8 because a 2000 year old book doesn't like gays. Atheism doesn't rape your children and then hide behind a shield of faith and "religious tolerance"...

Through a gradual process of evolution that began with single celled organisms. How those organisms got here hasn't been determined yet. Part of rejecting religion is realizing that you don't need to make up answers to questions that people don't have the answers to. That it's okay to not know...

As long as we're not the saps in the first two minutes of XFiles and Supernatural being torn limb from limb or tentacle raped. :spew:

Actually they have addressed the Bermuda triangle. Based on the amount of shipping traffic there is no statistical anomaly in the number of ships lost in the area. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda_triangle Science and religion do not connect because science looks at evidence and makes...

Only if the rock was massive. Amateur astronomers don't have the resolution to pick up a lot of the rocks out there, certainly not at 2 years distance. And you're not only dealing with resolution issues but the transience of the rock in question. It may take several orbits around the system to...

I didn't even watch that one. I've known Jews and I've known Palestinians. I've seen a series of maps showing the movement of boundary lines for the last 50 years as Israel pushes into the Palestinian territories. And have seen videos of soldiers steamrolling homes as they move the fences...

Murder cases and abductions only have decent case closure percentages if the culprit is known to the victim. Stranger-on-stranger violence is much harder to solve. And with a knowledge of forensics you can get away with a lot more than CSI would have you believe. There is a big battle going on...

Because the scientific method is actually a very simple and structure application of common sense. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method There you go. If you believe in demons, you're naive. If you believe they talk to you, you're sick. If you listen to them, you're sick and a...

A topic that makes you speak in plain statements. Neat! Funny too :) As for the OP, if your parents don't accept you, then while they may have gotten you to this point in life they don't have to be a part of it once you're making your own life for yourself. Let them know if they change their...

Neat. Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything" is awesome if you want a nice wide view of the history of science and the interesting people that advanced the quest for knowledge. (And some of them were complete bastards)

It depends on the direction they come from. With asteroids we detect them by reflected light, so if they're coming toward us from farther out in the solar system they're nice and bright and easier to spot *if* we happen to look at them (there's a lot of area to cover). If they're passing by the...

If there ever was a devil, it's name was lactose.

I be on my way to being one if my student loan didn't choke. Maybe next year :)

Yup. I'm accountable to my friends, my family, any employers, acquaintances, and really anyone I encounter, even my pets. None of them have to threaten me with an eternity of torture to prevent me from exploiting or hurting them. I treat them well because I choose to. If I act poorly towards...

Okay, I giggled. That's the first post I've seen from you that gets right to the point. :) +rep!