Dear Craig,

You can't resist calling names. Now I'm absolutist. That's a way of saying you don't agree, but there are other, more polite ways of saying it. I will post no more to you.

Sheesh David, get over yourself.

david f,

You are a fundamentalist, absolutist and extreme in your thoughts. You have such hatred for Christianity without reason.

Tell me what you think about Communism and Marxism, and its effects on the world?

Please read what I posted yesterday. Why have you ignored them? Every other time I have posted, you have always responded. Why are you not responding to me now?

"david f,

You are a fundamentalist, absolutist and extreme in your thoughts. You have such hatred for Christianity without reason."

Lol!..talk about the pot calling the kettle black!

Constance accuses someone else of "being extreme in their thoughts".

"Please read what I posted yesterday. Why have you ignored them? Every other time I have posted, you have always responded. Why are you not responding to me now?"

Perhaps it's because you like to insult the people you're debating - as in - "david f, You are a fundamentalist, absolutist and extreme in your thoughts..."

Charmed, I'm sure.

Dear Yuyutsu,

This is not what I had a problem with. It was the implication that curiosity in this context (clery or not) - being behind any scientific (or pre-scientfic) attempts to understand how the physical world works, and use this understanding to make life easier - should be seen as a human weekness.

Dear david f,

I agree with the part “They could do so without telling me about it”. This is the problem, I suppose, nurses face, when they have to determine which terminal patient is comforted and which one is offended by being told that the nurse will pray for him/her.

I think it is one thing to simply state that a medieval thinker was wrong (e.g. when he claimed that the Earth was the centre of the universe), and another thing to draw conclusions from this about the intelligence of that thinker. The same when not “truth” about the world but "morality" is concerned.

There is physical as well as psychological coercion into a worldview, religious or not. I am immune to the arguments of e.g. Richard Dawkins, also because I have had (most of) them force fed at school. Others are not. Similarly religion - Christianity or Judaism as you mention - can also be “force fed”, although today mostly only on the psychological level, as blurry as that distinction is (when the recipient is a child there is no difference between physical and psychological coercion).

http://politicalvelcraft.org/catholic/

“Father Of The Big Bang, Catholic Priest Georges Lemaitre Pictured With Albert Einstein. “Georges Lemaitre a Belgian astrophysicist/Mathematician developed the theory of the Big Bang. In January 1933, Georges Lemaitre traveled with Albert Einstein to California for a series of seminars. After Georges Lemaitre detailed his Big Bang theory, Einstein stood up applauded, and said, “This is the most beautiful and satisfactory explanation of creation to which I have ever listened.”

Virgin Mary appears to +500,000 people in Egypt!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKHaNMTRF1o
Virgin Mary Appears Above The Coptic Church In 1968 In Zeitoun, Egypt. Something to consider, Egypt’s leadership was under Nasser who was a staunch atheist, socialist, and dependent on Soviet aid & advisers. They tried to block access to Church and when that failed something else unexpectedly happened ~ the apparitions stopped when the authorities started to charge admittance to get near the church. LOL!
FACTOID:
It wasn’t until 1972 that Lloyd Cross developed the integral hologram by combining white-light transmission holography with conventional cinematography to produce MOVING 3-dimensional images. Sequential frames of 2-D motion-picture footage of a rotating subject are recorded on holographic film. When viewed, the composite images are synthesized by the human brain as a 3-D image.
So when measuring this barometer to Zeitun one must also account for the HUGE spatial landscape where The MOVING Marian Apparitions took place in the Sky and near The Coptic Church in 1968. Apparitions took place 4 years before holograms were invented in their primacy form."

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