"Follows up with a right cross " I can show you one which says a king must NOT have many wives" (Deut 17:7)"

Deut 17:7
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deut%2017:2-7;%2029:18&version=49
7"(G)The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people (H)So you shall purge the evil from your midst."

Well Boazy you are running true to form with your interpretation of the bible. It's really easy to see from that how kings can't have more than one wife.

R0bert

Yabby,
How many directions do you refer to when compassing the sphere of the Earth. Don't tell me North, South, East, West as this means four corners.

The term "religion" refers to a belief system of rules on behaviours and practises that governs ones life or a system of rules on how people are to be governed. It encompasses a "world view" on how one sees the world and its harmonous function. Humanism falls within that group. The term "religion" of itself does not imply belief in a creator or a supreme or divine being controlling material things.

"Theism" is the doctrine of belief in a deity or belief in spirit beings that control our Universe. This belief in Theism in most cases happens to involve a religion. That is a set of rules to be practised or adhered to too for personal or national wellbeing as blessing by the God /gods.

"Amen to all that, Yabby, Bugsy et al.

"I'm also interested in this notion of 'sanctity'. Is this the same freediver who makes a sport out of killing other species?

This post from CJ Morgan is a good demonstration that it is not religion that is about imposing yourself on others, it's morals. One of the biggest threats to our way of life are the radical animal libbers who wills top at nothing to get their way. Their views are obviously not based in religion. They are contrary to the 'patriarchial' religions that the cafe latte crowd like to whinge about most. Yet they are the ones engaging in terrorist acts in the US.

R0bert,
Please explain to me how a child came into the world having two daddies.

Miraculous Stuff - sounds amazing. I've only ever believed that a mother and a father could produce children. Some new modern science I suppose? Is the anal passage in this case the womb? I suppose these children come into real excreta circumstances

freediver: "They are contrary to the 'patriarchial' religions that the cafe latte crowd like to whinge about most. Yet they are the ones engaging in terrorist acts in the US."

Not that I'm much of an 'animal libber' apologist, but I was under the impression that stuff like 9/11 was very much down to to extremist followers of one of the larger 'patriarchal' religions.

Freediver's psephological comments indicate that he has a functioning brain, but it seems to be a tad awry when it comes to religion. I think Dawkins is right when he says that we should treat the 'God delusion' as a form of intellectual disability, or perhaps mental illness.