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...for the rest of you.

You might get laid just as often in your $20 Walmart shelter, but you'll need to buy the family size model to accommodate your takers.

Look, any claim that the American lifestyle is fucking sick and wrecked will get zero argument from me. Our culture is fucked. BUT...you can still be anyone you want to be here. Sort of. Sometimes. In your own mind.

whatever happened to French surrender monkeys, KKK? You go all socialist on is n' shit?

Why FW, I'm so flattered that you hang on my every word. Religion doesn't play a role in public schools...but it's not for lack of trying on the part of our Christian brethren. They always lose in court because organizations like the ACLU kick their asses back to their bible study classes on basic constitutional grounds. Without such watchdog organizations, many of our kids might well be studying Creationism in a 'competing theory' wrapper. No one has suggested silencing anyone's views, BTW; you're the only person who has mentioned it. To deny churches tax exempt status and grant it to other non-profits would, of course, violate both the fairness doctrine and the 1st amendment. Non-starter. Eternal damnation for non-believers constitutes one of the highest forms of divisive bigotry. I oppose it, but hey, it's a free country. When it comes time to craft legislation and policy, however, stow that shit.

except that, despite enormous amounts of visual, anecdotal evidence, Americans are really no less healthy than citizens of other industrialized nations. The problem is not that 'we don't take care of ourselves'...the usual "blame the victim" conservative tagline. Sooo....how's married life treatin' ya?

U gonna fine a fountai i' fro'uv yo hou

I agree and that's a good point. I'm no person of faith and I pretty much think religion is stupid and if I were a bettin' man I'd put my money on no omnipotent being. But there's more shit that we doesn't know than we knows, so on a purely abstract and academic basis I'll leave that door open. And I'm not sure the theory concept applies here (to metaphysics?) the same way it would as if talking about geography or biology or something, which is much more empirical. I agree that spiritual truth is different from empirical truth, but God's followers treat his existence as the latter. To them, he's as real as my keyboard. His existence is not in the same category as other overarching grand truths regarding human experience, like karma or enlightenment, he's an actual dude/being/Kitty thing. Therefore, same rules apply.

whom i resemble more with each passing day

...so we can discuss even more stupid shit.

That's probably about the twentieth time I've posted that thought. I look forward to the day when mankind comes to its senses and we no longer have to discuss such stupid shit...

Use of the word 'prove' is tricky as well. Most phenomena are not like mathematical proofs with clear, tidy wrap ups. Evidence supports or contradicts a theory over time. So far, there has been zero credible evidence that there is a God, and plenty of credible evidence that humankind is capable of fabricating and believing in such a thing; hence, my support of the strongly supported theory that one doesn't exist.

.....but they do have some nice buildings. "they"... hmmm.... who is it who primarily promotes the "us vs. them" phenomenon that OW charged? Said The Uniter...

"Can't disprove something" violates Chapter 1, Page 1 of Logic 101. Of course you can't disprove anything of which there is no evidence whatsoever, which would be anything the human imagination can come up with. For that reason, this is not a valid argument, however frequently Kevbone and the Christers may employ it.

Fortunately, when these assclowns go up against my religion in court, they they get their asses and clown suits handed to them.

Subjugation of women by removal of abortion rights and other means, eternal damnation for all non-believers, censorship for ALL citizens, cover ups for massive systemic child sexual abuse, opposition to equal marital rights for all citizens, attempting to inject the teaching of one specific religious doctrine into public schools...yeah, religion's just a 'dietary supplement'.

"So, yeah, we now recommend just replanting this one.... That's my home world....

actually, it's the more like other way around. Far more people are afraid to admit that they think religion is complete hooey because of the popularity of that hooey, so they settle for the softer sounding, if less intellectually honest, agnostic label for themselves.

Yeah, that's bullshit. That's like saying "Well, I don't really KNOW one way or the other about Santa Claus or Jim Jones." Um...some of us actually do know one way or the other. Speaking of honesty, you're every bit the atheist I am, but I suppose we should applaud your attempt at being politic with your fellow right wingers, which do have a tendency to thump a bible now and then.

You've gotta love the idea that religion fills some 'vital role' in society, which must be 'substituted' for something else when missing. A drunk justifying the sauce has a more credible argument. Religion is a cult; for many, an addiction. Far from being the eternal spring from which all morality flows, it more often than not hampers right thinking, compassionate action, and improvement of the human condition. Its primary role is to provide a make-believe, magical kingdom from which relentless tide of cartoonish tantrums thrown by today's childults flow, the consequences of which must be cleaned up by the rest of us. Hardly a vital one. Any society would be much better off without such bullshit.

LOL. You've got it all figured out allright - so much you have to resort to hallucinogenic drugs (your crutch) to make your pathetic life livable for you. That and playing god at your little climbing crag. i would not recommend anyone do acid w/ you, Mr Major Downer There could be nothing worse than witnessing a hyper repressed 30 something douche with an lower GI impacted personality suddenly "discover his inner being".

There's really not much to figure out concerning religion or any other obviously ridiculous notion. Religion is basically fantasy without the fun.

LOL. You've got it all figured out allright - so much you have to resort to hallucinogenic drugs (your crutch) to make your pathetic life livable for you. That and playing god at your little climbing crag. ...and you just get drunk, like millions of other poor slobs, but hey, I'm not judging you. That would not be Christ-like.

Pretty good one, I know.

God is the warm damp that tamps secure man's spiritual dung heap.