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Christa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 09:40 AM Original message |
Vatican reaches out to atheists – but not you, Richard Dawkins |
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Extend a Hand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 09:43 AM Response to Original message |
1. is God not up to debating the A team?? |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 11:20 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. Even the Vatican recoils from folk who "read religious texts like fundamentalists" |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 11:53 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. How would a fundamentalist read the Holy Bible? nt |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 01:20 PM Response to Reply #7 |
13. Roughly speaking: as Richard Dawkins does |
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laconicsax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 01:44 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Fundamentalists read the Bible as fiction? |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 04:10 PM Response to Reply #13 |
19. You seem to be claiming Fundamentalists are atheists, but I doubt you feel that way. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 04:56 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. There is first the manner of the reading, and then the second of reaction to the reading |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 05:30 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. And when you can explain how |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 08:46 PM Response to Reply #20 |
27. You are still not telling me how they read the Holly Bible. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 10:12 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. Of course, there is a certain amount of truth in your first paragraph. |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-01-10 09:18 AM Response to Reply #29 |
32. Dawkins is an evolutionary scientist, and most of the evidence presented against evolution |
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skepticscott (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 07:02 PM Response to Reply #29 |
34. It's you who is guilty of a slapdash and sloppy interpretation |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 09:18 PM Response to Reply #29 |
35. "the Fundamentalist purports to read the Bible literally" |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 09:02 PM Response to Reply #1 |
28. Who's Mr.T, Hitchens or Dawkins? |
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Submariner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 09:51 AM Response to Original message |
2. What's to debate? |
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CrispyQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
3. "...to improve the church's relationship with non-believers." |
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charlie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 10:57 AM Response to Original message |
4. Only "noble" atheists |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 11:56 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Early Christian understandings of "faith" may not resemble some conventional pieties |
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charlie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 12:17 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. That's swell |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 01:53 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. Since Dawkins compares religious education to child abuse, |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 02:31 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. And Dawkins makes his case well. |
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charlie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 05:28 PM Response to Reply #15 |
23. Yes, what of it? |
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Cleobulus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 07:41 PM Response to Reply #15 |
25. Are you saying filling kids with fear of hell-fire and damnation isn't abusive? |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 02:37 PM Response to Reply #8 |
18. I take issue with your final sentence here, |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 05:10 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. You either have a serious reading comprehension problem or else |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 05:26 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. You have serious issues with answering your critics. |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 11:53 AM Response to Original message |
6. Maybe the Church can stop protecting child rapists and stop spending money on |
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EvolveOrConvolve (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 12:05 PM Response to Original message |
9. I see a love-bomb coming |
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onager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 12:47 PM Response to Original message |
11. If the Church seeks a relationship with this atheist, I'm getting a Restraining Order. |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 01:19 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Fuckin A right. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 01:55 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. I doubt anyone will grab you by the ears and drag you to any of these events |
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onager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 10:17 PM Response to Reply #16 |
30. Google "humor" |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-01-10 12:33 AM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Frankly, I amused myself with the image of you being dragged off by the ears |
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DeSwiss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-31-10 08:37 PM Response to Original message |
26. Of course Richard and Christopher.... |
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TZ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 01:58 PM Response to Original message |
33. Reaches out in the hopes of gaining converts no doubt. |
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