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Sciences have in fact, for ever phenomenon, a better explanations than the religions currently being marketed. No, it's rather bloody simple.

I contend that the majority of Christians, when asked, would give different replies. In fact, I have never heard anyone but a church bureaucrat speak in those term. All practising catholics of my acquaintance think Papal Infallibility is bollox, including a HIGH ranking catholic official...

Hehehe, you are proving my point exactly. it seems pretty clear that you have not read the bible, given that it's desciption of Jesus Christ is of a rather unpleasant, which is why they say, when in doubt ask yourself, what Jesus would do ... and then do the opposite. For your perusal, I'll add...

Yes, but why should that matter to somebody who thinks the papal authority is bollox? I do in fact "have a very smug and dismissive attitude to people's religious experiences". It is clearly possible to be a Christian (or whatever) simply by announcing the fact without any form of belief to...

You see, that is a complete misunderstanding of religion. There are no "primary tenets". You make them up as they suit you. A typical rhetorical strategy is to distinguish between the "true core" of a religion and it's corruption (for example -- and very popular --by the clergy). One could then...

Translation: you prefer the world to be simple so it does not interfer with your dearly held beliefs. But what if those who do sign up don't think it's rigid? Damn! Your whole argument falls apart!

Zak, the decline of Mayan culture is not clearly linked with the European conquests of Latin American. The Spanish never really managed to colonise Yucatan apart from costal regions, because their weapons and technology wasn't much use in the jungle. Conversely, the Mayas were too weak to get...

what do they not know much about? and why are they positivists, smug ones at that?

wondering for quite a while why that hasn't happened yet, i can think of two reasons. (1) it's just an effect of how success is being measured. since nobody is counting downloads in the big free music exchanges, some music that is very popular is under the statistical radar, because it's...