it feels different insulting muslims than christians tho

That's probably because insulting a muslim is usually followed by a shockwave and then a fireball.

Quote from: Meta Cognition on October 28, 2014, 10:06:36 AM

>muslims

dat blatant racism tho

>yfw implying muslims are a race is racist

He still thinks his imaginary friend is real though....

Arrogance isn't becoming upon anybody, Noelle.

From the Independent.

The theories of evolution and the Big Bang are real and God is not “a magician with a magic wand”, Pope Francis has declared.

Speaking at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the Pope made comments which experts said put an end to the “pseudo theories” of creationism and intelligent design that some argue were encouraged by his predecessor, Benedict XVI.

Francis explained that both scientific theories were not incompatible with the existence of a creator – arguing instead that they “require it”.

“When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so,” Francis said.

He added: “He created human beings and let them develop according to the internal laws that he gave to each one so they would reach their fulfilment.

“The Big Bang, which today we hold to be the origin of the world, does not contradict the intervention of the divine creator but, rather, requires it.

“Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve.”

The Catholic Church has long had a reputation for being anti-science – most famously when Galileo faced the inquisition and was forced to retract his “heretic” theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun.

But Pope Francis’s comments were more in keeping with the progressive work of Pope Pius XII, who opened the door to the idea of evolution and actively welcomed the Big Bang theory. In 1996, John Paul II went further and suggested evolution was “more than a hypothesis” and “effectively proven fact”.

Yet more recently, Benedict XVI and his close advisors have apparently endorsed the idea that intelligent design underpins evolution – the idea that natural selection on its own is insufficient to explain the complexity of the world. In 2005, his close associate Cardinal Schoenborn wrote an article saying “evolution in the sense of common ancestry might be true, but evolution in the neo-Darwinian sense – an unguided, unplanned process – is not”.

Giovanni Bignami, a professor and president of Italy’s National Institute for Astrophysics, told the Italian news agency Adnkronos: “The pope’s statement is significant. We are the direct descendents from the Big Bang that created the universe. Evolution came from creation.”

Giulio Giorello, professor of the philosophy of science at Milan’s University degli Studi, told reporters that he believed Francis was “trying to reduce the emotion of dispute or presumed disputes” with science.

Despite the huge gulf in theological stance between his tenure and that of his predecessor, Francis praised Benedict XVI as he unveiled a bronze bust of him at the academy's headquarters in the Vatican Gardens.

“No one could ever say of him that study and science made him and his love for God and his neighbour wither,” Francis said, according to a translation by the Catholic News Service.

“On the contrary, knowledge, wisdom and prayer enlarged his heart and his spirit. Let us thank God for the gift that he gave the church and the world with the existence and the pontificate of Pope Benedict.”

I have mixed feelings about this.

So, what your essentially saying is that, by virtue of being totally incomprehensible, any conception of God's love we have is, by definition, false and not divinely generated?

So those who think God loves them are at best deluding themselves, and God's love relies entirely on blind faith in the idea.

I'm glad we agree.

If you control for background and exit rate.

Our empirical analysis shows that female executives have different backgrounds and experience from male executives and that women are paid more and have higher pay-for-performance sensitivity than men conditional on rank, background, and experience. We also find that women are promoted more quickly internally but display similar rates of external promotion to men; however, women and men have similar demotion rates. The higher rate of promotion results in female executives at the upper levels of the hierarchy having significantly less job experience than male executives. Female executives, however, have a higher exit rate than men and the probability of a female executive becoming CEO is less than half that of male executives at every age. Our decomposition shows that the male executive survival rate is twice that of female executives. The gender differences in career length are accounted for completely by the difference in exit rates, and, conditional on survival as an executive at any age, women have a higher probability of becoming a CEO. The average career compensation of female executives is lower than that of male executives, but it is higher than male executives if female executives are assigned the male initial experience, the male initial rank assignment, or the male career experience distribution

This made me laugh.

We all know from my two-year ban that DeeJ is a filthy, white-knighting feminist.

0/10

We've already gone over how there are no legal consequences of being an atheist.

If someone wants to dislike you for being an atheist, thats their right.

That doesn't stop it from being a consequence. Surely, you'd say, if they didn't want people to dislike them they wouldn't bring up the fact that they're an atheist? That's probably what a lot of forum-using atheists do, in order to hold their views behind a veil of anonymity.

Regardless of whether it's their right, too, it's still fucking bigoted and everybody retains the right to call them out for it.

Yeah, all of that's great but it still doesn't account for the fact that the Bible makes some extraordinarily specific claims, alongside other standard Christian doctrine like the Nicene Creed.

Why should I hug you?

You're a fucking nobody.

I said a miscarriage is the best thing because the child goes to Heaven. It won't have to live a life experiencing what human nature is.

In 1958, at a time of heightened fear of nuclear war and mutual destruction between the West and the Soviet Union, Fisher said that he was "convinced that it is never right to settle any policy simply out of fear of the consequences...For all I know it is within the providence of God that the human race should destroy itself in this manner [nuclear war]." He was also quoted as saying, "The very worst the Bomb can do is to sweep a vast number of People from this world into the next into which they must all go anyway".

You tell me, out of every forum you have ever been on, are most people pro or against religion?

Seems like a case of confirmation bias.

I wouldn't attend explicitly religious forums in the first place. Not to mention, atheists tend to be younger, as do people who use forums and who are - usually - more willing to defend their beliefs. If you find a forum dedicated to discussion about religious matters, you'll find a lot of atheists there because that's exactly the sort of environment which would attract an atheist looking for discussion, especially atheists who are anti-religious. In any forum you go to, you'll find a mixture of moderate theists, deists and atheists who don't discuss their metaphysical views at all, and thus you never take notice.

In saying that, religious people still operate within the status quo, and are thus more likely to not look for instances of serious discussion. Why would they? People in the status quo don't usually debate on the Internet unless they're explicitly challenged.

This is literally one of the dumbest questions I've ever seen. It's like calling a corporation a "person".

The Internet doesn't hate religion, people hate religion. It can't be that fucking surprising that people use the Internet as a forum for their views. If you really wanted to look, you could find pro-theistic videos or blogs.

Quote from: Meta Cognition on October 27, 2014, 09:38:53 AM

*grabs popcorn taco*

Didn't he say he'd ban you if you put another false edit in there?