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Actually you don't know either logically or factually that there is "no big foot, no wizards and witches or God"... ...but you sure as heck seem to believe it. Let me guess, you were a true dogmatic believer in your theism before you atheism, right? Quote from vhehn: absolute agnosticism is a cop out. You conceding that you are not competent enough to make a rational analysis based on fact. There is no absolute certainty in...

Quote from OPTIONAL777: So the US has not banned the Confederate flag, nor has the US banned the Nazi swastika...because we believe in freedom of speech and self expression...and the Swiss fall back on their German roots in a move that puts them on a path towards fascism... This move by the Swiss probably has more to do with the Swiss "brand" than it does their German roots. That would make them more like the French, or at least...

Quote from nitro: The freedom of the individual vs the balancing the rights of the collective. That is why Ayn Rand is all over these pages. This is best stated by Colonel Jessep, from "A Few Good Men": It is at the heart of the Conservative vs the Liberal debate. The wisdom comes from realizing that nature has selected (in the Darwinian sense, i.e., Evolutionary Biology) people for both these traits, creating a healthy symbiosis....

Quote from BernardRichards: ...radical Islamist manifesto describing how to destroy America from within... Elect a radical America hating Muslim president named Hussein?

Quote from Lucrum: Elect a radical America hating Muslim president named Hussein? The Trojan Horse technique worked for the Greeks so why not for the Islamists?

Quote from jem: can you imagine the ignorance level of someone saying they have proof of a negative? once again I am not the one saying I have proof. you are. Now do you get how ignorant you sound. why do you believe something you have no proof for and has never been observed? the only answer can be that you believe because of stone age writings handed down and that you inherited. since you admit you have no proof and there has never been...

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news...-from-coverage/ Health bills fail to block illegals from coverage By Stephen Dinan Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants could receive health care coverage from their employers under the bills winding their way through Congress, despite President Obama's explicit pledge that illegal immigrants would not benefit. The House bill mandates, and the Senate bill strongly encourages, businesses to...

I don't see where it takes a whole lot of brainpower to admit that "the belief that there is no deity" or those who say "there is no God" is a belief also. Evidently it rises above the intellectual capacity or forthrightness of stu & kill, so be it.

Quote from killthesunshine: +1 get em stu !! lol

Quote from OPTIONAL777: What you asked is none of your business...what is evasive about that? I contend that you had no foundation for that question. Prove me wrong... "Besides, if you have no qualms about directly confronting others' approach to their own addictions, why would your own addictions be no one else's business? That seems to be rather narcissistic." Many people around here incessantly talk about their personal...