gehringer_2 Posted January 1 Posted January 1 20 minutes ago, chasfh said: I get why you're dismissive of the analogy, but people who can't see what you term to be objective physical evidence of dark matter can reasonably doubt or even reject its existence entirely, particularly if all they have to go on is your word for it—not at all unlike your view of the existence of god. Sure - You are correct that there is personality type to whom everything but their own personal experience holds no weight. Living in a high tech world were you can't directly experience or personally 'prove' most of what is going on around you has to be a real bitch for them. Joe Rogan comes to mind. Maybe I'm not being fair, I've been steeped in a scientific method culture pretty much since I could walk. Since I can only go by myself - I don't know anyone else's thought processes but my own, I don't know how fair it is to evaluate other people's capabilties to to think about and evaluate facts, evidence, reality. Quote
Tigermojo Posted June 7 Author Posted June 7 1.2 million attend Pope Leo's mass in Spain. Huge compared to Trump's crowd sizes. Quote
CMRivdogs Posted June 20 Posted June 20 A bit of history... Virginia has enacted a freedom of religion clause as part of its Declaration of Rights this month, but Anglican Church is still legally established. It won't be separated from taxpayer support until a 1786 statute, drafted by Thomas Jefferson and championed by James Madison, is passed. Quote
chasfh Posted June 21 Posted June 21 Subjects of the British crown were required to pay the clergy to bury a deceased relative? That sheds a little light on why people of the time were ready to relegate religion’s role in governance to the dustbin of history. 1 Quote
gehringer_2 Posted June 21 Posted June 21 2 hours ago, chasfh said: Subjects of the British crown were required to pay the clergy to bury a deceased relative? That sheds a little light on why people of the time were ready to relegate religion’s role in governance to the dustbin of history. IDK - how bad that was depends on the details what were you actually buying with your payment. If you were paying the church and the undertaker and a cemetery separately that would be a rum thing, but if you paid the church and they took care of it all that wouldn't be so onerous.You'd have a hard time burying a body for free anywhere in US today as well, it's just not the church doing most of that collecting. Quote
CMRivdogs Posted June 21 Posted June 21 6 hours ago, chasfh said: Subjects of the British crown were required to pay the clergy to bury a deceased relative? That sheds a little light on why people of the time were ready to relegate religion’s role in governance to the dustbin of history. I think it was ment to keep the Church from being the fourth branch of the government. Putting Baptists, Presbyterians, Catholics, Jews, and Islam on the same footing. Not having the Church of England or Anglicans then every other religion in secondary roles. Quote
oblong Posted June 23 Posted June 23 We know which players would have welcomed Jackie Robinson and which ones would not. Quote
gehringer_2 Posted July 2 Posted July 2 2 hours ago, CMRivdogs said: This isn't the 12th century, Nobody is getting burned at the stake for practicing what they want to practice. If you don't want to play our game, why don't you just take your ball and go play somewhere else? Quote
Mr.TaterSalad Posted August 6 Posted August 6 Remind me again how transgendered persons or drag queen bingo is the real problem with society. I'm confused, because I thought raping a child would be far, far worse than coming out as trans or hosting a drag show. The right always complains about the degradation of society. 4 Quote
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