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Permalink Reply by Will Faithless Sophia on November 6, 2011 at 8:31pm

I like the Sam Harris quote : )

Permalink Reply by Joseph P on November 7, 2011 at 7:57am

I love the way that they just don't freaking understand the core of what they're saying.  Effectively, the problem is that their children are exposed to atheists and skeptics before they can be completely brainwashed into the faith.

 

You'd think that if the Truth was as True as they seem to think it is, It would win out against the atheists and skeptics.

Permalink Reply by Chris Johnson on November 7, 2011 at 10:40am

Yes!  I always  think this!  If an argument holds water, it hold water.  It shouldn't matter if it's challenged or not!

 

Permalink Reply by Loren Miller on November 7, 2011 at 10:58am

Gee, does this mean that, like, FACTS can trump bullshit in an open, egalitarian environment?  WHAT A CONCEPT!

Permalink Reply by Joseph P on November 7, 2011 at 11:04am

Yes, and it scares him.

Permalink Reply by Loren Miller on November 7, 2011 at 12:18pm

It damned well should.  The one thing most churches avoid like the plague is a genuine, unfettered and uncensored exchange of ideas ... because what comes out is that the belief crowd ultimately get confronted with the fact that they have nothing new to offer except the same thousand-year-old lies, and that they are becoming ever more irrelevant as people evolve and grow out of the need for irrational, unsubstantiated belief.