Strange Notions is a new Disqus site run by Brandon Vogt to try to discuss Rationality and Reason with Athiests. He may well succeed with some, but there is one subset of atheism he will never succeed with. On Richard Dawkin's spectrum of theistic probability , those with a score 6 and above often fall into something I term fundamentalist atheism. Many of them come from fundamentalist Christian backgrounds, if not in their generation, then within three generations of their recent past. Fundamentalist Atheism starts with the assumption that the supernatural doesn't exist and that the natural world is all there is, and runs with it, denying any data to the contrary. I've always been one to consider the natural to be a subset of the supernatural- that is the only real difference between the natural and the supernatural to me is the line of the shared scientific knowledge of mankind. A scientist, therefore, if he is to learn anything new about the universe, needs to have h...
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This test of people's reactions to a woman abusing a man had nothing to do with liberals. The off duty cop who admitted having a double standard was not likely to be liberal, since most cops aren't. You're just being misguided by your hatred of liberals and projecting them into situations such as this.
God only knows what kind of hatred and bigotry you are teaching your kid. I can only imagine. Eventually, he will form his own opinions and won't listen to you and be better off.
Well. Are you glad that you were introduced to Catholicism? I wouldn't blame you if you said that you are not. You're a mess. You deserve credit for all you have to deal with and all you have overcome. But you need to work on your people skills.
Only partially. I sure wish we still had the potlatch. I think Catholic distriutists could learn a lot from attending a potlatch.
And it isn't Catholicism that is imposed by the American military, it's malaria and protestantism.
And, eventually, Catholic missionaries did spread the faith enough for it to have reached you. Otherwise, you wouldn't have had the opportunity to be Catholic. I'm not saying that has been a good thing. In your case, it obviously has had a deleterious effect on your worldview.