Religion & Science

[midnight Target]

Originally posted by Syzygyone
Groper!

dam straight!

[bounder]

Originally posted by Hortlund
idiot

rather that than a scientific ignoramus.

[midnight Target]

These last few posts have really been so well written and well thought out.....

I have decided to join the priesthood...... Forget science!!!!





The Church of Elvis calls......

[-dead-]

Originally posted by bounder
rather that than a scientific ignoramus.

Hey now! Hortlund can't help it - he is, by his own admission, unevolved.

[Syzygyone]

Originally posted by midnight Target
These last few posts have really been so well written and well thought out.....

I have decided to join the priesthood...... Forget science!!!!

The Church of Elvis calls......

Considering this sequence:


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Originally posted by midnight Target
Groupie
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Groper!

then:

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Originally posted by Syzygyone
Groper!
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dam straight!



Seems like you are all set fo the Catholic Church, eh?

[midnight Target]

As a former altar boy, I can honestly say that I was always treated with respect by the priests... no matter how much i squirmed..









ewwwwwwwwwww!

[Hortlund]

Originally posted by bounder
rather that than a scientific ignoramus.

And yet you manage to be both...

[Hortlund]

Originally posted by midnight Target
troller

Hello mr Pot...call for you from mr Kettle on line 2.

You better shape up MT, because you have been fishing with really stinky bait lately.

Truth be told I have a little bit of envy for people that find that level of grace and happiness in their lives,

So...MT...  you claim to be to retarded to understand what I meant when I said that that is the bottom line for all religion-bashers?

Fine, let me try to spell it out for you.

Jealousy.

[midnight Target]

Ohhhhhhhh! Well now its clear. Forgive my befuddledness Oh Swedenheimer. I didn't realize that you were unable to differentiate between my admiration for people who have found Grace, and my disdain for religions.

You must be very bitter to see something negative in that post I wrote. Sad.

[Hortlund]

Originally posted by midnight Target
You must be very bitter to see something negative in that post I wrote. Sad.

Lets read your posts in this thread and see if we find anything negative about religion shall we...

For the most part, I believe that religion has been the largest hindrance to the expansion of man's knowledge over recorded history.

Some have speculated that the burning of the Library of Alexandria (by the Christians) may have cost us thousands of years of stored knowledge.

(And MT...in your little crusade against Christians here, you should at least avoid making stuff up as you go. The library of Alexandria was gone in 20BC ...nice try trying to pin that on the  Christians tard)

While there are instances of Religious men doing stellar work in the sciences, it wasn't their religion that urged them as much as their ability to think beyond their religion.

Maybe for the same reason we stuck with drugs and alcohol. It feels good.
In other words, sticking with something doesn't necessarily equate to it being good for you.

Now religion is a whole other kettle of wax balls. If an entity (religion) draws an imaginary line in the sand and says.."past this point is unknowable... don't bother", then I feel the need to throw down.

Yeah, I dont know how anyone could take that as "something negative"...

[midnight Target]

(And MT...in your little crusade against Christians here, you should at least avoid making stuff up as you go. The library of Alexandria was gone in 20BC ...nice try trying to pin that on the Christians tard)

http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu/indextext/Alexandria.html

Early in the year A. D. 642, Alexandria surrendered to Amrou, the Islamic general leading the armies of Omar, Caliph of Baghdad. Long one of the most important cities of the ancient world and capital of Byzantine Egypt, Alexandria surrendered only after a long siege and attempts to rescue the city by the Byzantines. On the orders of Omar, Caliph of Baghdad, the entire collection of books (except for the works of Aristotle) stored at the Library of Alexandria were removed and used as fuel to heat water for the city's public baths.

This is not the first time the library was damaged or destroyed. Originally built to house the massive collection of books accumulated by the Ptolemaic rulers of Egypt, the library had been devastated by fire several times. During Julius Caesar's Alexandrian campaign in 47 B. C., Caesar set fire to ships in the port. The fire spread to the library, which was called the Museum at that time.

In A. D. 391, riots instigated by fanatical Christians damaged the collection heavily. During the years between disastrous events, the library collection had been gradually restored. In 641, the Caliph of Baghdad exhibited the same spirit of religious fanaticism in ordering Amrou to burn the books stored there. The loss of the library at Alexandria was a particularly grievous blow because the works of so many Roman scholars. literary geniuses, and historians were destroyed

Hey Steve....

your pee pee is still small.

And you still don't get it. It must be a language problem. I don't like religion. I Praise people who have found grace in their lives.. jealousy don't enter into it..... get a clue..... Tardling.

[Hortlund]

Originally posted by midnight Target
I don't like religion. I Praise people who have found grace in their lives.. jealousy don't enter into it..... get a clue..... Tardling.

You dont like religion, but you praise people who have found grace in their lives..through religion?

Jealousy is there alright...its the same basic concept as communism really... "either we all get an equal amount, or no one gets anything" now whether you understand that or not is basically up to you and your daily struggle with your braincells.

[midnight Target]

Originally posted by Hortlund
Jealousy is there alright...its the same basic concept as communism really... "either we all get an equal amount, or no one gets anything" now whether you understand that or not is basically up to you and your daily struggle with your braincells.

Having just the one must reduce that struggle to a minimum huh Stevie?

Convenient how you ignored the fact that you were wrong.. Mr. History

[Syzygyone]

Let's get back to the really good, troller, trollee, groupie thingamagig.  Must less anst that way!:rolleyes:

[Stang]

Ok, maybe I missed the response somwhere, but the great library of Alexandria was NOT burned by Christians.  The library burned in 47BC I'm pretty sure, and Rome was not Christian until Constantine came to power in Rome after the battle of the milvian bridge, which was in the early 4th century AD (350+years later).  The library burned as a result of the conflict between troops loyal to Cleopatra's brother and Caesar's legions in Alexandria, and  the library caught on fire by accident in the fighting.  Sorry, no bible thumpers involved there, just a tragic accident that deprived the world of its greatest single collection of knowlegde ever.  

Ok, sorry to hijack the thread, just had to clear that up; please go back to bashing each other