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    Migrants are being bused to Liberal cities. Is this wrong?

    Since there is something called the National Governors Association (a sort of board of state governors), this is a problem that organization should be addressing! The governors of border states should be leaning on this Association as a civil way to ask for assistance in handling the numbers...
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    Featured How should we handle claims involving the supernatural?

    Science gives us an objective set of verifiable truths. The lesser standard that you are suggesting is subjective or merely opinion, based on one's personal experience and/or standard. I don't think a universal standard can be applied here. I agree we should be open to new experiences, but we...
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    Atheism can not provide lasting happiness

    I agree with that, except the source of nature is most likely not attributed to a god -- at least not the Christian god. We have a small but comfortable house, just one car (a hybrid but not luxurious), and live within our retirement income. My wife has this motto hanging on her office's wall...
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    Does the Old Testament make any reference to the Trinity?

    In reading these posts I am reminded of what someone (Anatole France?) once said about theology: "That science which treats the unknowable with infinitesimal exactitude."
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    Does the Bible say that the unborn are human?

    It is very, very unlikely that Satan or God exists. Biblical accounts are really ancient prose meant to influence otherwise uneducated people at the dawn of writing. Interestingly, Biblical citations are rarely if ever allowable in a U.S. court of law.
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    Atheism can not provide lasting happiness

    PSHAW !! I've been an Atheist for 65-years and those years have been the happiest of my life. Before that, I wrestled with religion, sang in the church choir, read the Bible through, experienced unnecessary guilt, etc. My second wife of 23-years is an Atheist, and we are still very happy...
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    Are racial dating preferences a form of racism?

    Very good, Tracy! As far as racial criticism is concerned, I stand by the adage: 'Live, and let live.' That goes for same sex marriage and other LBG issues also.
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    Another School shooting at a Texas elementary school

    Your cited FOX NEWS poll is a good start but it will never happen. NRA bribed Republicants will never vote it in!
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    Another School shooting at a Texas elementary school

    That is good that you don't presume. Sleep well in your citadel.
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    Another School shooting at a Texas elementary school

    From AB's post #5 I hope you understand that those three suggestions I listed were tongue-in-cheek. I was trying to hi-lite the absurdity of this argument. I was trained as an engineer -- engineers solve technical problems for a livelihood; this is as much a technical problem as it is...
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    Another School shooting at a Texas elementary school

    No. Automatic and semi-automatic rifles should be banned, but here's a suggestion that I'm sure the NRA would highly approve: 1. If parents have but one child, the child should be home-schooled! 2. If parents have more than one child, they should send each child to a different school. That...
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    Maybe Agnosticism is the Purest Religion

    Hi Bill, There is a reason that you refer to the God Helmet in the past tense. The study's results have yet to be replicated by independent entities (scientific press - Nature, academics and documentarists). Those trying to replicate Persinger's experiments say that "... pschological...
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    Should abortions be allowed?

    AB wrote in post #2: In general, I can say that I would want science informing me on this issue. I know politically, the issue is framed as being it's the woman's body so it should be her choice. But if she's carrying a sentient human, then that's where I draw the line. It is no longer just the...
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    Maybe Agnosticism is the Purest Religion

    Bill writes: When neural emf excites the temporal lobe, it can generate a feeling of empathy. And if you are on your own, the only thing to empathize with is an invisible super being. Sources of neural emf include drugs, excitement, randomness, illness and, to complete the list, supernatural...
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    Should the Supreme Court overturn abortion rights?

    A George W. Bush appointee who joined the court in 2006, Alito argues that the 1973 abortion rights ruling was an ill-conceived and deeply flawed decision that invented a right mentioned nowhere in the Constitution and unwisely sought to wrench the contentious issue away from the political...
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    Should abortions be allowed?

    As an Atheist, I lump human life in with all the rest of life on this planet -- and it is precious. And that's the way the courts and legislators in a secular country should view it -- their decisions and attitudes should be divorced from mish-mashed ecclesiastic concerns. We are not an...
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    Is the problem of evil enough to convince you that a God does not exist?

    AB says: There is a lot of evil in the world. Some might argue that some might deserve whatever bad that happens to them, but then there are good people who suffer evil, as well. Many would look at good people suffering as being senseless evil. Why isn't this problem of evil enough to convince...
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    Maybe Agnosticism is the Purest Religion

    Honest-ism said (in post #5): Well, I've been off looking at religions, looking for one I could follow, and keep hitting brick walls. They all (the major ones anyway) say something that makes me think they haven't really been talking to God. So I guess it's back to agnosticism for me. Darn it...
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    What are the causes of political extremism?

    As an agnostic, you are unfairly aloof to the hidebound crawling or bombastic trajectories of the indoctrinated. To try to understand them is like back-pedaling into a swamp.
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    The Day the World STood still - Russia vs the United States

    Negotiations seem to be going nowhere. How can anyone negotiate with a monster like Putin? He's painted himself into a corner and now Russia is seen in all its callousness. The people there are so brainwashed they believe him and not the rest of the world -- indeed, it should be a hint to...