Religion

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Why should the posts about intelligence be deleted? If a national survey was taken of SAT scores cross-referenced with religious beliefs I believe it would be validated.

 

BTW, and it probably will be asked.....I suck at tests. I only got 1380.

 

Hmmm

 

Oh yeah....and belly and nose piercings.

 

Are you tipsy again?

 

Yup. But somebody deleted a post.

 

Sho nuff...you behave yourself 'round here girl.

 

Poor job

When someone calls my faith blind and lacking reason, that is a shot:

"My form of evangelism. Spreading the word of reason over blind faith."

When someone says people turn away from religion because they are getting smarter, that is a shot:

"They are just getting smarter. They realize all that organized religion stuff is on par with the easter bunny and santa claus."

And its not going to end, look at last night:

"Why should the posts about intelligence be deleted? If a national survey was taken of SAT scores cross-referenced with religious beliefs I believe it would be validated."

You want to play the moderator game and delete posts? Have an even hand. You want to coddle some? Coddle all.

 

I gave her the benefit of the doubt. I should think that being a theology student, you'd be in favor of "spreading the word of reason over blind faith". Besides, she wasn't singling out any one particular faith. The reason she started the thread was that she didn't understand how religion could coincide with an intelligent society. The history of religious cultures suggests a tendency to explain the unknown with religion itself. Now that many of those questions have been answered by science, I believe her question was directed to whether or not religion still had value. I did not see it as a shot. I saw it as a legitimate question borne from a misunderstanding of what religion really is.

It's not a shot, it's a theory. If she perceives religion is mainly something to fill in the blanks of the unknown, then as humanity becomes more intelligent, it would follow that an increasing number of people would abandon religion. And people all over the world are abandoning it. I'll acknowledge that, even if I disagree with her about the reason.

She didn't say it was fact, she said "I believe". Anyone is free to disagree with her and debate her on that theory.

I don't want to play games, and I'd rather not have to delete posts. I thought I was pretty clear on that in the "NO SNIPING" thread. I want this to be a respectful forum for people to share their thoughts and ideas without being ridiculed for it, and so does Larry.

Clearly you're sensitive to her position because of past exchanges. I stated in the sniping thread that everyone comes in here with a clean slate. I'm not here to settle old scores or to right old wrongs. If that's what you want, I'm sorry -- I can't help you.

Sly, I want you to be a part of this forum. Your education far surpasses mine, and I think you bring a lot to the table. If you can get past your intolerance for Miss tery, I'd love to have you join in. If not, perhaps it would be better if you didn't.

BTW, she also apologized for offending anyone in this thread. Have you done the same?

 

Move this thread back to R&R if you are not willing to make it conform to your own rules.

If you are willing to stand by and allow someone to call anyone who is religious stupid then you are not being fair and perhaps you shouldn't be moderator of this forum.

I can parse words all day long like MT does and say it is merely theory all I want is an even playing field and obviously you aren't willing to provide that.

Please post anything remaining in this forum for which you think I need to apologize and I will judge each based on its merits.