Recent content by MidnightBlue

I think Bush is the ideal honorary president of the BSA.

Yep.

Well, really, he served two days in jail because he failed to appear in court, and the judge just gave him credit for that. It could have been a lot worse: Failure to license an animal carries a fine up to $1,000 and a possible 30 day jail sentence in Bismarck. I'm thinking whoever was...

Whoops, I assumed you were Eastern Orthodox. Kind of stupid of me, wasn't it? Well, most everything I said applies, except that none of your churches are state churches or quasi-state churches, so you avoid the temptations that come with that. The status of the Oriental Orthodox is...

But do you think it's good to teach people things that aren't true? I know you think those things are true, but many of us don't. While disagreeing about that, surely you can understand why we can't feel supportive about someone teaching things we believe to be false. Not every Christian...

The government is inefficient and corrupt. That doesn't mean is has to be that way, or that we ought to accept its being that way.

I've got a $10 bill here that says the government already takes enough of our money to provide decent health care, if they didn't blow it on pork-barrel projects, misbegotten military adventures, free handouts to certain corporate interests, and addressing its own failure to take care of...

Generally speaking, polygamous fundamentalists are among the very last sorts of people I'd like to see on the judge's bench. But I believe the commission's finding is in error. The state has no authority to regulate any kind of marriage other than civil marriage, and it's pretty clear the judge...

All of the above is directly contrary to the evidence and even to known, objective facts. What it comes down to the same basic argument creationists have always used against evolution: "I don't understand it; therefore, it's impossible."

Does it say that in the Bible? Anyway, it would have been good advice for Rush, don't you think? It kind of points up one of the problems with his kind of program. A more thoughtful person might have had some compassion for other people even before he experienced the same kind of problems they...

Almost all measures of health care outcomes tell the same story. "We ain't gonna have none of thet ther socialized medicine, no sir. Why, I hear tell that people up in Canada are droppin' like flies from things like tonsillitis and scraped knees, 'cause there's a seventeen-year waitin' list...

I haven't read it. You have to read Origen to read it, and for me a little bit of Origen goes a long way. But my understanding is that while Celsus considered Christianity a pack idiotic superstitions, he didn't actually question the existence of Christ as a historical person. No argument...

:D :D However, I don't know if you can parlay a purpose for joining CF into a purpose for life.

Your story isn't so very different from mine, except that instead of becoming an atheist, I became the sort of Christian whom fundamentalists consider to be practically an atheist. :) I'm not at all convinced that life has a purpose, or ought to, but I don't think that means it's pointless. If...

Not so very long ago, it seemed the Feast of the Nativity of Christ had become nothing but an orgy of rampant greed and crass commercialism. But now, as we walk downtown, there's a fresh energy, a new excitement, in the air, and we realize that the townspeople have set aside their buying and...