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Me neither, but not for the reason you gave. In fact, if you go into iTunes preferences, you can switching the encoding format from AAC to MP3, and then the files that are made from the music on your CDs are plain old regular MP3's which you can share in any way you like. I think iTunes is a...

Thanks for the interesting replies. I'm leaving. :-(

Dang atheists. I wish they'd back off.

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Exploitation of others is immoral. Some--probably not all--modeling involves exploitation of girls and women (boys and men too, I'm sure, though to a smaller extent I would suspect). The practice of sexualizng girls and women (and why not: boys and men too) in order to market products may be...

Might it be because the Bible says nothing about reincarnation for us normal folk? If you're a Christian, you get your dogma from the Bible. If you believe in some kind of reincarnation for yourself, you're taking dogma from somewhere other than the Bible. I gather this sort of out-of-the-box...

I think that human beings are intrinsically disposed to feel awe and mystery, and that we are further disposed to channel these feelings into various pursuits of spiritual practice. I think this disposition has produced the thousands of religions and spiritual practices we see today and across...

My perspective as an atheist may have little to offer, but I will say that if you define God as "an all-pervasive phenomenon, existing throughout the cosmos", than I find it this definition vague enough to accept a claim that such a thing exists. Since I refer to myself as an atheist, I guess I...

Puts him in a tough spot. Pander to the base in your home state by using a blatant fallacy (false choice it seems to me), and simultaneously do your best to not appear a complete dolt to the thinking electorate. Good luck with that, Sam.

Awesome. Thanks!

Just picked up Madden 2001 for $1.50 used. And it's almost perfect for me and my 9 year old. Not so complex that we can't play it, supports 4 (probably more) players at once. Any suggestions for equivalent baseball and basketball games? Want good graphics and sound, lots of action. Home runs...

Forgive me, I responded to your post without answering your direct question. My own opinion is that the Bible was written by men, which explains (to me) the barbarism, inconsistency and outright self-contradiction I see throughout its pages.

The Bible is rife with passages I find shocking, and CF is rife with threads where believers and unbelievers yammer at each other about the significance of these passages. I bet there are "Christian only" areas in CF too where this is debated. So I must ask: nommo, what point are you trying to...

You take me for quite a cynic! Rather than repeat my previous points, I'll let this go; please do not take my silence on your suggestions as assent. I'm no Bible scholar, but the first time I scanned through it I was stunned by nearly every random passage I came upon. How's 2 Kings 2:23-24...

Around once a year (this is one of those times) I'm reminded of a brilliant piece in The Onion, published after 9/11/2001. It's called "God Angrily Clarifies 'Don't Kill' Rule" (link contains some explicit language). Every time I read this, it brings tears to my eyes. In fact, the whole...

Hi Evergreen48-- Indeed, the fact that Sunni and Shia, Catholic and Protestant all believe that there is a God, amplifies my point. In wringing my hands about our collective earthly future, I'm not principally concerned with the division between atheists and theists; it's my perception that...

I see. Thank you for your thoughtful response. I just want to point out an area or two where we see things quite differently. I didn't mention God, I just mentioned faith in general. This is important to me because of what you said next: If only God clearly and unambiguously commanded all of...

I'm willing to allow for the possibility that a person could have a dedication to science that could be seen as religious. For this to be true, my opinion is that the person would have to have an inadequate and incomplete understanding of what science actually is. Arunma? Chilnoth? Fair?

Until somewhat recently (within the last decade I believe), it was thought that a "Big Crunch" was in our future; the hypothesis was that after a long while, the expansion of the universe would cease, followed by constriction, followed by (maybe, who knows) another Big Bang. However, it is now...

I am weary of long back and forth conversations, for they tend not to be very illuminating lately. I deny confining you to any position, I deny that I made any error in grouping God with imaginary tangible things (God and they either exist in some sense or they do not; I gave you nothing to...