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Oh yea, I'm dead serious. I come from the USA originally and I can tell you it is another world there sexually. There is a mystification around sex which results in young people not being spoken to frankly about it. This leads to way more irresponsible behavior than in Germany. Although, I...

That is kind of messed up if you think about it. He should have been convicted of the bribe, not the tax evasion. What is bribery; earned income, dividends, gambling winnings, capital gains? I'm sure they were just trying to get him on something and probably didn't have enough to make the...

Brother, I have to agree with you there. When I moved here 14 years ago there were more decent shows on, now everything is either Bauern sucht Frau or other reality shows, often portraying a woman as either an object to be bartered for or as an incomplete person until she finds a man to...

Ah ja, Dieters Wuergelachen...

Na... wieso nicht? Das ist ein Muss bei DSDS.

Wow, again with the wonderfully pointed and insightful questions. Something tells me you've done this before. I have at many times changed my ideological stance on the transcendental, just as I change my opinions on things like politics, society, kinship. I see opinion and belief...

First, I would like to say thank you for this thread. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I find your questions delightful and strangely intriguing. As to my presence in these boards in particular, I can say that as a new christian in 2004 I was looking for on-line fellowship and found...

Somehow this seems to point to an idea that consciousness could be a property of matter rather than a state. There is no reason to believe that matter as a liquid, solid, plasma, whatever would not all equally be able to store information and also access it as a self-contained, indivisible...

Holy smokes. Please ignore my last post above. We have no platform for understanding one another if you think these are purely Christian values. Some of them aren't even Christian at all. Just because some Christians may share them doesn't make them a part of Christian doctrine or morality...

I do not claim secularists alone value individual rights. In fact I'm sure there are plenty of secularists who do not really value them. The Christian worldview you mention which values individual dignity does seem to really exist in many Christians just as you mention it, but to me it seems...

What aspect of secularism specificaly betrays the dignity of the individual? Further, would Christian values not betray individual dignity? The 10 commandments of the OT (both Exodus and Deuteronomy sets) state in pretty specific terms that the individual must worship only the god of Abraham...

Hey, now! A man having the flu is nothing to sneeze at. All male persons should have to get vaccinated, there just aren't enough warm beds and bowls of soup to handle us all. Seriously, though: in the military we all got vaccinated and in law enforcement we do as well. Which is how it...

I did read it all and it was mostly on topic, I was referring to myself being off-topic. Cutting and pasting snippets of a conversation has the unfortunate side effect of context reduction; I assure you that was not my intent. If you read any of my other posts you will see that I also...

You are kidding, of course. Notwithstanding the idea of "progress" being subjective, it has and can only happen through secular morality. The examples you offer express that better than any I could have thought of. No progress occurs solely from within such rigidly religious systems as...

Just curious, why is that? My lack of education or my combat experience or...?

"Good" as I see it is a purely human construct which is subjective, malleable and ultimately unreliable as a descriptive adjective. But I'm a high school drop-out, what do I know? I think you are exactly right, though, about ascribing these words like loving, good, etc. to a god that is...

Thank you for this thread. I don't think this is merely a flip-side to the problem of evil, I think it is one of myriad sides that form a multi-faceted gem of reason, logic, and compassion. Your observation is one among many that any person with a shred of intellectual integrity must take...

If you are going where it looks like you are going with this, just don't. The god of Abraham has decided not to heal billions and billions of people. Paradoxum implied that there may be a comparatively small part of the population she would not heal; and for all we know she could mean people...

I get it, you're being cheeky and cute. But this really is a non-argument as B does not necessarily follow from A and hence C is not applicable. And that's if one assumes the thesis is valid. Funny, though.

Your edit notwithstanding, you did say HAVE TO. So... the Abrahamic mono-theistic religions are possibly the most immoral today. Even if there are religions which boast a stronger immorality, these are the ones which seem to me to be the farthest reaching at the moment. Any religion which...