Comments on: Open Debate with Theists (Hooray)! http://atheists.org/blog/2005/10/24/open_debate_with_theists_hooray A Blog of Atheist Thought Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:23:32 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: sm http://atheists.org/blog/2005/10/24/open_debate_with_theists_hooray/comment-page-1#comment-12303 sm Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-12303 Agreed. You forgot to mention that religion happens to be a nifty social management tool in order to keep the population at bay. <br /> By inventing religion, governments are able to keep their population under control, while chiping away at freedoms. Witness the periods in time when religion was firmly in control of the government, it also stopped any progress and are considered "dark Ages". Agreed. You forgot to mention that religion happens to be a nifty social management tool in order to keep the population at bay.
By inventing religion, governments are able to keep their population under control, while chiping away at freedoms. Witness the periods in time when religion was firmly in control of the government, it also stopped any progress and are considered “dark Ages”.

]]> By: carl0632 http://atheists.org/blog/2005/10/24/open_debate_with_theists_hooray/comment-page-1#comment-12307 carl0632 Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-12307 Amen brother Dave!<br /> <br /> I dream of the day when the bibles are in the mythology section with Aesop's fables and the Arthurian legends. Amen brother Dave!

I dream of the day when the bibles are in the mythology section with Aesop’s fables and the Arthurian legends.

]]> By: rainbows4dinosaurs http://atheists.org/blog/2005/10/24/open_debate_with_theists_hooray/comment-page-1#comment-12308 rainbows4dinosaurs Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-12308 Well, at least the thread will fit the topic for once. <br /> <br /> Troll away!!!<br /> <br /> hahahahahha!!<br /> <br /> Well, at least the thread will fit the topic for once.

Troll away!!!

hahahahahha!!

]]> By: dsilverman http://atheists.org/blog/2005/10/24/open_debate_with_theists_hooray/comment-page-1#comment-12309 dsilverman Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-12309 my feelings exactly r4d! my feelings exactly r4d!

]]> By: Juliep123 http://atheists.org/blog/2005/10/24/open_debate_with_theists_hooray/comment-page-1#comment-12311 Juliep123 Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-12311 David,<br /> Have you seen the "cult test" yet? You can find it on http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-cult_q0.html#cq_guru_right . This is something I would recomend to every atheist to try out. Choose any religion and apply it to all 100 statements and see how well it scores! David,
Have you seen the “cult test” yet? You can find it on http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-cult_q0.html#cq_guru_right . This is something I would recomend to every atheist to try out. Choose any religion and apply it to all 100 statements and see how well it scores!

]]> By: carl0632 http://atheists.org/blog/2005/10/24/open_debate_with_theists_hooray/comment-page-1#comment-12312 carl0632 Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-12312 Hey, did you guys see this?<br /> <br /> http://www.focusonyourchild.com/develop/art1/A0000671.html<br /> <br /> This is the kind of crap they like to spread about us because we don't believe their myths. I don't know about you guys, but I love my dad dearly. Hey, did you guys see this?

http://www.focusonyourchild.com/develop/art1/A0000671.html

This is the kind of crap they like to spread about us because we don’t believe their myths. I don’t know about you guys, but I love my dad dearly.

]]> By: sm http://atheists.org/blog/2005/10/24/open_debate_with_theists_hooray/comment-page-1#comment-12316 sm Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-12316 Actually I would tend to agree with those studies as I have a bad relationship with "the father, spirit and holy ghost"<br /> Ever since being born! Actually I would tend to agree with those studies as I have a bad relationship with “the father, spirit and holy ghost”
Ever since being born!

]]> By: DocShehan http://atheists.org/blog/2005/10/24/open_debate_with_theists_hooray/comment-page-1#comment-12320 DocShehan Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-12320 Not much else to say. I suggest that everyone read Alan Dundes book "Holy Writ as Oral Writ" He does a great job of showing this a folklore, which it is. Check it out. Not much else to say. I suggest that everyone read Alan Dundes book “Holy Writ as Oral Writ” He does a great job of showing this a folklore, which it is. Check it out.

]]> By: karen http://atheists.org/blog/2005/10/24/open_debate_with_theists_hooray/comment-page-1#comment-12321 karen Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-12321 I adored my father. My grandfather was a horse of a different oder. I adored my father. My grandfather was a horse of a different oder.

]]> By: Peach63 http://atheists.org/blog/2005/10/24/open_debate_with_theists_hooray/comment-page-1#comment-12327 Peach63 Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-12327 Great thread topic. I remember watching some kind of mythology thing with my theist husband not long ago and he asked "why did people believe silly things like that?" I just stared at him and went "Duh! Why make fun of them when you believe in things that are just as silly?" He had never looked at it from that perspective before. <br /> <br /> Great thread topic. I remember watching some kind of mythology thing with my theist husband not long ago and he asked “why did people believe silly things like that?” I just stared at him and went “Duh! Why make fun of them when you believe in things that are just as silly?” He had never looked at it from that perspective before.

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