Religion

I saw something about a scientific explanation for the parting of the Red Sea. Had something to do with tides and an earthquake or something.....

OH. MY. GOSH. Atheists are desparate to prove that there is a God.

And what do y'all think about this Pledge of Allegiance business?

I think: "give me the text first"

I pledge allegiance to the flag
Of the United States of America
And to the republic for which it stands
One nation under God indivisable
With liberty and justice for all

Some guy got pissed because his son had to say that in school when he wasn't Christian or any religion that worshipped god. The judge gave the order to have "under God" removed from the Pledge. Very stupid, and I know a Muslim, a Mormon, and a Jewish person that don't give a crap about what they say in the pledge, and don't care if they say "under God" or not. 🙄

Originally posted by Ushgarak
I question the value of trying to find a scientific explanation for something like that. As I think I have said before, as these are things we hardly have great hostoric or archaelogical evidence about, trying to rationalise them is rather pointless. In the end, either you have faith or you don't but going around the Boible trying to prove if things in it could or could not have happened rather misses the point.

Actually, there is evidence of major flooding, Ush. Archaeological evidence. They found huge sediment layers of flooding in ancient cities like Eridu and Uruk (ancient Sumerian cities, modern day Iraq) and there is clear evidence that the Black Sea was not always a sea. They found evidence of habition on the bottom. Of course this doesn't PROVE there was a global flooding. But the flooding of major inhabited areas and major cities AND the worldwide known myths of a big flood do tend to suggest at least SOMETHING went on there with huge floodings. Not just small annual ones like we have these days in Bangladesh for instance.

That pledge thing pisses me off. So when the kid cited the pledge, he could have just stayed silent for those two words. Whats the big deal ? His father just wanted some publicity as far as I'm concerned.

Actually I feel the other way about it...I feel like it was stuck in there in the 50's for no good reason other than McCarthy era mentality and that if it wasn't originally written that way then it's just a ploy for the sake of popularity. I think the founding father's idea of seperation of church and state was a good one and I'd like to see us uphold it.

Don't get me wrong..I think God(s) has a place in everyone's life but I don't think that goverment is the right forum for it.

What about having "in God we trust" on our money ?

It's not supposed to be there either...but I'm not an idiot. I'm not going say "but we have to get rid of the money" because that would cost a crap load and I don't want to pay a bunch of taxes for it. Maybe one day it'll be redesigned without the "In God we trust"...maybe not.

God and money.... bad match.

Yeah I was thinking that too... it's kind of an insult to God that we stick it on something that brings on such greed and corruption.

Originally posted by Dim
I'm not going say "but we have to get rid of the money" because that would cost a crap load

I'm agree with Dim, God does not have any place in public school or on our money. Seperation of church and state!

How would you feel if the pledge went: and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under Buddah, indivisible with liberty and...........?

I agree - very blasphemous to be putting God's name on money...the root of all evil.

I would if you follow the ways of Buddah, it's not a religion

Originally posted by LaurenE147

OH. MY. GOSH. Atheists are desparate to prove that there is a God.

there are desperate atheists and there are certainly desperate religous people. disliking a larger group of people because they do or do not believe in a god is idiotic.

No it's not.
I don't like Satanists, does that make me idiotic? 😛

no, you already are

let's have a look at what I said shall we?

quote: ''because they do or do not believe in a god'' . you dont dislike satanists because they don't believe on god, you dislike them because they're jerks and because they dont tolerate religion.

I love you assface 🙂

assface being aimed at Yers

I dont like Stanists cause of their beliefs.