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MidnightCoder « Fri Sep 03, 2010 2:25 am » I think there's several threads in this vein. I agree with you though. Back to the mobile thing for just a sec, there's a topic and poll here: topic9262.html which explain it better.
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Genocide « Fri Sep 03, 2010 2:21 am » Yey for fastness and mobile activity! Now, Jim. I can call you Jim, roight? :] Okay, I read "Such hate for a religion of love..." and I just about had a cornea. My mother is Christian and is quite possibly the most hateful Christian in the entire world...well her and many others I have met. I agree with Chris, I don't think atheists hate Christians. They could possibly dislike Christianity with a passion, but not the people as a whole themselves. Jim, while I don't think I quite understand your half atheist/Christian thing going on, I do identify in which: I wish I sometimes was Christian, because the Christian friends I have put so much faith into God and Jesus, and I'm left pondering my own beliefs which are so different from theirs. I don't know what it's like for others, but at home, away from uni, I sometimes feel a little left out because the church plays such a huge roll in the community. They'll talk about prayer, and faith, and trust.... but then I go and read a few passages from the Bible and realize I would never get along with "Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the Law says. If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church." Yes, I'm aware this is an outdated passage, but it's in there, and that plus my actual lack in faith in the religion, has me where I am today. (that was long and annoying, is there a thread for this...?)
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MidnightCoder « Fri Sep 03, 2010 2:02 am » Mobile Device users: We now have a full mobile style added to the site which will cut load times and bandwidth usage a LOT. You can switch the two styles back and forth easily with the new dropdown box at the top left of your screen. The site will remember which one you're using, so be sure to use the dropdown again when you want to switch back.
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Chris OConnor « Fri Sep 03, 2010 1:07 am » You guys will notice posting is much faster now. David made it so after you submit your post you automatically are brought back to the post and you don't have to deal with that annoying extra screen that tells you that you will be redircted.
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Chris OConnor « Thu Sep 02, 2010 11:43 pm » Yes, but they don't believe in things without evidence.
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Jim Watters « Thu Sep 02, 2010 11:28 pm » It is the job of Theoretical Particle Physicists to conjecture and hypothesize usually the most strangest ideas\concepts to attempt fitting another piece of the Universe's puzzle together.
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Chris OConnor « Thu Sep 02, 2010 11:25 pm » Most scientists are agnostic atheists. They don't know one way or the other, and as a result of heir lack of knowledge, they don't believe. It is rational to not believe in things without knowledge of them.
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Jim Watters « Thu Sep 02, 2010 11:21 pm » That would be an agnostic view.
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Jim Watters « Thu Sep 02, 2010 11:20 pm » Perhaps there is a super-intelligent "being" of some sort that caused and directed the Big Bang, setting up all the fundamental constants so that carbon-based life, etc. was possible. Yet we are not aware of this "being".
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Jim Watters « Thu Sep 02, 2010 11:10 pm » I'm still working out daily and eating heathly foods. And you know something that is giving me a thicker skin to speak my mind.
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Chris OConnor « Thu Sep 02, 2010 11:07 pm » No need to refrain from discussing it. We all enjoy discussing it. You just have to have thick skin if you do decide to discuss it.
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Jim Watters « Thu Sep 02, 2010 10:48 pm » Good. I promise to refrain from talking about Christianity as I get the point from you and President Camacho where you stand and I can understand it myself.
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Chris OConnor « Thu Sep 02, 2010 10:43 pm » Islam is a larger problem than Christianity is right now. I agree with this.
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Jim Watters « Thu Sep 02, 2010 10:41 pm » BTW: I wasn't talking about you hating religious people. On my forum community some forums send "promos" every day assaulting and insulting Christians. After years of this I get angry of those picking on Christians instead of discussing how evil radical Islam is.
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Jim Watters « Thu Sep 02, 2010 10:30 pm » Sorry Chris to have caused the disturbance in the BookTalk.org force that surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together.
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Chris OConnor « Thu Sep 02, 2010 10:10 pm » We just installed over 700 new games so the total is over 1,500 now! Enjoy. 
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Saffron « Thu Sep 02, 2010 9:58 pm » What could be better than that?!
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Saffron « Thu Sep 02, 2010 9:57 pm » Good evening! I just spent a very nice evening fireside drinking a glass of wine.
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Chris OConnor « Thu Sep 02, 2010 8:39 pm » Jim, that simply isn't true. I'm an atheist and to some people a militant atheist. But I don't hate Christians. I hate the way Christians, Muslims, Wiccans, Hindus, and Buddhists believe in imaginary things and think rational people should respect this. I don't hate the ignorant people but I find the brainwashing process disgusting. I more feel sorry for the victims than feel hatred or even anger towards them.
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Jim Watters « Thu Sep 02, 2010 8:17 pm » Jeez, atheists hate Christians wherever I go. Such hate for a religion of love. Just except that some people are religious and talk about evolution and the big bang. Maybe discuss how Islamic terrorists are the ones who to be discussed and bad mouthed for wanting to KILL you.
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President Camacho « Thu Sep 02, 2010 7:47 pm » you don't need mickey mouse to be a good person. You are what you WORK to be.
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President Camacho « Thu Sep 02, 2010 7:46 pm » heaven is now, not when you cease to be. When you cease to be it's over. You are over. Whatever you once were is only a memory in the people's lives you touched.
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