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I see that, when I answered your 1st question...

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Can you show me one of their churches? Do they have tax-free status?


Do you believe evolution is a religion as well?

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yeah little Rappy stomping his little feet and screaming I win! I win! I win! I win! to anyone who cares ... too bad nobody does.

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Can you show me one of their churches? Do they have tax-free status?


Do you believe evolution is a religion as well?

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I answered. Want more ? No separate churches, but they do teach their religion in public schools and indoctrinate the masses over the t.v. and radio, with their govt sponsored b.s. about saving the planet.

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Again, I think you have a faulty definition of what "religion" is. Evolution is taught in public schools, too; is it a religion? What about math? Is that a religion? English literature? Biology?

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Malaysia cancels Erykah Badu show over 'Allah tattoos'

Malaysia has cancelled a concert by US singer Erykah Badu after a publicity photo showed her with the Arabic word for "Allah" tattooed on her upper body.

Officials say the photo of Ms Badu in The Star newspaper was "an insult to Islam". The paper has apologised.

The Grammy-award winner was due to perform on Wednesday in Kuala Lumpur and is said to be dismayed at the news.

Muslim-majority Malaysia has previously warned other international artists to dress modestly for their concerts.

Tattoos are forbidden in Islam and using the word "Allah" in a way deemed disrespectful offends many Muslims.

'Serious offence'

The photo of Ms Badu with several words in Arabic and Hebrew written on her body features prominently on her official fan site. It is not clear whether Ms Badu's body art is permanent.

The Culture, Arts and Heritage Ministry says it was not aware of the tattoos when it initially approved the concert, the BBC's Jennifer Pak in Kuala Lumpur reports. Some Muslims began protesting after The Star published the photo.

Now the culture ministry says it is justified in banning Ms Badu's concert because it breaches religious sensitivities and cultural values.

Information Minister Rais Yatim said a government committee had decided to cancel the show because Ms Badu's body art was "an insult to Islam and a very serious offence".

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Pakistan sectarian bus attack in Kohistan kills 18 Shia Muslims

Gunmen have killed at least 18 Shia Muslim bus passengers in a sectarian attack in the northern Pakistani district of Kohistan, officials say.

The attackers are reported to have checked the identity cards of all the passengers before removing the Shias and shooting them.

About 27 other passengers on the bus were spared.

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Rappy is unable to deal with facts he does not like.

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Religion = a belief system which encompasses both a moral code and supernatural elements (gods, demons etc). A moral code which does not encompass supernatural elements is "ethics".

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Religion = a belief system which encompasses both a moral code and supernatural elements (gods, demons etc). A moral code which does not encompass supernatural elements is "ethics".

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Wait, you don't think that the AGW crowd, with all its 'save the planet' and ' go green' propaganda isn't exhibiting a sort of moral code ? Or that projecting anthropomorphic characteristics, like " hurting " or "breathing" on to the good mother Earth, isn't a bit super natural ?

Huh.

And with AlGore, the high Priest himself, yammering behind a pulpit... hell, he's every bit a religious con man as L Ron Hubbard.

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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I do not think that initiating comparisons to people who sound like priests of religions will turn out well for someone who supports republican candidates in this election cycle.

--Anthony

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Sig - I don't buy into the idea that there is evidence FOR AGW in the first place, so why should I have to present evidence to disprove that which doesn't exist ?

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Sig - I don't buy into the idea that there is evidence FOR AGW in the first place, so why should I have to present evidence to disprove that which doesn't exist ?

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Chickening out again? You have ideas about AGW... warming exists, warming doesn't exist, warming exists but is not caused by humans. SURELY your idea must be based in SOME evidence. You have temperature charts, you have geological evidence, or something.

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A new study in Science finds that the oceans may be acidifying faster today from industrial emissions than they did during four major extinctions in the last 300 million years when carbon levels spiked naturally. The study is the first of its kind to survey the geologic record for evidence of ocean acidification over this vast time period.

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Combining data gathered on the ground with microwave satellite recordings and the output from a model of the ice sheet, he and graduate student Patrick Alexander found a near-record loss of snow and ice this year. The extensive melting continued even without last year's record highs.

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I keep waiting for the day that you will realize that strongly held opinion is not "truth", and that picking "a" fact out of a sea of contradictory facts is not being "factual".

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I also think that since he adheres so strongly to his truthiness - which is divorced from facts - his truthiness qualities as a belief - which is by definition irrational. That is his main function here - to spew his truthiness no matter how many facts contradict it.

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Originally posted by SignyM:

You cannot for the life of you divorce emotion from discussion, can you? It seems impossible for you to sit down and look at data w/o some sort of glamour attached to it by "the authorities". I keep trying, really I do, to show you where you go off track and how you might actually learn to think like a real boy, but you keep insisting on thinking like a sheep.

One day, will you learn to be NOT useless ?

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