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As you probably know, "Halloween" is a contraction of "All Hallows Eve". "All Hallows" is the traditional name for the Catholic Church's "All Saints Day", celebrated November 1st. Halloween activites/costumes are designed to 'commemorate' (by non churchgoers) ...

Hitler was very much into religion as a motivator. His heroes included Martin Luther (among history's all time great Jew haters), and he was able to persuade Catholics in other countries to assist by rounding up Jews in advance. islam is aprox 1400 years old. At age 1400, Christianity was similarly ...

In doing some reading about the Middle East situation, I came across a document supposedly written by a British MI-6 agent - somewhat equivalent to the human intelligence portion of the CIA. The document alleged that during the Iran-Iraq war, Kuwait came to Iraq and promised to shoulder some of the ...

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Not surprised at all. Law enforcement has to justify their budgets and show "progress". So they lie.

I am sure stories like this are rampant.

Any experienced street cop in a city of any decent size will tell you that depsite all the effort, there is no progress made on the drug war. At best, they move the drugs and dealers, from one part of the city to another. Only teh Feds (DEA and the like) actually think they are making a difference i...

The guys' a typical ignorant fundie moron plain and simple. Now I may not be American but IIRC some of the "founding fathers" of the USA (Jefferson, Lincon, etc) who actually laid down the laws of the land were humanist atheists. Are you sure about that? As to Lincoln - Lincoln isn't a &q...

One's Basic Lifespan of USABLE years is only around 30 to begin with Traning and learning untill roughly Age Twenty, then you have between twenty one and fifty to get everything you want done to be done, With Modern Medicin one can extend this to 60 at best of Heathy vigerious life, but for the ava...

next of Kin, Well thank you for the Israel history lesson. So you can read and copy from a book, big shit! You seem to forget the ideology of zionism. If the problems in Israel are purely secular then why didn't the Israelis accept a chunk of Africa as their homeland? Thanks! Maybe if you read books...

Which is more important to you? where do you draw the line? For example, would you ratehr live only to 40, and accomplish all of your goals/dreams? Be president? Billionaire? King? Celebrity? Anything you want, starting now but only 20 more years of life. 30? 40? 50? Where is your cutoff? Or would y...

Islam at approx 1400 years old is similar to Christianity at the same age: Embraced by the poor, sued by the powerful to subjugate people and direct hate elsewhere, etc.

As long as there are unanswered questions, man will need religion.

Vympel, But that does not address the point that they will be fighting for their country in their own land against a foreign invader. Also, Saddam moved untrained Shi'a recruits on the front line and quickly moved the Republican Guard back to Baghdad- hardly any Republican Guards units were unlucky ...

I find you to be a hypocritical pice of shit. You're a Mod at EF, right? Who the fuck messed with Larz's (Wolfwood's) signature? You mods have maintained a veil of innocence, but now I see that you're ENCOURAGING the trolls. A lukewarm reception at best. Fine, I'm hypocritical. So are you. We're al...

Isreal has secular reasons for the fight yes but the Confilct is rooted in Religious reasons Or would you kindly explain any reason one would want to live in a place best described as Hell-Hole 2/3 of the Year surrounded by people who want you dead BUT as a Religious Motivation? The reasons for jew...

1: the Iraqi military will likely not be a pushover like they were in 1991. In material terms, they are much weaker than they were 11 years, but in morale terms; there's a big difference between fighting for a territory you've just annexed and fighting for your home. I disagree with your reasoning....

Mr Bean, Anyway the simple point its, It does not matter if "David" was a pot scrobber and did none of the things they say he did, The fact that they SAY he did them and APROVE of what he did is one of the greatest Evils in the Bible, Preformed and helped by their God. I'll agree. Christia...

History is not replete with examples of Jews initiating war on other religions. Jews are fierce, and some would say warlike, given the climate in the Middle east, but they are not fighting Muslims over which God to worship. Need I remind you of Levictus? Or Exdos? The acts of Moses and David? Clue ...

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:He's not exactly a ist. The only people he inspires are fundies who are already violent and bigoted. Still, he's annoying, and should be put somewhere where we don't have to listen to him.

Do you listen to him now? he's just a jackass, and in this country he has every right to be.

The Judeo-Christian-Muslim trinity is definitely the most dangerous. Monotheism has inherently been a 'war' religion. (In polytheism, you can respect other people's gods and incorporate them into your pantheon... in Monotheism they are all sinners being led astray by hellish demons.) It is perhaps ...

Most of Jesus' "miracles" were simple parlor tricks. Turning water into wine was probably just filling big clay jars with water and telling all the drunks it was wine, and they were too inebriated to know the difference. The clay jars still had some residue from the wine, so the water was...

The 'future effect' is not a matter of over-ambitious predictions, but of misplaced predictions. We don't have manned missions to Jupiter and flying cars because there is no point. We do have a system of telecommunications undreamed of in the 60s, 70s, 80s and 'E-commerce' is now not merely a possi...

Precisely. Christianity is the whore of all religions. The most fundamental tenets (virgin birth, savior, redemption) were taken from other religions. I wonder what the original Christianity was like... Was there an "original Christianty"? Jesus was a Jew. No Jew would accpet the idea of ...

Do you guys think the normal, average person understands proper logic and how to argue their side in a debate? I mean, we all make fun of the Creationists/Fundamentalists and diehard Trekkies here, but the majority of people I've argued with in a lot of other places seem just as god damn stupid. I'...

The Biblical Jesus was probably nothing like the real-life one, as the stories of him in the Bible were largely ripped off from Mithraism, which was in competition with Christianity for being the official religion of Rome. Mithraism was the religion of the soldiers, while Christianity was more incl...