gods

I am working my way through a book by Micheal Shermer (the Science of Good and Evil) and came across an apparent miss in discussing the use for the phrase 'God's will'. While I assume on this list there is no need to go over the illogic involved in invoking God's will. However I believe...

Interesting blog with link to the American Family Association webpage. http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/09/lead-religious-right-group-promotes.html

What follows is a description of my God in comparison to others... followed by an obvious conclusion. Not interested? Well you should be. Why? Because you will never ever find a description of 'God' which surpasses this description... and you will not find a more compelling reason to believe in...

... how can we trust our physicians to practice medicine ethically? After all, the classical Hippocratic Oath presupposes the existence of "Apollo Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia and all the gods and goddesses": http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/doctors/oath_classical.html

The Sir David Attenborough quote in Swift reminded me of one of my favorite Monty Python songs, "All Things Dull and Ugly". I'll just copy the last verse: All things scabbed and ulcerous All pox both great and small Putrid, foul and gangrenous The Lord God made them all.

Terry Pratchett in 'Small Gods' mentioned that one priest required 40 people to support his [unproductive] activity. Pratchett is not one to pull numbers out of thin-air, there is usually something he bases his stories on. I know it's a million-to-one chance he is right, but we all know...

I've heard the view that all Gods are in fact representations or manifestations of the true God (which is usually the Christian God or similar). Is there a name for this view? I think the view is usually justified by claiming that this God is therefore worshipped by all cultures so exists. How...

We've all heard fundies say that family values have disappeared in the world (and especially America), but where do they get their family value gauge? The Bible of course! Seems they've never really read the Bible beyond the "safe passages" given them in Bible study, otherwise they might see...

Children Buried Alive in India Sure. You betchya.

I just got this in my email today--it had been stripped of any original source, so if anyone knows whom I should be crediting for this, please speak up. I post it here rather than in Humor because I found it a very non-threatening way to (via spam) remind people that their own particular god is...

Atheists try and point out contradictions in God's nature. However, their base is flawed because they are relying on their limited human reasoning to understand and comprehend the nature of an OMNIPOTENT being. Can God make square triangles? YES! He's omnipotent, He can do anything. Can God...

I was wondering if anyone here could actually think of a good reason for God to flood the earth instead of just killing everyone that he didn't like. It seems like it would have been much easier and have infinitely less clean up. What would the flood benefits be?

http://www.periodistadigital.com/object.php?o=35524 I guess it took 20 years for 1984 to arrive but if the above plan is implemented, what's to stop the penatgon from using the technology for more than tracking the enemy of the moment? PS: Peter should consider changing his name.

So, being bored with the level of opposition and idiocy from the most vocal Christian posters, and wishing to extend his own knowledge and security in the fact that the Bible is indeed inconsistent, Gestahl set out to play God's advocate on the JREF religions forum (not that YHVH needs his...

So, at least as far as the Old Testiment, there's lots of other gods running about besides Iove... er... Yahweh ('cause that couldn't possibly be syncretism), and then he kills them all off, or something. While this brutal act of theocide is not particularly detailed in the scripture, we can...

I find it very funny that whenever a hurricane does not hit Florida (for example), resident loudmouthed evengelists like Pat Robertson like to take credit, insisting that, without doubt, the hurricane's course was altered because God answered their all-powerful prayers. Of course, when a...

Ever wonder why India has an apalling safety record? Read more about it Argh!!! Yep, don't have to take responsibility for carelessness!

Okay, I've been talking to this jehova girl (she's nice and all), just to get some information in order to really throw in some good questions. She keeps getting me with all these questions that throw me off, and she is loving every minute of it. Well, I don't mind so much, it will help me the...

1: With God all things are possible. 2: God would have to be with God. 3: Therefore God is possible. SEE! I put it in numbered steps! I proved it!

http://homeopathyforums.hpathy.com//forum_posts.asp?TID=1355&TPN=2 Just read our smug little friend Homeoskeptic/NaturalHealth proudly defending a fellow homeopath presiding over someone potentially going blind.

1) Every truth leads to another one. Otherwise, truth's limit would be a non-truth, in which truth is going to find its beginning and its end. In that case, false propositions would proceed to true ones, and true ones would generate false ones as well. 2) Thus, every truth, whatever it may be...

I remember these...

having generated a little bit of discussion from the alst comparison of gods, dogs and humans.... While a dodg may or may not have evidence that humans exist ;) the idea that we are god's pets still has some use as an anology especialy in light of thinking how badly we mispercieve god's...

http://www.psychjournal.com/interviews/Vol_3_03_Newberg_1.htm I think this interview hits on several different interesting discussion topics, but the first one that really hits me is: Do you think that meditation and/or religious practice (aside from being conned out of your money & time by...

I received an e-mail from my parents (still devoutly christians and extremely conservative) regarding the "keep god in the pledge and on our money" thing. It said: Aside from being incredibly offensive, it got me thinking: Is there a survey out there that breaks down that 86%? What...

I'm not sure whether I should post this under Humor, but here it goes: God's name in orbits of electrons GOD'S SIGNS IN PHYSICS Lots of other indisputable proofs can be found in the main page :D

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=4&u=/ap/20031129/ap_on_re_us/minister_s_mess

How many gods does Hinduism have?

To say that God or the gods do not exist requires one to define one's terms. I do not believe in any religion that I know about, nor any claimed God or god. But what precisely do I claim not to believe in? OK, so the believers are slippery about what exactly they believe, what am I denying...

I took a few minutes to compile the names of a few of the deities that people have believed in, and that people still do believe in... I definitely missed LOTS of them. Only about 1400 of them here. Some of them are probably repeats and/or synonyms for the same ones, too. Any obviously...