Reply to: Is there anything more weak-minded and meaningless than having "faith"?

[shaunbhoy]

I could take part of MF's brain, but then there would be a rattling sound everytime I shook my head.

You'd grow to like it. Would make a change from the eerie whistling noise that you currently get as the air rushes through the vacuum.

[MarillionFan]

I could take part of MF's brain, but then there would be a rattling sound everytime I shook my head.

Even louder than the one we all hear now?

It's not that I've got a small brain. It's just you've got a big head. A very big head.

[cailin maith]

I could take part of MF's brain, but then there would be a rattling sound everytime I shook my head.

Even louder than the one we all hear now?

[sasguru]

CUK be simpler if anyone having one set of views on issue A was legally obliged to hold certain views on issue B. I always agree with sas on religion and disagree on politics and then it's the other way round with MF. Can you two please undergo some brain part swap? It would be so much easier. Ta.

I could take part of MF's brain, but then there would be a rattling sound everytime I shook my head.

[xoggoth]

CUK be simpler if anyone having one set of views on issue A was legally obliged to hold certain views on issue B. I always agree with sas on religion and disagree on politics and then it's the other way round with MF. Can you two please undergo some brain part swap? It would be so much easier. Ta.

[sasguru]

Will you return to us as contractor69?

Not with the Chritian munter he's probably been forced to marry.

[Spacecadet]

Is The Book of Dave any better than that other Will Self thing where a bloke woke up to find he was a monkey? Crap.

You mean Great Apes? Fantastic book

[doodab]

Where in the bible is the bit that specifically forbids group sex?

see if you had gone to school assembly instead of reading the Beano you wouldn't ask questions as stupid as that

Well, I've read quite a bit of the bible too, and I don't remember anything that would prohibit group sex, although I can understand that wife swapping might be a no go.

Are we to conclude from your silence that you have decided I'm correct and wandered off to get some action before god changes his mind? Will you return to us as contractor69?

[doodab]

Is The Book of Dave any better than that other Will Self thing where a bloke woke up to find he was a monkey? Crap.

Slightly. But I doubt you will enjoy it if you are not a fan of his. I do prefer his short stories.

[xoggoth]

Is The Book of Dave any better than that other Will Self thing where a bloke woke up to find he was a monkey? Crap.

[xoggoth]

what a load of nonsense

You ARE Chico. He simply refuted without a shred of argument either. I suggest you look at how stories from more recent history evolve, the Arthur Legend perhaps. Take a fair smattering of fact and the subsequent tellers embellish such that over time it is hard to distinguish which is fact and which is fiction.

Writers have always tended to support fiction with invented and apparently credible histories or else embroidered in real facts in order to give the tale more credibility and depth. What would the film "The Mummy" be if the mummy simply popped up in the desert with no explanation of who he had been, how he came to be an evil creature etc?

Involve religion and you then get vested interest in showing the story to be true and reality is used selectively to "prove" it. How often is some other reference cited to show the truth of the Bible? It may well demonstrate the truth of that part of the Bible, it is very probable that much of the bible is based on real events, but nothing else proves any supernatural aspect of it. The cuckolded Pharaoh in "The Mummy" was a real character but does that make the rest of it true?

[minestrone]

In my opinion, if there IS a God, he would NOT want us blindly following self-appointed religious teachers.

Isn't it a sin to suppose the mind of God?

So you question the existance of god but then tell the board what God should do.

[Spacecadet]

Have you read The Book of Dave?

Yes.... not a bad book, although it takes a couple of chapters to get used to the language

[Platypus]

And why would he give us the capacity to think for oursleves and then expect us to blindly follow what religious teachers tell us?

In my opinion, if there IS a God, he would NOT want us blindly following self-appointed religious teachers.

Isn't it a sin to suppose the mind of God?

[minestrone]

"Is there anything more weak-minded and meaningless than having "faith"?."

I just hope Ponting can start playing cricket.