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		<title>Comment on Where the Hell have I Been?? by cin3@me.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The solution is get GOD out of the Bible , one likes Atheism I lke free thinking or Deism.

What the Hell is the difference ?

I believe that many people that tend to default to being and atheist or agnostic really are deists.

Deists generally take the same position as atheists except for the fact that there is not enough proof to disqualify the existence of a creationist force. Now, I am not talking about the idea of “god” that many theistic beliefs imply.

Deists, as agnostics function in such a way that the possible existence of a god or the lack of an existence of a god does not effect the life of an agnostic or deist any which way. But, science has not ruled out the possibility of a creationist force and actually the quest to find the “singularity” is the holy grail in science, which currently has taken us to the multi-verse theory and mathematical possibilities that can result in an infinite versions of our reality. Making anything possible.

Deists claim, we as a humanity do not know enough to prove or to disprove the existence of “god” and so deists claim the reserve to believe there is a higher force that can be described as god, but a god that is inline with science.

Many fear that what the multi-verse theory points to is that we are exponentially smaller then we previously thought and that our entire reality is much less eventful as we thought. We are not special, we can possibly be the result of a lab test (possibly accidental), similar to the same lab tests currently happening all over our world many times a day.

One thing is sure the more that we know, the less we know.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The solution is get GOD out of the Bible , one likes Atheism I lke free thinking or Deism.</p>
<p>What the Hell is the difference ?</p>
<p>I believe that many people that tend to default to being and atheist or agnostic really are deists.</p>
<p>Deists generally take the same position as atheists except for the fact that there is not enough proof to disqualify the existence of a creationist force. Now, I am not talking about the idea of “god” that many theistic beliefs imply.</p>
<p>Deists, as agnostics function in such a way that the possible existence of a god or the lack of an existence of a god does not effect the life of an agnostic or deist any which way. But, science has not ruled out the possibility of a creationist force and actually the quest to find the “singularity” is the holy grail in science, which currently has taken us to the multi-verse theory and mathematical possibilities that can result in an infinite versions of our reality. Making anything possible.</p>
<p>Deists claim, we as a humanity do not know enough to prove or to disprove the existence of “god” and so deists claim the reserve to believe there is a higher force that can be described as god, but a god that is inline with science.</p>
<p>Many fear that what the multi-verse theory points to is that we are exponentially smaller then we previously thought and that our entire reality is much less eventful as we thought. We are not special, we can possibly be the result of a lab test (possibly accidental), similar to the same lab tests currently happening all over our world many times a day.</p>
<p>One thing is sure the more that we know, the less we know.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Where the Hell have I Been?? by PinoyHeathen</title>
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		<dc:creator>PinoyHeathen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Glad to see you back!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Glad to see you back!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Numbers &#8211; Part 1 (Count &#8216;em up, Move &#8216;em out &#8211; Rawhide!) by Make a Solar Panel For Your Home</title>
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		<dc:creator>Make a Solar Panel For Your Home</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for sharing. There are not much websites have helpful source of informations like this one. Thanks again.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for sharing. There are not much websites have helpful source of informations like this one. Thanks again.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Where the Hell have I Been?? by cin3@me.com</title>
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		<dc:creator>cin3@me.com</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jews

The Wall Street Journal reports (April 22, 2002) that some colleges are recruiting Jewish students to give them higher status in terms of SAT scores. The Journal also reports that highest three groups in SATs are Unitarians, Jews, and Quakers.

I support Israel for the same reasons I support democratic Hindu India over Islamist Pakistan. Nor will I waste my time trying reason with irrational people obsessed with conspiracy theories. Jews don&#039;t seek converts, they don&#039;t rule the world or me, and I don&#039;t consider them or anyone else some special chosen anything. Jewish contributions to society are far out of proportion to their numbers. Their secret to success is the same for Unitarians, mainline Protestants, and Asian immigrants; hard work, education, and thrift.

Jews are not a race or even an ethnic group anymore than Catholics are, but a religion. A Jew is one that practices Judaism as defined by at least a belief in one G-d that reveres Moses and Torah. An atheist born of two Jewish parents is an atheist, and one who converts to Christianity is a Christian, not a Jew. Let&#039;s not get into these absurd &quot;neo-con&quot; and Freemasonry conspiracy theories used inter-changeably with Jews. There is no known organizations of neo-cons and is often a leftist slur. As far as Freemasonry, many of the founding ideals of America come from them. George Washington and 27 signers of the Constitution were Freemasons.

Christianity as a sect of Judaism?
Who killed Jesus?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jews</p>
<p>The Wall Street Journal reports (April 22, 2002) that some colleges are recruiting Jewish students to give them higher status in terms of SAT scores. The Journal also reports that highest three groups in SATs are Unitarians, Jews, and Quakers.</p>
<p>I support Israel for the same reasons I support democratic Hindu India over Islamist Pakistan. Nor will I waste my time trying reason with irrational people obsessed with conspiracy theories. Jews don&#8217;t seek converts, they don&#8217;t rule the world or me, and I don&#8217;t consider them or anyone else some special chosen anything. Jewish contributions to society are far out of proportion to their numbers. Their secret to success is the same for Unitarians, mainline Protestants, and Asian immigrants; hard work, education, and thrift.</p>
<p>Jews are not a race or even an ethnic group anymore than Catholics are, but a religion. A Jew is one that practices Judaism as defined by at least a belief in one G-d that reveres Moses and Torah. An atheist born of two Jewish parents is an atheist, and one who converts to Christianity is a Christian, not a Jew. Let&#8217;s not get into these absurd &#8220;neo-con&#8221; and Freemasonry conspiracy theories used inter-changeably with Jews. There is no known organizations of neo-cons and is often a leftist slur. As far as Freemasonry, many of the founding ideals of America come from them. George Washington and 27 signers of the Constitution were Freemasons.</p>
<p>Christianity as a sect of Judaism?<br />
Who killed Jesus?</p>
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		<title>Comment on Where the Hell have I Been?? by Mauro</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mauro</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you had read Crumb&#039;s illustrated Book of Genesis instead of the Bible it would have been a lot less painful. :-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you had read Crumb&#8217;s illustrated Book of Genesis instead of the Bible it would have been a lot less painful. <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Comment on Joshua  (The Day the Earth Stood Still) by AmusedReader</title>
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		<dc:creator>AmusedReader</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I just noticed your excellent summaries. Hasn&#039;t been a new post in a while...

Some idiot wrote an opinion article whining about people, whom she never read, whining. It mentioned you on page two, so of course your site was probably good.
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/may/17/opinion/oe-allen17

Here&#039;s hopin&#039; you&#039;ll keep the up the snark.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just noticed your excellent summaries. Hasn&#8217;t been a new post in a while&#8230;</p>
<p>Some idiot wrote an opinion article whining about people, whom she never read, whining. It mentioned you on page two, so of course your site was probably good.<br />
<a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2009/may/17/opinion/oe-allen17" rel="nofollow">http://articles.latimes.com/2009/may/17/opinion/oe-allen17</a></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s hopin&#8217; you&#8217;ll keep the up the snark.</p>
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		<title>Comment on There goes the neighborhood &#8211; I&#8217;m on the Atheist Blogroll! by GeorgeRic</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Agnostics are  puzzled: Where is God?  Why this confusion?  But also: Why belief in the occult?  How do the possessed levitate?  Why are there provable &#039;Miracles&#039;?    Abbott, writing &#039;Flatland&#039; explained contiguous geometric worlds to solve the difficulties.  Now &#039;Techie Worlds&#039;  examines impossible concepts like trinity, resurrection, judgment, souls and more, showing they are logical and reasonable in the context of contiguous geometrical worlds.  That is the way of science: to examine phenomena in the light of theory.
	Neither approach can be proved or dis-proved, but the advantages of life and nature weigh towards the Christian view.  &#039;Techie Worlds&#039; (available from www.amazon.com) will bring Moslems and Jews to the teachings of Jesus.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Agnostics are  puzzled: Where is God?  Why this confusion?  But also: Why belief in the occult?  How do the possessed levitate?  Why are there provable &#8216;Miracles&#8217;?    Abbott, writing &#8216;Flatland&#8217; explained contiguous geometric worlds to solve the difficulties.  Now &#8216;Techie Worlds&#8217;  examines impossible concepts like trinity, resurrection, judgment, souls and more, showing they are logical and reasonable in the context of contiguous geometrical worlds.  That is the way of science: to examine phenomena in the light of theory.<br />
	Neither approach can be proved or dis-proved, but the advantages of life and nature weigh towards the Christian view.  &#8216;Techie Worlds&#8217; (available from <a href="http://www.amazon.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com</a>) will bring Moslems and Jews to the teachings of Jesus.</p>
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		<title>Comment on My Reading List by marcelo</title>
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		<dc:creator>marcelo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi, can you recommend a list of top 5 books on the Bible - thorough, exhaustive, competent works. I have been a fundamentalist christian for 25 years and I am trying to once and for all come to the conclusion that the Bible is not the word of God. Thanks, there are so many things on the net, but I just cant read on screen.  (please email me directly if possible)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi, can you recommend a list of top 5 books on the Bible &#8211; thorough, exhaustive, competent works. I have been a fundamentalist christian for 25 years and I am trying to once and for all come to the conclusion that the Bible is not the word of God. Thanks, there are so many things on the net, but I just cant read on screen.  (please email me directly if possible)</p>
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		<title>Comment on Leviticus &#8211; Part 2 (Abounding in abominations) by Phil Stilwell</title>
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		<dc:creator>Phil Stilwell</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Jay,

You might also check out the account of my deconversion (http://philstilwell.com/deconversion) to determine whether I also had a &quot;weak heart&quot;.

You might note that a truly loving god could forgive offenses without a blood sacrifice just as the bible instructs humans to do. And do you also affirm your love to your wife while you beat her? Try comprehending a god that claims to love us while setting up a scheme that would assure we are infinitely tortured for a sin as finite as lying. Do you abandon a child that has misbehaved, even if they do not repent? God goes a step further and takes them to the basement for eternal torture. He has also required some such children to seek salvation through the acceptance of Jesus, yet somehow overlooked broadcasting that fact to parts of the world. Your god is a square triangle that deserves no further consideration.

So instead of projecting what you suppose in your ignorance to be the psychological deficiency of non-believers, how about providing some non-circular evidence for your extravagant unsubstantiated claims? 

Read the account of my deconversion carefully. Then consider whether weak-heartedness might actually be on the side of the theist who, out of fear and other emotions, needs the concept of god as a crutch in blatant abandonment of intellectual integrity.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Jay,</p>
<p>You might also check out the account of my deconversion (<a href="http://philstilwell.com/deconversion" rel="nofollow">http://philstilwell.com/deconversion</a>) to determine whether I also had a &#8220;weak heart&#8221;.</p>
<p>You might note that a truly loving god could forgive offenses without a blood sacrifice just as the bible instructs humans to do. And do you also affirm your love to your wife while you beat her? Try comprehending a god that claims to love us while setting up a scheme that would assure we are infinitely tortured for a sin as finite as lying. Do you abandon a child that has misbehaved, even if they do not repent? God goes a step further and takes them to the basement for eternal torture. He has also required some such children to seek salvation through the acceptance of Jesus, yet somehow overlooked broadcasting that fact to parts of the world. Your god is a square triangle that deserves no further consideration.</p>
<p>So instead of projecting what you suppose in your ignorance to be the psychological deficiency of non-believers, how about providing some non-circular evidence for your extravagant unsubstantiated claims? </p>
<p>Read the account of my deconversion carefully. Then consider whether weak-heartedness might actually be on the side of the theist who, out of fear and other emotions, needs the concept of god as a crutch in blatant abandonment of intellectual integrity.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Leviticus &#8211; Part 2 (Abounding in abominations) by Jay Noom</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jay Noom</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 21:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Homosexuality in regard to both men and women are the same abomination. It&#039;s made clear in the following prophecy regarding the latter days. ----- &quot;Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.&quot; - Romans 1:25-28 ----- Usually atheist have at least an appearance of love, denying Christ only in ignorance. But you sir, make it easy to see how wrong you are. You would actually condone blatant acts of adultery? Sleeping with another mans wife? ----- @ Mauro, your &quot;deconversion&quot; is the direct result of a weak heart. What did you expect? You don&#039;t accept Christ so that you can make Christ like you. You&#039;re to be conformed to His image, not the other way around. ----- &quot;Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.&quot; - Luke 8:12 ----- You choked the law, taking offense, rather than just accepting it&#039;s purpose, which is love. You&#039;re saved by grace, through faith, not by works of the law. The law isn&#039;t there as some book of regulations. It&#039;s there for your own benefit, that you might know sin, and keep yourself from it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Homosexuality in regard to both men and women are the same abomination. It&#8217;s made clear in the following prophecy regarding the latter days. &#8212;&#8211; &#8220;Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.&#8221; &#8211; Romans 1:25-28 &#8212;&#8211; Usually atheist have at least an appearance of love, denying Christ only in ignorance. But you sir, make it easy to see how wrong you are. You would actually condone blatant acts of adultery? Sleeping with another mans wife? &#8212;&#8211; @ Mauro, your &#8220;deconversion&#8221; is the direct result of a weak heart. What did you expect? You don&#8217;t accept Christ so that you can make Christ like you. You&#8217;re to be conformed to His image, not the other way around. &#8212;&#8211; &#8220;Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.&#8221; &#8211; Luke 8:12 &#8212;&#8211; You choked the law, taking offense, rather than just accepting it&#8217;s purpose, which is love. You&#8217;re saved by grace, through faith, not by works of the law. The law isn&#8217;t there as some book of regulations. It&#8217;s there for your own benefit, that you might know sin, and keep yourself from it.</p>
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