Apr 11 2011: I would never want to shut it down, and more than shutting down an astrologist or fortune teller. Shutting down what I don't believe in is scary. I don't know that we need scholarships. Especially something like this that one could fake a believe in just to get a scholarship. In reality, I think we have nothing to fear about religion, but much to fear from people who claim to speak to God. I have religious friends who I love dearly. And they don't push it on me, hence they are friends. I do wonder sometimes if they think I will not go to a magic place after I die, but I prefer not to ask or to know. I don't believe in the magic place.
Apr 11 2011: He has a viewpoint, he is not presenting both sides, you are correct. That is what a viewpoint is. Are you saying that nowhere can you find the opposite viewpoint? the opposite viewpoint is everywhere, on Saturdays, Sundays, TV, 5 times a day toward Mecca, everywhere.
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A comment on Conversation: If these guys (and others) are right and religion is delaying human progress, how do we move forward?
A comment on Conversation: Why these talks are utterly one sided. Why don't we be allowed to hear the other side of the story.