Recent content by fightingchick

It appears to me that he denounces AA programs because he thinks that they do not help blacks. He says that his Yale degree was not helpful to him to because it was never worth as much as a white man's Yale degree. He says his degree was tainted, because the assumption is that his acceptance to...

Bump...I'd like to know more about what you think the Fed's mistage was in thier definition of enemy combatents. I haven't heard that as an issue.

My daughter (age 6 at the time) was quite sensitive. One car ride she starting crying over something trivial that her sister had said to her. I go into a lengthy discussion with her that being a big girl meant that she couldn't cry over everything. During this discussion I made a wrong turn. I...

Montheism without Christ means that we have the ability to reach God through our actions or rituals. Well, that leaves me out. I'd have been stoned already.Deism means God is cruel. Pantheism is confusing. Any other world view that does not have an entity over the Human means that the Human...

I wouldn't say "preconceptions." Only because that implies you are a slave to your upbringing or experience. I would agree though that anyone who believes in anything got there between a mix of faith/beliefs/assumptions and logic/reason/evidence. I don't know much about JWs or Mormans, other...

I've re-read your post with Mr. Washington. Good stuff on both sides. This paragraph is pretty representative of the view of non-believers. You will "listen." You want him to give you "the truth." You don't want to rely on what other humans may have messed with - "what is written." You...

Sort of a hobby for 20th century American thinkers. Now, why would you read a book from a hack twice. That's weird?Like I said, it's a good SUMMARY other scholarship. There is only one book I hang my hat on. And all you have is your faith in your ability to reason and pick the winners and...

:goodposting: Said so much better than me. Excellent.

You don't know how much studying I have done, nor did I say, "He absolutely wrote it." But, it does say something about where I come from and who I trust.When I see Mark's name on the book, why would I question it from the beginning? Particularly when an overwhelming majority of it is true and...

I know.

See how your lack of faith has just as much belief in it?

I believe I covered this in an earlier post. You argument about infallibility of the NT writers is for someone else. I am not sure I would try to make the case that they were infallible. In sum, they did not make a mistake here, because 1 Samuel 20 never says David was alone and there is no...

I was an atheist and an agnostic most of my life (particularly after growing up Catholic) which led to disillusionment with, especially myself and my own capacity for logic and rationality (you see that as you may!!)...But it was the strength of an intellectual argument that brought me to...

I simply disagree with most of your points up here. It sounds like you've added most of the above because none of it was in there. It never says he was alone in any of those places. I can see how you might read that in there, but it simply doesn't say that. You're overlaying your thoughts to...

OB's are the specialist that are sued the most for malpractice. They have the most economic incentive to tell you the WORST possible thing prior to the baby's birth. They think that it covers their hide in case there is a problem during childbirth. They will almost always tell you something is...