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If I edit my account settings and click Input Format under the edit box, there's something about filtered HTML with or without line breaks. Is that anything to do with it?I have it set to the first option.

[rodshaw]

Matt wrote:

It maybe so, that most Christian religions are attempting to be reasonable as a result of external imposition from wider society,but the minorities within the dominant religions still exert a powerful hold upon them.The Catholic church is one such example.Here is Dawkins at his most reasonable, with a most reasonable priest, Fr. George Coyne ,who still ends up with his head up his own ass,having to implore Dawkins to back off a little and cut him some slack..(My understanding).It is quite a long flash movie, so maybe save for later.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkS1B0huWX4

It seems Fr. Coyne is trying to say he knows it's all nonsense but can't shake off his upbringing. If he went the whole hog he'd obviously have to resign.In short, take the universe, take the laws that describe it, accept the scientific view, then wrap the God you find most satisfying around it all and firmly believe in him, even though you know he's superfluous and it's just because you've been brought up that way.But all credit to them both for standing up for so long.

[rodshaw]

The example Banks writes of is of a victory for a small section of workers against their bosses, for something they were legally entitled to anyway.But can the 'democratisation' of knowledge and information lead to the establishment of socialism from the bottom up? Will the abolition of capitalist society be a rubber-stamping exercise at the end of it all?The facts and arguments Banks wrote of need to be the type which support the socialist case and lead to socialist consciousness. They need to be somewhat more substantial than obtaining back payments from your employers.

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Your average Christian these days is not into bullying. In fact, their attitude to God can be decidedly on the milky side.  According to John Cottingham (Credo, The Times 24/08/2013), abstract debates about God miss the point of religion. When one reflects on the nature and purposes of God, he states, people are not likely to be swayed by scientific or philosophical debates about his existence, with the likes of Dawkins et al. Rather, the principal focus of religious belief is on the meaning of human existence, and how we should live our lives, not on finding proofs that God created the world.  But as churches empty, it seems people are now even eschewing this approach. Cottingham concludes, ‘we need to ask whether there is any alternative purely secular framework that can nourish the sense of…objective value in human life’.  Suggestions, anyone?

[rodshaw]

Obviously a different bloke from the dyslexic agnostic insomniac, who used to lie awake all night wondering whether there really was a dog.

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