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Come on - the Norman's DID keep records you know.

So I'm right but I'm evil? ;)

I would love to see if that calm resolve survives having a gun stuck in your face. As a theory it makes sense, but the mechanisms for survival tend to be well ingrained.

Now if only we'd eliminated the other possibilities. Occam's razor suggests that we not needlessly multiply hypotheses. By far the least incredible explanation of the Jesus story is that he was one of a group of messianic holy men and that Josephys and Pliny simply copied the same tales from...

So it's faith then. Would have been much quicker if you'd just said that. I think you're right, I am not one of the Elect - and yet, and yet - according to your own book I was created specifically by God. For a task. Is that task to burn for eternity? With no chance of remission and no option...

Well I think it all depends on what your definition of 'fact' is. I use the following definition: There are a bunch of looser interpretations, for sure. Fact can mean as much as an ironclad guarantee of veracity, or as little as something about which one is merely pretty sure. So - is...

I would love to have a list of the Messiah's around that time and what things they are purported to have done. I wonder if Jesus is an omnibus edition of the collected Jewish Messiah's? Sort of a 'best of' show.

Lonelieness and low self-esteem is self inflicted? Man, that's a bit of an insult to everyone that struggles with these issues day in and day out, isn't it? I'm very lucky that despite being a shy guy I'm able to gut it out and make freinds anyway - it just takes me some time. I had a very...

Well Snake, if you choose to believe based on faith then the best we can manage is a draw. Nobody should be able to tell you that your faith is misplaced - so long as you're intellectually honest enough to admit that is all it is - your faith. A man would be well advised to tread lightly around...

Basically, the interesting part of this is that anyone encouraging a slave to leave his master on religious grounds is to be declared anathema and cast out of the church. I guess stoning, burning and cutting up with oyster shells is optional.

Alas Love does fade - but you can keep the burnish on it if you renew that love often enough. Alas in my life I have made many poor decisions, one of which was the decision to put my career ahead of my wife. We did not renew our love (and I'm speaking of love not lust here - we had an active...

Gott mit uns, eh? I should hasten to add in explanation that some of the worst atrocities in history have been accomplished under that banner. I'll also quote Cromwell "So many say God's for them - I'll wager God wonders who's for him."

Actually, observing a holiday is fulfilling the rituals attached to it. Celebrating it is holding some sort of feast that's not required and making a special effort.

I cannot believe that DD is talking about spelling... Ridiculous, indeed.

Warning: Regarding last link... I should point out that the guys who run that website are a bunch of racist kooks. I found their site by way of a Google on Biblical errors, and found the errors themselves sufficiently compelling that I used the link. If I were you I'd read the study bit and...

I don't think you're clear enough on the errors in the bible. I've provided a link, oh I don't know how many hundreds of times, that says that the bible you're using today is based on a flawed version of the original text. Here it is again... I found a couple of real howlers in this...

How much would a chunk of coral look like a wheel covered in coral? I'm thinking quite alot. If you've ever seen those documentaries where they lift cannon out of the sea then you'll know how much the shape of an object gets obsfucated by outgrowths. In any event I'll believe if they LIFT it...

Sorry - I thought it was self evident. If the bible is the perfect word of a perfect God then it will be perfectly clear and present it's perfect arguments perfectly. There will be no redundance.

I would rather teach my children to fish than give them a fish I caught. As DV said, basically. If they decided to become born again Christians then I'm sure there would be some interesting discussions around the dinner table at Yule - sorry - Christmas. I would hope that at least they'd dig...

Gen, I've agreed that I won't say that Yahweh is deliberately cruel or that he has lied to you all (which is easy, because I don't believe that), but I never agreed that the Bible was the inerrant word of Yahweh. I thought we came to an agreement that questioning the authenticity of the bible...