Papal Visit to the UK

[BeBMan]

I think I quoted that earlier. and **** is right!

No there aren't. Name one?

What has a better taste - coca cola or pepsi cola?

[Cort Haus]

[Cort Haus]

What has a better taste - coca cola or pepsi cola?

:Lipsmackin'thirstquenchin'acetastin'motivatin'goo dbuzzin'cooltalkin'highwalkin'fastlivin'evergivin' coolfizzin'choirboy:

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Bugs: I have heard that there were about a million people -- including many clergy and religious -- who were killed for subversive thoughts and activities by the Nazis. That's what he's referring to.

I think we can agree Naziism sucks- but to attribute the genocides to any perceived atheism in them makes about as much sense as attributing it to their taste in shoes. Especially in the light of the Church's actions during the Spanish Civil War.

[BeBMan]

:Lipsmackin'thirstquenchin'acetastin'motivatin'goo dbuzzin'cooltalkin'highwalkin'fastlivin'evergivin' coolfizzin'choirboy:

WTF?

[Imran Siddiqui]

well i'm talking about the questions that, by their very nature, can't be answered by science. that list doesn't change in size. also, the fact that a definitive answer to a question can't be found, doesn't mean that the issue can't be explored, discussed, thought out. that's why we have philosophy and indeed religion.

anyway your claim was that human beings were not inherently religious, but since the dawn of time, man has always looked to for answers to questions beyond the physical world. even in the most isolated places on earth this was the case.

Indeed. Reason and science can't answer everything. Not all things can be fully explained. Society appears to be moving on from the modernist contention that everything can be answered, but of course, plenty of folks are not necessarily turning to religion for those unanswerables. I think they feel as though they are fine with never being able to answer the questions of why, or at least argue with each other using philosophical rather than theological concepts.

They go in a different way than me (though I don't think, even through God, I can really answer everything - that'd be highly presumptuous of me that I know the entire will of God), but they acknowledge the unanswerable exists.

[Ben Kenobi]

Has the Dalai Lama personally been responsible for covering up offences of paedophiles, vilified homosexuals, sabotaged attempts to reduce spread of AIDS, discriminated against women?

Call me when you have a female Lama. But of course, it's only wrong when it's Catholic. Here I thought you prided yourself on tolerance, but that's all a sham. Aren't you supposed to be better than the Pope? Sadly, I'm not seeing it.

Mike, I hope you realise that it's folks exactly like you and your foaming at the mouth that brought me into Catholicism in the first place.

[DriXnaK]

Everything will eventually be explained with science, that's a fact. Religion exists only to answer those questions that can't be answered right now that deal with creation and existence. Also, Islam is the greatest threat to science and modern civilization. So while you may not like Christianity, not one of you here can claim that it is a threat to your existence the way that Islam is. You target it because it's an easy target since they don't fight back and they respect free speech. Imagine if you lived in a Muslim dominated country, would you even exist in your current form right now? I think not.

[BeBMan]

Everything will eventually be explained with science, that's a fact.

Sounds rather like some form of belief. Says me, the atheist.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Not really. Explanations don't have to be true, or even sane.

[C0ckney]

Science can answer those questions.

oh really? what are the answers then oh wise one.

[Cort Haus]

Just because an answer hasn't been determined yet, doesn't mean it never will.

[DriXnaK]

Exactly. Just look at the rate of human advancement over the past one hundred years and you will realize that everything will eventually be answered. The rate of advancement only increases over time. I wish I could see what things will be like 100-200 years from now.

[BeBMan]

Just because an answer hasn't been determined yet, doesn't mean it never will.

It also doesn't mean an answer will be surely determined at some point.

[Asher]

You just need faith that the questions will be answered by scientific progress.