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Slavery: Christian Excuses

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Coyote
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01-24-2012 10:20 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by Itinerant Lurker
01-24-2012 10:04 PM

Religious belief and other nonsense
On another website I had someone tell me, "It is not wrong to own a slave."
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Apparently if it was OK with the bible, it was OK with him.
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Sorry, this is absolute nonsense but it is not as rare as one might hope.
Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
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01-04-2014 10:33 PM 		Reply to: Message 76 by roxrkool
01-04-2014 9:33 PM

Re: Genocide: Christian Excuses
Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.
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Robert An Heinlein, Assignment in Eternity (1953)
Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
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Belief gets in the way of learning--Robert A. Heinlein
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How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?--Robert A. Heinlein
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It's not what we don't know that hurts, it's what we know that ain't so--Will Rogers
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If I am entitled to something, someone else is obliged to pay--Jerry Pournelle
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If a religion's teachings are true, then it should have nothing to fear from science...--dwise1
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