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Haven't you ever seen Modern Family?

Because  Bishop Hugh Montefiore, an English Anglican bishop and academic, said that he thought he was.

Yes, I see what you are saying.  Normally, Jesus would have performed that service for his beloved mother, but was, at the time, uniquely indisposed, so he was asking his husband to stand in for him to perform that traditional service.

I don't know. Ask Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.

This is a better one.

Why Women Fall for Pirates and Vampires - Prof. Jordan Peterson

In the USA it has one L. Whether you're modelling or modeling, you're doing the same thing. The only difference is in the spelling—the one with the single L is preferred in the United States, while the one with two Ls is preferred everywhere else.

Is modeled, and yes, that is what I meant.

Yes, but it will probably be in a 100 years. The first successful full organism brain simulation was the worm C. elegans. See openworm.org. The entire worm has successfully been modeled in virtual reality including controlling neurons and their active states. The latter is just as important as the simulation. Since a worm has been modeled, it won't be too long before a Republican.

Touche'

I think it is that no one has come back from death and shown us pictures that they had taken on their iphone. Remember that your afterlife will be the same as your beforelife.

Despite being written out of large parts of history, atheists thrived in the polytheistic societies of the ancient world – raising considerable doubts about whether humans really are “wired” for religion – a new study suggests.
The claim is the central proposition of a new book by Tim Whitmarsh, Professor of Greek Culture and a Fellow of St John’s College, University of Cambridge. In it, he suggests that atheism – which is typically seen as a modern phenomenon – was not just common in ancient Greece and pre-Christian Rome, but probably flourished more in those societies than in most civilisations since.
As a result, the study challenges two assumptions that prop up current debates between atheists and believers: Firstly, the idea that atheism is a modern point of view, and second, the idea of “religious universalism” – that humans are naturally predisposed, or “wired”, to believe in gods.
The book, entitled Battling The Gods,  launched in Cambridge on February 16, 2016.
“We tend to see atheism as an idea that has only recently emerged in secular Western societies,” Whitmarsh said. “The rhetoric used to describe it is hyper-modern. In fact, early societies were far more capable than many since of containing atheism within the spectrum of what they considered normal.”
“Rather than making judgements based on scientific reason, these early atheists were making what seem to be universal objections about the paradoxical nature of religion – the fact that it asks you to accept things that aren’t intuitively there in your world. The fact that this was happening thousands of years ago suggests that forms of disbelief can exist in all cultures, and probably always have.”

    This goes along with my theory that people who saw and heard gods speaking to them had numerous brain lesions.

See: The Earth Is Not Flat: An Analysis of a Sunset Photo

Did you know Lori and Chad?

You don't need to be religious. “Of course I am not religious,” said Nobel Laureate Philip W. Anderson (Physics, 1977), “I don’t in fact see how any scientist who thinks at all deeply can be so.”  Anderson lived to be 96 years old. He also had an interesting view on the God principle.  Anderson held a sceptical view of particle physics and the belief in the field by some that it deserved more funding that other areas. “There is a great arrogance and immodesty about that whole field, which gets on my nerves,” he told Physics World in 2006. “Particle theorists say [they’re] discovering ‘the mind of God’. It’s not the mind of God at all. In the first place, there’s no God, and in the second place, particle physics cannot explain things like superconductivity, life and consciousness. It makes no contribution to explaining how the world actually works.” He also held the view that particle theorists owe more than they realize to condensed-matter theorists like himself, particularly for having developed the concept of “broken symmetry” in the 1950s.

Remember that Albert Einstein said, “The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.”

OMG, Trump should really be worried.

Here is another one. A  Colorado sheriff's deputy died from COVID-19 complications shortly after sharing a string of anti-vaccination posts on his social media, according to MailOnline.
Daniel 'Duke' Trujillo, 33, died on Wednesday with his family by his side, Denver's Sheriff Department said on Twitter.
Three weeks before his death, Trujillo had updated his Facebook profile picture to include a border that read, "I have an immune system," the MailOnline said.

Well, there is this.  An Ohio man died of COVID-19 after actively voicing on his social media accounts that he would not be buying a mask and would not be “buying into the hype” of the pandemic.
Richard “Rick” Rose, 37, of Port Clinton, Ohio, was diagnosed with COVID-19 on July 1, 2020 and passed away just three days later, according to local news media.

The so-called Luciferians were a community of Christians that flourished in the late 4th century. They emerged following the Council of Alexandria in 362 as a rigorist Nicene community. However, by the early 5th century, they had apparently completely dissipated. The classic interpretation of how the Luciferians emerged is that they were led by a bishop named Lucifer of Cagliari. A more modern approach has seen the ‘Luciferians’ as a community constructed by rigorists in Rome in the 380s, reaching out to other dissatisfied Christians. 

Timid8967,

You are just following in Jesus's footsteps, except you are turning dollars into wine.

Albert Einstein once wrote: People like us who believe in physics know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Time, in other words, he said, is an illusion.

See The Reason the Universe Exists is that it Caused Itself to Exist by Quentin Smith

Philosophers have traditionally responded to the question, ‘why does the universe exist?’, in one of two ways. One response is that ‘the universe exists because God created it’ and the other response is that ‘the universe exists for no reason—its existence is a brute fact’. Both these responses are inadequate, since a third response is possible, namely, that the reason the universe exists is that it caused itself to exist. There are at least three ways the universe can cause itself to exist, by (1) a closed, simultaneous causal loop at the first instant of time, (2) beginning with a continuum of instantaneous states in a first half-open second, with each state being caused by earlier states, and (3) being caused to exist by backward causation, where a later event causes the big bang to occur. This suggests that the principle, ‘if the universe begins to exist, it has a cause’ does not support theism (as traditionally has been thought) but instead supports atheism.

I wonder what the ultimate purpose was for my cousin that died from leukemia when he was 7 years old?

Paul Davies Message is Irrefutable.  The Mind of God is a 1992 non-fiction book by Paul Davies. Subtitled The Scientific Basis for a Rational World, it is a whirlwind tour and explanation of theories, both physical and metaphysical, regarding ultimate causes.

I think I will go with Thomas Edison. Betcha didn't know this one was a non-believer!  Well, he was.  Quote: "I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God." Quote: "So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake... Religion is all bunk." Quote: "I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul....I am an aggregate of cells, as, for instance, New York City is an aggregate of individuals. Will New York City go to heaven?....No; nature made us -- nature did it all -- not the gods of the religions." 

Yes, the result was what Montefiore himself described as "a colossal scandal", and it placed a very black mark indeed against his name in the files of the prime minister's appointments secretary.
After seven years at Great St Mary's, Montefiore had both blotted his copybook and worn himself out. He was desperate for a change of occupation, and, as he himself recorded, was not looking like promising episcopal material. However, Mervyn Stockwood, who had been made Bishop of Southwark in 1959, had a gift for talent spotting, and, in 1970, when the suffragan bishopric of Kingston-upon-Thames became vacant, he offered Montefiore the job.

Bishop Hugh Montefiore  was invited to lecture to the Modern Churchman's Union at Somerville College, Oxford. Knowing it was an open lecture, he nevertheless put forward the theory that because Jesus had remained unmarried, an unusual occurrence for a Jew of his age and time, he might have been homosexually inclined.

I would choose  nuclear fusion power. China’s HL-2M tokamak fusion reactor in Chengdu, Sichuan Province has finally been commissioned, while South Korea’s K-STAR fusion reactor has broken its own record for plasma generation. At the same time, the UK is looking for a site for its planned STEP fusion reactor, and Russian scientific institutions have decided to cooperate more closely on fusion development.

Trump seems like a happy man. In an interview in 1997, Trump says he lost his virginity at “about 14.”

True dat

You are right on the money. The USA ranks 18th in the world in intelligence. In 5 years, China will be the leading world power and the yuan will be the world currency. the USA will have 1000 percent inflation and because everyone has guns, 50 million will die in shootings (I just want to say since I spent a lot of time in Diego Garcia, I will be prepared fpr this). I am typing this so that researchers 500 years from now reviewing these posts will see that I predicted the future.

Bones probably read what Albert Einstein said in 1954, one year before he died.  “The word God is for me nothing but the expression of and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of venerable but still rather primitive legends, No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change anything about this.”

No, I do not.

I fully support efforts to punish acts of violence against women that harm or terminate a wanted pregnancy.  The Unborn Victims of Violence Acts is an inappropriate method of imposing such punishment, however, because it dangerously seeks to separate the woman from her fetus in the eyes of the law. Such separation is merely the first step toward eroding a woman's right to determine the fate of her own pregnancy and to direct the course of her own health care. For this reason, the ACLU opposes this lawl, but supports alternative approaches to punishing violence against pregnant women.

I am suprised that one side hasn't used nuclear weapons yet. There are 200 Russian nuclear suit case bombs that are missing. The radiation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki today is on a par with the extremely low levels of background radiation (natural radioactivity) present anywhere on Earth. It has no effect on human bodies. ... Residual radiation was emitted later. Roughly 80% of all residual radiation was emitted within 24 hours.

Gender does not have the intent of procreation, it has the ability of procreation.

There is only one just and moral response to the anti-abortion movement, and that is to strike down its arguments in their entirety. A fetus is a possibility, not a person. While abortion can be the tragic end to a wanted pregnancy, it’s never murder.

Yes, humans evolved from a rat like mammal. The earliest known mammals were the morganucodontids, tiny shrew-size creatures that lived in the shadows of the dinosaurs 210 million years ago. They were one of several different mammal lineages that emerged around that time. All living mammals today, including us, descend from the one line that survived.

Albert Einstein once said that while he “gladly” belonged to the Jewish people, he believed that the Jewish religion “like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.”

While women do inherit 50% of their DNA from each parent, men inherit about 51% from their mother and only 49% from their father.

I assume  you are going to use your statement on the Maury Povich show when he says "You are the Father".

Miscarriage, stillbirth and ectopic pregnancies kill more fetuses than abortions. Isn't God Pro-abortion?

Actually, I believe that 84% of humanity  needs an opiate.

You can see why Texas was against abortion for incest and rape. How else were they going to get new Trump voters.

Thanks Luca Brasi

What Trump was actually recorded as saying was, "Someday-and that day may never come- I'll call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, accept this justice as a gift."  You know, from The Godfather.

Yes, Zeki Saritoprak, a professor of Islamic studies at John Carroll University in Cleveland, points out that in the Quran there's the Biblical story of Jacob asking his sons whom they'll worship after his death.
"Jacob's sons replied, 'We will worship the God of your fathers' — Abraham, Ishmael and Isaac. He is the God," Saritoprak says. "So this God that Jacob worshipped, this God that Abraham, Isaac worshipped, is the same God that Muslims worship today."

Doesn't Trump holding his Miss Universe contest in Moscow in 2013 explain Trump's love for Russia and obsession with Vladimir Putin? Shouldn't America's  First Lady be born in America like the President has to be, instead of being born in a Communist country? Do you think Melania gave Putin the launch codes?

It is very complex, but see, The evolution of dopamine systems in chordates

Chordates (Chordata) are a group of animals that includes vertebrates, tunicates, lancelets. Of these, the vertebrates—lampreys, mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and fishes—are the most familiar and are the group to which humans belong.