Recent content by Nick

It *sort of* is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_atheism ;) Go Sweden!

The professor was so famous that they couldn't mention his name or the name of the university he worked at. :lol:

Agreed it would make a very good thread, if it's not already been covered.

First of, since the bible is full of contradictions in historic facts and contradicts its own teachings the fundamentalists have nothing to be proud of in having a "more accurate view". They may have decided to take more of it literally (namely: Genesis & Creation) but they're still left cherry...

Right, it was God's plan. Moreoever Jesus was God. So I guess Jesus sent Jesus to the cross too.

I think idea of 'winning a debate' only applies to an actual live debate. This was a prerecorded and probably highly edited video clip; it hardly qualifies.

I know you already have plenty but... "And the flood was forty days upon the earth" - Genesis 7:17 "And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days." - Genesis 7:24 Concrete, same chapter, 7 verses apart. Do let me know if he keeps his promise :lol:

Let me have a go at these. By no means could you use any of my answers but I thought I'd ramble on anyway. Why do you think religion exists in societies? Humans are social beings that also have pattern finding brains. Both of these mechanisms have always been essential to the survival of the...

The discussion started betwwen me and you when you said this WASN'T a freedom of speech issue and you know it. Maybe you should stop avoding it and just answer borrofburi.

It really ISN'T, that's what we were trying to get you to see. I never disputed this, it's the laws I'm calling into question.

Re: Understand What Harassment Is Proving wether or not alarm or distress was caused to you is a fairly hard thing to do. We really only have your word, so if you oppose what I say then you can claim it did distress or alarm you and we have a potential criminal case. Let's ignore the fact that...

Re: Understand What Harassment Is By the wording used there to define "harassment" it would be a criminal offence for me to call you 'stupid'. Since you clearly take the side of the law do you think it's appropriate for me to be arrested for calling you 'stupid', providing you claim it caused...

MRaverz, are you serious? MRaverz, have you even read both those articles? Where on earth does it make this sound like a case of "harrasment"? This isn't harrasment, this is just making some comments durning conversation that offended someone. Because these comments were related to somebody's...

Quite simply, well said. None of us want to people to be coming up to us and saying offensive things but most of us don't want a law against it either. Who in their right mind would be in favour of passing a law against calling someone an idiot?

It will be a very sad day for UK and for free speech if they are convicted. It is also extremely worrying that Muslims seem to be given this very special treatment by the law in this country (UK). I can hardly see anyone having been arrested if comments about Jesus and Christian practice were...