Why is it legal to smoke a cigarette while driving a car? Cigarettes contain many toxic chemicals and the effects are quite dramatic. It isn't called "spin" for nothing. Smoking requires one hand,...
The Believers frequently propose that mortal life has no point without the everlasting life that follows for the faithful. Yet that promise is to a place where there seems nothing to do but worship...
Who among the faithful have done the most to undermine the credibility of the church? Ratzinger must surely be up there with the best but my vote goes to Cardinal George Pell. His dismissive attitude...
Perhaps goodlife could enlighten us on why God created such a dreadful parasite that has no possibility of life beyond the invasion of mammalian bodies.
Why are people from the USA so often prone to referring to time periods in seasonal terminology? Surely they realise that referring to " the summer of 2011" is ridiculously ambiguous in a...
http://redcresearch.i...d-Atheism-25-7-12.pdf Interesting statistics. Religion is definitely declining but areas where it persists seem related to poverty. Poor people are generally less educated....
The President of Indonesia is at the United Nations General Assembly and has proposed an international law to make blasphemy illegal. No particular question but I am sure some of you would like to...
Let's face it we will never see the quoting facilities on other sites available here. Many of our members have used //quoted content//. It is a good start since the puny " mark is too hard to...
I understand the UK government is very interested in the leglislation just passed in Australia that will see all tobacco sold in plain brown packs with pictures of smoking related illnesses as the...
A deist believes in deities (aka gods). A theist believes in The God hence a The-ist. So an atheist does not believe in The God and so could encompass a Hindu, or indeed anyone who believes there is...
We are refurbishing a kitchen and need to buy a gas cooktop, a wall oven and a range hood that comes from the ceiling. What kinds of things should I consider in the decision? Thanks for any input....
Who created Hell? My understanding is that it is not in the Bible. However it features strongly in the Qu'ran where it appears to be explicitly created by Allah (the Merciful?) to forever punish those...
In Australia we mint coins to celebrate all kinds of special events, mostly anniversaries. My wife and I collect one of each of whatever we come across. Today we got one that is surely the most...
Last year we discussed Climate Change at some considerable length and some posters pointed to the substantial fall in the sea level during 2010 as evidence that scientists had got it wrong. Here is an...
They tell us He is omnipresent (is everywhere), omnipotent (all powerful) and omniscient (knows all) Well His minions are certainly know-alls but what would be some more accurate adjectives for God?...
Scientific research using functional MRI has shown that religious experiences mainly involve the temporal lobes of the brain. Epileptic seizures in the temporal lobes have also been shown to be...