but as to replacing the need for religion, I think not.

That's my suggestion for today.

think just like me, and hold exactly the same beliefs.

That is exceedingly rude. I mean precisely what I write. Read it again,please.

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and your various comments to those who disagree with your analyses.

And speaking of rudeness is interesting, in light of your many comments. Your record is clear.

Edited the title.

How do you do that, pray tell?

So there's that I suppose. Still seems a bit of a stretch to quantify it as a need. Seems more like a pacifier for childlike insecurity.

Sounds like a plan. Oddly enough, Hillel the Elder was a contemporary of historical Jesus. Fascinating, actually.

How can evangelicals preach hatred on such a noble idea? Religion must foster hatred to be of value to many so-called evangelicals or even Christians.

I'd welcome such a test. However, the current situation makes that impossible, I think. A pity.

Shame and humiliation is big business.

Or, in some cases, having sex with the priest. That can work, but only in some cases.

If you run into a single asshole, the problem is probably them. If everyone you run into is an asshole, the problem is probably you.

Mull it over.

Self-reflection is a problem with everyone, but some suck at it harder.

Because people don't flock to religion for the ethical behavior it allegedly provides.

Speaking of irrelevancy...I am MineralMan, not anyone else. Non sequitur.

This isn't the first time he has done this. Gil seems to think we're all exactly the same, interchangeable, and we have a hive mind, like the Borg. We aren't individual discrete human beings at all, you see. If some other atheist wrote a thing that Gil doesn't like, he considers you to be responsible for it, and as you see, he expect you to answer for it. It's very strange.

From time to time, I try to remind him that we are not all the same people, nor do we hold the same ideas. Atheism is really the only thing we have in common, and it's a minor aspect of our individual philosophies and mindsets.

Repetition of that simple fact may not be enough, but it's really all we can do as individuals. Still, I'm not sure I understand the reasoning process that individual uses. They wouldn't work for me, though. It's easy enough to see the differences between people who post in this Group.

Try again.

And as I said in an earlier post, insults are not dialogue.

I did not write those words. Please take it up with their author. I cannot help you.

And re-affirming that insults are intended to attack dialogue.

Simple...but even then there would be those who felt their way of “do unto others...” was better than anothers way of “do unto others...” thus a need to impose upon them.

This is a generational thing and maybe a future generation will get there depending on what’s left. On the whole we are doing better...it was not that long ago that Trial by Ordeal was the method of reciprocated justice.