God, fact or fiction -The Sequel. ( Archived) (777)

1. Do you suffer from delusions of grandeur to assume that your faith intimidates me? I am not an easily intimidated person Gnome, especially when it comes to issues in which I have plenty of self confidence – such as this. Actually, that hits on one of the cornerstones of my abhorrence, yes, abhorrence of Christianity – its use of intimidation - this is evident throughout most of the Bible.

I just did a search of the book you mention and found the contents quite commendable, however, I have found many such others in my searching’s which are not based on Christianity – there are many such people in the world nowadays, thankfully, and many such quests to address issues such as spiritual emptiness, egocentric leadership, extreme poverty, pandemic disease, and illiteracy. Or is this another claim of yours for which Christianity gets the gold cup?

I must here mention how happy it makes me that education is nowadays in the hands of the people as opposed to, in the hands of the church and although still in its infancy, it pleases me immensely to see the many changes which are afoot.



2. Please, by the same token, do not assume that all who do not pray do not do good deeds – what a crazy notion. I have never dug a well or cared for an orphan but have done lots of voluntary works in different areas – as have many of us who don’t need to depend on piety as a means of self worth.

3. Christian conspiracy of world domination, hahaha, nope, that day has long since passed, the chance was there and they blew it – people are seeing through the lies, the calls to arms and the world domination bullsh--. To each their own is a much more friendly concept – it may be too late though – we will see.

Yes, the infighting with the various Christian denominations, quite troubling isn’t it – where does it all stem from do you think?

I think it may have a lot to do with the base upon which the church is built – personally.


4. You think that man has little lasting impact on nature? Tell that to the people from Chernobyl or Nagasaki. Better still, tell it to Bush, he speaks with God you know – maybe he will be on our side in the next war if GW tells him to.

Nuclear fallout damages for years - Significant immunological alterations noted include: (i) attrition of T-cell functions, as reductions in mitogen-dependent proliferation and interleukin-2 (IL-2) production; (ii) decrease in helper T-cell populations; and (iii) increase in blood inflammatory cytokine levels.

These findings suggest that A-bomb radiation exposure perturbed one or more of the primary processes responsible for T-cell homeostasis and the balance between cell renewal and survival and cell death among naïve and memory T cells. Such perturbed T-cell homeostasis may result in acceleration of immunological aging. Persistent inflammation, linked in some way to the perturbation of T-cell homeostasis, is key in addressing whether such noted immunological changes observed in A-bomb survivors are in fact associated with disease development.

It amused me too Ray

I think its frowned on because it suggests non-compiance - but Im beggared if I know with what