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MalteseHumanist

If anything, we'd be cultural pagans or cultural polytheists. Remember...christians stole christmas...virgin birth, 25th december...all copied.

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Season's Greetings

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We should be tolerant to other beliefs and lifestyles just as long as those beliefs and lifestyles do not harm others or are themselves intolerant to other beliefs and lifestyles that do not harm others.

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Sex Is Natural, but as you can see, it's also a sin

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One has to have a good sense of humour to appreciate the caricature. Why not laugh at ourselves every once in a while. I wouldn't like to think that the cartoon would bother Dawkins or Hitchens.

Let's not act like the muslims who truly "raised hell" over cartoons some time ago.

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For example, are believers less / more fearful, are they more / less willing to sacrifice their lives, do they take more / less risks, are they more / less inclined to devote effort and resources into saving the lives of themselves and other, are they more / less prone to supporting war, do they di...

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Moral rights (1) are rights which are conceived after rational inquiry into what justice and fairness would require. There's that word 'rational' again. How does it actually apply here? I mean, there has to be criteria on which to decide what is fair and just. What are these criteria and who decide...

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Meathead wrote:Ya gotta admit. If you're a dude, the Islamic notion of 72 virgins waiting for you in heaven is appealing. In fact, I'm thinking about jumping ship. Assalamu Alaikum

Unless you find that the 72 "virgins" are actually white raisins, as some suggest.

MalteseHumanist

The notion of rights, whether moral or legal, can take a bit of sorting out. I've always found Hohfeld a useful starting-point. Simple version here: http://personal.bgsu.edu/~roberth/hohfeld.html Wet-towel-round-the-head stuff here at 2.1: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rights/ The second link c...

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Maybe I'm reading too much into this, or indeed got the wrong end of the stick, but the idea that banning 'cruel sports' will lessen domestic violence is pretty fatuous and self serving. Surely, the connection is that such people do not possess the skills to resolve issues without recourse to viole...

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I saw this hypothetical viewpoint offered on another forum as a starting point for discussion. I don't think it's a particularly helpful one but it did get me thinking about what we mean by human rights and where they come from. Does anyone have any comments? If a 'right' is that which exists indep...

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Moose wrote:I've never seen a fish substitute now I come to think of it.

I have...he's called Steve Hogarth

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Hmmm. I wonder what the vegan version of a curate's egg would be? :grin: It would still be the same...in a vegan world, there would still be eggs. :laughter: Except of course, that the curate would presumably not be able to eat it (or have I got that wrong?) All he could say would be, "Bless my sou...

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Moonbeam wrote:Poetry is against the law?

I think that incitement to violence is against the law.

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Hmmm. I wonder what the vegan version of a curate's egg would be? :grin: It would still be the same...in a vegan world, there would still be eggs. :laughter: And since you mention eggs...which came first...the chicken or the egg? Darwinism has the solution to that question. It was the egg. Since ch...

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I'm not generally in favour of banning people, or demanding they jump through hoops before joining. They must however subscribe to the general ideas of the group. If a wavering theist finds it attractive, I would not want to demand they renounce all gods before being admitted- I don't think they sh...

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Thanks for your considerably more reasonable response, Kenneth. I can see what you mean. That's why I am inclined against it. But I'm not in charge, so there it is. You're welcome Nick. I would also like to say that I tend to agree to your seeing a problem with having superstitious (faith) people w...

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I wrote to the BHA at the time and was assured that the HVG was for the promotion of the BHA in other areas, not the promotion of veggiedom within the BHA. Personally, I don't see how you can do one (using HVG to promote BHA) without doing the other (promote vegerarianism within HVG). It's like say...

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As the animal has already been disrespected by being slaughtered, chopped to bits, cooked and served up, being left on the side of a plate is hardly adding insult to injury. Good point. Being an atheist of the kind who does not care what happens to my body after I die (it's what happens while I'm a...

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clayto wrote:Link to Animal Rights Malta now added to HVG website

Chris

Thanks. I will be putting a link to this forum on my blog as well.

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