In America, atheists are still in the closet

[wolverine]

ToManyLaws wrote:

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I am 1000 times more educated then a nazi ascist like you....LEAVE THIS FREE NATION HITLER.....

Your Spelling Says Otherwise...And Freedom Isnt Free

[wolverine]

ToManyLaws wrote:

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Tell you what prove god is real and show soehow our founding fathers wanted this nation to be religous run...And I willa dmit your right.....WHATS THAT CANT PROVE ANY OF THOSE THINGS????LOL...YEA LEAVE THIS NATION TRAITOR....

Learn How To Spell, And Research History....This Country Was Only Founded To Be Able To Worship Religion Freely.

The Second Admendment Secures That Right.

You Cant Learn That From Liberal Indoctrinators....

[wolverine]

Hidingfromyou wrote:

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Uhm...why are visible physical changes necessary?
And, uhm, did you miss the "changes in bone and muscle density"? There have been other visible morphological changes in human evolution, too. Look at facial features worldwide.

Ok...So Now Evolution Has Slowed To A Halt ?

I Expect It To Continue As You Say It Always Has. We Need Species To Be Changing Into Other Species, And Transvestites Dont Count...LOL

Webbed Fingers And Toes...Extreme Eyeballs, Multiple Penises, Gills...ETC

[wolverine]

Oh...And Hiding, Did You Watch My LInked Video ?

[River Tam]

Hidingfromyou wrote:

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Uhm...why are visible physical changes necessary?

Because black lipstick is fuckingcool?

Oh, you were talking about something else.

Never mind.

[Skeptic]

wolverine wrote:

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Ok...So Now Evolution Has Slowed To A Halt ?
Gills...ETC

Evolution is a fact of life that has been and continues to happen.

Only idiots who don't understand science claim it isn't real. And this is because they have likely been brainwashed by ignorant creationist propoganda, the likes of which they cannot stop posting (its part of the disease of faith).

People who believe in these cults have to constantly lie to themselves and others to be part of their cult. It's a normal reaction finding out that your beliefs are false and wrong. Some people can deal with it, but others become godbots and have to spread propoganda and lies at every opportunity (part of the psychosis).

This is why it is regarded as a mental illness.

[River Tam]

wolverine wrote:

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Ok...So Now Evolution Has Slowed To A Halt ?
I Expect It To Continue As You Say It Always Has. We Need Species To Be Changing Into Other Species, And Transvestites Dont Count...LOL
Webbed Fingers And Toes...Extreme Eyeballs, Multiple Penises, Gills...ETC

Which one would you like most? My money is on the multiple penises.

I'm just guessing.

I'll need to know though because my money is on that one.

[Givemeliberty]

Humans are still evolving.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,859...

http://news.discovery.com/human/humans-evolvi...

http://the-scientist.com/2012/04/30/are-human...

http://www.livescience.com/7971-humans-evolvi...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment...

Sheesh have I humiliated you enough yet? Ok one last in hundreds of articles documenting this.

http://news.yahoo.com/humans-still-evolving-s...

wolverine wrote:

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Ok...So Now Evolution Has Slowed To A Halt ?
I Expect It To Continue As You Say It Always Has. We Need Species To Be Changing Into Other Species, And Transvestites Dont Count...LOL
Webbed Fingers And Toes...Extreme Eyeballs, Multiple Penises, Gills...ETC

[ChristineM]

I had a very exciting thought last night; maybe it’s been brought up before, I don’t know.“Is it likely that the intense religious faith found in the bible belt is environmental? So after I’d done my shopping and housework this morning I fired up my computer and did a little research which culminated in a search for

“limestone areas of the usa”

Hidden among various small scale studies I came up with

http://go.owu.edu/~jbkrygie/krygier_html/geog...
A geo survey map of limestone deposits across the USA

and

http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2012/blazel_m...
Sage producing areas in the US, Sage is a plant that thrives on limestone.

A search for “US bible belt” gives you any number of similar results. They coincide with the limestone areas so yes there does seem to be a correlation between the geological makeup of an areas and intense religious belief.

The environmental effect comes when you consider that limestone and “acid” rain (even very mild concentrations) reacts to give off CO2.

A search for acid rain areas of the USA gives you

http://www.nature.nps.gov/air/edu/lessons/fig...
The National Parks service acid rain map

And a page on which Figure 16.shows Regions of sensitivity to acid rain in the United States
http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchang...

Is it possible that long term exposure to higher levels of CO2 can cause intense religious experiences?

CO2 poisoning affects the body in the same way that claimed religious experiences do. Some of the more likely symptoms to produce such feelings are:-

Reduced neural activity
Lethargy
Elevated rate of cardiac output
Irregular heartbeat
Panic
Convulsions
Hallucinations
Seizures
Memory problems
Changes in vision

A further search for

“can CO2 cause intense religious experiences”

And there you have it, yes, it’s been looked into scientifically that CO2 can and does cause religious experiences, god experiences and sensations of ecstasy.

Conclusion: This is obviously not a scientific study, but it is possible that the numerous god experiences of the bible belt are down to poisoning caused by the environmental conditions.

[ToManyLaws]

wolverine wrote:

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Learn How To Spell, And Research History....This Country Was Only Founded To Be Able To Worship Religion Freely.
The Second Admendment Secures That Right.
You Cant Learn That From Liberal Indoctrinators....

Yea have your religion...FOCRE IT ON ME OR INTO LAW AND YOUR BECOME A TRAITOR TO THE CONSTITUTION AND AN ENEMY OF WE THE PEOPLE......GOT IT HITLER BOY??????

[wolverine]

River Tam wrote:

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Which one would you like most? My money is on the multiple penises.
I'm just guessing.
I'll need to know though because my money is on that one.

Not Unless It Comes With Waiting Vaginas....LOL

I Think Eagle Eyes Would Be Cool.

[wolverine]

ToManyLaws wrote:

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Yea have your religion...FOCRE IT ON ME OR INTO LAW AND YOUR BECOME A TRAITOR TO THE CONSTITUTION AND AN ENEMY OF WE THE PEOPLE......GOT IT HITLER BOY??????

What A Juvenile Idiot.....Go Away little Boy, Your Mommas Callin.

[ToManyLaws]

wolverine wrote:

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What A Juvenile Idiot.....Go Away little Boy, Your Mommas Callin.

Really punk???? How about you tell me where in the constitution it says your christians can force your religion into law? Try to be an adult and answer the question hitler boy..

[Malakal]

ChristineM wrote:

I had a very exciting thought last night; maybe it’s been brought up before, I don’t know.“Is it likely that the intense religious faith found in the bible belt is environmental? So after I’d done my shopping and housework this morning I fired up my computer and did a little research which culminated in a search for

“limestone areas of the usa”

Hidden among various small scale studies I came up with

http://go.owu.edu/~jbkrygie/krygier_html/geog...
A geo survey map of limestone deposits across the USA

and

http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2012/blazel_m...
Sage producing areas in the US, Sage is a plant that thrives on limestone.

A search for “US bible belt” gives you any number of similar results. They coincide with the limestone areas so yes there does seem to be a correlation between the geological makeup of an areas and intense religious belief.

The environmental effect comes when you consider that limestone and “acid” rain (even very mild concentrations) reacts to give off CO2.

A search for acid rain areas of the USA gives you

http://www.nature.nps.gov/air/edu/lessons/fig...
The National Parks service acid rain map

And a page on which Figure 16.shows Regions of sensitivity to acid rain in the United States
http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchang...

Is it possible that long term exposure to higher levels of CO2 can cause intense religious experiences?

CO2 poisoning affects the body in the same way that claimed religious experiences do. Some of the more likely symptoms to produce such feelings are:-

Reduced neural activity
Lethargy
Elevated rate of cardiac output
Irregular heartbeat
Panic
Convulsions
Hallucinations
Seizures
Memory problems
Changes in vision

A further search for

“can CO2 cause intense religious experiences”

And there you have it, yes, itÂ’s been looked into scientifically that CO2 can and does cause religious experiences, god experiences and sensations of ecstasy.

Conclusion: This is obviously not a scientific study, but it is possible that the numerous god experiences of the bible belt are down to poisoning caused by the environmental conditions.

You have a lot of free time on your hands don't you?

WOW is all I can say.

[Malakal]

wolverine wrote:

<quoted text>What A Juvenile Idiot.....Go Away little Boy, Your Mommas Callin.

Can you believe this guy?
Why do they let institutionalize people use the computer?

[wolverine]

ToManyLaws wrote:

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Really punk???? How about you tell me where in the constitution it says your christians can force your religion into law? Try to be an adult and answer the question hitler boy..

First...Im A 6'4 225 lbs...Ex Marine.

Second, The Speration Of Church And State Was Put Into Place To Protect Religion From Government....Nothing Else.
And, The Reason The Christian Religion Was Not Considered The National Religion, Was To Allow All Religions To Worship Freely In America...Atheism Was Not Even A Bump In The Road.

[wolverine]

Ben Franklin wrote a pamphlet called, "Information to Those who would Remove to America." It was intended to be a guide for Europeans who were thinking of relocating in America. In it he said:

"Hence bad examples to youth are more rare in America, which must be comfortable consideration to parents. To this may be truly added, that serious religion, under its various denominations, is not only tolerated, but respected and practiced.

"Atheism is unknown there; Infidelity rare and secret; so that persons may live to a great age in that country without having their piety shocked by meeting with either an Atheist or an Infidel.

"And the Divine Being seems to have manifested his approbation of the mutual forbearance and kindness with which the different sects treat each other; by the remarkable prosperity with which he has been pleased to favor the whole country."

[Malakal]

ToManyLaws wrote:

<quoted text>Really punk???? How about you tell me where in the constitution it says your christians can force your religion into law? Try to be an adult and answer the question hitler boy..

This is the kind of nut job that dresses up like the joker and goes in to a movie theater with guns.

Get him off the streets.

[wolverine]

Malakal wrote:

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Can you believe this guy?
Why do they let institutionalize people use the computer?

First Amendment.....Ughh

[wolverine]

John Quincy Adams
"Duty is ours; results are God's."

September, 1811, in a letter to his son:

"I have myself, for many years, made it a practice to read through the Bible once ever year.... My custom is, to read four to five chapters every morning immediately after rising from my bed. I employs about an hour of my time...."

July 4, 1821

"The highest glory of the American Revolution was this; it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.