Well given the choice between reading CCS fanfic and further commenting on the links you provided to Jesus fanfic, I think you made the right choice. For fun, read through the articles posted and replace Christian with Wiccan, God with Thor, and Jesus with the Tooth Fairy. Thats how the arguments look to those not sharing a common faith. Those who dont rely of faith (belief without evidence) dont need this substitution.
I disagree with the decision concerning footbaths. However the link did provide a piece of information that was previously absent from the discourse. For the moment, purge your thoughts of imaginary friends; whether these are Judeo-Christian, Islamic, Norse or Pastafaric. The issue at hand was feet in a sink - and the result of feet in a sink - which was two-fold - clean feet and water splashed on the floor. The water on the floor was a safety issue - clean feet, to my knowledge, were not.
The solution goes too far. A mop in the corner would solve the problem as readily; and have not a jot of religious significance unless you happen to worship mops (with an inevitable schism by broomists). I found the article from freedomofphiladephia to be an exercise in fear mongering, including that always fun word Islamification. Any erosion of the boundary between state and church any church is to be fought; whether Islamic, Christian, Pastafarian, or any other festive variation of faith.
There is no god**; and in the uniquely improbable case that there is a god; there is no fucking way that a bunch of primitive meat-sacks somehow know the mind of that god. The holy texts from the Pentarch to the Synoptics, the Quran to the Book of Mormon, the Book of Law to the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti monster were written by these meat sacks. They were not revealed from a higher power; they were brought about by meat sacks with agendas. Those agendas are varied from tribal identity to wanting an excuse for porking other mens wives; but they are the agendas of meat sacks; not the desires of an omnipotent, omniscient, being/beings who moves in strange and staggeringly inefficient ways. Even worse, these meat sack agendas have not aged well as they are all products of the limited regions that they emerged from. The excuses for these are often banal from the inanity of the Satanic verses found within Islam to the pathetic excuses from the Christianities C.S. Lewis and Behe are nice example of these.
It all comes down to belief without evidence.
Shayne
** There is no evidence for the existence of god any god. If you think you have real evidence of god talk to the Templeton Foundation. You can be rich.
I disagree with the decision concerning footbaths. However the link did provide a piece of information that was previously absent from the discourse. For the moment, purge your thoughts of imaginary friends; whether these are Judeo-Christian, Islamic, Norse or Pastafaric. The issue at hand was feet in a sink - and the result of feet in a sink - which was two-fold - clean feet and water splashed on the floor. The water on the floor was a safety issue - clean feet, to my knowledge, were not.
The solution goes too far. A mop in the corner would solve the problem as readily; and have not a jot of religious significance unless you happen to worship mops (with an inevitable schism by broomists). I found the article from freedomofphiladephia to be an exercise in fear mongering, including that always fun word Islamification. Any erosion of the boundary between state and church any church is to be fought; whether Islamic, Christian, Pastafarian, or any other festive variation of faith.
There is no god**; and in the uniquely improbable case that there is a god; there is no fucking way that a bunch of primitive meat-sacks somehow know the mind of that god. The holy texts from the Pentarch to the Synoptics, the Quran to the Book of Mormon, the Book of Law to the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti monster were written by these meat sacks. They were not revealed from a higher power; they were brought about by meat sacks with agendas. Those agendas are varied from tribal identity to wanting an excuse for porking other mens wives; but they are the agendas of meat sacks; not the desires of an omnipotent, omniscient, being/beings who moves in strange and staggeringly inefficient ways. Even worse, these meat sack agendas have not aged well as they are all products of the limited regions that they emerged from. The excuses for these are often banal from the inanity of the Satanic verses found within Islam to the pathetic excuses from the Christianities C.S. Lewis and Behe are nice example of these.
It all comes down to belief without evidence.
Shayne
** There is no evidence for the existence of god any god. If you think you have real evidence of god talk to the Templeton Foundation. You can be rich.