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(...) <snip> K, this has been alluded to, and I personally have no personal stake in it for I have no problem getting my appendix ripped out if it has to be... But we know-better-than-you...your-kids' who say you 'religious-fanatics' should do as we (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) **snip of some stuff** That's all well and good, but the point is that John asked for an example of a Xtian (or group thereof) in the past 100 years who killed innocent women or children, and I provided several examples. At any rate, I don't (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Fine. I agree. But who are you to say that I *may not* have it? Even if you're my parent. (...) Not really. In one case, superstitious zealots are killing innocents. In the other, superstitious zealots are killing innocents. I don't see a (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You may have whatever you want for you and your child, as, if and when I have them, I should be the responsible guardian for my child. (...) No, in one case the superzealots are killing innocents, ending lives that they themselves are not (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) But what I'm asking, is: what if the child wants medical treatment and the parent forbids it? (...) So if I see that a piano is falling from the seventh floor window right above you and I choose to say nothing -- letting you squash, that's OK? (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes: <snip> (...) If I backed the wrong horse and/or he doesn't exist (as proven in HHGTTG btw) then I have lived my life to the best of my ability for no other reason than it was the right thing to do. (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ooooh, now that's the real question--is the kid denying his or her faith? Then we have a situation--the kid wants the treatment. If the child understands the implications of forsaking her or his religion... if we believe that the child is (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Herbs have complex chemicals that are as yet poorly understood. Some of them are certainly medicinal. And "real doctors" have been practicing quackery through the ages. (...) Something being legal doesn't make it right. Slavery of negros was (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Right to whom? To yourself? That's mighty solipsistic of a professed Xtian. Regardless, Pascal's wager is no validation of faith whatsoever, unless one already believes and feels like he needs a reason to continue. (...) Well, quacks are (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) K, I was replying to someone who mentinoed that perhaps there is no God and that I'm wasting my time being a Christian. My answer, slightly tongue-in-cheek, was stating that 'so what?' If I get to the end of my life, living as a Christian and (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Correct. The "Big AMA Conspiracy" *actually* in effect is the one that restricts the supply of doctors in order to drive up the price of medical services. Classic cartel/union operation. (22 years ago, 8-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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A little terse, aren't we? (...) Yes, isn't it amazing how much better we know now than we did back then. And isn't it amazing how we can't possibly conceive that the future is going to be any better at making decisions than we do today. I always (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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