Frown all you like

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Frown all you like

Fox — 1/23/2007 2:46:49 AM (archived)

You will not end religion, any more than religion will end science (and other exercises of pure reason, among which your posts in this thread are not included). Meanwhile, you are arguing from stereotype -- essentially, wasting electrons and HZ server space.

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Little Mosque on the Prairie - Laurie Street - 1/18/2007 8:24:36 PM
- re: Little Mosques Everywhere is what they aim for. - SDF - 1/19/2007 3:14:41 AM
  - re: Little Mosques Everywhere is what they aim for. - Laurie Street - 1/19/2007 6:41:57 PM
    - I don't get the joke. Maybe you could explain it to me. (n/t) - SDF - 1/19/2007 11:22:21 PM
      - No, sorry. (n/t) - Laurie Street - 1/19/2007 11:33:24 PM
        
        You knew the question was a set-up, didn't you? - Mary Anne - 1/20/2007 10:30:11 PM
        
        re: You knew the question was a set-up, didn't you? - Laurie Street - 1/21/2007 12:37:28 AM
        
        No need... - Mary Anne - 1/21/2007 7:11:32 PM
        
        Is their clever juxtaposition too easily interpreted as negative? - SDF - 1/20/2007 2:27:27 AM
        
        Let me take a shot at it. - Mary Anne - 1/20/2007 3:34:28 AM
        
        I think their joke is more juvenile than you suggest. - SDF - 1/20/2007 1:46:35 PM
        
        re: I think their joke is more juvenile than you suggest. - Martha - 1/22/2007 1:37:17 PM
        
        Quite the opposite - Laurie Street - 1/22/2007 5:04:57 PM
        
        re: Quite the opposite - Martha - 1/22/2007 6:15:52 PM
        
        re: Quite the opposite - Laurie Street - 1/22/2007 6:22:41 PM
        
        THANK GOD WE dont start wars.... (n/t) - R.L. - 1/21/2007 10:00:58 AM
        
        There's war mongers everywhere.... however few have support - SDF - 1/21/2007 2:31:42 PM
        
        re: There's war mongers everywhere.... however few have support - Martha - 1/22/2007 1:41:04 PM
        
        All insult humor is name-calling. - Mary Anne - 1/20/2007 7:39:05 PM
        
        No, just read the news. - Lee - 1/20/2007 8:15:41 PM
        
        Naturally. If one white man shoots someone, does that make white men murderers? - Mary Anne - 1/20/2007 10:28:04 PM
        
        If one white man shoots someone, it is usually for isolated and unique reasons. - SDF - 1/21/2007 1:39:59 AM
        
        Ah. You must have missed Ireland (Christian on Christian) & the ethnic cleansing in Sarajevo (Christian on Muslim). - Mary Anne - 1/21/2007 2:52:10 AM
        
        Numbers - TB - 1/24/2007 8:08:25 PM
        
        Proportions - Mary Anne - 1/25/2007 10:42:00 PM
        
        re: Proportions - TB - 1/26/2007 8:02:24 AM
        
        Ping-pong ball - Mary Anne - 1/26/2007 1:30:49 PM
        
        Numbers. Again. - TB - 1/27/2007 3:40:35 AM
        
        The Romans were not religious fanatics. - Mary Anne - 1/27/2007 10:03:41 PM
        
        re: Ping-pong ball - Laurie Street - 1/26/2007 4:59:32 PM
        
        Yes, let's talk about racial violence. - Lee - 1/21/2007 7:53:35 AM
        
        Give me numbers not gathered from Aryan Nation and its friends, and we'll talk. - Mary Anne - 1/21/2007 3:09:02 PM
        
        Well, religion is as religion does, eh? - SDF - 1/21/2007 4:27:56 AM
        
        Soviet atheism preserved Bosnia? That's a new one. (n/t) - alcaray - 1/23/2007 7:31:21 PM
        
        Muslims in the news. - Mary Anne - 1/21/2007 4:49:35 AM
        
        I would suggest that religious belief should be frowned upon - SDF - 1/21/2007 12:04:57 PM
        
        Frown all you like - Fox - 1/23/2007 2:46:49 AM
        
        re: Frown all you like....exactly (n/t) - Martha - 1/23/2007 5:29:07 PM
        
        And you hate them. This doesn't make you better than haters on the other side. - Mary Anne - 1/21/2007 3:12:46 PM
        
        It does make me better than them, because I'm honest - SDF - 1/21/2007 7:07:11 PM
        
        re: It does make me better than them, because I'm honest - Martha - 1/22/2007 1:30:25 PM
        
        LOLOL - Mary Anne - 1/21/2007 7:22:38 PM
        
        I think belief does imply lying if it fails to acknowledge contradictions. - SDF - 1/21/2007 10:58:42 PM
        
        Ah, yes: the Literalist Fallacy - Fox - 1/23/2007 3:13:30 AM
        
        re: Ah, yes: the Literalist Fallacy - Martha - 1/23/2007 5:31:19 PM
        
        I also think religious-oriented tv programs have no place in an educated society - SDF - 1/20/2007 5:44:12 PM
        
        re: I also think religious-oriented tv programs have no place in an educated society - Martha - 1/24/2007 3:05:22 PM
        
        There is only one true religion - alcaray - 1/24/2007 11:24:37 PM
        
        Is that the god, planet or band thou speaketh off?..... (n/t) - Martha - 1/25/2007 2:21:06 AM
        
        Assyrian and Babylonian god. - alcaray - 1/25/2007 4:51:05 PM
        
        None of the above. - Mary Anne - 1/25/2007 2:56:47 AM
        
        THAT was great!!!!!!! (n/t) - Martha - 1/25/2007 4:04:21 AM
        
        What the hell is a Marduk??:) (n/t) - Martha - 1/25/2007 2:11:20 AM
        
        BTW....May The Force be with You;) (n/t) - Martha - 1/25/2007 2:13:44 AM
        
        You obviously have never watched "What Not To Wear". - Mary Anne - 1/20/2007 7:31:04 PM
  - Were the prieviews really religious? The clip I heard on the radio was not. (n/t) - alcaray - 1/19/2007 5:31:23 PM
    - Was Seinfeld a Jewish show? Or The Sopranos a Catholic show? (n/t) - Laurie Street - 1/19/2007 6:32:45 PM
      - I know. - alcaray - 1/19/2007 6:53:33 PM
        
        re: I know. - Laurie Street - 1/19/2007 8:54:21 PM
- re: Little Mosque on the Prairie - TB - 1/18/2007 9:04:57 PM
  - re: Little Mosque on the Prairie - Laurie Street - 1/19/2007 6:35:02 PM
  - Really? - Robert - 1/19/2007 4:32:55 PM
    - re: Really. - TB - 1/19/2007 8:44:17 PM
      - re: Really. - Robert - 1/19/2007 11:39:22 PM
        
        Figured it wouldn't be worth the trouble. (n/t) - TB - 1/19/2007 11:49:02 PM
        
        Some additional thoughts - Robert - 1/20/2007 7:40:16 PM
        
        re: Some additional thoughts - TB - 1/20/2007 9:09:21 PM
- I heard excerpts of this show on Fresh Air - alcaray - 1/18/2007 9:00:46 PM

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