Quote:Welcome to the forum! How is living in North Carolina? I've been there before to Asheville and it was pretty nice.
Its pretty nice overall. I am an avid mountain biker and there are tons of opportunities for great riding around here. I also like hiking and rock climbing and both are also good here. The oppressive heat in July and Aug is kind of a bummer but you just kind of suffer through it and then the rest of the year the weather is pretty good.
(June 14, 2013 at 1:17 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Welcome. I often envy people who were raised without religion, but being brought up Christian also gives me plenty of ammo to argue against Christian arguments. It also nullifies the "If you'd just accept Jesus into your heart..." nonsense.
In a lot of ways its really nice (and I do appreciate my parents for it) but you are right that I have a hard time debating with Christians since I was never one of them. I also have a really hard time just comprehending how people can believe in religions of all kinds since I have never had a belief in anything like that so it's just a totally foreign concept to me. I think people who have at least at one time believed have an easier time understanding how people can believe the things they do.
Quote:The Dawkins forum got dumped quite a while ago. Just wiped out of existence without giving any of their members any warning. Really upset a lot of people. The survivors started some other forum. Can't remember now what it's called. I stopped in to offer my condolences but didn't stick around.
I heard about that. I had already quit posting there because it got hard to follow before that happened but I did hear about it happening and was sorry to hear about it.
Quote:Bon jour, mon ami. I tried the Dawkins site for a few days and couldn't keep up with the traffic....you'd post something and come back two hours later and it was buried under 3 pages of replies. Just crazy.
It was a very busy site and some people got very lengthy with their replies and opinions. It was hard to keep up with.
Thanks for the welcomes everyone.....
