Hello, Anyone interested in a debate?

[Anima]

Well, you certainly like to type words Anima ... but I haven't heard anything substantive. Like, religion gives you some higher sense or worth or whatever. Okay great, enjoy?

Alas not everything fits on a bumper sticker. As stated before I am not an evangelical. I do not agree with the gospel of wealth or that God gives you the warm fuzzies.

"It has been often said, very truely, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

I mean, anecdotes about daddy guiding you through childhood isn't the type of authoritarianism I'm talking about (so excuse me for saying, I see exactly no value in your analogy).

A shame. I would think you would be able to see some inherent truth in the lesson he endeavored to teach, by which historical authority is exists for a reason and that it one is better served understanding that reason than in just being opposed to said authority. Apparently not. Now I am concerned about putting things as a bumper sticker.

And with the whole myth thing (the implication being, if I'm reading you correctly, we all need myths) ... same old bullshit I hear from every other religious apologist. It's always been a silly argument, and it always will be (although that never stopped religionists)

Than we are on equal footing. As I have yet to hear anything new from your side as well. It is always a selfish argument to ignorance (I have not experienced it so it must not exist, since nothing exists which we have not experienced).

Anyway, cheers & best of luck ... and give Francis my best!

I will let him know upon his next visit to Arizona!