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April 4, 2020 at 7:00 pm
Never heard of him, so I looked him up. Seems like a good guy.
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April 4, 2020 at 7:06 pm
I am surprised. I've known of him since the mid 2000s.
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April 4, 2020 at 7:07 pm
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(April 4, 2020 at 7:06 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I am surprised. I've known of him since the mid 2000s.
Bully for you. I confess to not being terribly interested in atheist activism.
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April 4, 2020 at 7:52 pm
Yeah, quiz shows are another thing that don’t interest me.
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April 4, 2020 at 7:59 pm
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(April 4, 2020 at 7:49 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Here is a link to the questions and stats, but not video.
http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=6591
Oh and for those who hate Blondie, unrelated, I was watching tonight's episode and her song "The Tide Is High" was an answer to one of the questions.
‘Their song’, not ‘her song’. Blondie is the name of the group, not the singer.
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April 4, 2020 at 8:22 pm
My wife was watching Jeopardy the other day, and I recognized Hemant on the panel. I don't know how he or the others did, because TV is way low on my list of things to pay attention to...and I left the room.
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April 4, 2020 at 8:24 pm
I thought he was an orchestra conductor.
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April 5, 2020 at 6:47 am
(April 4, 2020 at 6:55 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Hemant Mehta , famed atheist activist was a 2 day champion on the game show.
But how is this even possible? Are you saying that people can win contests without praying? So he beat other players some of whom probably prayed to God for victory and yet they lost to non praying person. Seems that non praying is more powerful than praying.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
