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Just for fun (and to liven the place up a bit) if you were able to ask anyone (past or present, famous or not) to join you for dinner and a debate on religion, who would you invite - and what questions would you put to whom?
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Ha! Yes, I've said that before, Rojash. The Book of Mormon is a bit suspect isn't it.
I think perhaps my question wasn't clear. You don't have to choose just one person - you can invite as many as you like to this dinner - and they don't all have to be well known, so you can have a few abers there if you like.
I think perhaps my question wasn't clear. You don't have to choose just one person - you can invite as many as you like to this dinner - and they don't all have to be well known, so you can have a few abers there if you like.
jesus
waldo
chakka
theland
keyplus
mohammed
china doll
ankou
so jesus, the problem is, i forgot to go to oddbins. can you turn this water into wine ?
china, red or white ?
keyplus, just water ?
waldo and chakka can keyplus sit between you and hold hands with you ?
theland, hi meet my old school friend mohammed, he wants to convert to a catholic, waddya reckon ?
waldo
chakka
theland
keyplus
mohammed
china doll
ankou
so jesus, the problem is, i forgot to go to oddbins. can you turn this water into wine ?
china, red or white ?
keyplus, just water ?
waldo and chakka can keyplus sit between you and hold hands with you ?
theland, hi meet my old school friend mohammed, he wants to convert to a catholic, waddya reckon ?
Gosh, Ankou, I'm flattered and accept.
Don't know about holding hands, though. Some religionist might think we're starting a seance.
I would put up for discusion that observation by the late, brilliant and much missed Sir Peter Medawar OM FRS FBA who said:
The price in blood and tears that mankind generally has had to pay for the comfort and spiritual refreshment that religioin has brought to a few has been too great to justify entrusting moral accountancy to religious belief.
Don't know about holding hands, though. Some religionist might think we're starting a seance.
I would put up for discusion that observation by the late, brilliant and much missed Sir Peter Medawar OM FRS FBA who said:
The price in blood and tears that mankind generally has had to pay for the comfort and spiritual refreshment that religioin has brought to a few has been too great to justify entrusting moral accountancy to religious belief.
Funny how easilly we skip over the obvious. I presumed you'd be the hostess with the mostess of course.
I would invite based upon certain discussion areas of religion I find interesting . For example, whenever a discussion crops up about the astronomical body count brought about through wars, inquisitions, stonings, terrorist actions all in the name of religion and fanatical bloodthirstiness of religious fundamentalists, 3 names are invariably brought up by religionists in their defence - "Well you athiests are just as bad" they say - "What about all those killed by Stalin, Hitler, and Pol Pot?"
So I would invite those 3 ( on a takeaway basis obviously) and ask them the relevant question in those circumstances; "Did you kill all your millions of victims in the name of atheism?", I would ask, " Or is that contention total ********?"
I would invite Ken Ham, he of the infamous Creationist Museum in Kentucky, with its animatronic dinosaurs with saddles ( proof positive that humans and dinosaurs coexisted), along with Richard Dawkins, to discuss the absurdity of Young Earth Creationism in the light of all the scientific evidence to the contrary.
Carl Sagan, just cos he would be entertaining and proof positive that one can view the universe as endlessly fascinating and majestic,without invoking supernatural supervision.
Behe and Bembski, those ludicrous proponents of Intelligent Design, to relive their famous court defeat during the Kitzmiller vs Dover Area School District, and once again have explained to them by Ken Miller, and just for a laugh Stephen Jay Gould just how preposterous the idea of Irreducible Complexity actually is.
Finally, Salman Rushdie and Mohammed the prophet, just to see if Mohammed would really go fatwah on Rushdies ass. :)
So I would invite those 3 ( on a takeaway basis obviously) and ask them the relevant question in those circumstances; "Did you kill all your millions of victims in the name of atheism?", I would ask, " Or is that contention total ********?"
I would invite Ken Ham, he of the infamous Creationist Museum in Kentucky, with its animatronic dinosaurs with saddles ( proof positive that humans and dinosaurs coexisted), along with Richard Dawkins, to discuss the absurdity of Young Earth Creationism in the light of all the scientific evidence to the contrary.
Carl Sagan, just cos he would be entertaining and proof positive that one can view the universe as endlessly fascinating and majestic,without invoking supernatural supervision.
Behe and Bembski, those ludicrous proponents of Intelligent Design, to relive their famous court defeat during the Kitzmiller vs Dover Area School District, and once again have explained to them by Ken Miller, and just for a laugh Stephen Jay Gould just how preposterous the idea of Irreducible Complexity actually is.
Finally, Salman Rushdie and Mohammed the prophet, just to see if Mohammed would really go fatwah on Rushdies ass. :)
he might be. a man after me own heart.
"If, however, he [Rowan Williams] really wants to bring peace and stability to the world, if he really believes Britain can be a force for good and a shining beacon in troubled times, then I urge him to close the Church of England.
If we can demonstrate that we can survive without a church - and when you note 750,000 more people went online shopping on Christmas Day than went to church, you could argue we already do - then, who knows, maybe the mullahs and the left-footers will follow suit."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/colum nists/jeremy_clarkson/article3107633.ece
"If, however, he [Rowan Williams] really wants to bring peace and stability to the world, if he really believes Britain can be a force for good and a shining beacon in troubled times, then I urge him to close the Church of England.
If we can demonstrate that we can survive without a church - and when you note 750,000 more people went online shopping on Christmas Day than went to church, you could argue we already do - then, who knows, maybe the mullahs and the left-footers will follow suit."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/colum nists/jeremy_clarkson/article3107633.ece
I like this question!
Mother Teresa, and I'd ask her why she told all the poor people in her 'care' to pray in order to get well. Why, when she herself was ill, she chose to travel first class to one of the best hospitals. Why she refused to state where a lot of her donations came from. (Very shady, some of those donations.)
Mother Teresa, and I'd ask her why she told all the poor people in her 'care' to pray in order to get well. Why, when she herself was ill, she chose to travel first class to one of the best hospitals. Why she refused to state where a lot of her donations came from. (Very shady, some of those donations.)
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