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Some civic questions if you are bored. 1. Do you vote? If so, do you vote in both primary and general elections? Do you cast ballots in local as well as national elections? 2. Are you influenced (positively or negatively) by political ads? 3. What makes you vote for someone from...

Thank you.

1. I'm a secular religious, I guess. I'm a searcher who hasn't found anything. I visit, but I don't stay. I want to believe, but I don't. 2. I cherry pick from everything--Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Humanism, books, movies, paganism. overheard conversations, comedy acts--I...

Just a couple of questions on religion, spirituality and ritual 1. Do you consider yourself religious or spiritual or neither? (I wouldn't have asked whether anyone considered themselves religious a few years ago, because I had never much heard anyone call themselves religious...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/20/magazine/how-the-president-got-to-i-do-on-same-sex-marriage.html?hp&_r=0# Interesting article.

The paintings aren't horrible.

I was curious about your thoughts on forgiveness--both religious and secular. 1. What is your practical definition of forgiveness? 2. Is there a point where there is no more forgiveness to be given? 3. Do you have standing to forgive someone for a hurt they have done to someone else...

I don't expect anyone to speak up against every instance of sexism, racism, homophobia, etc. You would be spending your life doing that. Not all feminists are watching for every slight. I watch the pattern. I do find it somewhat odd that we are often encouraged to speak out on other forms...

^Definite :love: I want Fiona to kill them all off and reign Supreme forever. None of the girls are diva enough to be the Supreme although Myrtle does have the style to be.

Simply the greed of not only having it all but requiring a pedestal on which to enjoy it all. I guess, sometimes, it eases the transient guilt of fucking people over.

I think there are certainly "thought propagandists" who manipulate others with a facade of moral superiority as well as a illusion of unemotional (aka masculine) logic, knowing their followers will not look to the facts if the presentation is appealing enough. Besides, morality's just for the...

Seems that would be a logical error although, I guess. an easy enough mistake to make. However, the GOP's misuse of Christianity does not bestow "sainthood" (so to speak) on the atheist. Atheism does not eliminate (nor cause) character flaws. It's a descriptive that only deserves so much...

I'm pretty sure the only qualification for atheism is not to believe in a god of whatever stripe. It doesn't require any other characteristic. Why would anyone infer one?

Darwin's Dangerous Idea--Dennett The Ancestor's Tale--Dawkins