response 25 of 43:

Feb 6 19:15 UTC 2006

There are examples of non-Muslims engaged in widespead violent 
demonstrations against *specific* targets because their religous 
sensibilities are offended, even if not by a cartoon. Consider violence 
against abortion clinics and some other home-brew American terrorism.

But even these are not responses of objection is just symbolism.

I expect that Islam does not have a childhood saying that "sticks and 
stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me", although many 
Muslims may in fact practice that.

response 27 of 43:

Feb 6 20:06 UTC 2006

I thought Pope John said Jews who don't need to believe in Christ will 
necessarily be damned.  I RW lying again??  Naughty boy.

(And Curl is getting into the act, too.  "Widespread violent" 
demonstrations at abortion clinics??  "Widespread" religiously 
motivated terrorism??  Where??  When??)

response 29 of 43:

Feb 6 20:56 UTC 2006

One Christian answer to that is "some who *call* themselves Christians go to
Hell, but those who are truly Christians do not." (The proper interpretation of
the relevant texts is constantly under debate.) Some other Christians (with
some overlap) believe that some Christians go to a place called Purgatory after
they die, which is like Hell except that it has an end, after which they go to
Heaven.

response 31 of 43:

Feb 6 22:26 UTC 2006

Jim was taught that Jews are not allowed into Heaven.  They get a chance to
realize their errors at the gate of Heaven and if they were a good person and
just mistakenly Jewish they can admit they were wrong and go through.

The difference between science and religion is that scientists are all trying
to come to an answer they can all agree upon and religions all disagree.

response 33 of 43:

Feb 6 22:35 UTC 2006

...and the temple must be rebuilt.

response 35 of 43:

Feb 6 22:49 UTC 2006

Re #31: If scientists were all trying to come to an answer they can all agree
on we would be nowhere. Science claims to be trying to find the *right* (i.e.
correct) answers whether they fit political or religious paradigms or not.
Religions all disagree (mostly) because they claim to know certain things to be
absolutely true, and each one's list doesn't match the others'.

response 37 of 43:

Feb 6 23:19 UTC 2006

If you define "reality" to be "what can be deduced or proven by repeated
experiment", perhaps. But religious doctrine (for Christianity, at least) is
about how one particular (unique, so you can't do experiments to take the
average of how people of this type react to get Laws like you can in the social
sciences) Person has dealt with humanity throughout history and has promised to
deal with humanity in the future. In my experience it's matched reality better
than any purely "scientific" explanation.

response 39 of 43:

Feb 6 23:23 UTC 2006

What Would Frodo Do?

response 41 of 43:

Feb 7 06:11 UTC 2006

I'll wait for the peer review....

response 43 of 43:

May 16 23:52 UTC 2006

HACKED BY GNAA LOL JEWS DID WTC LOL