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“The Maple flower?”

“maple syrup.....­....”

“Question 3: What's the capital of New York City?”

“Considering she though Africa was a Country and not a Continent, ou are on solid ground with that bet. She also thought the UK and England were one and the same.”

“A beastly bunch of roughnecks slouching toward Washington to be born, yes.”

“Spot on!”

“Well to be fair, prior to that time, we had the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, which was carried by Muslims. Also, prior to WTC 1993, we have never had a major attack on civilians on U.S. soil. The public, and the government certainly had a right to some suspicions after WTC93. As such, I certainly don't remember an all-out campaign or accusations against muslims for OKC. Just the fact that people considered it a possibillty, based on prior actions, is not some great crime, in my opinion.”

“Exactly, and they lose.

I think the real reason they don't want to know the true census this time is the number of ethnic groups may actually have risen to a level they don't want to admit.

That means they would have to campaign and include groups their racist agenda won't support.”

“So the peace route = letting Afghanistan go to its own fate? Which will likely lead to even more deaths.

I am tired of people comparing Vietnam to Afghanistan, completely different wars, its fine if you want to argue we pull out but don't use Vietnam as your excuse.”

“I didn't make that assumption, so please don't put words in my mouth. I merely said that *many* (not all) atheists gravitate towards science. However much you may want to keep reiterating what the term "atheist" means, it does not detract from the fact that atheists do believe something, and that whatever anyone believes requires faith. Everyone has faith in an authority. That authority may be scientists, teachers, parents, God. It doesn't matter. Everyone has faith. The only question we need to ask ourselves is, "In what authority do I place my faith?"”

“It may be possible to say that atheism does not require faith, although I completely disagree. However, whatever anyone believes about anything does require faith. And atheists do believe something, usually based on scientific interpretation. Even though one may say that there are "data" that lead to certain "facts", those data are interpreted based on a set of presuppositions. One has to have faith that they have been taught and believe the correct presuppositions. One has to have faith that the method of interpretation is correct. One has to have faith about these things because no one can possibly know they are correct or true. How many things did Darwin believe were true based on his hard science that we now "know" are incorrect or false? How many things, one hundred years from now, will future people say we were morons for believing? No one alive today, or yesterday, or a hundred years ago, or a thousand years ago, was alive when the universe came into being, so no one actually "knows" anything about it. There is only belief based on interpretation of data, and that interpretation of data is based on a series of presuppositions. That is faith.”

“Excellent!!

I also do not believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy anymore.”

“Re: " Perhaps right now, some young Palestinian is being inspired by Obama's Nobel Peace Prize win to enter politics."

You may be right. And we wish them all the very best. Mr.Obama is a good example, isn't he??

Guess, we all have to do our part to help make that better World we all want and not expect that one US President will do all the work for us.

Cheers!

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“And pay them for doing so.”