Recent content by steve_bank

Ok...what is truth? Inquiring minds ant to know. Is the truth always provable and based in evidence? Does evidence and facts always lead to trtuh?

Let me think...yes I've got it now! I am conscious because I have consciousness. End of debate. I an aware because I have awareness! Awareness is the state of being aware! Being aware is the result of having awareness! I missed my calling, I should have been a philosopher.

To the OP most people did not have slaves. Slaves were a luxury that cost money. Yes te vast majority were Christian orb a theist belief. Like Deism. That most people did not have slaves does not mean that most people were against slavery. Or that most people were not racists.

In the context of colonial British experience the 2nd Amendment was intended to have an armed population as a hedge against an abusive government, and to support militia as a ready reserve. The founders did not want a standing army that could be used against the people and for militray...

There were Christian leaders who opposed Hitler and suffered for it. But Christian leaders in general jumped on the Nazi platform for power. There were Christians who opposed slavery but the North was not decidedly anti slavery. Lincoln;s political skill was walking a fine political line in the...

Un fucking believable Lion, is this your Christian morality? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_prostitution Ancient Jews had prostitution and god did not prohibit it , so it must be Ok right? Lion would you mind saying what country you live in?

From a bio AE had help from mathematicians and peer reviews, he did notwork in isolation on relativity. All they had were slide rules, mechanical calculators, along with paper and pencil/ A bit of computational trivia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta Solving both linear and non linear...

The wave-particle duality. When propagating in space we model ilight as a wave with electrc and magnetic fields. When interacting with matter we model it as a particle with a wavelength. AE demonstrated the quantization of light in the Photoelectric Effect. It is what made him famous. AE...

I have seen animations of continental drift in shows...

Makes my chronic point. Not all, atheists can be as squirrely, , defensive, and emotional when self image is challenged.

You are 'going off the rails ' so to speak. Grasping at straws trying to get around your inference that most 19th century Christians were not pro slavery. Incoherent babbling. Should a slave be punished for raping a slave? Where the hell does that come from? Sounds like a biblical interpretation.

Keep in mind slaves were not cheap to buy or own. Most Christians or anyone else probably could not afford slaves. Jefferson, and Washington were upscale slave owners.

I do not advocate anyone 'going away' for anything other than TOU violations. Use ignore.

That Christianity was dominant in the 19th century is historical L fact. Protestants dominated and both Catholics and Jews were disdained. If yiu look at the signers f the Declaration Of Independence you will see a number of Deists who were not Christian...

~R Jews tracing back to the diaspora post fall of Israel under Rome have a rich history of philosophers. Their culture has never been a monolithic culture unchanging to today. I read Guide For The Perplexed by 12th century Jew Maimonides. He was know for building bridges between Jews, Greek...