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[bagheera]

Alright! :) This will be my first official entry since the introduction. I am excited to be posting again, and I think one change I would like to see in what I will be posting on here (as compared to how I used to before) is... I would like to start posting more on "relevent" matters, instead of trivial bits about my day-to-day life or pointless

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[fuenteviva]

Satanic CEO's? Were they all the Jewish ones? I thought religious conservatives generally cast wealthy executives as being blessed with prosperity for their faith

[bagheera]

Yes, I actually quite vividly recall the "Satanic CEOs" church pamphlet because I was in high school, I read it, was concerned, posted it on a forum I was involved in at the time, and the forum's admin banned me for "Discrimination against religions" (think she meant discrimination against Satanists... but whatever; it was something stupid like that

[lsclayene]

Yup, fundamentalism is ALWAYS a bad thing. Just look everywhere: was it religious or not, you have ideas that can have a good side, but as soon as there's integrism, they become dangerous in one way or another. For our freedom for example.

Yes, evolution is a fact (I used to draw dinosaur, I know a bit how paleontology works), and all isn't know yet about evolution. But isn't it the purpose of science to refine the explanations of facts by searching for other facts and testing the current knowledges on those new facts?

BTW, I'm a deist, and an artist, and I'm drawing a fantasy comics, and to quote what a deity says in my stories: "No God has got the right to intervene in the evolution of life in any world. Life will perfectly manage by itself" - meaning: the existence (or not) of a God has nothing to do with the evolution of species.

Cheers!

[shimmerhawk]

Yeah, I think those types of 'Christian' ideas are pretty disturbing. Sadly things like that give all Christians a bad name when we're not all crazy fundamentalists trying to teach creation as science. I'm a Christian and I also believe in evolution. I think evolution is the process God put in place to bring about life, and science won't ever find evidence of God there, because it's not like some big hand reaches down and moves stuff around. It's something that goes on underneath the surface and that's the whole point of faith

[bagheera]

Hey shimmie! :) yYs, I recall a journal entry of yours a couple years back, something about a guy at your church who thought Neanderthals weren't human, I think? I don't recall too much details, my apologies

[bagheera]

Take the Bible for example. Theologists now argue that there were as many as five different authors, and the story of Genesis actually had two different versions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_creation_myth). Let us assume for a moment that the Bible is not written by men who had heard the voice of God, but is rather a mere creation of superstitious men who believed in the existance of a God so strongly that they made these tales to support their claims, then... what does that leave modern Cristianity with? Or any religion for that matter? Nothing, in my opinion, aside from the possibility that, yes, there may be supernatural entities/deities out there. And that possibility will always be open. But all the elaborate belief system, rituals, religious moral teachings, all of that would be reduced to nothing

[shimmerhawk]

Again, I believe that God had a hand in directing the writing of the Bible

[delphshadow]

I know I'm totally wandering in late to the party on this entry (I'm a fan of your artwork and just recently followed links to your LJ) but I wanted to make a minor point of order on the entire entry that actually has little to do with the main topic: under no interpretation of the words can America fairly be described as having been founded on the separation of church and state. Functionally, America is not a theocracy and the state is expressly forbidden under the First Amendment from directly interfering with religious practices but that is as far as the separation goes. The phrase "separation of church and state" has become widespread and well-known but it describes the sentiments of one Founding Father who did not participate in the writing of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and further, was engaged in writing a friendly letter to Baptists who at that time were still being unofficially mistreated by the majority Congregationalist state government. In essence, the phrase was lifted carefully from its context and used for