Recent content by sailormandave

...practice (open to atheists too)? "When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again." (Exodus 21:7-11 NLT)

Sounds typical of may "conversations"

Probably people using their religious beliefs to justify enormous negative impacts on other people and feel good about it. One example was a question posted here where some people were trying to get someone fired for their job, for reasons that had nothing to do with this person's ability to do...

Certainly many if not most historical accounts have a bias. It's the role of historians to look at the aggregate, see how it fits into other documented issues of the time, physical evidence, etc to determine how confident they are in any given report. A historical problem with the bible is...

A lot there so hard to respond briefly. I disagree with his idea that science or knowledge make people worse off. What people choose to do with knowledge or science may sometimes make some people worse off, but that is not the fault of the science or people who made a discovery public...