I think your response was exemplary, Beth.
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Yes. I've always found it strange that England's patron saint had nothing to do with the country and never went there because, if he existed, it was probably in Turkey... When I was younger (up to the early 80s), you never saw a St. George's cross flag and the Union Jack was much less ubiquitous than now. Maybe as their global significance wanes (and they finally realize it), the English feel
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"Americans have deep spiritual beliefs that total solar eclipses are either very bad omens and or bring a time of transition and rebirth." Deep beliefs prove nothing.
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I still think my point stands, however. Scientists may be dogmatic, but the fault lies in them, not in science or the scientific method - which is, indeed, just a method.
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Bradley said: "The scientific method is gate-kept to a degree that Science is just as dogmatic as religion". I don't think this is true. Science is the study of reality, i.e. what really happens. The scientific method is a set of ways to avoid error (including self-induced and self-reinforced error). That's all. If science is dogmatic, then reality is dogmatic.
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Henry, you have a ghawd-given talent for making everything boring. You make sweeping statements and impose requirements on others, while not really debating at all. There are many countries (including France where I live) which are not religious (or even anti-religious) but which still have a moral outlook. All you have to do is look.
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Yes. Nobody else seems interested in it, anyway ;-)
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I think you're right :-)
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What use is a Bentley out on the 'Arizona/Utah border'? A Range Rover, sure, why not, but... a Bentley?
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And then I read the end! Nice one! All the best to you, Selina!
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Well... He was full of gas... and it came to pass...
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Is he in Lima? I have nevermo in-law family in Lima if he ever needs help.
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"doing mormon things for mormon reasons and feeling smug about it." You're on form, Sir!
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They used to be able to. The book about Joe Jr's wives, In Sacred Loneliness, recounts quite a few occasions, including women speaking in tongues. I wonder when that changed?
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I watch you all talking about moving vast distances to different climate zones and my thought is: THIS is one of the major things which the European Union also gives its citizens - and one of the things which Brexit has made very difficult for Brits... Unrelated but religiously-interesting anecdote: one of my best friends from Paris is actually an American who did 7 years of catholic seminary
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I don't know whether you say it every year, Nightingale, but every year it's true ;-) Except that the weather is set to break tomorrow, just in time for the weekend :-/
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