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Overinterpretation embodies itself in a variety of ways, the smallest being organized religion, and the most radical being the jihadist who cite the Qur'An as a valid excuse to carry out their plight against the infidels.

Our nations political parties are bound and revolve around two concepts from the glorious Lakoff.The concept of the strict father, and the nurturing mother. Each is a different model of the family and the way the children are raised etc, moral order etc etc. (children being the citizens) And taking ...

I don't believe that the life (or potential life) of an embryo/fetus, an innocent entity, is something we should govern. People will argue that an embryo/fetus is part of the mother, which in my eyes is incorrect because the embryo/fetus is made up of genes contributed by the father as well. Some ...

I was wondering the other day if my parents can command a level of respect that goes beyond my own principles?

How did this come to my mind? My parents and I were out with this other family (a couple). The male brought his mother, who was talking about how her words are law and it doesn't matter ...

I have been googling, but I get get these rubbish from religious sites and these are two most common answer I got

Christian =/= Catholic
Christian = Catholic and at same time Catholic =/= Christian and vice versa


I thought it was Christianity =/= Catholic.

Forgive my ignorance and discuss.

Wait what? I don't get it.. can you like explain the joke for slow people like me? I'm sorry for killing the mood lol, but I'm not very good at understanding jokes you see :p

Congrats, nice of you to have found out about this wonderful site my friend. This is surely one of the best political forums to open up some new discussions, I'm sure everyone here is glad we now have one extra member to debate (or argue) with :D

Thanks for the welcome you gave us 1 year ago matt, ^^. I heard you got into university in another thread of yours, congratulations man! Hoping to get into a good one too myself, maybe in about a year or so. :D

Personally I think it's fine the way it is. Early on me and a group of people in my class were put in a math class 2 years ahead of our grade, I was doing Algebra in in 7th grade, and by the time I was a sophomore I had already done Trig/ Pre Calc. But realistically I think it all went too fast, I ...

No, Bin Laden is not 100% to blame. Bush is just as much to blame as anyone, if not more. He was told NOT to go to Iraq, but he decided to anyway despite the facts. Bush had a hidden agenda to take out Saddam that originates from when Saddam had put a death threat on Bush Sr. So in a sense, Bush ...