From: DaveInLakeVilla@webtv.net   
      
   'Calls to have faith, only made because bounte- ous evidence exists that   
   religious tales are simply make believe.'   
      
   REPLY:  Faith needs to be based on reason, not blind faith.  It is fully   
   rational to believe in what science has said all along : That life can   
   only come from life itself and not from dead non personal materials.  To   
   think that this well engineered Universe, solar system, earth, DNA,   
   etc... just happened by complete accident for no good purpose ... is   
   tantamount to a very unreasonable Faith often based on personal   
   ulterior motives -- an apriori philisophical bias.   
      
   'Of note, religions can encourage actions which can be beneficial to   
   humankind in some ways, but unfortunately, they can also encourage   
   actions which can be harmful to humankind in many ways, so harmful that   
   the benefit and the promises aren't worth it.'   
      
   REPLY:  Well put ;  there has been none so destructive to society , both   
   past and current, than the secular religion of Atheism.  Just in the   
   20th century alone have been some of the worst tyrants in history   
   mudering hundreds of millions collectively.  Today, the root cause of   
   atheisms faith that mankind is just the product of ancient pond scum   
   has led to the murdering of some 4,000 developing unborn future   
   americans PER DAY  in the name of sexual 'freedom'  so hedonism can   
   continue to prosper at the expense of human life.  Virtually every   
   societal vice today, can be traced to the actual philosophies and tenets   
   of atheism practiced by such adherents .   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)