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:P I have uni tomorrow at any rate ... By the way! Speaking of atheism and agnosticism and the Bible You may find this interesting: YouTube - Christopher Hitchens Owns the Christian Book Expo 2009

I'm not sure, to be honest. :P Perhaps writing, academics, etc. I'm really not sure. Typical arts student, I guess. Why won't anyone respond to my thread? ... I'm bored and I want to argue with people. :P

Probably further study, I guess. I'm majoring in Italian so I'd like to go maybe to Italy to study philosophy or history or something, do a masters and such. Would be an adventure, at any rate. :P

Ah, it's a very nice looking place, it's more convenient to travel to from the suburbs and it's a great uni, facilities are nice. :) And wow, lots of maths and science. Jolly good. :P I suppose it's all more useful than artsy stuff. :P

Fair enough. USyd is a very nice place but I say that because I go there. :P What HSC subjects are you doing?

Science-related? So you'll be leaning towards UNSW as opposed to USYD?

Um, I did 4 Unit English, Ancient History, History Extension, Maths and Legal Studies. :) And yes I think it was my parents. I was essentially a social experiment, of sorts. :P What are you looking at doing at uni?

I got 89.10 as a UAI. I was 14 when I did it though. I was accelerated through primary school, so I started high school when I was 7 I think. It was hard at times and awesome at others, but socially it can really mess you up. Uni is great, though. It's not as hard when you get there, because I...

Yeah, exactly. They are hugely blurred, to be honest. I don't believe in a higher being because there is no rational or scientific evidence that there is one, but that is not to say that there isn't one, it just means that the ones that currently are worshipped are not supported by a shred of...

I suppose I can. That being said, there are many homosexuals worldwide that cannot and I take issue with that fact, because it is made so by an almost exclusively religious influence. Well the first deities we see emerging in human history tend to be extremely rudimentary earth-mother sorts of...

Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens really are great thinkers on the subject to look at. :) Um, in terms of agnosticism and atheism, I really think of atheism as a lack of belief due to a lack of evidence. That is, I am an atheist and not an agnostic because I believe that there is [a]...

@Lentern You jump from point to point to point with little continuity and I am struggling to see what you're actually trying to say here, but I take issue with this: What does the serious Christian read it as? A background guide? A nice little history? So you claim no 'serious' Christians...

Um ... none. Isn't that rather obvious?

Well clearly not the only one. It is riddled with flaws, but this is one of the ones that would stand even if one did believe blindly in the circular logic of the Bible. I could not agree more. However I wasn't suggesting that this proves that there is no God, it is, however, one of the flaws...

Well I was specifically addressing followers of the Abrahamic religions, if I did not make that clear then my apologies. Ideas such as the god of Spinoza or Einstein are far more plausible than the interventionist Gods of the Abrahamic religions. I would question, however, whether such a God...

That is absurd. Because some people that are unwilling to confront the realities of the world, both scientific and moral, do not wish to change, the rest of those who suffer discrimination at the hands of a governmental system dominated by such ideology (homosexuals being the prime example...

More specific in purpose, however. Why should such nonsense hold any sway over the actions and branches of a secular government?

Religion emerged 4000 years ago, claiming that God loved us all and created us. This makes no sense as for quite probably 200,000 years previously, modern humans died painfully of simple bodily infections with high rates of death in early childhood and disgusting living conditions and he, if...

Mainly pointing out the flaw of a nonsensical ideology that currently holds an inordinate amount of control over the legislative and executive governmental arms of many apparently secular nations, such as ours and America. I did edit the original post to pose the question more directly, thank...

Let me ask a question of those that follow the main monotheistic religions here (Judaism, Christianity, Islam). God is omnipotent, omni-benevolent and omniscient? Yes? Good. Now whilst it is basically a fact that modern humans have been around for the past 200,000 years (that is, in our...