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No, it's because I'm an intelligent, coherent person and I have better things to do than waste my time explaining the elementary facets of the world to a person such as yourself.

Okay yeah you're an idiot.

We can conclusively say what behaviour causes suffering and which does not, which benefits society and which does not, which is productive and helpful and which is not; these are all potentialities for deriving ideas of morality that we can deal with even without a magic sky-man. i.e. killing...

Wow. This is potentially the most idiotic thing a person can say. The moral imperatives of religion are either entirely generic and obvious or completely disgusting or useless. Simply because a sky-man didn't hand it down to some murderous tribes thousands of years ago doesn't mean that there is...

... and anyone that doesn't tell him how pretty he is, or who is mean to his friends, or who he doesn't like when he wakes up this morning. He also says that women who are raped in a town should be stoned.

Perhaps even Epicurus? “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?" Quite frankly the idea of...

Tony Abbott is a pathetic, poor excuse for a rational human being, and it baffles me as to how anyone could wish him to be in charge.

No, not that I know of. I'm not agreeing to disagree, but rather admitting that the cross-thread slinging match we've carried into here has distracted attention from the actual subject; it is meaningless at this point and I shall leave it till the next time we find ourselves in disagreement on a...

You ask me to explain a quote that reads "I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world." and then reject my explanation as irrelevant and add your own strange comment about what Richard Dawkins has and hasn't experienced in his lifetime; why even...

Religion is wholly unscientific; it works from a claim of knowledge and frames the evidence thereof, and at the last ditch renders such claims of knowledge as somehow above logic or reason.

Quite frankly you're embarrassing yourself. Had you attempted to discuss with me I'd be happy to talk to you, but since your opening salvo was "You don't even believe in God so you can't even comment" and that's about the most coherent you got, I'll end this here. Until next time, I gleefully...

At this point you seem to be semi-rational. Education, social awareness, context, knowledge, these are all things that have served to limit the impact of such diseases in many countries are just as relevant in African countries as well; the problem is the objectivity of such education (many are...

Sure. If you feel as though your rudimentary insults and complete and utter lack of understanding of the point I was making, taking issues on face value and blatant use of logical fallacy translates into 'addressing' a statement, then you sure showed me.

Yes, sure. Throw idiotic phrases around, embarrass yourself suitably and then abandon the discussion when it actually turns to specific, factual assertions, as normal; rinse, repeat, etc. Any such conclusions are derived from poor use of statistics and misconception; it is not scientific.

.... you are an idiot.

Unscientific bullshit spread by the catholic church.

None. Again, the Holocaust is unacceptable, not due to some divine, unchanging morality, but because of the suffering involved, the damage done to the human race and the destructive impact that it had on society.

Not at all; morality is an invention of humanity to justify the biological realities that force them to act in certain ways. Killing others within your society, for example, leads to a breakdown of social bonds that endangers the entire group, etc. As such, we have been conditioned over...

Well yes, however Christianity has a vested interest in claiming that God is all-loving. To acknowledge otherwise would admit that, in the reality of the Bible's portrayal, God is omnipotent, omniscient and extremely capricious, at times. He loves selectively, forgives selectively, and even the...

I couldn't. I stopped at 3.