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I'd much rather have my kid sing songs about Satan and give fealty to Satan than ever think that there is any truth to christ, or god, or any of the other insane institutions of christian nut-jobbery.

That's extremely sad and worse than almost any form of child abuse I've ever read about. Forcing these dumb gullible kids to believe in christ-y nonsense which not only will never help them deal with real life, but will poison their minds against other people and polarize their viewpoints into arthritic rigidity and disgusting bigotry. It's sick.

I've always considered Ohio a worthless bastion of assholery but I never thought they would stoop to such horrible brainwashing of youngsters. Any parent worth being called a parent would and should pull their kids out of that school and that horrible abusive situation as fast as humanly possible.

Hmmm Jesus is probably more well behaved, but hello kitty is fluffier and wears nice bows. It's a tough one. How about Jesus H. Kitty. Combine the best of both into one super-overstuffed fluffy architype.

Well Darwin never said we came from monkeys, but that homo sapiens are related to a relative that branched off from monkeys. And I don't get why people are "insulted" to believe we may be related to monkeys and primates or other animals.

Humans are animals. We're on the same spectrum, we're as much a part of the animal kingdom as monkeys, giraffes, and lions and zebras. And that, to me, is pretty damn beautiful. We're not some special Saintly concoction of unicorn farts and sunshine - we're animals and we're related to other animals. What's so difficult to accept about that????

If I remember right, Darwin wasn't anti-religion and was in fact a constant church goer. So when I recently saw a bumper sticker showing Darwin's gravestone and stating "Guess Darwin found out he was WRONG," it left me utterly scratching my head.

Darwin didn't say anything about god not existing or that evolution meant that god didn't exist. For him, I'm sure, evolution was the process god himself designed to propogate life forms and diversity on earth. I don't think religion and evolution have to be in competition with each other.

Well it may not always produce what we call perfection, certainly there are things about our bodies that could be better. But that doesn't mean it isn't an elegant and beautiful process.

What's amazing is that evolution is such a beautiful process. If anyone is of a religious bent, it should really only strengthen their beliefs, not threaten them in any way.

Disregard for evolution - the greatest evil ever perpetrated under the pretense of doing good for the world. I hate Jack Chick and his filthy pornographic little booklets.

Once I was helping an elderly couple to get fitted with needed medical equipment - the husband was off chatting up the pretty girls in the sales area.

Meanwhile the wife quietly slipped an anti-gay Jack Chick leaflet onto my desk. I'm not sure why, I am gay but it wasn't anything I was discussing with her or even had brought up. SO I took the leaflet and handed it back and said, "Please don't give me this. I deserve much better after all the help I've been giving you."

She seemed offended but I found her husband's lechery to be even more offensive, but I assume she didn't hand him a booklet about it.

It's a real gift to be able to change what you're dreaming from a nightmare into something pleasant. I wish I had that ability, I have nightmares most nights and have had ever since I was a kid (and am now 65).

On the one hand my nightmares are of such ghastly horrors and grotesque and disgusting - but on the other hand they've given me some great plots to some of my most horrifying stories.

Well best of luck with it and I hope you do get the answers that you need (and that your mom gets off your back!).

If as you suggest the AI in question can feel pain and suffer, of course I would care and not want it to have to experience that. Why would I? I'm not a sadist or a monster, or a Utah legislator without any human feelings.

It's like the scenario, "if you could get away with murdering one person, would you do it?" Of course I wouldn't!!! Whether or not I could get away with it, I still have to live with myself and what I do. And I have a thing called "morality" that I live with and a respect for life that goes beyond my own self-concern.

What do you REALLY want for dinner? Because my cat is so finicky and it's hard to predict what food she'll like, and one day she'll like something and the next turn her nose up at it.