Sometimes I like to check in on this thread. Just to remind myself as to why I stopped being the village atheist, and moved on to more enjoyable things.
Couldn't resist the drive by snark though
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By the way the philosopher Stephen Law was hosted by our Humanist group this week in Iceland, great talk, one on his book Believing Bull####, and his lecture at the University on the battle for childrens minds.
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Not a very good precedent to give a non-Catholic, attention seeking fame whore a face to face with the Pope. Also likely destroys a good amount of the goodwill the Pope built up coming to America.
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The Vatican have now confirmed rumours that The Pope held a private meeting with Kim Davis and her husband during his US tour.
Rumours circulated that The Pope and Davis met at the Vatican embassy in Washington DC last week, where Davis was praised for her “courage” and told to “stay strong” by the Pope.
While Vatican spokesman Rev Federico Lombardi refused to confirm or deny the rumours at the time, a spokesman has since confirmed the news to The New York Times, though they offered no further information.
In a statement, Davis told Liberty Counsel, a Christian lobby group, that she has been “humbled” by the experience, saying: “I never thought I would meet the Pope. Who am I to have this rare opportunity? I am just a County Clerk who loves Jesus and desires with all my heart to serve him.”
Oh and of course in the capital area, and bigger cities people are overwhelmingly not religious, and all the small towns, small fishing villages, etc.. is where you find the religious, especially the few deeply religious we have.
Oh and of course in the capital area, and bigger cities people are overwhelmingly not religious, and all the small towns, small fishing villages, etc.. is where you find the religious, especially the few deeply religious we have.
Yes, but....8% are completely confident they exist, while only 13% are completely confident they don't exist, everyone else is in the middle somewhere:
The prevailing attitude seems to be "Now this god-business is right out, but I'm not ready to make a call on elves, yet." Is that anywhere close to accurate?
(Not hating here, Iceland produced Bjork and Sigur Ros, therefor I will love Iceland until the day I die).
Iceland moving in the right direction, the state church and the deeply religious are pretty upset and attacking us over this poll. Fun times
In the article they have weird numbers around the 0% believe God created the universe as it also states 10.1% believe that God created the universe. Is that supposed to be 0% believe in the literal biblical creation story and 10.1% believe in a deist God or a God was involved but not as creation
Edit:Reread it the 10.1% is the next oldest cohort.
Do you have the question they asked to obtain that 0%
Yes, but....8% are completely confident they exist, while only 13% are completely confident they don't exist, everyone else is in the middle somewhere:
The prevailing attitude seems to be "Now this god-business is right out, but I'm not ready to make a call on elves, yet." Is that anywhere close to accurate?
(Not hating here, Iceland produced Bjork and Sigur Ros, therefor I will love Iceland until the day I die).
Sigh. As with the horrific misreporting of Iceland after the 2008 crash, the foreign press likes to report nonsense and state it as fact.
The 8% is generous, amongst Icelander's anyone who genuinely believes in little people is considered weird, eccentric..
But a study done jokingly in 2001 by a University student, where they asked in roughly translated terms "can you totally discount the possibility of little people?" ... Logical Icelanders responded overwhelmingly well no, we can't, same as we can't totally discount the possibility of Unicorns.
But that is all it takes, as with the after crash memes about Iceland, imprisoning bankers, taking over banks, having the best recovery EVER....
The truth is FAR from the reality.
Its an indictment of modern news, as I moved to Iceland and never thought major outlets could report something that was utterly untrue, yet, as I've lived here the last 5 years I've seen story after story about Iceland being reported on respected UK, EU and North American sites propagating utter bull#### about Iceland.
Locally we even started mocking this with stuff like:
As a skeptic, this experience has been eye opening. I've had to fight against major liberal FB groups like US Uncut and other major FB pages that promote a liberal ideal, and even after I provide the evidence, they refuse to take down the nonsense memes, and even in the case of Being Liberal, they banned me outright....
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In the article they have weird numbers around the 0% believe God created the universe as it also states 10.1% believe that God created the universe. Is that supposed to be 0% believe in the literal biblical creation story and 10.1% believe in a deist God or a God was involved but not as creation
Edit:Reread it the 10.1% is the next oldest cohort.
Do you have the question they asked to obtain that 0%
lost in Translation sadly, the article did not translate the meaning of the questions as best as they could
RT in general, you mean? Well, they do employ Abby Martin, who I'm pretty sure is clinically insane.
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