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Oh right, so Jesus regarded slavery as a petty human squabble. Fair enough, always wondered how people got their morals from such a terrible book.

Yes disturbing stuff. I recently read Amanda Lindhout's very gripping memoir (The House in the Sky) of her and her boyfriend being kidnapped by Somalis. She tries to read the Koran when she is held captive to see how she might be treated by her captors. To put it bluntly she is not reassured...

I believe even in the New Testament that Jesus never condemned slavery.

Agreed Pete, personal attacks usually means you've lost the argument and I tend to stop reading at that point. I suppose it's the anonymity of forums that makes it easy for people to be aggressive and rude to each other. I know rational argument rarely changes the mind of the faithful and it...

That's an interesting one Shmmeee, it's weird I think that we even have this word 'atheism'. It's just a default position - for example, we don't have words for people who don't collect stamps or don't go to football don't believe in alien abduction etc. We're not defined by our non-belief and...

Didn't Sikhs assassinate Indira Gandhi? Just saying...

We respect people's choice to believe what they want but we don't have to respect the belief. Religion makes absurd claims and is of course up for ridicule, satire and debate. Nobody has the right not to be offended. I think religion demeans humanity and find its claims offensive. So what, I'm...

I'm not sure I call us a Christian nation, however I agree that Christianity has had much of its muscularity reduced by enlightenment values of reason, compassion and human decency. Thank goodness for a secular society and the increase in rationality. Maybe you'll come to realise that you don't...

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Plenty of vengeance in the bible.

Yes fantastic voice - another nightingale is Ren Harvieu. She did a version of Roy Orbison's Crying which must be a difficult one to crack. Through the Night was her debut single: