Boycott Civ 4

[Zombie69]

Has anything proved that it is impossible for God to have created the Earth? Not as far as I've seen. Anywho... I have nothing against atheism, and I do believe in the basic theory of evolution. Let's just leave it at that. I don't want any hurt feelings here. Sorry if I caused problems.

We already know how the Earth was formed, no need for any superior being in the equation. Occam's razor, you know.

Did you know that the most commonly accepted theory for the formation of the moon now is that a meteor took out a chunk of the Earth, and after a while, the fragments formed the moon? As Mr. Spock would say, "fascinating"...

 

[IglooDame]

Y'all ought to head over to CFC's OT forum if you like discussing religion and such outside of the Civ4 context...

 

[duplicity.y]

"And there is a technology advancement called "Liberalism" theat grants the first to discover it a free technology and enables "free speech" and "free religion" when the fact is that the people who have brought us free speech were Christians not Liberals and there is no "Conservatism" technology to be discovered."

Comdey gold right there. Is this guy actually serious?

 

[naterator]

no hurt feelings here, sohan, just so you know we're around, just as there are devout communists out there somewhere.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

I'm more or less communist (more or less because i believe onle the socilaist transition state is possible) and I don't hate religion.
I just don't care..

 

[romelus]

in civ 4 there's no creationism tech, and there are no dinosaurs roaming with warriors, it's clearly anti christian!

and to back up my argument, one response on that page stated "Without Christianity, the world would have been stuck in the Dark Ages"

yeah! now that is funny!

 

[majk-iii]

Let's see if we've gotten this right;
...And this "GOD"-fellow, he's invisible and talks to you inside your head?
....hmmmm?

Clearly Asylum-material, lock them all away.

 

[King Flevance]

Wow, I thought this thread had finally made it to heaven.. or something.

 

[AvianAvenger]

Wow, I thought this thread had finally made it to heaven.. or something.

Haha, not likely... the whole Science v's God - God v's Science - Idiot v's Idiot argument has been going on in forums for thousands of years with no winners, only losers. Only one idiots belief's against anothers...

 

[Moon Templar]

Going on in my mind for some time. I think it's just silly to pit science against religion or the other way around. They are completely seperate entities for crying out loud.

And I do not understand why fundamentalists are so anti-science. Science was never out there to disprove God (IMO). Sure we might talk about the big bang and evolution stuff, but that doesn't mean there's no great and mysterious force that makes this all happen. The universe has expanded from a state in which all the matter and energy in the universe was at an immense temperature and density , but what has caused this to happen? Even if you found out, there's gonna be more questions, prolly infinite.

Of course, Science can't prove the existence of God either , mainly Religion is mostly a matter of faith and belief, and science doesn't work on faith and belief, but fact.

So meh, I should cut this crap now.

 

[Alraun]

this game is the pinnacle of Political Correctness IMHO. Ok, maybe a US bias looking at wonders, but anti-christian

It's more like modern bias than U.S. bias. The U.S. just happens to be at the forefront of the modern world. Things like Broadway and Hollywood really are bigger and more wondrous to most people today, even in other countries, than the Pyramids or the Great Wall of China. Whether they will be so 500 years from now is another question entirely.

 

[Alraun]

Religion is mostly a matter of faith and belief, and science doesn't work on faith and belief, but fact.

This is not entirely correct. More accurately, science could be described as a search for evidence to support beliefs and theories. Evidence isn't fact. The only science that has hard facts is mathematics.

 

[Alraun]

We already know how the Earth was formed, no need for any superior being in the equation. Occam's razor, you know.

Using "know" and "Occam's Razor" together is an oxymoron.

 

[joshuakira]

We already know how the Earth was formed, no need for any superior being in the equation. Occam's razor, you know.

Did you know that the most commonly accepted theory for the formation of the moon now is that a meteor took out a chunk of the Earth, and after a while, the fragments formed the moon? As Mr. Spock would say, "fascinating"...

occam's razor fails to supportt he argument when considering prime cause. "brane theory" seems way too contingent, complicated, and unprovable to be taken seriously by me....

"And there is a technology advancement called "Liberalism" theat grants the first to discover it a free technology and enables "free speech" and "free religion" when the fact is that the people who have brought us free speech were Christians not Liberals and there is no "Conservatism" technology to be discovered."

Comdey gold right there. Is this guy actually serious?

right? bush bots, bible bangers, and half-educated bourgeois love to make up their own histories and then ***** about "revisionism". i hate people....

 

[joshuakira]

Things like Broadway and Hollywood really are bigger and more wondrous to most people today, even in other countries, than the Pyramids or the Great Wall of China. Whether they will be so 500 years from now is another question entirely.

it seems the wonder concept is based on each wonder's particular usefulness' at the time they are built. the ancient ones usually do go obsolete you know.

 

[wioneo]

First off, I would like to say that I am Catholic, and secondly, that was ********. This GAME is no more anti-Christian than it is anti- Muslim, Budhist, Hinduist, Jewish, Confuscian(didn't know that that was a religion), or Taoist. Are there others? Also, a lot of the things that he said were false. and I find his first complaint to be quite funny.

 

[wioneo]

It's more like modern bias than U.S. bias. The U.S. just happens to be at the forefront of the modern world. Things like Broadway and Hollywood really are bigger and more wondrous to most people today, even in other countries, than the Pyramids or the Great Wall of China. Whether they will be so 500 years from now is another question entirely.

Well in the past, most people didn't know about other lands, so they couldn't care. I am sure that The Great Pyramid amazed the ancient Egyptians more than the ancient Greeks(if they even lived at the same time... I'm still in school!)

 

[AvianAvenger]

Using "know" and "Occam's Razor" together is an oxymoron.

http://www.oxymoronlist.com/
some good ones
-political cooperation
-political ethics
-political promise
-political trust
-politically correct
-science fiction
-scientific belief
-Thank God I'm an Atheist
-well-preserved ruins

 

[DrewTate]

Somebody said 'baba yetu' was a Christain psalm in Swahili.

What does it mean in English? I was just about to start a topic about this because I like the song but didn't know what language it was in or anything.

 

[taipei_lad]

Somebody said 'baba yetu' was a Christain psalm in Swahili.

What does it mean in English? I was just about to start a topic about this because I like the song but didn't know what language it was in or anything.

Hello DrewTate.

Somewhere in the forums here, someone did a complete translation of the song. Excellent work, I might add. The song is, IIRC, the Lord's Prayer in Swahili, as you stated. Look up the thread if you like. I'm too lazy to do so

Edit: I lied.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=123680

Hats off to MSTK for the work. Thanks dude.