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    Get Refuel! FromWayDowntown's Avatar
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    This could be fun:

    A couple of days ago, Jonathan Adler pointed Volokh Conspiracy readers to this bit of political insight:

    The Theory of Relativity is actually a liberal plot to encourage moral relativism and distort how people view the world. (See FN1) Who knew? Does this mean gravity is a conspiracy to keep us down?
    http://volokh.com/2010/08/10/relativ...-liberal-plot/

    Adler's post cited to both a piece concerning this argument and to original source material advancing the argument. A footnote in the source material describing counterexamples to relativity explains:

    Virtually no one who is taught and believes relativity continues to read the Bible, a book that outsells New York Times bestsellers by a hundred-fold.
    I'm kind of inclined to the view that Einstein is right, yet I still read the Bible. Am I "virtually no one," or should I expect to be swallowed up in short order by the universe as an unsustainable paradox?

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    This could be fun:

    A couple of days ago, Jonathan Adler pointed Volokh Conspiracy readers to this bit of political insight:



    http://volokh.com/2010/08/10/relativ...-liberal-plot/

    Adler's post cited to both a piece concerning this argument and to original source material advancing the argument. A footnote in the source material describing counterexamples to relativity explains:



    I'm kind of inclined to the view that Einstein is right, yet I still read the Bible. Am I "virtually no one," or should I expect to be swallowed up in short order by the universe as an unsustainable paradox?
    don't worry. i hear there's a compound 40 miles outside of SA.

    but you have to be hardcore!

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    some individuals just can't seem to get out of the dark ages

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    This is just plain funny, I am pretty sure that most if not all of the posters who frequent this forum will agree. I am sure that even Angel_luv would have agreed if she hadn't already "disappeared".

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    I am sure that even Angel_luv would have agreed if she hadn't already "disappeared".
    You mean "...already been raptured".

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    If anyone would go, I would think it would be her. Sure she seemed a little naive at times when discussing the world, but she seemed like she genuinely believed the things in that book and seemed like an actually really nice person. I have a feeling that even if she came upon a person she (the book) didnt agree with (gay or something), she would still be nice to them.

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    I don't go to church or read the Bible, but I see no conflict in believing in both relativity and a higher power.


    EDIT> I never understood some liberals, e.g. Bill Maher, who appear to have outright disdain for religious people. Religion actually teaches people to be good -- secularism does not.

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    I don't go to church or read the Bible, but I see no conflict in believing in both relativity and a higher power.

    DarrinS you STARK RAVING liberal!

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    darrins you stark raving liberal!
    lol

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    Makes sense. Gravitation is a much more controversial and incomplete theory than natural selection, and look at how many problems the religious right has with that.

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