"Thanks for the kind words!"

"I'll bite. If there were two universes, one with a God, and the other without, which one would you want to live in and why? I would probably like to live in the Universe that did have a god. I'm going to assume that by 'god' you…"

"Deservedly so."

"This HAS to be a joke. Right? RIGHT?!?"

"Excellent!!"

"So you agree, then, that missionary work and spreading the gospel to the heathen is deeply immoral..."

"Hmm, OK perhaps I will come back to respond to a few points: I didn't intentionally "dismiss" or "decline to respond to" anything you said; I hadn't realised there was anything in the referred-to passages that was…"

"Jesse. Again, disclaimer I'm not a biologist but it's always been my understanding that the whole REASON a tree produces fruit is to get that fruit eaten by others, in the name of seed dispersal and therefore is an essential part of its…"

"Just to clarify: I'm NOT saying I think that position is necessarily correct; it was just to illustrate my point... ;-)"

""We need to be careful though when allowing terms like "absolute" to invade our "moral system." " Sorry, but I thought I WAS. Hence my many inverted commas! I hope you don't mind me pointing this out, but your…"

"I see why you think it is a FAULTY stance, and I would definitely agree with you there. But it doesn't seem to me to qualify as a "circular" argument, by which is usually meant that the concluding statement following from one's…"

""Maybe that's self explanatory. If you are in the minority, perhaps that conclusion was based on a faulty process." Yes, that is a possible explanation I have already considered. *shrugs* Your questions, then: 1) I agree 100%. 2) I…"