Cat Stevens & Marillion

James Lee wrote: so why are we posting our opinions on a forum at all then? ah, never mind. I'll get back to making my "Longest post 80s Norwegian female non-guitar prog song" poll. Then we can share some really important views.

or another top 10 list...or how about poll on the polls to see which poll was our favorite. ..or my favorites...which guitarist makes the best grrr..grr sound or keyboard ping,ping sound or drum boom,boom sound thread again...those are always quite "interesting" topics.

my applause to Pixel was his self-revelation!

threefates wrote: Geez... God must really be proud at how smart all of you think you have become...

I'm pretty sure that I'm not smart enough to understand that comment

Pixel Pirate wrote: As for who invented monotheism,that's the easy one. How do we know that Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb? Because no lightbulbs existed before him. How do we know the Jews invented monotheism? Because no such concept existed before Judeaism. (Let's forget about the pharaohs for now,too needlessly complicated). As far as the case for the existance of god goes. Of course I can't deny that there might exist in the universe some force of some kind that we might,for want of a better word,call god. I'm obviously not denying that,no one can. What I am denying,completely and emphatically based on the mass of evidence at hand,is that the god of the christian bible is real. It has MYTHOLOGICAL written all over it in bright flashing neon letters. And who had the first monotheistic society or what the neanderthals did is most certainly not speculation. What do think historians,anthropologists and archeologists do for a living? But the topic is vast and cannot possibly be contained within the confines of a discussion forum on a website so I can only point you in the direction of the following books: "When The Gods Came Down" by Alan Alford. "The Jesus Mysteries" by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy "The Secrets Of The Exodus" by Messod and Roger Sabbah "From Atlantis To The Sphinx" by Colin Wilson And of course the religious criticisms of Nietzsche,Freud,Bertrand Russel and H.L.Mencken. And as a counterweight,two intelligent and enlightened arguments in favour of the existance of a god: "God's Secret Formula" by Peter Plichta "The Infinite Harmony:Musical Structures In Science And Theology" by Michael Hayes. This is not to come across as all snooty and intellectually snobbish,just to emphasise once again that this subject is huge and falls way outside the confines of a little discussion forum on prog rock website.

Archeologists and Anthropologists  they never speculate?

As for Colin Wilson? Alan Alford? Roger effing Sabbah!

This is some kind of wind up right?

Needless to say these "experts" should keep their speculation for the Fortean Times! To mention these people in any half-serious debate is just well......

Is there any real debate? Judaism was most definitely the first major monotheistic religion. Is someone saying otherwise? I'll beat 'em up for you

As for who invented monotheism,that's the easy one. How do we know that Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb? Because no lightbulbs existed before him. How do we know the Jews invented monotheism? Because no such concept existed before Judeaism. (Let's forget about the pharaohs for now,too needlessly complicated).

As far as the case for the existance of god goes. Of course I can't deny that there might exist in the universe some force of some kind that we might,for want of a better word,call god. I'm obviously not denying that,no one can. What I am denying,completely and emphatically based on the mass of evidence at hand,is that the god of the christian bible is real. It has MYTHOLOGICAL written all over it in bright flashing neon letters.

And who had the first monotheistic society or what the neanderthals did is most certainly not speculation. What do think historians,anthropologists and archeologists do for a living? But the topic is vast and cannot possibly be contained within the confines of a discussion forum on a website so I can only point you in the direction of the following books:

"When The Gods Came Down" by Alan Alford.

"The Jesus Mysteries" by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy

"The Secrets Of The Exodus" by Messod and Roger Sabbah

"From Atlantis To The Sphinx" by Colin Wilson

And of course the religious criticisms of Nietzsche,Freud,Bertrand Russel and H.L.Mencken.

And as a counterweight,two intelligent and enlightened arguments in favour of the existance of a god:

"God's Secret Formula" by Peter Plichta

"The Infinite Harmony:Musical Structures In Science And Theology" by Michael Hayes.

This is not to come across as all snooty and intellectually snobbish,just to emphasise once again that this subject is huge and falls way outside the confines of a little discussion forum on prog rock website.