1. Comment #33004 by stpetes on April 19, 2007 at 1:53 am

Once again the incompetance, intolerance and ignorance of this site is being demonstrated. Keep up the good work.

It is incompetant because despite being contacted by myself and my publishers you manage once again to give my book the wrong title and the wrong cover. If you want to see the correct version then go to http://www.freechurch.org/popups/07special.htm

I have to wonder why Josh does not correct this and continues to post information which is false. All of you making the statement about the cover and the apostrophe are wasting your time. You are commenting on something that does not exist. I am sorry that it takes so long to get this through to this website but I really cannot do anything more. If the website manager wishes to perpetuate myth and falsehood then I guess it is in keeping with the rest of the site.

It is intolerant because you arrgoantly assume that everyone who disagrees with you is just trying to make money off Dawkins etc (hence the flea remark). Noone even considers here that your atheist prophets are trying to make money out of religion (TGD at £20 for a polemic against religion which really contributes nothing to the discussion and is an embarrasment to most serious thinking atheists is robbery!). Nor do you take into account that Harris had his book promoted to the tune of $200,000. Give me that kind of promotion and I assure you I could get a book to the top of the best seller list. We live in a market orientated consumer capitalist society. Don't kid yourselves that these books have risen to the top because of their brilliance. Marketing is everything. And why doesn't JOsh feature the numerous books advocating atheism that have just come on the market? I guess it's because they are 'the Truth' and are not seeking to make money. The fact that they have all come out just after TGD and Harris is of course just a coincidence!

And ignorant because most of you comment without having read any of the books concerned. Yet you feel free to pontificate, ridicule and mock things you know nothing about. You announce that your prophet and your philosophy(religion) is right because well, they are just right. You know it. You feel it. And anything who dares to disagree with you is clearly wrong - therefore you do not even need to read what they write. You just know. There are numerous examples of this ignorance on this website but let's just take one from this thread. Martin Gill tell us from his vast font of knowledge that "None of their authors have any qualifications worth the paper they are written on either.". So Dr Alistair McGarth's PhD in biology from Oxford University is worthless? My History degree from the University of Edinburgh is worthless? Your arrogance and ignorance is breathtaking.

And Paul - if you want numerous atheist myths then read my book. I'll give you two to start with - a) atheists are de facto more intelligent than theists (the empirical proof of this is this site and the posts that will follow this one!) and b) science and religion are necessarily opposed.

David Robertson

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