1. Flea Circus!

Comment #33020 by Thornz on April 19, 2007 at 3:02 am

David, I assume you are referring to the incident in Virginia, the unfortunate shooting of 32 (or 33, depends on which news bulletin you read) students. This was indeed carried out by what you refer to as a 'religious nutter'. Would an atheist shout "Thanks to you I die like Jesus Christ, to inspire generations of the weak and the defenceless people," ?

I don't think so.

2. Flea Circus!

Comment #33017 by Thornz on April 19, 2007 at 2:52 am

"And ignorant because most of you comment without having read any of the books concerned." - Well, there is truth to this remark. I do intend to read at least one of the above titles. A re-read of the above posts will show that a few already have.

"You announce that your prophet and your philosophy(religion) is right because well, they are just right. You know it. You feel it. " - Actually we believe it because there is overwhelming evidence to support it. Evolution (for example) can be shown through the progress of fossils. To pick a more specific example, did monkeys suddenly become humans? Of course not, there are many fossil records showing a progression of evolution from monkey to human. This is hard evidence (and please don't try to tell me that the devil put them there).

"atheists are more tolerant (this will be clearly demonstrated when I am banned once again)." - I do actually believe this to be true, though I do hope you do not get banned, you have generated interesting discussion. Without you this would be a not-so-interesting one-sided discussion. The reason I beleieve atheists to be more tolerant? Countless millions (probably billions) of people have died over the centuries through wars that would not have happened if the divisions caused by religion were not present. I am concerned over the amount of religous-fueled violence that humanity has seen, and is continuing to see.

3. Flea Circus!

Comment #32990 by Thornz on April 19, 2007 at 12:22 am

Have any of you actually read any of these books? When one of them is available at my local library I intent to get it out and read it (thus not passing on royalties, as I suspect it will be a load of old cobblers, nonetheless an interesting load of old cobblers, but then I am biased). But I do want to hear a rebuttle and see how easily I can dismiss the rebuttle as a 'load of old cobblers'.

Also, I particularly enjoyed the comment made above by Lord_Sartorious 'Can anyone think of any examples of atheists responding to religious themed books (other than their respective bibles)?' It goes to show the knee-jerk reaction a book like The God Delusion makes amongst the faithful, it obviously has them worried :)