1. Obama Wants to Expand Role of Religious Groups

Comment #203471 by paulwwww on July 3, 2008 at 1:58 am

See this topic sparked a lot of debate. Didn't have time to read all the responses, sorry if someone has already said this. Setting aside the whole seperation of church and state thing, hell Bush already trampled the crap out of that. But what is this moron thinking. First churches are already tax exempt. Second, our deficit in this country is way out of control, adding more silly goverment programs such as this just adds to that. Because borrowing more is the only way to pay for this. Quit borrowing and actually run a fiscally responsible budget and there won't be as many poor and hungry kids running around. This guy is one stupid fucker and I am sorely afraid there are too many people that believe this tripe and will vote for him. Leaving now to go and throwup...

2. Carlin on Religion

Comment #198436 by paulwwww on June 24, 2008 at 12:01 am

I can recall listening to George Carlin back in the 70's, on LP's. Maybe I am showing my age. :-) May he be remembered for a long, long time to come.

3. Kenneth Miller on Colbert Report

Comment #195220 by paulwwww on June 18, 2008 at 12:03 am

I for one really enjoy Colbert. His humor may somewhat mask the issue, but it is mainstream and this issue needs more of that. And I for one am not opposed to religious study (preferably comparative religious studies) in school, just not in the science classroom.

4. Unlike Others, U.S. Defends Freedom to Offend in Speech

Comment #192425 by paulwwww on June 13, 2008 at 3:31 am

The First Amendment really does distinguish the U.S., not just from Canada but from the rest of the Western world."

And I'd pick up a gun and defend this right now!!!

5. Godless

Comment #192418 by paulwwww on June 13, 2008 at 3:18 am

Sorry if this post shows up twice.

This "God in the Whitehouse" crap is really getting under my skin. Compound this with the fact that politicians and big media keeping referring to the USA as a democracy (brainwashing anyone). Obviously this great country is a Republic. Fundamental religion and democracy spells disaster.

On a lighter note;

It also made for one the strangest images on television â€" a smiling Haggard in his S.U.V., with wife and kids, talking about meth and massages from a buff male escort.

6. Gods and earthlings

Comment #164237 by paulwwww on April 19, 2008 at 7:24 pm

All that I can say is; I love you man...:-)

7. Evidence can't shake your faith if your faith excludes it as evidence

Comment #132478 by paulwwww on February 24, 2008 at 8:00 pm

Sorry if this has already been said in the previous posts, I read a few but not all. Here we are again with the same old trot-out cyclical reasoning. I see eggplantbren has caught the gist of things in the first post;

The angel could appear and provide evidence that implies it could not be a hallucination. For example, by providing extremely specific testable information that nobody could have known

8. Whale Evolution

Comment #131046 by paulwwww on February 21, 2008 at 7:27 pm

Doublebass

paulwwww- by this, do you mean that, as mammals, whales began as land creatures and then moved to the oceans? I know most people seem to think evolution means ALL life began in the ocean then moved onto land, but obviously this is simply not the case.

9. Atheists An Increasingly Outspoken Minority

Comment #131020 by paulwwww on February 21, 2008 at 5:41 pm

Gilks, little late but.

Not exactly outwardly lesbian, but living with a women for 14 years, who has adopted her two kids that no one knows the father of (sounds like artifical insemination to me) speaks volumes to me. That means I can add her to my list of hot lesbians!

10. Atheists An Increasingly Outspoken Minority

Comment #131016 by paulwwww on February 21, 2008 at 5:36 pm

Gilks, little late but.

Not exactly outwardly lesbian, but living with a women for 14 years, who has adopted her two kids that no one knows the father of (sounds like artifical insemination to me) speaks volumes to me. That means I can add her to my list of hot lesbians!

11. Whale Evolution

Comment #130995 by paulwwww on February 21, 2008 at 4:57 pm

I agree with many here, this was an awesome video, sounds dumb, but seems like evolution backwards.

12. What Religion's Blind Stranglehold on America Is Doing to Our Democracy

Comment #114796 by paulwwww on January 22, 2008 at 8:31 pm

I think there is something in the Constitution about no religious test for political office, darn shame that it seems like the politicians in this country seem to think friends to the fundies = votes. And as we have seen do, #%$&*!! Anyway I am a grassroots supporter of Ron Paul, and while he is a devout christian you can see his voting record follows the concepts written by the founding fathers, see H.Res. 847, "Recognizing the importance of Christmas and the Christian Faith," Christian nationalists, he is one of the "NO" votes.
Go Ron Paul!!!!

13. U.S. Congress Recognizing the importance of Christmas and the Christian faith

Comment #98010 by paulwwww on December 13, 2007 at 1:41 am

This sure in the hell don't pass Constitutional muster. Idiots, glad to see my man Ron Paul from Texas voted no, good ol Dr. No.

14. Holy Nonsense

Comment #96365 by paulwwww on December 10, 2007 at 12:52 pm

Love that Hitchens...

For anyone here that supposes that voting Democratic is the only way to maintain our Constitutional rights (separation of church/state), needs to check out Ron Paul. He is a strict Constitutionalist even though he a Christian.

This Atheist can live with this type of Christian in office.

15. Can we at least demand 'Secular Communion'?

Comment #86975 by paulwwww on November 10, 2007 at 7:44 pm

All I have to say is thank you for that piece!!! You're a hell of a guy PZ Myers!!! I was agnostic for the first 40 years thanks to my father and for the last 4 plus years step well into the boundaries of atheism. This atheist movement is very very far from its beginnings and I agree so much with the following statement;

"I've seen Norman's line of reasoning a lot, and it makes this false presupposition that the atheists are incapable of working together with their fellow human beings because they also find fault with their flawed religious beliefs. We can do both! Watch us — where we find common goals, we will work together without a pang of regret; and where we disagree, we will forcefully argue. That's the way our world works. Get used to it."

Brilliant!!! (I saw other posts commending this line of reasoning as well, also brilliant!)

If only we could get more of the moderate (oh I would rather avoid this discussion because it will create tension) religious common folk to not walk away from these arguments.

16. The Cancer From Within

Comment #86714 by paulwwww on November 10, 2007 at 2:43 am

This article is truly quite frightening. Talk about infiltration. The worst part is these guys control all the weapons. I was really disappointed to hear of the legislation that bans the coverage of lawyer costs when making cases defending the first ammendment. Talk about shutting down the voices of reason. Not to mention these dumb f'n bastards think Revelations is for real. Sorry needed that rant, we're doomed ha ha.

17. Fox News Discussion on 'The Golden Compass'

Comment #85754 by paulwwww on November 7, 2007 at 2:36 am

The whole commentary was quite a waste of time in my opinion. But I absolutely had to cringe when Ol'Father Jon said that the burden of truth in a God falls on the shoulders of the Atheist community. Evidently he needs to read over some of Sam Harris' work. The one thing for sure is the burden of truth for the existence of God, absolutely rests in those promoting the faith.

18. 1996 Richard Dimbleby Lecture

Comment #73014 by paulwwww on September 23, 2007 at 8:00 pm

Superb, as always. The first book of Dawkins that I read was "The Devils Advocate". Since then I have been nothing more than an absolute (pitbull :-) ) follower. I could watch lectures of this sort all day. Brilliant!!!!

19. Teresa, Bright and Dark

Comment #66431 by paulwwww on August 30, 2007 at 2:04 am

I have not read any of Hitchen's books, not sure I will. Alright maybe when they make it to half-priced books. Mostly because I have not been too impressed with some of his views that have been in the press. However I was quite impressed with this article, and have a feeling his speculations might have had more truth than some will openly admit too, and certainly moreso than the Catholic clergy will like to speak of. It is quite a shame to see someone led down this path and gain such traction that it becomes a nightmare to get out. And that is what it sounds like, may have been the case, not too mention she still wanted to provide charity in her position regardless of her personal needs. Many of us would have none of that and Mother Teresa should be commended for this. Good call for Hitchens on this one.

Not that I really want to continue the abortion debate, but I have to kind of side with Veronique. Check out http://www.amazon.com/Cider-House-Rules-John-Irving/dp/0345387651 .

20. Pedal power takes Islamic shape in Iran

Comment #42817 by paulwwww on May 19, 2007 at 9:41 pm

Comment #42342 by Newton30 on May 18, 2007 at 5:10 am

So, because you are men and in charge of the country, do the right thing and set the example by ordering on your set of fake breasts today. Available in auburn, buff, taupe or ecru. Only 19.95 iranian rials plus 4.99 S/H.

I absolutely love this Newton...haha

There are some f'd mothers over there...

21. Iran arrests 300 'insufficiently veiled' women

Comment #35339 by paulwwww on April 26, 2007 at 11:12 pm

Friend Giskard;

Laughing my ass off; Sluts, ha ha...

22. Bill Maher - APATHEIST

Comment #35324 by paulwwww on April 26, 2007 at 9:43 pm

I agree with a few of the other comments, this Scarborough guy is much worse than O'Reilly, and you could tell it was the old duck and dodge routine. Bring up points to confuse Maher in an attempt to make him look bad. While Maher has not done such a great job for the Athiest movement in this piece, at least he got some air time...