1. We Urgently Need Your Help Now!!

Comment #195998 by Jaffas85 on June 19, 2008 at 7:02 am

Could someone please provide me with Bobby Jindal's email address?

My computer won't let me access the Louisiana Governor's website.

2. We Urgently Need Your Help Now!!

Comment #195961 by Jaffas85 on June 19, 2008 at 6:03 am

Isn't it a criminal offence to sign into law a bill that clearly contravenes the U.S. establishment clause and separation of church and state?

Any lawyers here?

3. We Urgently Need Your Help Now!!

Comment #195921 by Jaffas85 on June 19, 2008 at 3:26 am

The link to the Louisiana Governor website isn't working for me so can someone please give me Bobby Jindal's email address?

Thanks so much.

4. Richard Dawkins Interview on TVOntario

Comment #181320 by Jaffas85 on May 16, 2008 at 11:12 pm

Who was the Muslim who was speaking at the table? He seemed to me to be perhaps the most rational religious muslim I've ever seen (honestly, I didn't really think that many Muslims allowed themselves to accept evolution because of its implications but he was fine with it).

I don't understand the arguments put forth by religious people that constantly exhort the emotional and psychological benefits of religious belief which in no way validates the supernatural claims of religion and doesn't deal with the irrational aspects of religion regarding how any text can possibly be the "word of God" via "divine revelation" and how believing in a God, and afterlife, to account for the origin of the Universe is referencing the "God of the Gaps" which is clearly motivated via emotional and psychological reasons.

Once we take away the emotional desire for a God (ie: the desire to feel there is a celestial "parental figure" watching over us and a special afterlife awaiting) there is no rational objective way to account for it (and I think most cosmologists would agree).

5. Reviews of Expelled

Comment #159274 by Jaffas85 on April 11, 2008 at 8:18 pm

I'm really proud of FOX news for putting out a review that was accurate and honest and didn't pander to the religious conservatives that watch their channel.

I sometimes watch "Hannity and Colmes" (I can't stand Hannity but I do like some of the political content and coverage they have) and they said they were having Ben Stein on at the end to plug his film so I had to turn it off.

I really enjoy and respect Bill O'Reilly and think he is honest and genuine on most of the issues and I agree with him on most issues except when he talks about the "progressive secularists" and it may just be because I'm an Australian, and not American, so don't really understand what he means by that because America is a secular country and religion should be a private issue for people so I don't quite understand what he means when he carries on about that. Are the "progressive secularists" bad for wanting the separation of church and state enforced and for not wanting America, and especially its government, to be an increasingly christian theocracy?

6. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #148775 by Jaffas85 on March 23, 2008 at 10:29 pm

I don't understand how anyone can believe that an understanding of evolution could have acted as a catalyst for the Holocaust.

Its worse than the Scientologists who claim that Psychiatrists were the evil force behind the Holocaust.

7. EXPELLED!

Comment #147658 by Jaffas85 on March 21, 2008 at 4:48 am

Why is this movie even allowed a theatrical release?

Shouldn't moderate religious people come out in protest and say that not all religious people are hillbillies?

I assume this is only getting theatrical release in middle/southern American religious hillbilly states?

8. State Approves Evolution As 'Scientific Theory'

Comment #130102 by Jaffas85 on February 20, 2008 at 4:58 am

Am I the only one who thinks it is actually a good thing that the are calling evolution a "scientific theory" because that way students will actually be able to learn about what a scientific theory actually is:

A "fact" being like the "brick" and the "theory" being like the "building".

Also, I find it remarkable that a Baptist feels he has the authority to tell a science board what should and should not be deemed science and what is backed by scientific evidence.

And also, why are these science standards open for public opinion and intervention? Certainly isn't like that here in Australia. Here they just create the standards as they should be and thats that. Seems ridiculous that science standards should be up for public debate when most of the public know little to nothing about science.

9. Interview with Neil Shubin, author of 'Your Inner Fish'

Comment #112686 by Jaffas85 on January 17, 2008 at 8:21 pm

Pretty funny and weird interview from Colbert and I'm sure the book would be really interesting.

Has he ever had Hicthens or Dawkins on the show?

10. Canadian fossil makes waves in Huckabee's presidential run

Comment #111986 by Jaffas85 on January 16, 2008 at 6:33 am

Huckabee or Romney won't get the nomination as either McCain or Giuliani will so I'm not worried.

And besides, either Clinton or Obama will be the next President so this issue is really moot.

11. US 'doomed' if creationist president elected: scientists

Comment #108939 by Jaffas85 on January 8, 2008 at 2:05 am

Muslims are a completely different animal altogether.

The Muslim world has not embraced modernity and the enlightenment bypassed them and their religion is the most archaeic of all (as it reflects their culture) in the world.

Christians in developed countries should know better while Muslims in the Middle East (or even in developed countries) are just a completely different animal.

12. Blind Faiths

Comment #108930 by Jaffas85 on January 8, 2008 at 1:01 am

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is like the academic/atheist version of...Beyonce!

13. US 'doomed' if creationist president elected: scientists

Comment #108928 by Jaffas85 on January 8, 2008 at 12:55 am

I've been advocating that both Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee should read either "Thank God For Evolution" or "Finding Darwin's God" to allow them to realise that religious people can also accept the scientific reality of the world.

Also, I'm not very worried about this issue because I very much doubt that Mike Huckabee or Mitt Romney will gain the Republican nomination. Huckabee relies on the evangelical vote and just doesn't have the money to gain enough votes across other states and should Romney lose New Hampshire to McCain, which seems likely, I'd have to say that his chances will be dead and that by the time February 5 comes around no clear candidate would have amounted any realistic momentum and Giuliani will probably scoop up most of those February 5 states.

P.S. On the official website of Hillary Clinton she's asking people to ask her questions and that she will reply to 5 of the questions that are posed via her website and I asked her whether she would re-appoint the position of "science advisor" to the President and whether she would enforce the 'Separation of Church and State' by keeping "Intelligent Design" out of the U.S. education system so that only science is allowed to be taught in the science class.

14. The OUT Campaign has its own Flea!

Comment #106394 by Jaffas85 on January 2, 2008 at 7:44 pm

Gee, there are quite a lot of religious psychopaths in America.

I also find the whole concept of Jesus the "Christ" to be offensive and ridiculous in that some how this apparent historical man (whom I doubt existed at all) is the fount of all morality and values in society.

If people need to look to an ancient mythological character or to a "holy book" to have moral guidence then something wrong must have went wrong in their upbringing in that their parents couldn't just ingrain good morals and values into them just for the sake of having good morals and values.

15. For the Love of Christ

Comment #103847 by Jaffas85 on December 27, 2007 at 4:13 am

Psychopath.

16. The Pagan Christ

Comment #94944 by Jaffas85 on December 7, 2007 at 3:10 am

There are numerous previous Gods around the medeterranen who had very similar stories to 'Jesus' yet none of them were based on 'historical figures' and no one genuinely asserts that a historical Horus, Krisna or Dionysis actually existed. It is only because the mythological figure of 'Jesus Christ' is so central to Christianity that many people like to assume or 'leave the door open' that a historical Jesus existed.

17. Ask The God Delusion author Richard Dawkins

Comment #94246 by Jaffas85 on December 5, 2007 at 5:03 am

I just went to the "Have Your Say" site and asked whether he believed that a historical Jesus Christ existed.

I hope they ask it.

18. Ask The God Delusion author Richard Dawkins

Comment #94245 by Jaffas85 on December 5, 2007 at 4:51 am

I have the BBC channel on Cable T.V. where I live however are international viewers allowed to ask a question and leave their number?

19. Mitt the Mormon

Comment #91225 by Jaffas85 on November 27, 2007 at 5:06 pm

Journalists should at least be able to ask him about the racist elements of Mormonism.

For instance Romney was 31 years old before Mormonism officially stopped being a 'racist organisation' so how can he justifify that he tolerated or accepted that for so much of his adult life?

And the Book of Mormon genuinely teaches that a group of people that 'went against God' had their skin darkened as punishment? Surely he can be made to answer on that issue at least.

20. URGENT APPEAL: Please Help Protect Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Comment #88738 by Jaffas85 on November 18, 2007 at 6:42 pm

Surely Ayaan Hirsi Ali has made quite a lot of money from the sales of "Caged Virgin" and "Infidel"?

Shouldn't she have more than enough to finance her protection?

Also, I'm sure Dawkins and Hitchens would be millionaires so they could be paying for her protection if she doesn't have enough money.

21. Sir David Attenborough on God

Comment #86685 by Jaffas85 on November 10, 2007 at 12:38 am

So is he an Agnostic or Atheist?

22. Eugenie Scott on Intelligent Design and Young Earth Creationism

Comment #81740 by Jaffas85 on October 25, 2007 at 5:48 am

Is the teaching, or possibility of teaching, creationism or Intelligent Design in U.S. schools now completely banned federally by the Supreme Court because of the First Amendment?

23. The Price of Freedom

Comment #77208 by Jaffas85 on October 8, 2007 at 7:18 pm

I'm not aware of how financially well off Ayaan Hirsi Alo is but how much money does it cost to fund a 24/7 private security squad?

Does she meet any of these costs herself?

24. Republican candidates range from ignorant to dishonest

Comment #37559 by Jaffas85 on May 4, 2007 at 11:03 pm

I live in Melbourne, Australia and just out of interest sake I've been following the 2008 U.S. election and it astounds me that in 2007, and within a first world nation, that politicians are either still believing in creationism or are at least saying they are to appeal to presumably Middle Americans.

I don't understand why in 2007 so many people still place so much 'faith' upon what the Bible has to say when it is merely a product of the culture it arose from approximately 2000 years ago and the same can be said for any other religion. Although within the first world nations it is mainly the United States that has this problem and not Australasia, Europe and Britain.

For people who are educated and consider themselves to be intelligent they cannot be sincerely religious. I know people who casually say they are catholic merely because its what their parents were raised as yet they themselves have never considered the issue thus i just brand them as being lazy however those people who genuinely believe religion are reactionary towards a progressive and modern society based on reason, fact and intelligence.

I hope that either Clinton or Obama get elected considering, in my view, democrats tend to be more progressive and realise the year is 2007 unlike many Republicans who would still like to imagine we're living in pre-darwinism times.

Religion is interesting to study from a cultural vantage (much in the same way Ancient Egyptian religion is interesting to read about) and was suitable to thrive within society when things were not able to be explained but now we have to cast off the easy and 'head in the sand' reaction to life and realise that as educated and reasonable people that we can still learn more about the physical world and universe we live in.