1. In the name of the Father

Comment #51996 by Bayle on June 25, 2007 at 9:10 pm

"But how is it that the majority of the world's great philosophers..."




Hahahahaa. Ahahahahaha! HAHAHAHAHAHA!

2. Scientists divided over alliance with religion

Comment #45896 by Bayle on May 29, 2007 at 2:22 pm

Saying "Science and Religion should work together" is like saying "We're at war with Terror."

They're concepts, not tangible bodies that can make treaties. What idiocy.

3. I'm Sure God is Scared

Comment #44874 by Bayle on May 25, 2007 at 12:38 pm

Well, this article certainly proves that good diction is not indicative of intelligence. Well, maybe it is. The author is certainly lacking in wisdom, then. What an idiot.

4. I Don't Believe in Atheists

Comment #44361 by Bayle on May 24, 2007 at 12:32 pm

I love Sam more and more for his willingness to debate such duplicitous charlatans.

5. Would the World Be Safer Without Religion?

Comment #43322 by Bayle on May 21, 2007 at 5:50 am

Faith makes people want to kill each other--but it's the best thing we've got.

6. The Paradoxical Hatred of Christopher Hitchens

Comment #42978 by Bayle on May 20, 2007 at 7:48 am

As a war supporter, I have been heartened by Hitchens' fervent and eloquent support for the Iraq war. I didn't quite understand how his war support could be reconciled with his liberalism considering liberals' near-uniform opposition to the war, but I was nonetheless grateful for it.

7. Four arrested in Iraq 'honor killing'

Comment #42975 by Bayle on May 20, 2007 at 7:43 am

They were arrested, but what's going to happen to them? Oh no, a couple lashes? Please don't flog them for the premeditated murder an innocent teenage girl, that'd be horrible.

8. Hitchens on Falwell

Comment #42561 by Bayle on May 18, 2007 at 12:12 pm

Such a terrific display by Hitchchens there. Bravo.

9. Pope Warns of Globalization, Marxism

Comment #42175 by Bayle on May 17, 2007 at 7:49 pm

The following schisms

10. Pope Warns of Globalization, Marxism

Comment #42174 by Bayle on May 17, 2007 at 7:45 pm

I remarked to a friend right when this Ratzinger guy assumed his new title that if you took his fancy clothes off, he'd be just another skinny, wrinkled old guy with bags under his eyes. Oh, and a penchant for horrendously destructive policy. I wasn't much of a fan of John Paul, but... I kinda wish he hadn't died. This new guy is an asshole. Hope he dies soon, but it seems like they'd just elect someone just as bad.

11. Dobson, Armageddon, and Foreign Policy

Comment #42173 by Bayle on May 17, 2007 at 7:24 pm

I grew up having Focus on the Family pamphlets scattered about the house. Pretty sure I'm going to die from stress living with fundamentalist christian parents.

Every day dad comes home and listens to a neoconservative radio show and rants about illegal immigrants. I told him he should join the border guard, and of course, his reply would be "I'd shoot first and never ask questions."

It's so lovely.


Are there any secular nations that offer automatic citizenship to American refugees that are too rational to live here? I want to leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeave!

12. God grief

Comment #42112 by Bayle on May 17, 2007 at 4:16 pm

[quote]As a de-converted Christian, I think the reason it isn't easy to tear down evangelists and religious fundamentalists is that they refuse to read, watch or listen to anything that contradicts their revelations.[/quote]

QFT.

I couldn't even get my mom to read Letter to a Christian Nation. "Here mom, it's addressed to you, and it'll take an hour."

Nope.

13. Navy vet: Chaplains tried converting me

Comment #42091 by Bayle on May 17, 2007 at 3:35 pm

Does anyone else find it really hard to feel sympathy when someone goes hungry because they're not being served kosher food?

14. Hitchens' flat world

Comment #41660 by Bayle on May 16, 2007 at 1:53 pm

Does anyone else fear that reading these vapid chauvinistic religious apologist book reviews is going to make them dumber?

15. The Creation Museum: Prepare to believe

Comment #40962 by Bayle on May 15, 2007 at 8:58 am

"After that, we'll take guests on a journey through a visual presentation of the history of the world, based on the "7 C's of History": Creation, Corruption, Catastrophe, Confusion, Christ, Cross, Consummation. Throughout this family-friendly experience, guests will learn how to answer the attacks on the Bible's authority in geology, biology, anthropology, cosmology, etc., and they will discover how science actually confirms biblical history."

Great, immunize more people against rationality. If only there was a way to shut this place down. I'm SO sick of religion subverting reason. My mom, a fundamentalist Christian, is approaching menopause age also has hypothyroidism. She was told by her doctor to take calcium supplements, and I warned her to look for calicum citrate, not calcium carbonate, explaining that her body would absorb barely half if she took calcium carbonate. Later, she found that "calcium citrate is made in a lab! If I had known that I would've stuck with the shells" (which is what calcium carbonate pills are made from). "Are you insane?" I asked her, and she replied "I just don't trust science. Science is killing us!" She told me outright a few days later that most scientists are evil. I'm not lying or exaggerating. And now she's taking inadequate calcium supplements. Oh well, she can thank Jesus and her pastor for her osteoporosis.

16. Hitchens vs. Hannity on Religion and God

Comment #40947 by Bayle on May 15, 2007 at 8:35 am

Look at Hitchens's face in that first shot. Haha, he looks so tired and annoyed. And well he should--debating the religiose is one of the most draining exercises in futility imaginable. Every time my (fundamentalist) parents make some insane statement, a surge of frustration fills me because I know that whatever I say won't be heard or considered.

A while back I was telling a friend of mine about TGD, about all the great arguments in it, and he said "I love reading books like that, but you know, no matter what the argument is I'm not going to change my views." Such is the power of faith. It's repulsive.

17. Why Christopher Hitchens is not Great

Comment #40869 by Bayle on May 15, 2007 at 6:09 am

Reading the first line was enough of a clue that this was going to be a terrible argument, since Hitchens's Marxist views are entirely irrelevant to his argument against religion. After that, I skimmed and got the major impression of: mealy-mouthed duplicitous dissembling and hairsplitting. Yep.

Edit: Woops, I accidentally scrolled up and read more. This guy is a total idiot rambling on about Hitchens resisting the morality that God set out for him. Damn you for drinking and smoking Chris! Literally, you're damned.

18. In God, Distrust

Comment #40517 by Bayle on May 14, 2007 at 11:52 am

I love Christopher Hitchens so much. His blithely vitriolic style is so enjoyable to watch, and so deserved!

19. Ted Haggard Is Completely Heterosexual

Comment #40003 by Bayle on May 12, 2007 at 3:56 pm

Ridiculing religion is probably the best way to make people realize how laughable their beliefs really are. Roy is probably doing more for atheism than any other initiative I've yet seen--comedy is how you appeal to the minds of err... well, you get the idea.

20. Abstain With Me

Comment #40001 by Bayle on May 12, 2007 at 3:50 pm

"... I think you know where I'm blue."

Hahahahahaha

21. Welsh Hindus fight to save Shambo the sacred bull

Comment #39569 by Bayle on May 11, 2007 at 6:45 am

Cows are more valuable alive than dead. That's how the worship started--a cultural prohibition against killing cows because milk/cheese/butter/manure are more valuable than a one-time deal of meat. The sacred mumbo jumbo followed after.

22. Welsh Hindus fight to save Shambo the sacred bull

Comment #39259 by Bayle on May 10, 2007 at 8:25 am

"We could no more allow the slaughter of Shambo than we could the killing of a human being."

Yet another example of how deranged religious thought completely warps the values and priorities of its mindless adherents.

23. Supporters of abortion have no future in Church, Pope tells faithful

Comment #39202 by Bayle on May 10, 2007 at 6:53 am

"Respect for life from the moment of conception"

That's what abortion is all about you morally backward, myopic, brainwashed idiot. It's about respecting the life of the mother, not a parasitic potential life feeding on her body. It's amazing how such a seemingly humane ideal can be carried to such lengths that it becomes harmful. As if the condemnations of certain groups (homosexuals, atheists, whoever else is putatively going to hell) wasn't enough to make the church a nuisance, they manage to take it one step further and turn their noble ideals into a danger to society. It's like the concept of opportunity cost completely escapes them and when faced with a choice between having their cake and eating it, they always choose the most harmful option for humanity as a whole. No stem cell research, no abortion, no contraception... idiots.

It never ceases to enrage me how differently life could be RIGHT NOW if not for religion retarding science. How long ago would we have mapped the genome, learned to engineer our own genes and cured most diseases through stem cell research if not for papal dictates and deranged presidents ruining it for people that actually like living? I'm so tired of these death cults shaping our shared world to fit their gross vision of a perfect world. So tired of them doing it under the guise of righteousness, too.

24. Intellectual Diversity or Intellectual Insult?

Comment #38957 by Bayle on May 9, 2007 at 4:19 pm

Unfortunately, the fact that 'diversity' is tagged onto this duplicitous tripe draws on nearly half a century of social change (and indoctrination) working to promote and protect cultural diversity. In other words, people will mindlessly support it based on the premise that diversity is universally valued--kind of like faith. I bet this bill gets passed.

25. God Exists. A Formula Proves it.

Comment #37900 by Bayle on May 6, 2007 at 7:28 am

This is almost as bad as that guy that opened up a jar of peanut butter and laughed saying "Hey, evolution didn't happen inside my jar, how could life have sprung from unlife?"

Michael Shermer debunks Tipler in his 1997 book "Why people believe weird things," by the way. I'm glad whatever news agency it was that gave him airtime did their research first.

26. The moment a teenage girl was stoned to death for loving the wrong boy

Comment #37899 by Bayle on May 6, 2007 at 7:22 am

As reprehensible as this is, it's surprising that so many people here are in shock about it. What did you think Arab/Islamic culture was all about? Honor killings have been going on for thousands of years in more than a dozen countries. The only reason this made news was that it happened in Iraq where the US was attempting to enforce freedom and democracy and all that tripe. When will the world realize that democracy is useless when the personal beliefs of its constituents are screwed up? That's how Bush was elected, and that's how honor killings are condoned. Thanks religion! As it said in the news article, local security watched it happen. This type of thing is ingrained into their culture, and there's no easy way to stop it.

Despite the fact that honor killings should come as no surprise, seeing this type of response from people is heartening. Perhaps if more Islamic barbarism were brought to light... no, wait, persecuting minorities only creates solidarity among their sect. That's how Christianity spread in the first place. The world is doomed :(.