1. After Bibles seized, U.S. group won't leave Chinese airport

Comment #232619 by yesspam on August 18, 2008 at 11:55 am

"Under Chinese law, it is illegal to bring printed religious material into the country if it exceeds the amount for personal use".

Here's where we can help. We can collect all those unread, unwanted bibles in hotels, and take one over every time we visit China, and leave it there.

2. Unintelligent Design

Comment #231891 by yesspam on August 17, 2008 at 9:25 am

(6% of all skydiving fatalities, for instance, are from divers that forgot to pull their ripcords),

How do they know?

3. A third of Muslim students back killings

Comment #220055 by yesspam on July 28, 2008 at 3:22 am

A spokesman for Queen Mary said the university was aware the preachers had visited but did not know the contents of their speeches. "Clearly, we in no way associate ourselves with these views. However, also integral to the spirit of university life is free speech and debate and on occasion speakers will make statements that are deemed offensive."

This is disgraceful. What happened to 'No platform for Fascists and Racists.' Why is religion always the exception, i.e. as long as you make these kind of comments in the name of a religion, it is seen as OK.

4. Forget not to smite

Comment #212027 by yesspam on July 16, 2008 at 1:38 pm

What the C of E really desperately needs now is a few gay female bishops to pull in the punters.

5. The Return of Religion

Comment #212021 by yesspam on July 16, 2008 at 1:33 pm

the insecurity and disorder of Western societies comes from the tension in which people are held when they cannot attach their inner awareness of the transcendental to the outward forms of religious ritual.

Nonsense. Western liberal societies have never had more security, or more order. What is this idiot making a comparison with? The order and security of Europe's religious wars? The security that the poor felt from having their land owned by the Church?

6. Conversation between Richard Dawkins and John Lennox

Comment #206450 by yesspam on July 8, 2008 at 11:30 am

crusader

WHEN John Frumm returns with the cargo, I hope theres a box of silly hats .....

It's John Frum you heretic scum, and don't you forget it.

7. Logical Proof of the Existence of a Divine Creator, Why Atheism is Not Logically Sound

Comment #190763 by yesspam on June 9, 2008 at 2:18 pm

healthphysicist

However, it is the Torah that makes that claim and it wouldn't be difficult for a small tribe to write that and then teach it to their kids. There are also conflicts within the Torah as to whether the people actually "saw" anything.

Can you post any Torah references, or recommend any books on this subject, as it is one that interests me?

Thanks

8. Borehamwood eruv granted planning permission

Comment #56967 by yesspam on July 18, 2007 at 1:38 am

Last night, in a dream, I was instructed by my God, that I cannot leave my house on Noodleday, (non believers call it Monday) until the area I live in is surrounded by a continuous (no gaps!) string of spaghetti. (The exact makeup of the spaghetti sting, it's ingredients, diameter, cooking time, and the ritual for it's preparation, cooking, and joining together, are detailed in our spiritual text, and amount to about 300 pages of detail.) Until this spaghetti barrier is complete, I will have to stay in bed every Monday, and if my employer sacks me, I will be taking my case to the European Court of Human Rights.

Pasta, Pasta, Pasta, (translates as Peace to All Believers.)

9. Can we really learn to love people who aren't like us?

Comment #49028 by yesspam on June 10, 2007 at 3:29 am

The CR writes that <<<< Atheism is different. It is a form of protest. >>>>>>

He, like others, tries to justify this idea by reference to the European Enlightnment, and thus ignores the great history of atheist thought, that goes back to the Greek philosophers. This conveniently lets him argue that it is religious 'failure' that has caused atheists to 'reject' God. There have always been atheists, however. Long before religion 'failed' these writers, and thinkers kept their ideas to themselves, or discussed them in 'coded' terms if they didn't want to be punished by the religious.


Atheism is not a protest. Religion is a 'protest.' A protest against the existence of an uncaring world, that does not always reward the 'good' and punish the 'evil.' A world that allows children to suffer. A world of war, and poverty, and disease, for many. A world in which we know we are going to die. Religion is a protest that says that this life cannot be all that there is, because we are too important to live only once. Religion is a protest, against disorder, against chaos, against a lack of meaning in our lives. Atheists simply believe that such 'protest' is a waste of time. There is no one there to listen to our prayer, to smell incense, and burnt offerings. Far better to spend your time doing something useful to make the most of this one life.

<<<<<< So, first science, then philosophy, politics and culture were rebuilt on foundations that did not depend on doctrine or dogma but instead on experiment and observation, reason and inference. >>>>>>>

He almost makes this sound like a bad thing.

10. Can we really learn to love people who aren't like us?

Comment #48877 by yesspam on June 9, 2007 at 9:58 am

<<<<18. Comment #48797 by wendelin on June 9, 2007 at 4:38 am

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Actually, the rabbi was right. Ethnicity (race, geography, genetic makeup) is intrinsic, religion is acquired. >>>>>

Wendelin

I don't think that this is true, at least not as applied to Jews. One is born Jewish if one's mother is Jewish. Full Stop. There is, according to the religion itself, no choice. You can be an Athiest Jew, or any kind of practising Jew, but apparently not any kind of non Jew. This is my understanding, at least. Judaism is a religion, but being Jewish is the Nation or People that you were born into, (or convert to, of course.)

11. Arguing for Atheism

Comment #19317 by yesspam on January 26, 2007 at 7:53 am

Comment 26.

Unpleasant and farcial though the article is, it nowhere advocates 'culling half the human population.' Reducing human fertility, and cutting back health services to the old, is not comparable with a Mao, or Pol Pot type of mass killing. What interests me, is that the web site is as appalled by the suggestion that private property rights might not be respected, as by any threat this nutter makes to humanity.

Right wing nutter web site exposes nutters nutter views, so what!!! Name me a Humanist who would agree with the views proposed here.

12. 'God Is Not a Moderate'

Comment #18126 by yesspam on January 18, 2007 at 1:04 pm

""Iraqi's are not killing Americans because they believe in a god , they kill Americans because they(USA+their lackey state UK and even Holland -where I live) marched into their country with 3rd Reich-style agression.
People should read more about politics.""

Iraqis are killing other Iraqis (in great numbers)every day, because they differ in their interpretation of Islam, not because there are any political differences between them.

13. God-less

Comment #16412 by yesspam on January 6, 2007 at 2:24 pm

I don't dispute that humans can act morally without faith in God. What I dispute is whether they can provide a justification for it.

Humanist thought and Humanist philosophy has been doing precisely that for thousands of years. Read about it. A period during which the words of the Absolute Authority were used to justify rape, murder, slavery, and war in his/her name.

14. Pat Robertson: God told me of 'mass killing' in 2007

Comment #16074 by yesspam on January 4, 2007 at 12:37 pm

Typical useless God. No indication of what day, and where.