Comments by Jeffersonian-Marxist

Comment #125073 by Jeffersonian-Marxist on February 10, 2008 at 10:11 pm

I was amazed at the Rabbi's ignorance of Greco-roman history. He equated the military state of Sparta with Hellenistic culture, and then he went on to make Antiochus Epiphanes seem as though he was the embodiment of Greco-roman attitude and culture. Either he is just plain ignorant of the history of atiquity or he is willfully decitful to make a point.

2. Bill O'Reilly and Kirk Cameron on Atheism

Comment #51627 by Jeffersonian-Marxist on June 23, 2007 at 9:29 pm

Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris are too soft-spoken and polite to get through on O'reilly's show. I think Hitchens should go on there and smack him around.

3. Atheism is pretentious and cowardly

Comment #48282 by Jeffersonian-Marxist on June 7, 2007 at 9:54 am

It is here that the atheist ought to tread with very great care, but instead he straps on his clown-sized jackboots, and stomps around. The fact is that the relationship between religion, morality and politics is infinitely various and complex.

This liberal theologian argument of complexity is getting really old. People like Aslan and Hedges seem to perpetrate this one very often, but in reality, the bible says kill gay people. Is there some sort of allegorical deepness that I'm missing, or should you hate gay people if you believe the bible is the inerrant work of God? But I guess complexity is the way these progressive believers square with the fact that their religious doctrine demand nothing less than fascism and authoritarianism.

4. Don't Know Much Biology

Comment #48269 by Jeffersonian-Marxist on June 7, 2007 at 8:53 am

14. Comment #48242 by briancoughlanworldcitizen on June 7, 2007 at 7:25 am

Well I wouldn't go that far, but I do find it fairly astounding. Anyone know where this info comes from, and if it's right?

Not sure where the info comes from, but as a product of American public education, and seeing the idiocy first hand I wouldn't doubt it. I remember a teacher I had a year ago was telling our class how only some 47% of US students couldn't locate their own country on a map, it was only around 12% who could locate Iraq. One only needs two years of science education to graduate in my state (Colorado) and only three years of mathematics, which helps defog American ignorance of scientific fact. I went through the International Baccalaureate program, so I have a better grasp of reality than most of my peers, but the benightedness doesn't astound me in any way

5. Scopes Two

Comment #48262 by Jeffersonian-Marxist on June 7, 2007 at 8:03 am

The problem is this bible thumper really believes the rubbish he's spouting. It's a good thing Mike Huckabee, and the two other GOP candidates who say they don't believe in evolution, put together have 7% of republican voters on their side.

It's funny to watch Tom DeLay squirm and wriggle around like the worm he is when confronted on his silly CNN conspiracy theory. Having another republican in the white house would not be a theocracy, it would be an idiocracy (but hey what's the difference?).

6. The 'Is God...Great?' Debate

Comment #48138 by Jeffersonian-Marxist on June 6, 2007 at 6:19 pm

I think it's necessary to note the insubstantiality of the stances of these progressive theists. I really don't know what people like Hedges and Reza Aslan stand for, and their posititions are hypocritical, in the least. During the debate with Sam Harris, Reza Aslan stated that we should criticize the fundamental readers of the Bible but criticize people like Sam just as well. It perplexes me that these people, who think much more like the people on this website, would side with the fundamentalists rather than us.

7. The Paradoxical Hatred of Christopher Hitchens

Comment #43532 by Jeffersonian-Marxist on May 21, 2007 at 11:39 pm

To Catchy-nick.

First off, you give the disturbing impression that you support islamic fundamentalist countries such as Iran, more than you would suport the US. Though I'm not sure which country you are from, i know if you are from europre, my grandfather most likely emancipated yours, and my great-grandfather 30 years before that. Not to mention the fact that the US will be the one to come to your aid when your country is in need of help, not iran, not afghanistan, not palestine, not syria, not saudi arabia, not jordan. So go on demonizing the united states and praising the poor people in the middle east who are just waiting for the moment when they can slit your throat. Just remember that when your country is in need of help, the US will be there, like it always has been.

As for the war is mesopotamia, I will take the rebuke that it was poorly planned, and executed, but I stand by the ideal, because the sooner that these countries develop, the sooner we can focus on real issues, such as getting of this rock before the sun envelopes it, or fighting off global warming. And while on the subject of emancipation, the US will be the country to stop the asteroid headed for earth, cantact april 13, 2036. I don't have anything against you and i accept your criticisms and I'm sorry if i offended you.

8. The Paradoxical Hatred of Christopher Hitchens

Comment #43393 by Jeffersonian-Marxist on May 21, 2007 at 9:01 am

As to the article, it just goes to show the small mindedness of the right, seeing issues only in conservative-liberal lights, though the other side is guilty of this too. The author tries to pit him in one cause or the other, even though Hitchens himself has said he belongs to no party. The faulty logic in this article shows the idiocy we deal with in American politics. For example, even though Hitchens supports the war, he is still a liberal because he doesn't believe in god. Some times I just can't get over the fact that most people in this world are stupid.

9. The Paradoxical Hatred of Christopher Hitchens

Comment #43391 by Jeffersonian-Marxist on May 21, 2007 at 8:55 am

Catchy_nick sounds like one of those masochistic neo-liberals that blame the US for everything. 9-11 was an unprovoked attack on a civil society, performed by Islamic fascists who hate the US because of feminists, abortionists, pornography and secularism (ironic, Falwell has more in common with these barbarians). The US has done a lot of bad in the world, mostly all deriving back to the fight against communism (i.e. the funding of the Mujahadeen, many of whom are also members of al-Qaeda, to fight the soviets in Afghanistan). Sometimes I feel like I am the only one who knows why we went to Iraq, or perhaps this reason is of my making, but the way that I understand it is that a democratic state in the middle-east would be, in itself, a fight against terrorism. Unfortunately, the incompetence of the Bush administration has left this hope in the dust, mostly because it is littered with bible thumping graduates from Pat Robertson's university. On the abortion issue, 16 weeks sounds like enough time for the mother to decide, but then personal responsibility and the fetus' rights come into play.