1. Bad Faith Awards: Vote for the winner now

Comment #95710 by JesusH on December 9, 2007 at 2:54 am

Ho-Hum, yes these people are all annoying but the 'New Humanists' don't have to worry about their offices getting blown up for insulting these people.

2. Holy Nonsense

Comment #95330 by JesusH on December 8, 2007 at 2:40 am

Would be nice if people stuck to the issues of atheism versus religion instead of trying to turn this site into a left wing political site.

All the democratic contenders are on record as being believing christians and claiming that faith is important.

So, lets not try to make it out like the democrats are a bunch of atheists, because they are not.

I am sure that there are other here to who would prefer some of the Republican candidates, like mcCain, Thompson, Giuliani to Hillary or Edwards.

3. Banishing the Green-Eyed Monster

Comment #92765 by JesusH on December 1, 2007 at 12:18 pm

As usual Liberal have no principles, only attitudes, hence Bill Clinton is forgiven by Dawkins because his hatred of Bush blinds him to principle.

This can be readily proved, if a 50+ CEO of a fortune 500 company had sex with a 21 year old intern, the Feminist would be crying bloody murder and educating the rest of us about "abuse of power" and the "power relationship" that the one person had over the other. Notice the deafening silence from the Feminist lobby when Clinton got caught. All of sudden, Monica became an empowered woman, rather then a young intern taken advantage of by someone in the ultimate power position.

Secondly, the real reason for the impeachment was not because he lied, but because he LIED UNDER OATH in a court case, which is perjury, a criminal offence.

Anyone with an objective view, as Atheists are supposed to have ( yea right ), could only conclude that Bill Clinton perjured himself and hence committed a criminal offense. That is why he was impeached.

We should expect more from someone like Dawkins then to present such a incorrect and false statement of the facts.

4. Shop targets U.S. hunters with camo Bibles

Comment #66111 by JesusH on August 28, 2007 at 10:41 pm

Nice post BamafreeThinker

I am from Canada which probably has an even larger hunting and fishing population per capita then the US. Where I am from, everyone has guns and most people hunt moose

Sad and disgusting some of the comments on this thread, proves again how most atheists on this board are just as stereotyping, hateful and dogmatic as the people they criticize

5. OUT Campaign Launched, 'Scarlet Letter' Shirts Now Available!

Comment #59695 by JesusH on July 30, 2007 at 9:01 am

I think most people seeing this shirt are going to think you are an Anarchist

6. A force for good?

Comment #55077 by JesusH on July 10, 2007 at 12:58 am

God, what an incredible display of intellectual dishonestly.

One of the things I hate most is rhetorical nonsense which this article is full of.

We do see this types of rhetorical nonsense in other fields as well, basically it is these types of flowery phrases that when you deconstruct them mean absolutely nothing or would mean a different thing to every different person.

The problem is how do we fight against this ?

Whenever the religious types get defeated in a debate about the real god, the god of the bible or koran, they will retreat into this redefined "god is love" nonsense.

It is very infuriating

7. Hitchens vs. Hitchens

Comment #51845 by JesusH on June 25, 2007 at 10:26 am

>Summer Seale

Agreed on all points !

8. Hitchens vs. Hitchens

Comment #51843 by JesusH on June 25, 2007 at 10:21 am

Wow, brotherly love in action.

Love the quote "Atheism is a necessary condition for mental clarity not a sufficient one"

I completely don't understand why Religious people are stuck on this idea that without god there is no absolute source of morality, as if this need of humans is sufficient proof that god exists.

Morality is created by humans, I fail to see why this should invalidate it in anyway, which is what the religious seems to imply.

9. The Present Threat of the Religious Right to Our Modern Freedoms

Comment #51777 by JesusH on June 24, 2007 at 10:22 pm

Abortions are not banned in Arkansas, this can be easily verified through everyone's favourite search engine.

Interesting how everyone seemed to accept this falsehood without scepticism because it affirmed what they want to believe.

10. The infinite wisdom of Richard Dawkins

Comment #51711 by JesusH on June 24, 2007 at 9:02 am

Harper has been a good PM under the difficult circumstances of a minority government.

Until he invokes policies based on religion that people disagree with they should leave the thought crime analysis out of it.

The only hidden agenda was the one that came to light when our tax payer dollars were being handed in paper bags under tables to Liberal bagman through illegal kickbacks.

11. Richard Dawkins: Atheist

Comment #51056 by JesusH on June 21, 2007 at 10:00 am

Dr. Dawkins typical self righteous arrogance is on full display here.

Calling Bush stupid is sure to get a big rise out of all the other smug liberal minded head in the sand fools but does the same 'stupidness' apply to Tony Blair and Christopher Hitchens and everyone else who supports the Iraq war ?

Well, we will see who is stupid circa 2040 when Britain becomes Britain-istan and people like Dawkins can use their much valued hindsight to wonder why we didn't all fight back when we had the chance.

Unfortunately given his age he probably won't be around to see it but the signs are clearly there for anyone is not too 'stupid' to see it.

Hitchens and Harris are infinitely preferable to Dawkins any day.

12. The Great God Debate

Comment #50077 by JesusH on June 14, 2007 at 10:13 pm

It was quite frustrating at times to listen to Mark Roberts because many times Christopher Hitchens had the guy nailed on points that he could not rebut.

Roberts was reduced to saying things like "if I was god I would have done it differently..."

Bascially he admitted that no matter how inane or untenable his position was logically, he was not going to give it up under any circumstances.

At one point Islam came up and I believe both Roberts and Hugh Hewitt gave an empathic NO when asked if they believe that Muhammed had received the recitation from GOD. Hitchens didn't seem to follow up on this, which I think would have been a good chance to, once again, point out how religious 'truth' depends on which one you were raised with.

There was also an excellent part near the end when they started talking about personal 'experience'. Roberts again went on about his 'personal experience' with God but admitted that he would not accept it if another person said they were receiving words from God.

Christopher Hitchens : (roughly ) "So if someone on the street came up to you and said God was talking to them would you throw your arms around them and say 'you too?' " Beautiful.

13. The Future Forum Presents: Christopher Hitchens and Marvin Olasky

Comment #49975 by JesusH on June 14, 2007 at 10:32 am

Olasky's comments about Hitchens anger were completely on the mark.

Lets face it, most atheists, myself included are quite intolerant and hateful against religion in a way that we are not towards types of irrationality.

The only thing that annoys me at all like this is belief in Astrology.

Belief in UFOs, Bigfoot, Elvis sightings etc don't elicit any response at all.

Why do we hate the God concept so much ? And why is it that we don't hate Hindu gods like we hate the Christian and Muslim one ?

If I lived in India would I hate Ganesh above all others and not loath Allah ?

14. Religion - our maelstrom of ignorance

Comment #49516 by JesusH on June 12, 2007 at 8:33 am

Reposted from the same site :

>On the bright side, the average Republican presidential candidate is more likely to believe in evolution than the average Democratic voter.

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

Comment #48193 by JesusH on June 7, 2007 at 2:32 am

>12. Comment #48078 by shmooth on June 6, 2007 at 1:48 pm

>Unfortunately, Hitchens probably won't reach his final demise in the same way that most Iraqis are meeting theirs - from the business end of some high-tech American weaponry.

The vast majority of Iraqis and others who are being killed in Iraq are being killed by other Muslims NOT Coalition forces. Your statement here is a complete falsehood. You may disagree with the coalition being there but don't lie about what is occurring.

16. Hamas Kindergarten Graduation Ceremony

Comment #47881 by JesusH on June 5, 2007 at 11:07 pm

>37. Comment #47652 by Rtambree on June 5, 2007

>How many daily car bombs went off in the months before the Iraq invasion?

Not many because Saddam's regime ruled with an iron fist. How does your statement refute my claim that blame should be subscribed to the people actually doing the car bombing. Are you really going to throw logic aside to the point where George Bush is to blame when a Sunni group blows up a Shia market place ? Why don't you apply this logic to other places, like say Thailand ? Surely you know about the Islamic terror occuring Thialand. Who is to blame there if not the terrorists ?

> While Iraq was crawling with weapons inspectors in late 2002, Saddam wasn't harming him own population, nor were they blowing each other up.

Yes, you are right, Saddam in 2002 was a benign and gracious ruler. He wasn't harming anyone at all.

>In fact, if you really dislike Muslim extremism, you should be supporting the immediate withdrawal of all Coalition troops and the return of the West Bank, as these two issues are radicalising the Muslim population.

I don't support Israel settling the west bank, but I do support the coalition in Iraq who are there are the behest of a DEMOCRATICALLY elected government. I support democracy and think that a bunch of un-elected self-proclaimed hotheads who claim to be acting on Allah's behalf should not be able to dictate to an elected government what the policy should be. Iraq has about the only legitimate government in the middle east, having been elected in a fair and open election.

>Bush bares the blame for supporting Muslim extremism in the form of the Saudi regime.

I am not fan of the Saudi regime but again, selective blaming of Bush on your part. Please tell me what other Western governments are 'not supporting' or opposing the Saudi regime. The answer is none of them, the consideration given to Saudi Arabia from the US is the same given to them by all the other western countries as well, so lets please stop this selective blame game please.

17. Hamas Kindergarten Graduation Ceremony

Comment #47636 by JesusH on June 5, 2007 at 5:41 am

>16. Comment #47563 by BAEOZ on June 5, 2007 at 1:12

>Given the perfect weapon, I reckon Hamas would take out all the Isrealis, whereas the Isrealis would just take out Hamas.

The same applies to all the Islamic extremist groups verses us.

If Iran was the global superpower we would all now be either dead or subjects of Islam

18. Hamas Kindergarten Graduation Ceremony

Comment #47634 by JesusH on June 5, 2007 at 5:36 am

The vast majority of casualties in the muslim world are caused by OTHER muslims, not the west.

It is not the West that is indiscriminately blowing up crowded market places to inflict the most amount of civilian casualties among our own people.

I am all in favour of counting up the 'body count' as long it is fairly attributed as to who is killing who.

But of course it is not fairly attributed, this is the first war in history where one side ( our side ) is completely to blame for the other side's actions.

Each time a car bomb goes off in Iraq George Bush and Tony Blair get the blame. Funny though how India, Turkey, Thailand, Philipines ... don't seem to be blamed when Islamic terrorists blow up stuff in their countries. In these instances at least the blame is put where it belongs, on the people setting off the bombs.

19. Beggars belief: Robin McKie on The God Delusion

Comment #47178 by JesusH on June 3, 2007 at 10:42 am

I would be happy to support an Atheist's political group if it was lead by people like Christopher Hitchens or Sam Harris.

Unfortunately any such group is more certainly to be dogmatically liberal with the usual anti-Bush/anti-America Islam-apologists nonsense.

20. Man to die over insult

Comment #47151 by JesusH on June 3, 2007 at 7:21 am

I don't know what is more pathetic, the content of this story or the fact that the first post on this board has to, as always, spew ridiculous hatred against Christians.

This make come as a shock to your little delusion world of hatred but no, there are NOT many religious people here in the west who would seek death for blasphemy, other then perhaps the Muslim immigrants who have already been known to hold signs in London calling for death to those who insult Islam.

And no, I am not a Christian, just one who is sick and tired of reading the foolish nonsense often posted here against Christians.

Here we have a story about a real outrage and the first post has to create an imaginary outrage, so much for reality based rationalism. Most of you actually believe this nonsense don't you ?

21. U.S. a theocratic state, says former Canadian ambassador

Comment #46887 by JesusH on June 2, 2007 at 4:43 am

The claim the Stephan Harper is going to outlaw abortion in Canada if he gets a Majority government is a LIE.

Typical Liberal fear-mongering. The entire Liberal platform has been based on lies, fear and slander about what the Conservatives are 'going to do'

The previous Liberal government had a litany of scandals and got caught red handed stealing tax payer dollars through illegal kickbacks and using that same money to campaign with.

One of the big complaints of Atheists is that people running for office in the States cannot get elected if they are atheists because of unfair bias, yet it appears many of the posters here are more then happy to apply this same bias in the other direction.

Stephan Harper is a good man doing a good job as Prime Minister of Canada and as an Atheist I am proud to support him, just like many an Atheist voted for Tony Blair in the UK.