1. The death-of-god debate

Comment #148791 by flyingfsck on March 23, 2008 at 11:50 pm

"or mabye just a chocolate day would be nice-"

I thought that is what Easter is all about: Chocolate bunnies and eggs - yummy!

It is very appropriate to have a whole long weekend dedicated to chocolate.

2. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #148790 by flyingfsck on March 23, 2008 at 11:47 pm

Well, an interview by Ben Stein must be the most torturous experience ever. Were the victims strapped into Vogon poetry appreciation chairs?

Anyone? Class, anyone? ...

3. Gigantic fossil rodent discovered

Comment #112695 by flyingfsck on January 17, 2008 at 9:58 pm

They haven't got much really, just half a skull. It is amusing how the article talks about the extraordinary long teeth, while the fossil doesn't actually have any, and the whole body is an extrapolation from very little. Oh well, I guess they wanted publicity to raise funding...

4. 'Letter to a Christian Nation' now available in paperback

Comment #111882 by flyingfsck on January 16, 2008 at 12:19 am

I just read it and it echoes many things I have pondered myself.

"Christians are even worse the second time around."

5. It was a bad year for God.

Comment #110840 by flyingfsck on January 12, 2008 at 11:44 pm

"Imagine what terrible characters gods would be if they did exist!"
I have long held that the Satan character is an altogether more agreeable fellow than the god of the Christian-Judaic bible.

6. Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up

Comment #110839 by flyingfsck on January 12, 2008 at 11:40 pm

"First cause and infinite regression"
I suppose then that in religious terms, Pi would be an irreligious number.

7. Letters: Theology has no place in a university

Comment #83080 by flyingfsck on October 28, 2007 at 9:47 pm

"Personally I think that most god figures are really idealized alpha males"
I recall that in the middle of New York harbour, there stands a gigantic statue of Libertas, the goddess of liberty. All over America, in every court of justice, there stands a statue or relief of Justicia, the goddess of justice.

It appears to me that it is only in Catholic churches that there any statues of male gods and even there statues of Jesus are likely outnumbered by statues of Mary.

So it appears to me that the god image is dominated by alpha women.

8. AAI 07

Comment #82796 by flyingfsck on October 27, 2007 at 4:03 pm

I suppose I must be Ultra Conservative. I resent the newfangled religionism.

9. Why are we Muslims so self-destructive?

Comment #74564 by flyingfsck on September 29, 2007 at 2:40 pm

The Dark Muslim Middle Ages.

The Muslim religion appears to be lagging Christianity by 1000 years or so. Maybe in another 500 years, the Muslim states will emerge out of their Dark Middle Age folly and Muslims will return to the Western Universities for education, leading to a Muslim Renaissance and a revival of reason.

10. The Out Campaign

Comment #59857 by flyingfsck on July 30, 2007 at 10:57 pm

In Canada, only about 30% of people are religious. It appears that in the USA the numbers are the other way around. This is really weird, considering that many of the old US states were found with the purpose to escape religious persecution.

11. A force for good?

Comment #57995 by flyingfsck on July 22, 2007 at 7:54 pm

Vallely:
"God is not an "invisible being" who "commands, rewards or punishes. God is not to me a particular "being" at all, but rather the power of Being itself. God is a supreme moral ideal to be reverenced for its value not for its controlling power."

From the above it is clear that Mr Vallely is an atheist trying to justify religion - that doesn't work. I think his Sunday School teacher must be spinning in her grave.

12. All the mistakes of the godly are merely metaphor

Comment #57992 by flyingfsck on July 22, 2007 at 7:33 pm

Hmm, all Christians are not stupid, but they are gullible. During the years that I was in the church, I encountered many people who like me, did not really believe anything, but merely went along with the flow, since it can be dangerous if you don't pay suitable homage to the deity favoured by the majority.