1. On Fitna, the Movie

Comment #178682 by Koreman on May 11, 2008 at 11:08 pm

@Comment #178623 by Szkeptik

It's not about religion in general even, the UN resolutions are about Islam. Muslim countries now form a majority in the UN.

http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout&cid=1203758480544

2. On Fitna, the Movie

Comment #178681 by Koreman on May 11, 2008 at 11:01 pm

Stopped reading at 'it is an anti-immigrant film'. It's not. Immigrants are welcome in Holland as long as Dutch society is not condemned, rejected or even attacked. We have a problem with people doing those things because of their religion.

For a majority of Dutch politicians religion seems to be a good and holy thing that should be praised. Not criticized. Fitna was also an answer towards that attitude.

3. 'My daughter deserved to die for falling in love'

Comment #178594 by Koreman on May 11, 2008 at 5:02 pm

Pavlov monkey. And gay too.

4. Truly Bizarre : Indians Throw Babies 50ft From Roof To Thank God.

Comment #174892 by Koreman on May 3, 2008 at 6:38 pm

Of course these people are not true believers. The true -whatever religion- is peaceful and loving and sharing and true.

5. Soldier Sues Army, Saying His Atheism Led to Threats

Comment #169617 by Koreman on April 26, 2008 at 12:14 pm

Unbelievable.

6. Gunk in T. Rex Fossil Confirms Dino-Bird Lineage

Comment #169579 by Koreman on April 26, 2008 at 10:38 am

This explains why T Rex ate grain.

7. Lynchings in Congo as penis theft panic hits capital

Comment #168127 by Koreman on April 24, 2008 at 2:39 pm

It's a nice world. Reports of witch hunts and torture in India:

http://www.thehindu.com/fline/fl2211/stories/20050603002504100.htm

8. Responses to 'Gods and Earthlings' by Richard Dawkins

Comment #166162 by Koreman on April 22, 2008 at 10:47 pm

Santa did it.

9. Sexpelled: No Intercourse Allowed

Comment #163483 by Koreman on April 18, 2008 at 11:58 am

The title in RSS said "No intercourse allowed by richarddawkins.net"

This is going too far.

10. Gods and earthlings

Comment #163428 by Koreman on April 18, 2008 at 10:45 am

No entity, made of whatever, can not have created itself nor its own habitat. Any assumption of a godlike creature is false.

11. Gods and earthlings

Comment #163404 by Koreman on April 18, 2008 at 9:56 am

Reminds me of the Boltzmann brain hypothesis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzman_brain

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/science/15brain.html

12. School bars same-sex partners at formals

Comment #161759 by Koreman on April 15, 2008 at 4:06 pm

@#161451 by ordeneus on April 15, 2008 at 10:01 am

Because goddidit designed man and wife!!

Well, first he designed man and no wife. She came later when man was nagging and filing complaints. Man did not have genitals probably, so goddidit invented them while intelligently designing a woman. He took a rib and made a rod, although that is not certain. Mating was not necessary in paradise, so goddidit probably did not design those filthy body parts, except if he knew that he had to throw his Sims out of Level 7. Maybe the big wizard already knew much more and had man designed as a sexe with genitals in the first place.

This makes the story very complex since it implicates that man is suffering for a sin he had no choice in. It gets even more complex when considering man was nagging about a wife because he saw males and females in nature. Somehow he knew what males and females were, he knew he was male, and animals must have had genitals already too. The mating part is uncertain as well whether eggs, cubs, placenta, care for offspring, milk, honey, flowers etc. existed, or that all these things were invented while throwing these people out.

Probably the pope has an answer. He might even explain when after the Big Bang -accepted nowadays- these people came on stage, or if the story is fantasy. And if it is fantasy, why the rest of the stories aren't fantasies. Sure it has something to do with money and power. And priests and bishops with boys.

Hmm. The answer to the question might be jealousy.

13. Science Debate 2008

Comment #160843 by Koreman on April 14, 2008 at 1:11 pm

Science is not interesting. You want to win hearts if you want to get elected. The only way to do so is having faith. Have faith in goddidit and have faith in the wise people in the wise country that make wise decisions, led by goddidit. Science is too complex and demands a lot of money. That part is understood by many.

Politics is superstition.

14. For sale: 13-year-old virgin

Comment #160838 by Koreman on April 14, 2008 at 1:05 pm

@6. Comment #160718 by liddlefeesh

In the West it might look like 2008, but in some parts of the world it's still the 19th century. Or earlier.

15. Religious education as a part of literary culture

Comment #160826 by Koreman on April 14, 2008 at 12:43 pm

Religion might be gaining some ground because of internet.

16. British schools are falling for the pseudoscience of Brain Gym. Why fill kids' heads with nonsense?

Comment #160820 by Koreman on April 14, 2008 at 12:33 pm

@4. Comment #160469 by Sally Luxmoore

I'd prefer Brian Gym. Serious astronomy combined with some fine guitar.

http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2008/04/14/gimme-the-prize/

17. Richard Dawkins' secular army must be stopped. God is behind some of our greatest art

Comment #160323 by Koreman on April 14, 2008 at 12:19 am

Santaclaus is inspiring too. Many grew up with a few years believing. Fond memories. Nice art has been produced.

18. Ancient serpent shows its leg

Comment #159727 by Koreman on April 13, 2008 at 2:09 am

@ #159705 by Last Neandertal on April 12, 2008 at 10:46 pm

And what about those 8000 year old trees that have been discovered?

http://www.thelocal.se/11054.html

19. Inadequate, private and late apology with grotesquely inadequate excuse

Comment #159420 by Koreman on April 12, 2008 at 6:59 am

The Biblebelt is expanding.

20. 'Expelled' ripped off Harvard's 'Inner Life of the Cell' animation

Comment #159364 by Koreman on April 12, 2008 at 3:01 am

21. The List: The World's Worst Religious Leaders

Comment #159281 by Koreman on April 11, 2008 at 9:02 pm

Fine examples of Pavlov's operant conditioning in reality.

It is amazing what people are capable of, only to be rewarded by an invisible wizard from nowhere and never, who made up the entire universe -except himself and his habitat-, to satisfy his own primitive human instincts.

22. 'Expelled' ripped off Harvard's 'Inner Life of the Cell' animation

Comment #159085 by Koreman on April 11, 2008 at 12:28 pm

I feel pity those people don't understand the basics of quantum mechanics. Far more devastating to deluded bronze age ideas with an early 20th century flavor than evolutionary biology ever can be. I guess god is showing off in ignorance too.

23. The simple falsehood at the heart of Expelled

Comment #158382 by Koreman on April 10, 2008 at 12:11 pm

Worse. It seems that Stein & co quietly admit evolution must exist. By pointing at Nazis.

Of course they are wrong. First, what already has been said more or less in the article: although some Nazis saw themselves as a new human species and embraced 19th century political interpretations of 'Darwinism' it had nothing to do with evolution. Trying to breed a human race like -indeed- what farmers do for ages. According to Nazi propaganda this was exactly what the Fuhrer had in mind: bread a pure Aryan race.

Second, Nazi doctors and pseudo scientists were involved in the most awful weird cruel experiments that had nothing to do with even the bare teachings in evolutionary biology. Some even tried to create Frankenstein by transplanting tissue and organs from and to living people. One might say Nazi efforts were an attempt to intelligent design.

For the arguments sake, the claim that Nazis were atheists is not true. Besides its ties with the roman catholic church and being a pseudo religious movement on its own the ideology borrowed many ideas from ancient mythologies. Symbols, rituals. Astrology was an accepted practice. Hitler personally believed in Nostradamus. The supernatural was everywhere.

On topic, there are a lot of straw men involved. Stein must be a scarecrow collector. Maybe he is one himself, trying to make a living with utter nonsense.

24. Expelled producers accused of copyright infringement

Comment #158057 by Koreman on April 10, 2008 at 3:11 am

It's a conspiracy. It's not a coincidence cells look the same. Portraits of people look the same too. Hah!

And even if it was xeroxed, the lord holds every copyright in the world eventually. He is the soul owner, so to speak. As young earth scientists represent the lord all copyright basically belongs to them. They might even sue Harvard for making animations of copyrighted material without divine permission.

Serious young earth scientists of course know there is no such thing as cells. Flesh and blood is all there is and it's a punishment. What you see through a microscope is a test of faith. Nobody can see a cell directly so it cannot be proven and so godditit. It seems that Stein is winning over and over.

25. It looks like Man crucified

Comment #148440 by Koreman on March 23, 2008 at 4:53 am

"Their arguments tend to diminish the scope of human achievement, emphasizing our smallness in the Universe, that we are prisoners of our biology, and that we are all going to Hell in a plastic carrier bag with no prospect of salvation."

It seems the author is not talking about atheism but about 'post humans'. People who believe they are going to be godlike in the next four decades with highly advanced technology, augmented intelligence, implants, uploaded brains, eternal life and so on. Amongst those people there are a few who match the description.

26. Religion 'linked to happy life'

Comment #148271 by Koreman on March 22, 2008 at 1:59 pm

@66. Comment #146348 by Bonzai

Bonzai, I don't mind about people who see their religion as something not-so-important that just brings some happiness. I do have a problem with lunatics who actually believe in a Stalin-like universe with an eternal Hitler as Big Boss. Exactly how it has been written in those holy scriptures from the bronze age, exactly how these scriptures were meant. Suppression and obedience. And yes, there are quite some people believing this. Thats has nothing to do with straw men. Those people are perfectly clear by themselves.

27. EXPELLED!

Comment #147647 by Koreman on March 21, 2008 at 4:01 am

This is dangerous. Dawkins might leave the theater as a reborn Christian.

28. The Secular Conscience

Comment #147442 by Koreman on March 20, 2008 at 12:28 pm

@ 50. Comment #147403 by jeepyjay
We might as well introduce Voodoo, Witchcraft, Alchemy and Astrology. There still are plenty of job opportunities.

29. God's cure for gays lost in sin

Comment #147052 by Koreman on March 19, 2008 at 5:59 pm

@202. Comment #147026 by Bonzai

Well yes. The convenient thing about the bible (and other religious scriptures) is that you can come up with anything you like and prove it has been written.

Respect, you recognized 'Lot'.

30. Report: 32% Of Prayers Deflected Off Passing Satellites

Comment #147049 by Koreman on March 19, 2008 at 5:50 pm

C:> ping god
no route to host
destination unreachable
C:> ipconfig /flushdns
succesfully flushed the DNS resolver cache
C:> ping God
no route to host
destination unreachable
C:> ipconfig /flushlogic
Succesfully flushed the logic resolver cache.
C:> ping God
Pinging God (256.256.256.256) with 777 bytes of data:
Reply from 256.256.256.256: bytes=777 time=0ms TTL=ETERNAL
Reply from 256.256.256.256: bytes=777 time=0ms TTL=ETERNAL
Reply from 256.256.256.256: bytes=777 time=0ms TTL=ETERNAL
Reply from 256.256.256.256: bytes=777 time=0ms TTL=ETERNAL
C:> net send God Iluvyou!
Sending files to God is no longer supported.
C:> tracert God [127.0.0.1]
Tracing route to God over a maximum of 0 hobs:
1 15 ms <10 ms <10 ms god.brain [0.0.0.256]
2 0 ms <10 ms <10 ms fantasy.brain [256.256.256.256]
Trace complete.
C:>help?
'help?' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program, batch file or something spooky. Get real.
C:>format brain: /u /s

31. God's cure for gays lost in sin

Comment #147017 by Koreman on March 19, 2008 at 5:18 pm

@ Comment #146527 by hungarianelephant

Yes. Homosexuality is not mentioned in the bible. The lines used by all these clever people are taken way out of context. To the absurd actually.

For instance, Big Wizard was talking about disobedience and vanity in common and the political weakness related. There was something rotten in the air and he did not want to intervene for the thousandth time. The actual text is very clear. He then talked about women as an example. Yes, he was a stereotyper. He warned men not to do behave like women 'lay down with them and do nothing' but to take action. Just read these stories, and I suggest you take an old print because these stories have conveniently been rewritten every time.

Bottom line is that it's completely illogical that this invisible guy decided to invoke homosexuality all the sudden, right in the middle of something pure political, extremely important for a moment for whatever non-divine reason.

Something similar happened to a story about a guy named Onan. He was told to have babies with the woman of his brother in order to preserve a bloodline (again, how non-ad-hoc divine is that?), but apparently he refused to obey the convincing endless thunderbolt that addressed him personally. Well that is, he had lots of sex though, but always pulled out his forces before the cavalry was invoked, spilling his precious ammunition on the ground (the bed was not intelligently designed yet). The text about this deed of divine disobedience (why mention it otherwise in a scripture) was used as proof that masturbation is a sin. As if someone had been masturbating over his sister in law. Something (the masturbating part of course) BB was not very happy with. Hell no. BB watched the peepshow time after the time in full detail. He wanted more since pregnancies without sexual intercourse had not been intelligently designed yet either. Obviously.

32. Religion 'linked to happy life'

Comment #146340 by Koreman on March 19, 2008 at 1:18 am

Maybe the study shows that people who are more willing to ignore suffering are more easily willing to believe in an invisible terror wizard who came out of nowhere and never.

@50. Comment #146238 by the_ultimate_samurai
I've seen parents on TV who lost their child, telling it's not really a problem since godditit. In my opinion you must be suffering from a tremendous Stockholm Syndrome at least.

33. The Atheist Apocalypse

Comment #146335 by Koreman on March 19, 2008 at 1:10 am

Great comic, but it is not based on real future events. Horseman Equality talks about genital mutilation of girls only.

34. Religious groups want Russian cartoon channel shut down

Comment #146332 by Koreman on March 19, 2008 at 1:03 am

That's weird. I was told that Stalin was a typical fundamentalist atheist who deliberately wiped away religion completely.

35. First 'Rule' Of Evolution Suggests That Life Is Destined To Become More Complex

Comment #146327 by Koreman on March 19, 2008 at 12:50 am

@ 8. Comment #146030 by EnlightenedBlasphemy
" *my apologies if i have broken some forum taboo by mentioning religion under a purely scientific article. "

No problem. Mentioning religion in online discussions regarding scientific topics is called Godlose's Law.

36. They prayed to cast Satan from my body

Comment #145539 by Koreman on March 17, 2008 at 5:31 pm

/D'Souze mode on/

Please remember that only 25 people were executed during the Salem witch trials. And atheists perform exorcism too. They ban the Lord from their hearts, which is much more serious than anything else.

/mode off/

37. New Atheists Are Not Great

Comment #145485 by Koreman on March 17, 2008 at 4:36 pm

"Reason, logic, facts: hey, we don't need that. Go away, delusive heretics. Blind faith in an invisible wizard from stories written in the bronze age, stories that have been rewritten over and over again for centuries, and then MY interpretation, that's all you need! Look how smart I am! You're all jealous! You're a bunch of cowards! You... you..."

Check out the excellent videos by Thunderf00t:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uephBmkupvQ
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BS5vid4GkEY

38. In Britain, creationist theory is evolving

Comment #144557 by Koreman on March 16, 2008 at 10:30 am

So, when evolution is banned everywhere and hospitals have been closed down by lack of medicine, what's next? Einstein? Quantum mechanics? Maybe children should be taught that nuclear power is just a trick of the devil cleverly deluding us. There is no such thing as atoms and molecules. Proof? You can't see them.

These people have serious mental problems.

39. Richard Dawkins on The Alan Colmes Show

Comment #143953 by Koreman on March 14, 2008 at 6:00 pm

Excellent. It's a pity is that logic and arguments don't seem to affect certain people. I guess it's not cool to realize that your life has been run by parental superstition, con artists with nice salaries, and records of prehistorical schizophrenics.

40. Talking Action Figure Jesus

Comment #73287 by Koreman on September 24, 2007 at 4:30 pm

Why is Jesus held like that and not Mohamed in the background? He looks so depressed and insultanned.

41. Out of Thin Air

Comment #72939 by Koreman on September 23, 2007 at 3:39 pm

Nice webpage, funny to see how these things evolve.

After seeing a few previews I saw the light. If he exists God must be an atheist. He must be a busy fellow too, listening to billions of people simultaneously all the time, changing the course of planned history in order to answer a few questions every now and then. Therefor it's nice to have some faithful people building flashy websites doing monkeybusiness.

42. God Talk on 'The View'

Comment #71509 by Koreman on September 19, 2007 at 12:29 am

Very good. It shows how inconsistent and ignorant people can be and feel perfectly fine about it, even think of it as a big pro.

Religion is a faith game wherein players are constantly looking for ways in and out, only to preserve their faith. This is no surprise. Preservation of faith is the single most important thing in any religion. Without it any religion would die. The major difference between religion and science is that most religious people maintain faith whatever they observe and/or conclude where most scientists maintain skepticism. I go for skepticism.

43. Enough religion. Stop shoving it down my throat

Comment #70467 by Koreman on September 15, 2007 at 3:49 pm

Excellent read.

Why are children still considered religious people in figures?