1. PLEASE WRITE IN SUPPORT OF PZ MYERS

Comment #208557 by ateu luso on July 11, 2008 at 3:17 am

Just did my bit. Keep up the good fight, PZ!

2. 'Darwin chip' brings evolution into the classroom

Comment #158061 by ateu luso on April 10, 2008 at 3:17 am

Having just read the piece on the Higgs boson ("In search of the God particle", April 8th), and now this, I just feel like saying:

Isn't science fucking GREAT?!?

Little by little we're chipping away at the fantasies of the deluded. Let's keep it up, they're running out of hiding places!

3. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #152516 by ateu luso on March 31, 2008 at 7:31 am

Richard Morgan,

Belo poema, obrigado!

Abraço

4. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #152512 by ateu luso on March 31, 2008 at 7:23 am

AllanW,

Worrying indeed. Not surprising though, and perhaps that's even more worrying.

The Human Rights Council has always been a body buried under the weight of politics and political-correctness to a point of complete incapacity. It's merely another tool to be used only when it's convenient.

Let's hope we grow the spine to reclaim it from those miserable hijackers, and give it the meaning its name deserves.

5. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #152469 by ateu luso on March 31, 2008 at 5:46 am

Styrer,

Perhaps I wasn't clear in my post, but in no way did I mean to suggest that Wilders should not have the right to express his views.

My comment wishing that his film be forgotten (not ignored) quickly related to its lack of quality/originality, and to the fact that the film was nothing more than a right-wing prick's ego-trip. Wilders cleverly manipulated the media into a frenzy so he could get the attention he craved.

Having said that, I'm half-glad that, on this occasion, his manipulation succeeded, because, as I mentioned in my post, the film hits upon a very important point, and one we must take seriously.

So my dismissal of his film was meant to imply that we don't need his sort of people on our side in order to win this crucial debate. Unfortunately, we probably do need people like Wilders to bring this debate to the mainstream public.

And that is yet another reason for complete, non-negotiable freedom of speech.

I hope this cleared things up.

6. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #152436 by ateu luso on March 31, 2008 at 2:48 am

Fanusi Khiyal, taking comments out of context in order to sound clever doesn't really help you here... Plenty of other sites you can try that little trick, I'm sure. Then again, it is your usual M.O., so I guess it's a bit much to hope you'll change...
Read what people actually wrote before commenting on their opinions and insulting them.
Prick.

7. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #152408 by ateu luso on March 31, 2008 at 1:19 am

First let me get something out of the way: Geert Wilders is a little right-wing racist prick. I live in Amsterdam, so I get to know more about him that I'd like.

It is therefore a very troubling reflection of the threat our secular society faces that a very banal film, containing a bunch of snippets of films everyone's seen many times on the internet, causes so much uproar. This film should be treated the same way neo-fascist demonstrations are treated, by crushing those bigoted fucks under the weight of our indifference and contempt. This is one of the consequences of freedom of speech, and complete freedom of speech is absolutely non-negotiable.

When, however, in the midst of his belligerent rhetoric, Wilders says his film is part of his fight to stop the islamisation of Europe, I have to concede he has struck a chord. Our liberalism, our freedoms, our willingness to bend over backwards to accommodate the cancer of multiculturalism, are all being exploited by religious bigots in order to slowly but very surely introduce their middle-age values into our society. This cannot be allowed!

Everyone must be treated in exactly the same manner and afforded exactly the same rights as everyone else, regardless of their culture! And our laws, while not being perfect, must not be tainted with fairy-tales (horrible ones at that) supposedly dictated to some ignorant bronze-age peasants by their imaginary friends, just because some demented fucks say so!

This silly film by Geert Wilders should, we hope, soon be forgotten. Not before some mullah-incited token outrage, inevitably. But the climate that allowed such a film to grab the headlines should be dealt with. The virus that religion (ANY religion) is must not be allowed to destroy our free, inquisitive, rational, fair and SECULAR society!

8. Happy Birthday, Richard Dawkins!

Comment #150669 by ateu luso on March 27, 2008 at 8:36 am

Dear Richard, have a great birthday and keep up the great work for many years to come!

To add an international touch,
Muitos parabéns e um grande abraço!

9. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #149135 by ateu luso on March 25, 2008 at 6:53 am

I guess this is as good a time as any to post my first post.

Thanks Richard, thanks PZ, for exposing these hypocritical ignorants for what they are time and again. I avoid qualifying them as stupid in the "slow to learn or understand" sense; they are wilfully ignorant and dishonest, which is far worse.
I have read previous posts postulating that this stunt is part of Mathis' grandiose and well thought-out master plan to get his film some free publicity. You'd think, however, that he'd avoid destroying THE ONE "principle" he so keenly purports to defend throughout his "documentary". Anyhow, while I don't think Mathis is stupid, he can't be too clever either...

It's great to read what (most of) you guys write. I'm honoured to be part of this great atheist movement. We need to make sure rationality prevails! As for clearthinker (a bit of a misnomer there) and bibanu, seriously guys, there must surely be better places for you to preach...