1. VOICES OF SCIENCE - Available Now on DVD

Comment #211353 by Louis Perry on July 15, 2008 at 9:38 pm

Magnificent!

2. PLEASE WRITE IN SUPPORT OF PZ MYERS

Comment #208154 by Louis Perry on July 10, 2008 at 4:34 pm

Sent the following to President Bruininks:

I urge you and the University of Minnesota to ignore the Catholic League's protest against Associate Professor PZ Meyers for his piece entitled "It's a Frackin' Cracker!" that appeared in his blog, Pharyngula, on July 8, 2008.

Professor Meyers was exercising his First Amendment right of free speech in expressing his reaction to the recent Communion wafer incident in Florida,

I believe that, and I am grateful that, in the United States, First Amendment rights trump offended religious sensibilities.

3. PLEASE WRITE IN SUPPORT OF PZ MYERS

Comment #208151 by Louis Perry on July 10, 2008 at 4:31 pm

Sent the following to President Bruininks:

I urge you and the University of Minnesota to ignore the Catholic League's protest against Associate Professor PZ Meyers for his piece entitled "It's a Frackin' Cracker!" that appeared in his blog, Pharyngula, on July 8, 2008.

Professor Meyers was exercising his First Amendment right of free speech in expressing his reaction to the recent Communion wafer incident in Florida,

I believe that, and I am grateful that, in the United States, First Amendment rights trump offended religious sensibilities.

4. My Response to Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Comment #177270 by Louis Perry on May 8, 2008 at 8:48 pm

Bravo, Richard!

Beautifully, gently, and most entertainingly said!

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

Comment #160297 by Louis Perry on April 13, 2008 at 10:58 pm

Oh, please. Men and women have created, and will continue to create, great, inspiring (secular) art that is, and will be, the equal of anything ever produced by the "inspiration from faith." That the "Dawkins army" could be a threat to art is purely laughable.

6. George Scales, War Hero and Generous Friend of RDFRS

Comment #111378 by Louis Perry on January 14, 2008 at 1:24 pm

Mr. Scales,

My best wishes for your speedy recovery.

Thank you so much for your generosity to RDFRS. In supporting the cause of reason, secularism and science, you support us all

I'm glad to know the names of my heros!

7. Secular fundamentalists are the new totalitarians

Comment #16360 by Louis Perry on January 6, 2007 at 8:49 am

No thinking person, religionist or atheist, could take the rant of Tobias Jones seriously.

However, one may seriously wonder why the Guardian would print such rant.

8. Letter From America: Atheists throw down the gauntlet

Comment #15838 by Louis Perry on January 3, 2007 at 9:44 am

Re: Paragraph 11: "The two movements are almost entirely dissimilar, of course, with Christian fundamentalism engaging in no violence or threats."

Ask any gay person: The Christian fundamentalist war against full civil rights for gay Americans is both violent and threatening.

9. Atheist Chic

Comment #13504 by Louis Perry on December 18, 2006 at 3:29 am

Neil was doing great until that penultimate paragraph:

"The new atheism is pretty hard-core, militantly insisting we challenge religiosity wherever we meet it, or else enable its darker extremist tendencies. In other words, the new atheism is on a quest for conversion. Having insisted on tolerance of our non-faith, Dawkins and Harris' take-no-prisoners orthodoxy would have us be intolerant of others' faith."

That's a complete mischaracterization of both Dawkins and Harris.

10. Lunch with the FT: Richard Dawkins

Comment #13380 by Louis Perry on December 17, 2006 at 10:40 am

Cookson: "As Dawkins cycles off, the nostalgic sadness I feel is only partly due to the autumn light."

Precisely the way I felt upon coming to the end of The God Delusion.

11. Grandparents linked with church-going

Comment #13093 by Louis Perry on December 15, 2006 at 11:20 am

Surely in did not take a study by the University of Manchester to unearth the obvious fact that people are more likely to attend religious services if their grandparents did. Religious tradition is primarily passed down in families.

12. Book answers the atheists' prayers

Comment #11957 by Louis Perry on December 8, 2006 at 2:52 pm

Robert Colbeck: "What's important is that Dawkins has had the courage to approach such a sensitive subject with calm, considered logic. The results are devastatingly brilliant."

A devastatingly brilliant review as well!

13. A Modest Proposal for a Truce on Religion

Comment #11611 by Louis Perry on December 6, 2006 at 12:15 am

I was so happy to see Richard Dawkins' and Sam Harris' responses to Nicholas Kristof's New York Times op-ed entitled, A Modest Proposal for a Truce on Religion

On December 3, immediately upon reading the piece, I sent the following letter to the editor at The Times:

"In his December 3 opinion, A Modest Proposal for a Truce on Religion, Nicholas D. Kristof has clearly overreacted to the recent books The God Delusion and Letter to a Christian Nation. Any recent public display in the name of atheism hardly rises to the level of what Mr. Kristof calls "irreligious intolerance," especially in the face of the intimidation, browbeating and bullying
that humanity has endured from religionists for thousands of years.

Mr. Kristof writes, "Granted, religious figures have been involved throughout history in the worst kinds of atrocities. But as Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin and Pol Pot show, so have atheists."

The significant difference that Mr. Kristof fails to point out is that Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin and Pol Pot did not commit atrocities in the name of atheism."

I applaud Mr. Dawkins and Mr. Harris every day.

14. Spectator: Books of the Year

Comment #11045 by Louis Perry on December 2, 2006 at 10:36 pm

Here! Here!

15. Science Gives Christians Upper Hand Over Atheists

Comment #9423 by Louis Perry on November 24, 2006 at 6:12 pm

Scary.

16. Praise the Lord - a bestseller!

Comment #9421 by Louis Perry on November 24, 2006 at 6:10 pm

Perhaps, this guy doesn't intend to be taken seriously.

17. To be Read at my Funeral

Comment #9309 by Louis Perry on November 24, 2006 at 11:33 am

Thanks to Daniel DeCastro.

I couldn't have expressed my personal (and public!) attitude toward death more accurately.

Here! Here!

18. Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history

Comment #8842 by Louis Perry on November 22, 2006 at 12:24 pm

What rubbish. History records no one committing murder, much less mass murder, "in the name of atheism."

19. Dawkins's version of the deity does not exist

Comment #7911 by Louis Perry on November 19, 2006 at 9:51 pm

Quentin de la Bédoyère says Dawkins's version of the deity does not exist. Dawkins says that the deity doesn't exist.

Quentin de la Bédoyère's also says, "The central problem is his misunderstanding of the nature of God."

One certainly cannot tell what that nature might be from what de la Bédoyère writes.

Could it be?...philosophical nonsense?

20. I'm an atheist, BUT . . .

Comment #7393 by Louis Perry on November 18, 2006 at 12:58 pm

Every day now, I wake up and say, "Thank Richard for Richard Dawkins!

That's as close to religion as I'll ever get.

21. My God Problem

Comment #7252 by Louis Perry on November 17, 2006 at 10:49 pm

Bravo to Natalie Angier!

And, bravo to all of Roger Stanyard's comments!

22. The God Delusion? Part 1

Comment #6829 by Louis Perry on November 15, 2006 at 6:17 pm

Sorry for the second time around...

Deepak Chopra says, "The unfairness of this argument is that it squeezes God into a corner."

WHAT GOD, Dr. Chopra, WHAT GOD are you talking about?

23. The God Delusion? Part 1

Comment #6827 by Louis Perry on November 15, 2006 at 5:59 pm

More Deepak Chopra mumbo-jumbo in defense of his earlier mumbo-jumbo.

24. God knows why faith is thriving

Comment #6683 by Louis Perry on November 15, 2006 at 10:54 am

So, the Hoover Institution is giving fellowships to the intellectually challenged these days?

25. Reading of The God Delusion in Lynchburg, VA

Comment #6067 by Louis Perry on November 12, 2006 at 11:46 am

With all due respect to Jerry in comment #5994, please, please, please make all future video offerings available in Quicktime. On Macs the videos downloadable as flash files don't download as usable on Macs (well, on mine anyway). The opportunity to hear Richard Dawkins via Quicktime is worth all the space I have left on my hard drive, and when I run out, I'll buy an external drive to keep filing the good Doctor away! P.S. In my experience, Quicktime quality is far superior to YouTube quality (with apologies to YouTube, which I love).

26. Hatred (of Gays) Unites Jerusalem's Feuding Faiths

Comment #5499 by Louis Perry on November 9, 2006 at 6:55 pm

The essential, underlying message of the three monotheistic faiths is that "my God is better than your God." That's a formula that's provided thousands of years of war, murder and other cruelties.

That the three can regularly turn their collective judgmental eye of condemnation on one group is frightening.

No, it's not all religious Jews, Muslims and Christians, but the moderates keep the platform in place for the fanatics.

Where else for this blight of human behavior could be more predictable than Jerusalem?

Where more predictable than Jerusalem?

27. Humphrys In Search of God

Comment #4780 by Louis Perry on November 6, 2006 at 12:55 am

I would have expected that the Archbishop of Canterbury would have had more to offer.

28. BBC Profile - Richard Dawkins

Comment #4533 by Louis Perry on November 4, 2006 at 10:57 am

The reporter in trying to wrap up the profile of Dawkins seems to reach for some profundity and obviously makes un-Dawkins-like conclusions and suggestions. That should not confuse or dismay any discerning viewer in the face of an otherwise well make profile