1. Group finds Starbucks logo too hot to handle

Comment #181282 by dragonfirematrix on May 16, 2008 at 8:39 pm

Oh hell...

Here we go again with the GD Christian/Islamic (religious in general) pre-occupation with sexual stuff.

The Abrahamics will NEVER get over their hate for remedial biology 00000000000000000000000001.

2. Pelosi, Reid shunning Ten Commandments?

Comment #181268 by dragonfirematrix on May 16, 2008 at 8:11 pm

Well... we have the Christians in America trying to force their GD religion on people in America just like the Islamic are trying to force their GD religion on people.

There is a very simple answer to these Abrahamic religion problems. Very simply...

...JUST REMEMBER THAT THE TOILET BOWL HAS A FLUSH HANDLE. Religion in politics should have only one destination, which is the direction I just proposed.

3. Bible Theme Park Faces Opposition in Tennessee

Comment #181266 by dragonfirematrix on May 16, 2008 at 7:53 pm

MEANWHILE BACK AT THE JESUS PARK...

...in the water park area, children are asking their parents:

Mommy, can I ride the dunking stool?
Daddy, where is the water board?


HISTORICAL THEATRE AT THE JESUS PARK

Now playing: "Clergy and the Alter Boy(s)"
Tomorrow: "The Teddy Bear Cronicles"
Next Week: "The Preacher's Boyfriend"

4. Bible Theme Park Faces Opposition in Tennessee

Comment #180789 by dragonfirematrix on May 15, 2008 at 7:57 pm

THE SETUP

The first paragraph says:

"A developer wants to build what would be the country's largest Bible-based theme park in Tennessee, depicting scenes such as the parting of the Red Sea."

Later, the developer says:

"Bar-Tur says, the park would focus on the historical aspects of the Bible �quot; not on ministry."

THE CHALLENGE

Since when did the parting of the Red Sea become a factual historical record?

Did someone prove this actually happened? Who proved it? Can we see a repeat? What are the procedures for parting a sea?

Next thing you know: the park will have a section depicting a deity curing amputees. Sounds like ministry to me.

Will the park illustrate beheadings, burnings at the stack, female mutilation, witch-hunts, gay bashing, religious wars, lies, and the oppression of women? Will the park document how religion attacks freedom, civil rights, civil liberties, human rights, etc? Please correct me if I am wrong, but are not these part of true religious history. How is the park going to relate these horrors to family values?

POSITIVES FOR THE PARK

Now, on the positive side of this debate, if the park has a human size pillar of salt (a big salt block), the deer in the area might well visit the park and be very happy.

Err… uh… well… uh… uh… I cannot think of any more positives.

SUMMARY

This park seems a bit like another attempt at sleazy fantasy propaganda from the religious…another place where unsuspecting children can be brainwashed.

I say a park with wild rides, neat stores, great restaurants, babes in tight shorts, impossible to win games, fancy water fountains, and lots of beer would be much more entertaining.

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE:

If this bible park manages to actually part a real sea without the help of science, and devices (like huge mobile dams, gigantic sucking pumps, etc.), let me know.


MEANWHILE BACK AT THE JESUS PARK...

...in the water park area, children are asking their parents:

Mommy, can I ride the dunking stool?
Daddy, where is the water board?


HISTORICAL THEATRE AT THE JESUS PARK

Now playing: "Clergy and the Alter Boy(s)"
Tomorrow: "The Teddy Bear Cronicles"
Next Week: "The Preacher's Boyfriend"

5. UC Berkeley is going to court over Evolution website

Comment #180771 by dragonfirematrix on May 15, 2008 at 6:30 pm

To quote a part of the article: "truth statement: "some religious beliefs explicitly contradict science". They do"

Yes, they do.

I guess the religious would prefer a statement of lies, to match the lies in their little black book.

6. 85% of Americans Want a Presidential Debate on Science

Comment #179826 by dragonfirematrix on May 13, 2008 at 8:28 pm

Like many in Europe, I believe in tolerance. Honestly, I do believe in tolerance. However, I am secularist/atheist in America, who happens to believe in being tolerant towards only those who are tolerant.

MY SOLUTION: The religious should be forcefully (by law) committed to live by their intolerance and disbelief of science by not being allowed to enjoy the benefits of any science.

Maybe if the religious see what happens to their children without science, the religious might (fat chance) see the truth and the light.

MAKE IT SO.

7. Pat Condell: Anthology DVD available now!

Comment #179791 by dragonfirematrix on May 13, 2008 at 6:41 pm

The Pat Condell Anthology is great!

I vote for putting Pat on prime-time American television, every night. The American religious could use a burning slap in the face and a good hard kick in the butt.

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

Comment #178629 by dragonfirematrix on May 11, 2008 at 7:17 pm

Abdel-Qader Ali is a sick man, his mind corrupted and disabled by religion. More proof that religion is sick.

Abdel-Qader Ali also had his sons help him carry out the evils of his imagined god: "My sons are by my side, and they were men enough to help me finish the life of someone who just brought shame to ours."

SICK, SICK, SICK.

How anyone can think Abdel-Qader Ali did the right thing is horrific, but then it seems most Islamic have the same problem.

Bush is supporting the Iraqis. I guess Bush calls this democracy. Is Abdel-Qader, or any of his Neanderthal kind, receiving US taxpayer dollars? How is he paying for that home with the garden?

Abdel-Qader Ali should be put on trial for murder, and his sons should be put into child protective custody.

9. I Am Evolution

Comment #178625 by dragonfirematrix on May 11, 2008 at 7:06 pm

Bravo! Very well said!

10. Evolution: What is 'Natural'?

Comment #178619 by dragonfirematrix on May 11, 2008 at 6:51 pm

As par for the course, the religious again attack evolution. That one caller needed some valium to calm himself down.

"Poof, there it is..."

...the way those simple-minded religious see the the existance of everything, in six days mind you. They offer no data, no documented facts, no proven scientific methods, no verifiable discoveries to support their claims. All the religious offer is their GDBS.

Never mind that science gathers data, learns and documented facts, uses scientific methods which continue to get better and better, discovery after discovery in support of evolution, and on...

NOOOOOO, the religious continue to believe (and want forced on all children) their GDBS of "poof, there it is."

The religious should be jailed on charges of fraud.

11. Atheists are nice people who will roast in hell, says Cardinal

Comment #177864 by dragonfirematrix on May 9, 2008 at 8:58 pm

To quote a portion of the article: "ATHEISTS and agnostics are decent people whose tormented souls will burn for all eternity in the scorching fires of hell, Britain's biggest catholic said last night.

Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor said non-believers should be respected, right up to the point of death when they will finally come face to face with Satan and his blood-soaked pitchfork."

As far as I am concerned, the above is terrorism. Imagine the terror in a child mind as one of these radicalized religious Neanderthals teaches this GDBS to a child.

Religion is child abuse, and religion is terrorism.

12. $271 Million for Research on Stem Cells in California

Comment #177856 by dragonfirematrix on May 9, 2008 at 8:44 pm

Below is a quote from the article, which displays such the disgusting attitude of our religiously radicalized president, George W. Bush.

"One reason the buildings are needed is that the Bush administration now prohibits federal financing of research using any human embryonic stem cells derived after August 2001, because creating such cells entails the destruction of human embryos. "

Bush does not mind spending trillions on religious wars that kill countless innocent fully grown embryos (people), but Bush considers it immoral to hurt that GD tiny embryo. In my opinion, the radicalized religious right wants that embryo raised to an adult-hood so Bush and his radicalized conservative Neanderthals can kill the grown cell in another religious war.

Bush, your god is a total failure. I do not believe in gods, but for argument sake, it is your god who senselessly kills millions with terrorizing, torturous, natural disasters alone, not to mention starvation and decease, the hate and wars waged by your Abrahamic religions, and almost countless other horrors against humanity.


I am sixty and have degenertive disks in my upper spine, which cause pain and weakness. It sure would be nice to grow some new disks from stem cells and implant them in my spine replacing the faulty ones.

Science rocks. Science is the truth, the light, and the way. No man comes unto the truth except by proof. Bring on the embryonic stem cell research.

13. Churchgoing on its knees as Christianity falls out of favour

Comment #177272 by dragonfirematrix on May 8, 2008 at 8:52 pm

Why is Islam increasing?

14. Trouble ahead for science

Comment #177261 by dragonfirematrix on May 8, 2008 at 8:39 pm

To comment on post number "48. Comment #177244 by discipline on May 8, 2008 at 8:11 pm "

You are right. It is going to get a lot worse before it gets better.

I suspect the religious have unspeackable horrors in mind for all who do not tow the Neanderthal religious line.

Thinkers, and those who believe in freedom, civil rights, civil liberties, human rights, and truth must never let the religious get a majority in government (any government).

15. Citing Faith, Bush Defends War Actions

Comment #177247 by dragonfirematrix on May 8, 2008 at 8:20 pm

Bush is nuts believing in the fantasies that he embraces.

BUSH, GROW-UP. THERE ARE NO GODS.

Bush, if your (to you) god is real, and if your (to you) real god is in control of everything on this planet, then he must be a real horror with all the terrible things he is doing to humankind.

SCIENCE HAS A LOT OF CLEANING UP TO DO TO CORRECT THE PROBLEMS CAUSED BY THE BELIEF IN GODS.

Why are we continuing to permit the religious to commit fraud against humanity? WHY?

16. Gene map proves platypus is part bird, mammal and reptile

Comment #177240 by dragonfirematrix on May 8, 2008 at 8:05 pm

Very interesting.

I bet the creatationists have an excuse for why their god allowed (I assume) such cross breeding.

The religious need to detail for all of us where in their bibble (or core-rant) the platypus is explained by their god.

SCIENCE ROCKS!!!

17. Research Volunteers Needed

Comment #176176 by dragonfirematrix on May 6, 2008 at 7:34 pm

All surveys done!

I anxiously await the results.

18. Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks

Comment #176174 by dragonfirematrix on May 6, 2008 at 7:21 pm

Great article.

To quote a part: "The lesson we should draw from the Fitna controversy is that we need more criticism of Islam, not less. Let it come down in such torrents that not even the most deluded Islamist could conceive of containing it."

May I add that open criticism of religion (in general) should boldly flood the airways, cable, newsprint, bookstores, and Ethernets.

19. Evolution's Critics Shift Tactics With Schools

Comment #174945 by dragonfirematrix on May 3, 2008 at 10:49 pm

So the terrorist of humanity continue to undermine the facts of life.

Here is one for George W. Bush, manager of the United States: These creationist tactics sound Islamic to me.

I will continue to adhere to real science, not junk religious science.

20. The Neanderthal Debate

Comment #174940 by dragonfirematrix on May 3, 2008 at 10:35 pm

I love the way science evoles and learns.

Now, if the Neanderthals of religion were able to learn. Pipe dream. The religious will never understand their existance.

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

Comment #174933 by dragonfirematrix on May 3, 2008 at 10:17 pm

Well, I see here we have...

...another idiotic Neanderthal religious belief. Has anyone considered jailing these perverts?

The human race has a very long way to go.

22. Science leads to killing people

Comment #171777 by dragonfirematrix on April 28, 2008 at 8:06 pm

Stein's entire discussion is horrifying. How can one person hold such hate for humanity?

Worse part is, Stein has hundreds of millions of religious zealots cuddling his views in his arms.

Stein and others like him are very sick people, who wish nothing but destruction for humanity.

I know we should be tolerant, but why should we tolerate those who will destroy us if we give them the chance?

23. Religion a figment of human imagination

Comment #171765 by dragonfirematrix on April 28, 2008 at 7:43 pm

Well, I suppose a portion of the text (quoted below) from the article says enough...

..."imagine things and beings that don't physically exist,"

Which means, of course, all the gods created by humanity since humanity was old enough to create gods and (so called) prophets.

Religion is full of things and beings that do not exist.

24. Student's 'Be Happy, Not Gay' t-shirt ok

Comment #169788 by dragonfirematrix on April 26, 2008 at 8:04 pm

Lets move on to Liberty University, and other religious schools and start wearing:

"Atheism is about honesty, truth, and reason"

Non-religious people need to get more vocal in the face of the religious.

25. Humans nearly wiped out 70,000 years ago, study says

Comment #169785 by dragonfirematrix on April 26, 2008 at 7:54 pm

Before the Christians go off cheering and screaming about the "Eve" thing, let us not allow the Christians to forget that there are mulitiple races on this planet, which tells me (at least) the "Adam and Eve" stories are just a bunch of GD religious BS.

I thank my mom and dad for not living in, or coming from Kansas.

On a side note...

...are not the religious on Earth working overtime, every day, trying to make us all extinct, with war after war after war.

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

Comment #169784 by dragonfirematrix on April 26, 2008 at 7:42 pm

Major Freddy J. Welborn should also be given a dishonorable discharge for not upholding the principles of The Constitution, namely: The Bill of Rights (1st Amendment).

On a more personal note...

Freddy I hope you get the socks sued off of you.

27. Interview with Dan Dennett

Comment #168237 by dragonfirematrix on April 24, 2008 at 7:26 pm

God is not dead...

...because God (any version of it) never existed. Therefore, one who never existed can never be dead.

That is why everything is permitted.

28. Investigating Atheism

Comment #167283 by dragonfirematrix on April 23, 2008 at 8:17 pm

TO MUCH DEBATE… TO MUCH DEBATE…

Personally, I have no cross-purpose here. Mine is a direct purpose, so let me dispense with the wordiness of the palpitations of the brainiacs that I am reading, and let me simply say…

…There is NO god. The short, simple, sweat truth, and it is the end of the debate, unless proof positive is achieved by...

...If god wants to challenge my opinion, he can do so by completing the following on 04-24-08, Eastern, USA.

1) End his/her/its starvation of all the starving children on planet
2) Cure all childhood deceases, which he/she/it presumably (if he/she/it created everything) caused
3) Stop debilitating old persons
4) Put and end to mental retardation
5) Cure all amputees
6) Stop all the god-damn religious wars
7) End discrimination
8) End sexism
9) End racism
10) End homophobia

That should be enough.

The list above should be enough, but anyone can add more. Come on god. If you a real, you can fix all these things tomorrow, 04-24-08. I also invite other gods to step up to the plate and prove themselves by 04-24-08. God, if you are worth believing, you can easily handle my list above. If you are imaginary (not worth believing), you cannot.

Case dismissed. THERE IS NO GOD.

29. Judge orders La. school district to stop Bible giveaways

Comment #167250 by dragonfirematrix on April 23, 2008 at 7:18 pm

This bible thing is ridiculous.

The only way we are going stop the Christians from trying to force their bible on schools and school children is simple. Other religions, without permission, should start handing out their religious book to children. Lets find out how long the Christians will like it. Not long to be sure. Maybe two minutes, tops, before all hell about the persecution of Christians breaks loose.

Do not get me wrong. I believe in the separation of church and state. I also pride myself in trying to be tolerant. However, tolerance is not working. We should remove religion from public life. Religion should be required a private thing, since there really are no gods in the first place.

The time for tolerance of religion has expired. I know intolerance is not the right thing, but I think it is inappropriate to show tolerances for those who teach intolerance.

30. Religion is 'the new social evil'

Comment #164834 by dragonfirematrix on April 20, 2008 at 6:26 pm

If I may be so bold...

Religion is not a new social evil. Religion is the same old social evil.

31. Sex for diploma offer caught on tape

Comment #164812 by dragonfirematrix on April 20, 2008 at 6:04 pm

So...Faith-Based Education equals... $300

T--ty Play must be one-third of a three credit hour course, $100 and one credit hour per meeting (I mean class). Advanced classes must be titled B--ty Play.

I wonder what the other two credit hours are for :) he he.

LaVern Jordan is trying to take it slow. Not everything on the first date.

Please excuse me. Other thoughts are just rambling into my mind:

1) How much is the lab?
2) Is this Creation Science in practice?
3) Houston, we still have a problem...
4) Authorities need to check all school records.
5) We are currently in a debate about religion and polygamy. I did not notice, might have missed it, but is Jordan married?
6) Okay LaVern Jordan has some interest in creating life. Maybe he is a scientist.
7) This must be WWJD.

:) Okay, I made some fun comments, but now I am going more serious.

Maybe we should find out just how much of this kind of thing is going on in all religious schools and let everyone know. This one religious school cannot possibly be the only one with this little (shall we say) glitch.

32. Flea of the week

Comment #163706 by dragonfirematrix on April 18, 2008 at 8:25 pm

There is no dilemma in Atheism.

If I were to use just single words to describe Atheism (words on the left) compare to religion (words on the right), I would use words like:

Learning..........Retarding
Growing...........Stunting
Proving...........Assuming
Empirical.........Imagine
Facts.............Fantasy
Analysis..........Conjecture
Inclusive.........Exclusive
Collaborating.....Dominating
Progressive.......Stagnate
Logical...........Neurosis
Inquiring.........Preaching

You guys can add more and better comparisons. I hope the words line up correctly on the website.

It is not Atheism in a dilemma. It is religion. Religion is fighting to maintain its indoctrinating control over the minds of many to prevent the masses from learning the truth and the facts of existence.

Science extends its hand of knowledge to those who accept it. The religious do not believe.

I guess the armies of religion will continue trying to suppress the truth, and we will war with them forever.

I wonder how many fantastic achievements could have already been accomplished if Earth was spending its religious war money instead on education, science, medicine, technology, health care, etc. I bet humanity would be thousands of years ahead of where we are right now. Oh well, so much for my wishes.

Pat Condell could do a wonderful essay on this topic.

33. Sexpelled: No Intercourse Allowed

Comment #163022 by dragonfirematrix on April 17, 2008 at 8:52 pm

I have a suggestion for Christian dinners.

Please try blacken-stork tonight for dinner. It fits perfectly the concept of a great Christian meal because it is very high in cholesterol, fats, and bulshi. Best yet, science had nothing to do with your bird.

May your dinner tonight clog your heart and arteries. Your brain is already bulshi.

Enjoy.

34. Evolution: 24 myths and misconceptions

Comment #163013 by dragonfirematrix on April 17, 2008 at 8:19 pm

In response to the article, my opinion is: The Christians of America have no interest about the facts of life on planet Earth. They care not about proven evidence. Christians are only interested in the adherence of everyone to their fantasies and imaginary saviors.

Lets face it. There is almost zero hope for planet Earth.

Today, I listened to police, lawyers, and policy makers all of whom are having problems with the prospects of charging (let alone convicting) anyone in the Texas polygamy scandal. Repeatedly, I kept hearing stuff about religion, sects, and beliefs. It appeared that the social workers have their hands tied by the courts.

If America cannot convict the religious of child abuse because the beliefs of the religious preach the practices, then how can any of the religious (or conservative policy wonks) ever understand The Law of Evolution?

Hey, if religion does wrong, it is okay as long as it is faith-based. With the size of that Texas religious compound and community, I would guess the money for all of structures were flowing in even during the Texas governorship controlled by George W. Bush.

This is what I learned today.

I wish Pat Condell would do one of his fiery articles on religion in America. Pat, we need you.

35. Evolution fray attracts top scientist

Comment #162397 by dragonfirematrix on April 16, 2008 at 9:39 pm

It should not come as much of a surprise that America is falling.

America, under the increasing control of fundamentalist Neanderthalism is falling into the abyss of a Dark Ages created solely by Christians.

Thank you Mr. Bush (manager of America) and the religious Nazis of America for all you have done to cause the failure of the human spirit.

36. Teacher Expelled Over Religion

Comment #161931 by dragonfirematrix on April 15, 2008 at 8:47 pm

This sounds like something the Islamic would do.

Religion should be banned.

Science is The Truth, The Light, and The Way. No person comes unto the truth except by proof.

37. Victims: Pope Benedict Protects Accused Pedophile Bishops

Comment #161914 by dragonfirematrix on April 15, 2008 at 8:30 pm

Strange is it not, that the religious bitch so much about humanity's sexual activities with the opposite (and same) sex while all the time engaging in acts against which they preach.

I think the religious hate sex.

Better watch out. The religious are probably peaking in our windows to find out what we are doing with our partners.

38. Science Debate 2008

Comment #161871 by dragonfirematrix on April 15, 2008 at 7:59 pm

I hope I have not missed the point of this article… but I cannot help myself.

As a person who does vote, I am very tired of hearing the American presidential candidates talk about their faith. Their faith is not helping me with my health care expenses, my fuel bills, or my retirement savings. I am sixty. I expected the GOP to kiss up to the fantasies and superstitions of the religious right who are destroying America one day at a time, but I had hoped the Democratic Party would have more sense.

I am certain that if the American presidential candidates, particularly those of conservative leanings, attempted a discussion on real science, they would fail in that discussion as miserably as the Christians have failed the American dream today.

It totally baffles me that the Christians in America would tear down all that science provides us in favor of that in which they know subjugates humanity to the complete familial, mental, and physical poverty of another Dark Age. I guess the Christians want to join the Islamic in the destruction of the future.

If America does not want to take the lead in real education, real medicine, real science, etc., then, by all means, may the next progressively thinking nation step up to the plate. A cheering future is awaiting your contributions.

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

Comment #161115 by dragonfirematrix on April 14, 2008 at 8:31 pm

I think I missed the point of this article, but I will continue anyway with my opinion.

To conjure up the demons that conclude a culture cannot be creative unless it has god to give credence to its core of nonsense is nonsense. Individual effort (patience and hard work) and ability results in artistic achievements. Artistic achievements are not the results of gifts from the humankind's creative array of imaginary gods.

I think that even technological, scientific, and medical achievements are art forms. For example: There may be no greater works of art from the 20th century than the cure for polio, the mapping of genomes, the computer, and the pictures of humankind on the moon. I am sure there are other great non-religious works from all over the planet, but I know there will be even greater non-religious achievements in the future.

Significant art is not limited to only the works with religious origins. As the saying goes, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Even the incredible discoveries in stem-cell research are music to the ears of many. Stem-cell research may lead to the most outstanding art in human history. Science, medicine, technology all added together to paint the most beautiful picture ever, while religion paints its achievements in blood red.

I may be missing the whole point of this article, but I do not miss the fact that religious art (to me) portrays fantasies as if they were fact, which (to me) makes much of the art of religion an outright lie.

Oh, and yes, we do have to watch out for the fundamentalists of America. They do not have humanities best interests at heart. Of course, right now, America is trying to sort out the results of another artistic religious variant of fundamentalism called polygamy.

40. A New Flea

Comment #160208 by dragonfirematrix on April 13, 2008 at 7:59 pm

Maybe I am not simple minded enough to believe in god(s).

According to my imagination, a god has to be all-powerful, all knowing, all capable, all loving, a lover of freedom and democracy, to name a few things. I imagine many Christians would say that I just named their god. However, I would not jump hastily to any conclusions just yet.

Based on my observations of god(s) revealed attributes, I think this worldly known imaginary person (including the Christian version) to be weak, stupid without the ability to learn, incompetent and incapable of competency, hateful and often times barbaric, revengeful, and a close-minded authoritarian.

I find none these attributes acceptable for the kind of person I wish to seek and follow. If a businessperson delivered on the job as these imaginary gods deliver on our planet Earth, that person would very quickly end-up on unemployment.

I want to follow something better. I will stick with science.

41. Ancient serpent shows its leg

Comment #159678 by dragonfirematrix on April 12, 2008 at 7:25 pm

Liberty University should require these findings to be taught as facts to their students in the religious science classes. It might bring light to their darkened education.

And on the eighth day, science said to the lost masses, "the first seven days are lies. I will reveal to you the truth. All you have to do is open your mind."

42. Scientists take drugs to boost brain power: study

Comment #159672 by dragonfirematrix on April 12, 2008 at 6:56 pm

Mind enhancing... body enhancing... sounds great!

I am 60 years old. I regularly work out in everything from walking, to weights, to high impact endurance. Even with all this, unassisted development has its limits, and such development plans do not take care of the aches, the pains, and the degeneration of aging.

Science achieves while those those dusty old books of faith repeatedly fail.

Bring on the science. I will swallow the enhancers with some juice.

43. Scientists take drugs to boost brain power: study

Comment #159278 by dragonfirematrix on April 11, 2008 at 8:32 pm

I am a sixty year old techy. I would love to jack-up my performance. I already do vitimans and anything else I can get to pump me up (body and mind).

Taking performance enhancement drugs sounds like a great idea! Lets push the damn moralists back into their dark-age closet so the rest of us can acheive greater accomplishments for humankind.

I vote for science, not religion.

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

Comment #159275 by dragonfirematrix on April 11, 2008 at 8:19 pm

Rep. Davis having a bad day?

Sounds like an excuse for her hate speech.

I do not buy the excuse.

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

Comment #159272 by dragonfirematrix on April 11, 2008 at 8:13 pm

Wow! It seems many are getting into so much detail.

There really is nothing to debate. Religion is the problem, not part of any solution.

46. Hitchens vs. Hitchens

Comment #158639 by dragonfirematrix on April 10, 2008 at 9:05 pm

Thank you for a most informative, educational, thoughtful, respectful, and delightful debate. It was immensely enjoyable evening.

Christopher and Peter did a great job. However, with all due respect to Peter's contributions, Christopher by far, and unquestionably, won the debate.

I sincerely hope that America listens to this debate and starts thinking. America requires an awakening. America needs to accept the truth that religion is evil, and America needs to understand the evils of religion before it falls victim to the evils of religion.

America, you get one shot at coming to the correct solution. The time has come for truth.

Thank you Christopher and Peter for a great debate!

47. Commentary: Democrats finally getting religion on religion

Comment #157940 by dragonfirematrix on April 9, 2008 at 7:43 pm

Just to focus a bit on politics in America today... here is a quote from the article:

"If the Democratic Party is serious about fostering a relationship with the faith community, they are going to have to come to grips with the fact that there are Democrats of faith who are pro-life and against gay marriage, but who are in agreement on other social issues such as the response to the rapid rise of HIV/AIDS and eradicating poverty."

I am going to be blunt and I am going to use the GDBS above to make a point. Religion will not better the Democratic Party. The GD religious need to get serious about freedom, human rights, civil rights civil liberties, and democracy.

Working with the quote above, I will fit it to the truth (okay, my version of truth):

"If the radicalized religious around the planet are serious about fostering a peaceful relationship with the world community, they will to have to come to grips with the fact that there are differences in humanity that may conflict with their radicalized beliefs. The radicalized religious must understand that those persons with differences are in agreement with respect for differences and the promotion of peaceful coexistence between differences whereas the radicalized religious are not interested in peacefully coexisting with anything outside their narrow little minds."

RELIGION IS THE PROBLEM. RELIGION IS NOT PART OF THE SOLUTION.

Politicians need to wake up and start using reason. I think most of us are probably tired of the non-productive rambling rhetoric of extremists.

We have many problems on this planet. Religion fuels most of them. Religion and god is not going solve the problems. It is going to take the concentrated efforts of intelligent persons using logic, science, empirically proven evidence, reason, plus a little common sense (please) to make the Earth a better place to live.

I am sick of religion in American politics. Religion is a failed experiment. Lets move past it.

48. Rep. Davis: The Worst Person in the World

Comment #157281 by dragonfirematrix on April 8, 2008 at 8:21 pm

Mr. George W. Bush will probably want to award Rep. Davis with a metal of honors for her hate speech. Bush may even want her on the Supreme Court.

49. Richard Dawkins on The Big Questions

Comment #157272 by dragonfirematrix on April 8, 2008 at 8:00 pm

Considering all of the "my side is best" religious views from the debating audience, I say we have a very, very long way to go to achieving peace and mutual respect for differences on this planet. In fact, I will go so far as to say there never will be respect for differences, or peace.

As usual, Richard's point about proving with factual evidence remains an oasis of clarity, honesty, and thoughtful reasoning. However, I would venture to say that few in the debating audience would accept clear and factual evidence over their superstitions. Intolerance was evident as they showed considerable sensitivity responding to questions and comments about which I will only mention a couple (E.g. Islamic extremism and the Holocaust).

The Holocaust is fact, The Law of Evolution is fact, God is Imaginary is fact.

There were a couple of the debaters in the audience who were rather objective with their thoughts, but only a couple. I guess we all need to remember to be sensitive to the religious, else they might persecute us, burn us to death, cut our heads off, strap us to a dunking stool, mutilate certain body parts, or fly planes into our house. Yes indeed, I do agree with the right to insult.

Richard deserves a great deal of credit sitting calmly while the superstitious persons in the audience pretended to discuss humanity from their religious belief point of view.

Did I miss something, or was most of the debating audience made up of the typical bickering authoritarian classes of Abrahamics religionists. I do not recall hearing from the Wicca, Buddhists, or Hindu. I think the fire spewing Baptists were mentioned a couple of times. Please help me out here :)

Like I said… Planet Earth has a very, very long way to go.

50. Richard Dawkins: 'Growth in creationist beliefs a problem for schools'

Comment #156552 by dragonfirematrix on April 7, 2008 at 8:06 pm

I live in America. In fact, I am about six miles from Liberty University, pretending to be an institution of higher learning that teaches the planet is only 6000 years old.

In my opinion, we have a grave problem in the United States. We have religionists trying to push their beliefs into everything being taught to young people.

America is loosing its edge in everything. The GOP is controlled by the religious nuts, and the Democratic Party appears obligated to acknowledge religion. Both, of course, are wrong.

Religion will be America's undoing.