1. Atheists to celebrate at Darwin Day in Coconut Creek

Comment #121797 by writerdd on February 4, 2008 at 7:20 am

Sorry, but this atheist is going to continue celebrating Christmas, not Darwin day.

2. New atheists or new anti-dogmatists?

Comment #117039 by writerdd on January 28, 2008 at 6:23 am

What a fantastic article!

3. Survey finds most Americans believe Jesus born of virgin

Comment #102317 by writerdd on December 22, 2007 at 10:35 am

All that means is so many people know the Bible story that Jesus was born of a virgin. It doesn't mean they think it's true. If you ask people "Does Santa Claus live at the North Pole?" most would say "Yes" even though they know it's a fictional story.

4. 'Atheistic fundamentalism' fears

Comment #102273 by writerdd on December 22, 2007 at 8:18 am

Yawn.

5. Atheists' sign sparks controversy

Comment #96307 by writerdd on December 10, 2007 at 10:37 am

If they think they're being persecuted they should rejoice, according to the Bible. Not complain and whine.

6. Finding My Religion: An Interview With Shalom Auslander

Comment #93911 by writerdd on December 4, 2007 at 12:51 pm

Before everyone starts criticizing this guy for still believing in God on an emotional level, I have to say that this is the best book I've read in a long time. It's biting, funny, sad, and a tad disturbing. A must read for anyone wanting a look inside of fundamentalism.

7. The God Delusion Review

Comment #9624 by writerdd on November 25, 2006 at 9:39 am

Dawkins is many things, but LOUD is certainly not one of them.

8. Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and E.O. Wilson on the gospel of science

Comment #8747 by writerdd on November 22, 2006 at 7:18 am

I'm so sick of these idiots saying that science is dogmatic. They have no fraking idea how science works.

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

Comment #7288 by writerdd on November 18, 2006 at 5:22 am

I'm an atheist. Period.

10. Losing Our Religion

Comment #5796 by writerdd on November 11, 2006 at 5:34 am

You certainly can have a religious experience as a nonbeliever. I can do it voluntarily whenever I like and I also still have these experiences at various times while in nature, listening to music, and so forth. Perhaps it is because I was a believer when I was younger, so I know what a religious experience feels like. Dawkins, on the other hand, has never had a "genuine" religious experience (that is, one as a believer), therefore he has nothing to compare. He probably has such experiences and just does not recognize them for what they are. I believe they are part in parcel of the human experience.

11. Tired of all the religious garbage? It's time to become an Enlightenist

Comment #3762 by writerdd on October 31, 2006 at 1:17 pm

Please, PLEASE, enough with the names already.

Who gives a CRAP what we call ourselves? All this wasted breath over whether it's better to be called an agnostic, an atheist, a free thinker, a bright, a humanist, ad naseum.

We need to stop being myopic dorks who bicker about esoteric terminology, and start banding together to stand up boldly against the religious and superstitous nonsense that is swallowing the world.

12. Dawkins the dogmatist

Comment #2624 by writerdd on October 22, 2006 at 8:05 am

"Incurious and rambling, Richard Dawkins's diatribe against religion doesn't come close to explaining how faith has survived the assault of Darwinism."

Anyone who could say this knows absolutely nothing about true believers. They are not "reality based" in their thinking. They don't care what is actually supported by evidence. The Bible says "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Practially, that means the more outrageous the things you believe (virgin birth, resurrection of the dead, creationism), and the less evidence there is to support your beliefs, the stronger your faith is.

According to evangelicals and fundamentalisms, anything that presents ideas or evidence contrary to your beliefs is "of the devil" and written off without a blink.

The definition faith itself, to put it in a nutshell, is the explaination for hot faith has survived Darwinism.

13. Do We Really Need Bad Reasons To Be Good?

Comment #2622 by writerdd on October 22, 2006 at 8:02 am

"THE MIDTERM elections are fast approaching, and their outcome could well be determined by the "moral values” of conservative Christians."

Sorry. While this was true in 2004, I don't think it holds water in 2006. Everyone seems to be pissed about the Iraq debacle, and many right wing evangelicals are realizing that they have been used by the Republican Party who gives lip service to their "values" to get votes but who does little or nothing to actually promote those values in action.