1. Richard Dawkins' lecture at the State House Convention Center

Comment #40374 by yeahok on May 14, 2007 at 7:33 am

hurray! Something to listen to while I deliver pizzas!

2. Hitchens, Sharpton and Faith

Comment #38904 by yeahok on May 9, 2007 at 12:50 pm

Either Sharpton is an agnostic because he says one cannot prove or disprove the existence of God, or he is a Deist because he believes in God, but he(or she, or it) has not given divine revelation. One thing that can be sure is that he is not a Christian because he claimed all of the arguments against scripture had nothing to do with arguments against God. He does not seem to believe the Bible comes from God, so in what way does he claim to be a Christian?

3. Christopher Hitchens and Al Sharpton: A Debate God Is Not Great

Comment #38625 by yeahok on May 8, 2007 at 7:49 pm

Not sure if anyone has mentioned this(I don't feel like reading all your comments, as wonderful as I'm sure they are), but I noticed how Sharpton was eager to change the topic from religion to the Iraq war. I love how the audience cheered for this red herring when it was first mentioned.

I also found it funny how he dodged Hitchen's attacks against the Bible by saying Hitchen's book wasn't about an attack on Christianity, but an attack on God. Well, his book also wasn't about the Iraq war either, so why the hell did he keep bringing that up? More importantly, if Sharpton is a Christian, how can he separate the Bible's description of God from the general idea of God?

I also screamed out with laughter when Hitchens took notice of Sharpton's admittance to being an agnostic.

4. We'd be better off without Religion

Comment #31667 by yeahok on April 13, 2007 at 6:45 pm

I'm not sure if I can agree with the motion. Religion does provide a comfort to millions of people that would otherwise be in distress, despite the fact that religion is probably a lie. I noticed Dawkins disagreed, although he seemed unsure, but he didn't really go into why he disagreed. Like one of the debaters opposing the motion said, this debate was not about whether or not God exists, but whether or not Religion is useful.

There is no doubt in my mind that atheism is a much tougher and scarier thought than theism. For example, Christianity promises eternal life, just by accepting the idea that God died for your sins. Atheism, to the average person, would be terrifying compared to Christianity. I could go on, but I'm sure you get the point.

Theism provides a comfort that atheism could never provide.

5. Hey Mom, I'm an Atheist

Comment #30954 by yeahok on April 10, 2007 at 12:32 pm

So, any Christians wanna question the fact that religion can be child abuse?

I remember a similar situation like this happened to me in 7th grade just because I didn't feel like going to Wednesday night church ONE TIME.

6. Then Call it God

Comment #30793 by yeahok on April 9, 2007 at 8:42 pm

Yeah #2, that's pretty weird.

7. Did John Paul II perform a miracle? Am I Mother Teresa?

Comment #30243 by yeahok on April 7, 2007 at 10:29 am

Funny you should say that #30125.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6534171.stm

Check out picture #2.

8. The God Debate

Comment #29063 by yeahok on April 1, 2007 at 1:04 pm

HARRIS: Then God also likes smallpox and tuberculosis.

WARREN: I would attribute a lot of the sins in the world to myself.

HARRIS: Are you responsible for smallpox?

LOL

9. The Moral Necessity of Atheism

Comment #27411 by yeahok on March 24, 2007 at 12:52 pm

Hell yeah he kicks ass. I just heard about him when the free speech video was posted; but apparently he's a pretty popular, or unpopular, figure in the political world. Which is a world I try to steer clear from(it's too depressing!).

Thank God for this website! :D

10. Interview with Steven Pinker

Comment #26068 by yeahok on March 16, 2007 at 12:32 pm

lies. colbert is still hilarious.

11. God's Hostages

Comment #18426 by yeahok on January 20, 2007 at 5:49 pm

Yeah Shuggy, that's true about the Quakers and the others you're talking about, but that's not what Sam is talking about. If the Quakers were to actually follow what the Bible said, then they would be extremely cruel to women. The point is made in the last statement of his article.

12. Discussion of The God Delusion

Comment #17945 by yeahok on January 17, 2007 at 4:39 pm

Sometimes I wonder if people arguing against dawkins book have even read the book...

13. Federal Way schools restrict Gore film

Comment #17305 by yeahok on January 12, 2007 at 8:06 pm

Out of all the people in this world that could've made this movie, why did it have to be a politician? :(

14. FiveLive debate on faith and discrimination

Comment #17272 by yeahok on January 12, 2007 at 3:09 pm

I think this is a prime example of how religion AND government can be a nuisance.

First, I believe people should be allowed to discriminate against whoever they want. It's their businesses, so let them run it how they feel. I think it's horrible that the government is forcing people to ignore their beliefs. Their beliefs may be silly, but its not truly doing any harm to anybody.

Also, these "Christians" should be ashamed of themselves. Discrimination shows how ugly religion can be. But as ugly as it is, it is not doing any harm to anybody.

The only thing in this situation doing any harm is the government putting more restrictions on people.

15. William Crawley, BBC Belfast, names Richard Dawkins as Person of the Year 2006

Comment #15568 by yeahok on January 1, 2007 at 10:57 am

Also, a big part of his arguments are to show how silly the idea of a God is.

Things like, "You might as well believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster." really annoy people because it shows how ridiculous their God is. Sure he may be right, but it still comes off as rude.

16. William Crawley, BBC Belfast, names Richard Dawkins as Person of the Year 2006

Comment #15565 by yeahok on January 1, 2007 at 10:42 am

He is very rude:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEl4QfcAK2o

...but I still think he's right.

17. CBC Segment on Evangelist Christians

Comment #14015 by yeahok on December 20, 2006 at 6:01 pm

Christianity is built on exploiting people's emotions. You can see this in the video; from the crucifixion to the concert at the very end. I remember throughout middle school and high school having to go through all of the emotional concerts and "passion" plays. I could resist it most of the time, but like the guy in the video it just overwhelms you. Ugh....

18. Merry Mithras

Comment #13828 by yeahok on December 19, 2006 at 2:54 pm

Did I sound jumpy? hmm... maybe it was the way you read it? But anyways...

Excuse me for being a bit skeptical about all of this. Some of these arguments sound very strange to me, being that I grew up as a fundamentalist Christian. All I really wanted was some references to your claims, which you just gave me, so thank you.

19. Merry Mithras

Comment #13797 by yeahok on December 19, 2006 at 1:30 pm

When was the "Holy Bible" ever referred to as "Helios Biblios"? I tried looking up the etymology of "Holy" on Dictionary.com, wiktionary.com, and etymonline.com. They all say "holy" came from the word "whole". Etymonline.com says the Bible was originally called "biblia sacra" or "Ta Biblia".

I don't know where you got "Helios Biblios" from, but I would like to know. Otherwise, stop jumping to conclusions.

And yeah Thrall, you're right, wikipedia is a crap place to look for info about religion, my bad.

20. Merry Mithras

Comment #13749 by yeahok on December 19, 2006 at 9:22 am

I'm not sure how much they said on that program is true. Such as when they said Mithras was born of a virgin, well, according to Wikipedia he was born of a rock. Also the conclusions Wikipedia comes to don't seem as interesting as the video. It probably was the Mithras religion that borrowed from Christianity... at least that's what i gather from wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraism#Connections
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraism#Similarities_to_Christianity