Comments by Didaktylos

1. Male circumcision is a weapon in the sperm wars

Comment #189706 by Didaktylos on June 7, 2008 at 2:58 am

One of the most interesting suggestions I've ever heard for the origins of infant circumcision is that it served as a test for haemophilia.

2. Orangutan attempts to hunt fish with spear

Comment #171964 by Didaktylos on April 29, 2008 at 3:36 am

They'll all be getting jobs in libraries next.

3. U.S. circumcision rate drops

Comment #50599 by Didaktylos on June 19, 2007 at 4:08 am

The only half-way credible practical explanation of the origins of circumcision that I have ever seen (and it was in a science fiction novel) is that it was a test for haemophilia.

4. I Don't Believe in Atheists

Comment #44527 by Didaktylos on May 25, 2007 at 3:42 am

72. Comment #44503 by devolved on May 25, 2007 at 2:48 am
I am not suggesting that only 'religious' people can be good. I know lots of people with no religious faith and quite often their behaviour is as good or better. That's NOT the issue.

The real question is how to define GOOD without God?

Anybody who needs a "god" to define good is morally unfit to even have an opinion on their own breakfast let alone decide anything for anyone else.

5. I Don't Believe in Atheists

Comment #44508 by Didaktylos on May 25, 2007 at 3:00 am

49. Comment #44421 by sillysighbean on May 24, 2007 at 4:14 pm

Why is it that I am able to read articles by Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens and Dennent with no difficulty, while reading articles such as this is like trudging through mud? I am truly trying to understand both sides of the argument. Well, Dennent's 'Consciousness Explained' was a tough read for me, I am going through it again, but that is only because I know I am not that smart. I do not get the feeling he is trying to bamboozle me, like some of these other authors.

I think the reason is that Dawkins and co are actually trying to inform of you of something, whilst this character is trying to put you into a hypnotic trance. In fact, I would even go so far as to say that religious apologetics in general consists of a roughly 80/20 split between attempts to plant and attempts to trigger post-hypnotic suggestions.

6. Hitchens' flat world

Comment #41536 by Didaktylos on May 16, 2007 at 8:55 am

Mr Stork - if you don't wish to be treated as a crane, don't flock with the cranes !!!

7. Atheism isn't the final word

Comment #32477 by Didaktylos on April 17, 2007 at 6:18 am

Like most theistic apologetics this seems a collection not so much of arguments as of triggers to activate post-hypnotic suggestions.

8. Answers To the Atheists

Comment #30241 by Didaktylos on April 7, 2007 at 10:23 am

What a load of rat excrement.

Yes - there have been individual decent pious people. But I challenge the theists to name one person whose decency was not in spite ratber than because of their piety.

9. Religion useless to Dawkins

Comment #29452 by Didaktylos on April 3, 2007 at 1:34 am

Why should we pay any attention to the maunderings of someone who, by their own admission, is incapable of walking and listening to an iPod at the same time?

10. God Is on Our Side. Does That Mean War?

Comment #28384 by Didaktylos on March 29, 2007 at 3:26 am

The real problem comes, not so much from people who think they have God on their side, as those who think they are on God's.

11. If only gay sex caused global warming

Comment #27079 by Didaktylos on March 23, 2007 at 5:23 am

But isn't part of the problem that the bigoted homophobes do already believe that it's gay sex that causes global warming - and the best thing that can be done to prevent global warming is throw big heavy stones at gay people?

12. UK Christians 'suffer for faith'

Comment #26409 by Didaktylos on March 19, 2007 at 6:40 am

So ......

75% admit that they are not subject to any discrimination/persecution?

13. Battle for Europe's secular values

Comment #22639 by Didaktylos on February 20, 2007 at 4:48 am

I take it that the European Commission will be taking over the Habsburg Veto?

14. World's oldest rocks show how Earth may have dodged frozen fate of Mars

Comment #20956 by Didaktylos on February 7, 2007 at 5:39 am

Ah - but Zorb the Sacred Crocodile has already eaten both IPU and FSM at the same sitting and didn't even spoil his appetite.

15. Benny Hinn examined

Comment #19842 by Didaktylos on January 30, 2007 at 8:36 am

When the SARS epidemic was going on a couple of years ago, didn't he cancel a trip to Toronto - if he was as good as he claims, surely that was a golden opportunity to demonstrate his skill?

16. Former exec in Irvine says he was fired over religion

Comment #18992 by Didaktylos on January 24, 2007 at 7:51 am

I think the most important fact mentioned is "former son-in-law". I would say there is also some personal animosity there.

17. Zeus devotees worship in Athens

Comment #18648 by Didaktylos on January 22, 2007 at 7:51 am

What the Greek Orthodox church really fears is the breach of copyright lawsuits they'll be facing now. It is well known among Art historians that the Pantocrator icon is a straight rip-off of Phidias' Olympian Zeus.

18. I love the commercialisation of Christmas

Comment #14098 by Didaktylos on December 21, 2006 at 5:17 am

Q: What do you call someone who bans Christmas?

A: Oliver Cromwell