1. I always aim to misbehave

Comment #152297 by a-teapot-ist on March 30, 2008 at 4:18 pm

Go PZ, go PZ, go PZ XD After that, and the crazy vid on youtube, I can't help but hang the pseudonym of Pimp Zed Myers on ya^^ Smack those hoes up!

2. The Year of Living Biblically

Comment #84732 by a-teapot-ist on November 3, 2007 at 11:20 am

Someone needs to explain to Mr. Jacobs that christianity is not the only religion out there. So he needs to specify that he went, like every other believer, and took the faith to task that was most convenient. His always referring to "religion", when he only delved into one, is kind of disingenuous.

3. I am creating artificial life, declares US gene pioneer

Comment #76636 by a-teapot-ist on October 6, 2007 at 2:06 pm

I hope Dr. Venter's lab has some strong security measures, because if there are maniacs willing to kill abortion doctors, there certainly will be similarly "passionate objectors" to this latest development. In truth, if the agricultural revolution wasn't already a leap into god's domain, I'd like to know what is. So long as they've prepared for whatever possible consequences lie ahead, I say run with it as far as they can.

4. Letters: Theology has no place in a university

Comment #74976 by a-teapot-ist on October 1, 2007 at 9:03 am

Might I suggest that the good Prof. Dawkins offer forth Terry Jones's "Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book" as something he'd take just as seriously as anything the theologians in question would have to offer? Certainly more colorful than the samba on a pin they're supposedly capable of . . . though not nearly as aerobic as the mental gymnastics these "learned" men perform on a daily basis. Imaginings versus evidence, no holds barred. Logical fallacies, however . . .

5. I'm gonna be a MOVIE STAR

Comment #65218 by a-teapot-ist on August 23, 2007 at 7:57 am

I declare, fraud, fraud, just like god! I'd like to clip that flick up, and insert the scene where the "Great and Wonderful Oz" is revealed at strategic points. Then have George Carlin's rant about god play during the credits. What's most annoying is that it'll get the same audience that made box office history for "The Passion", thereby lending the illusion of seeming validity to its message. Must we fight a new dark age into the new millenium?!?

6. Authors at Google: Christopher Hitchens

Comment #64238 by a-teapot-ist on August 18, 2007 at 8:37 pm

I find the whole abusive relationship analogy rather apt, because what usually happens in the aftermath of such interventions is happening now as well. i.e. the "wife" turns on the self-elected protectors, shielding and singing praises and excuses for the husband. Now to add a few more details, let's say these knights in shining armor kept buying tons of bats for every time they threatened the asshole, and this while their own children and spouses were starving and lacking for an education. We have problems of our OWN to deal with before we try solving other countries' difficulties. A nation who can't fully work out that neither abortion nor homosexuals are evil and stem cells aren't deserving of a number in the phone book really has no place trying to sort out the affairs for anyone else.

7. Interview with Richard Dawkins about 'The Enemies of Reason'

Comment #63006 by a-teapot-ist on August 12, 2007 at 8:58 pm

Randi and Dawkins ought to do a book together on this kind of pseudo-science clap-trap.

8. Hitchens and Prager Debate

Comment #47968 by a-teapot-ist on June 6, 2007 at 6:49 am

What is most telling is that it's Prager's focus that he was misquoted, and not what Hitchens said thereafter. A great number of atrocities have been incited due to specifically "Bible studies", of which he names only a few of his own experience. I'm quite certain Prager would have been less quick to ask an African-American or a Jew this question . . .

9. Teachers rebel over atheism promotion

Comment #45230 by a-teapot-ist on May 27, 2007 at 12:20 am

I must inquire, when the bleedin' hades did this start? I've long since finished primary school, but if memory doth not fail me, the only thing I needed to take home outside of homework were the rare field trip permission forms. At what point did children become unwitting solicitors? And these educators' religious rights should have kept them out of the realm of education to begin with, if they object to something that promotes inquiry and evidence based thinking.

10. Group Threatens to Sue Pentagon Over Military Role in Evangelical Festival

Comment #45220 by a-teapot-ist on May 26, 2007 at 11:37 pm

This isn't as frightening as the clips shown on the news lately regarding Falwell's death. Seeing high ranking military officials participating in a prayer meeting with that poison spewing freak only sickeningly reminds me that Haggard had W's ear this whole time. I still would prefer not having my tax dollars even manipulated in order to further the illusion that this is a xian country. If they want to show armed force, they can go find their local militia, and have a crusade parade. Not on my dime, though.

11. Aiming for knockout blow in god wars

Comment #45218 by a-teapot-ist on May 26, 2007 at 11:27 pm

I always love the 'dogmatic' accusation. It's much like the 'fundamentalist' one, which is like the pot calling milk black. If Dawkins, Hitchens or Harris are at all dogmatic, it's because they take what is written in these ancient blood soaked books by their face value. And common ground . . . oh yeah, xians who like to push their noses in other's personal lives always seem to be big on common ground, the better to control it.

12. Al Gore on Reason

Comment #45216 by a-teapot-ist on May 26, 2007 at 11:14 pm

PS, Dave, look up ad hominem, and perhaps you'll understand the point I was trying to make re: baby raping cannibals.

13. Al Gore on Reason

Comment #45212 by a-teapot-ist on May 26, 2007 at 11:07 pm

Hey, Combine Dave, I never stated that Gore was a scientist. I simply state that he consulted a number of them before putting forth his movie. Or perhaps you're stating that the worldwide concern over greenhouse emissions is simply a front by which Gore might sell both his movie and his books?

14. Al Gore on Reason

Comment #45202 by a-teapot-ist on May 26, 2007 at 9:33 pm

It appears as though those who still question the damage we're doing to our own environment need to share a bench with those who think that tobacco is a perfectly fine "natural substance", and the cancer "supposedly" caused by it is just a fiction created by the medical establishment. You folks seem to work the creationists' strategy of "still not enough evidence". What do they need to do, convene a meeting of all the leading scientists in these fields in your FSM forsaken living rooms, and present charts to you in three different languages in order to get the point across??? And here's a query to the Gore haters in general; if some baby raping cannibal stumbled over the cure to either AIDS or cancer, would you toss it aside due to the perverse character of its discoverer? I'm still dealing with my shattered perceptions of the Dalai Lama and Gandhi thanks to the "Holier Than Thou" Bullshit episode, but still think that they help(ed) society too much to be easily demonized. This may come as a shocker, but if you want to toss aside any theist leanings, belief in an atheist saint needs to hit the dustbin alongside them. Hitchens's view on the Iraq war doesn't impress me, but I still agree with much of his sentiments re: religion. And I'm not going to just snidely say, "He's just a tool of the neo-cons. Who wants to hear what he has to say, anyway?" Someone who can surprise publishers by demand for their writing being far greater than the supply for the better part of a month is worthy of respect. As is Gore, who dealt with the farce of an election 7 years ago with composure, and headed up an administration that advocated science over wishful thinking. The only one that I've experienced, in memory, thus far.

15. Hitchens on Falwell

Comment #41870 by a-teapot-ist on May 17, 2007 at 8:23 am

criminitley, Hitchens is an avalanche once he gets started . . . on a podcast interview he also gave that host a helluva time trying to get a word in edgewise. Him, alone, vs the Comfort/Cameron duo would be a bloodbath.

16. Television evangelist Falwell dies at 73

Comment #41420 by a-teapot-ist on May 16, 2007 at 5:25 am

Much like when the grand wizard of the Klan died a while back, I feel the crimes of humanity against itself have lessened yet another iota. My condolences to his family, of course, but someone who was as sick in the head as he was was a true threat to the future of humankind. May there be no 'faith vacuum'(redundancy, in truth, as faith is a logic vacuum in and of itself) by which another guilt pushing blowhard will acquire a pulpit of similar infamy.

17. Here Comes the Fourth Musketeer.

Comment #38412 by a-teapot-ist on May 8, 2007 at 3:33 am

Sweet reason appears to be on the march, as I have failed to locate a copy at both my local major book retailers(Borders and Barnes & Noble) due to the fact that they've SOLD OUT of them. Hitchens will be carving his own name in the bestseller list, fully living up to his musketter status.

18. Atheism's Big Night In Little Rock

Comment #36005 by a-teapot-ist on April 29, 2007 at 9:00 pm

--Hmmm. "Official religion", "four old ladies". I wonder why religion in the Islamic states isn't reduced to "four old ladies."

Where one's enforced at the end of a ruler during childhood, the other via gunpoint and machete for life, I think it's easy to understand. As for Bush, it's no surprise, since all speeches made away from his Blight House have an audience screened and rehearsed for his load of neo-con pabulum. I can't wait until this farce of an administration files out in '08. Then we can see to the damage control, and put some ointment on America's various bleeding orifices.

19. New Noah's Ark ready to sail

Comment #36002 by a-teapot-ist on April 29, 2007 at 8:38 pm

So is there a rainbow at the end of the tour? Somebody oughta plant some Lucky Charms near the exit, if so. If some grandfather figure in the sky is plausible, then they may as well go on a leprechaun hunt after the main event.

20. Atheists Take On Religion

Comment #24130 by a-teapot-ist on March 5, 2007 at 12:38 am

They certainly did some thinking in this report. Had the stained glass background, to give it that "we're amongst the faithful" feel, and made any legal cases supporting church-state separation seem purely put forth by atheists, when there are secular theists also wishing that wall to stay in place.

21. Was there ever dog that praised his fleas?

Comment #24049 by a-teapot-ist on March 4, 2007 at 1:07 pm

Ah, 'twas inevitable as the tides . . . praise be to Neptune, donchaknow.

22. Richard Dawkins interview with Paula Zahn

Comment #22143 by a-teapot-ist on February 13, 2007 at 3:40 am

Very cool! Nice and to the point was Prof. Dawkins, and no-one can say he came across at all abrasive. I truly hope this might lead to interest by the US networks to bring "Root of All Evil?" over. I've seen it, but not enough of the secular (North) American populace has.

23. The Chronicles of Kearnya, or, Principles of Evolution Observed in the Field at Kearny High School

Comment #20584 by a-teapot-ist on February 4, 2007 at 3:05 pm

I fail to understand the mentality, here, because if my tax dollars are being used to pay the teachers and maintenance of these schools, then I think it'd be best on everybody's behalf if both video and audio surveillance was allowed. We'd know what the teachers would be doing, and no Salem mob controversy inspired by malicious students would occur.

24. Interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Comment #20374 by a-teapot-ist on February 2, 2007 at 4:24 am

"Aw, ****, I didn't carry the two!" lmao So not only is Stewart something of a history buff, he's got some interest in astronomy and physics. Multi-faceted, this liberal fashion plate, eh what?

25. 'God Is Not a Moderate'

Comment #18726 by a-teapot-ist on January 22, 2007 at 4:52 pm

My issue with the mentioned "benevolent actions of fundamentalists" is that how many of such don't require the beneficiaries to be proselytized? And as for receiving "interest, empathy and friendship", it's likely due to their being of the same faith, never mind the strength by which each keeps to the letter of it. So in this respect, Sullivan fails to comprehend the tunnel vision Sam, as an atheist, can see him falling prey to.

26. Mr. Deity

Comment #18390 by a-teapot-ist on January 20, 2007 at 10:44 am

Beautiful!! Great concept . . . this looks to have stronger potential than "The God Awful Truth" series has.

27. 'God Is Not a Moderate'

Comment #18056 by a-teapot-ist on January 18, 2007 at 4:59 am

I admire both for being civil and yet still candid. And while I'm certainly on Sam's side in this, I truly hope he keeps from the "mushroom cloud's silver lining" argument, because I'm sure a fellow as intelligent as Andrew must have a fitting rebuttal for it by now.

28. Beliefwatch: Blasphemy (Challenge)

Comment #15646 by a-teapot-ist on January 1, 2007 at 8:08 pm

lmao . . . blackmailing an omniscient deity XD Well, one works with the example provided, eh what? And considerin' what are called "acts of god", this guy must still be in his terrible twos. As for myself, the holy spirit ain't nothin' but a shared opium dream between the early church "fathers", put on paper to give their taskmaster Guilt that much more a schitzo persona. Want a true blasphemy? Cheesewhiz on a biscuit! Now that's a southern North American curse!

29. How the Great Atheist got polite society standing

Comment #15420 by a-teapot-ist on December 31, 2006 at 6:57 am

Just for my own 2 cents, I think that the interviewer was being mildly aggressive, but not showing outright disrespect or being incredibly biased on the side of the theists. As for the "almost, but not quite" comment, it is self evident, because there's no way to "prove" the nonexistance of ANYthing. And that he even allowed for 'almost' ought to grant Mr.(?) Hattersley some slack.