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Comment #197317 by dot on June 21, 2008 at 5:51 pm

90. Comment #197161 by TeraBrat on June 21, 2008 at 8:59 am

dot,
The fact you claim there's more than one human race.

Every time I fill out a form I'm asked what my race is.

Either poor choice of words, or racist or ignorant bureaucrats.

So according to your logic the entire USA is racist. Thank you.

Nice strawman. Have fun beating it.

As for the rest of your comments, since they are nothing more but cursing and slander

Well, let's see.
I said one of your comments was irrelevant.
I pointed out your logic was moronic (and it was).
I called your racist arguments ignorant and offensive (which they were).

Yep, nothing but slander and cursing so far.

and I won't stoop to your low level I'll just ignore them and let them speak for themsleves.

Or, you could read a modern biology textbook and see that your precious concept of "race" is bollocks.

2. It Doesn't Take an Einstein

Comment #197312 by dot on June 21, 2008 at 5:26 pm

Mordacious1,

89. Comment #197158 by mordacious1 on June 21, 2008 at 8:57 am
Tera

I've always looked at Jews as a culture, not a race. I think this was just a misspeak on your part. I know what you meant. I don't think we need to get bent out of shape because someone chooses a different word than others would, right Dot?

You are quite right. I thought so too. However when I posted this...

51. Comment #196430 by dot on June 20, 2008 at 12:24 am

10. Comment #196152 by TeraBrat on June 19, 2008 at 11:14 am
I prefer the term Jewish People or People of Israel. Because it was as Jews and Israeli's that we were and are persecuted ad I want to keep my identity as a Jew as a tribute to my ancestors that kept our race alive*.

* This is where you sound like a racist.

Did you mean "culture"? Perhaps "tradition"?

I hope you will clarify this point so I know whether to dismiss you as an ignorant bigot or not.

...unfortunately the response was...

58. Comment #196551 by TeraBrat on June 20, 2008 at 6:37 am

dot,

What is racist about being proud of my race? I didn't put anyone else down.

Have you ever heard of "black pride"?

What's the difference?

We have specific genetic markers and diseases that only Jews can get. That makes us a race.

3. It Doesn't Take an Einstein

Comment #197120 by dot on June 21, 2008 at 6:49 am

58. Comment #196551 by TeraBrat on June 20, 2008 at 6:37 am

What is racist about being proud of my race?

The fact you claim there's more than one human race.

I didn't put anyone else down.

That's debatable, but irrelevant.

Have you ever heard of "black pride"?

Ever heard of "Aryan pride"?

What's the difference?

You tell me, moron.

We have specific genetic markers and diseases that only Jews can get. That makes us a race.

Right, just like blondes are a race, you ignorant, offensive dimwit.

4. It Doesn't Take an Einstein

Comment #196430 by dot on June 20, 2008 at 12:24 am

10. Comment #196152 by TeraBrat on June 19, 2008 at 11:14 am
I prefer the term Jewish People or People of Israel. Because it was as Jews and Israeli's that we were and are persecuted ad I want to keep my identity as a Jew as a tribute to my ancestors that kept our race alive*.

* This is where you sound like a racist.

Did you mean "culture"? Perhaps "tradition"?

I hope you will clarify this point so I know whether to dismiss you as an ignorant bigot or not.

5. Faith no more as World Youth Day fans flames of disbelief

Comment #192356 by dot on June 12, 2008 at 8:49 pm

She (Adele Horin) wrote an interesting article about tax-free religious profit
http://blogs.theage.com.au/managementline/archives/brw2906p042-046.pdf
for Business Review Weekly magazine in 2006.

6. Vatican: It's OK to believe in aliens

Comment #179816 by dot on May 13, 2008 at 8:07 pm

i guess the pope would know

http://www.catholic.ie

7. An Open Letter to Richard Dawkins

Comment #96598 by dot on December 10, 2007 at 6:35 pm

My hope (no pun intended), nevertheless, is that this, our first encounter, be the catalyst for forming together a coalition of rational-minded people to condemn all fanaticism, whether it comes in the form of religious or atheistic ideology.

Blake's Law

Reciting common atheistic arguments that you yourself have often used, he says: "A world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God. A God with responsibility for such a world would not be a just God, much less a good God." It was in this context, the Pope reminds us, that atheism, particularly in the 19th and 20th centuries arose as a "type of moralism" to protest against the injustices of the world. But "history," says the pope, "has proven wrong ideologies such as Marxism which say humans had to establish social justice because God did not exist." The Pope goes further, "It is no accident that this idea has led to the greatest forms of cruelty and violations of justice," and that it has left behind "a trail of appalling destruction."

* IRONY METER EXPLODES *

During that 350 year period of history, it is estimated that 5,000- 10,000 people were put to death in the name of orthodoxy.

Aww, so few? How kind of them.

You fail to point out, however, that the actions of these radicals are routinely condemned by their religious leaders as contrary to the ideas of their faith. In other words, the truth is their actions follow their own ideas, not the ideas of true religion.

No True ~~Scotsman~~Christian fallacy

(Here I can't help rejecting, once again, what you said in the debate, that Hitler was a Roman Catholic. That is like saying you are an Anglican even after everything you have said and done to reject the church into which you were born.)

http://nobeliefs.com/Hitler1.htm

For most of us, including many atheists, it takes little effort to recognize how their belief that man can be reduced to his material properties (that he has no spiritual soul and therefore no sacred dignity), makes killing the innocent for political or selfish reasons a whole lot easier.

Speak for yourself, padre.

The perpetrators of the cruelty of the twentieth century may not have acted in the name of atheism, but they activity sought to extinguish religious belief because of the atheistic materialism which they embraced.

Evidence?

As history shows, however, an atheistic philosophy about man serves as a great silencer of the conscience when sick human beings reject the demands of human reason and go on to trample on human rights.

Evidence?

It is weak human beings, not religion, per se, that kills in God's name. It is weak human beings — not atheism, per se, that carried out the atrocities of the 20th century.

Of course if they do GOOD deeds, that's because they're Christian.

Now that you rightly have earned yourself the title of leader of the neo-atheist, secular activists, I think you would do a great service to humanity to reject, as John Paul II did for Christians, the evil actions of a tiny percentage of atheists who have, in your opinion, acted in a way that poorly represents your belief system, in particular your common denial of the existence of God.

Yes. And as an aSantaClausist, perhaps you should reject the crimes committed by all the other aSantaClausists through the ages.

8. Christopher Hitchens at Politics and Prose

Comment #62011 by dot on August 7, 2007 at 11:50 pm

Here is the direct link for the video of Hitchens at Politics and Prose on 10 May 2007:

file: 2007-05-10_hitchens_politics_prose_384kbps.flv
url: http://fora.tv/fora/fora_download.php?cid=969&fid=3992
size: 156.4MB

It's in crappy Flash Video format.
If you can't play it, try VLC from videolan.org

9. Rapture Ready: The Unauthorized Christians United for Israel Tour

Comment #60091 by dot on August 1, 2007 at 1:33 am

direct link here:

http://14.media.vimeo.com/d1/5/39/31/vimeo.251385.3a120f.flv

10. Richard Dawkins on his online alterego

Comment #50724 by dot on June 19, 2007 at 5:07 pm

direct link:

rtmp://fflash-r2.vitalstreamcdn.com/twofour_vitalstream_com/_definst_/Telegraph/dawks_512K.flv

it's streaming flash (yuck).

11. Hamas Kindergarten Graduation Ceremony

Comment #48145 by dot on June 6, 2007 at 6:50 pm

lucy:

"Did Israeli leaders woke up one morning and said "we're bored, let's go attack Lebanon!"?

Ever heard of the Stern Gang?

"I'm not a Martian observer. I'm an Israeli (though I'd rather be called a world citizen, but that's not the reality) who want to live in peace."

Yes. You want to live in peace on land your government kicked the inhabitants off at gunpoint.

"We did practically everything to get that peace during the last decade and a half, but certain people (like those who fund that kindergarten) aren't interested."

Mmm...yeah. Nothing says "we want peace" like bulldozing a city.

"Quite the opposite. I still believe in peace - I vote for a left-ish party (ever heard of Meretz?), but I'm also a realistic person."

Well I suppose you're right, it's probably unusual for the disposessed to fight back when they're so heavily outgunned, but surely it's not THAT unrealistic an expectation.