1. Blasphemy

Comment #122764 by BeauHMcLendon on February 6, 2008 at 2:34 am

Styrer, you ought to keep your seemingly adolescent angst bottled in. You've done nothing but instigate throughout this thread while contributing nothing to the matter--in fact, the majority of your posts are whinny attacks on other posters. Considering your bias, care to lecture anyone on "intellectual dishonesty" after your unnecessary reply to my own post, which I take personally only on the level that I loathe when idiots aren't aware they are...idiots? You have various nonsensical posts, especially on this thread, so just Keep trollin'.

2. Blasphemy

Comment #122754 by BeauHMcLendon on February 6, 2008 at 1:01 am

Thought is to man as is each inhale and exhale; we can no sooner restrict or find accusation within the thoughts of men than we can limit the amount of oxygen he consumes. In Afghanistan, the execution sentence of Sayed Parwiz Kambaksh for blasphemy is perniciously reminiscent of a barbaric age. The underlying difference, yet simultaneous significance, between the plague of suicide bombing and this atrocious death sentence is that a country under the veil of democracy salaciously upholds its authority to end life; it is a concentrated effort without reason that sways from antiqued doctrine to ideologies of past struggling in the face of secularism. One could venture to say that such an inane sentence is immoral, but the point of the matter is the aggrandizing sense of morality the decision seems to acquiesce to. Absolute authority is maintained by following through with a death sentence of which the Afghan senate yearns to expedite before foreign interference. This solidifies their power by ingraining people with a fear of life reciprocal to Christian youth manipulated into a fear of Hell in our own country. An argument from a cultural relativist perspective treading carefully equally burdens life just as soon as is it at risk for progressive opinion. The bitter irony at hand here is the fact that there is no second guessing the repercussions for blasphemy, murder. It is a sentence passed upon someone’s existence as if funds were being donated to charity. This issue typifies the problem with Muslim fundamentalists and if there is little protest to a singular act of this nature then the entire effort to subdue radical fundamentalists fails and unabashedly supports Theocracy.

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3. Sam Harris seems like a nice fellow, but very confused

Comment #77263 by BeauHMcLendon on October 8, 2007 at 11:01 pm

PZ Meyers comes across as whole heartedly disingenuous. Is it not obvious, whether one agrees with the Atheist terminology or not, that Meyers simply tries too hard to be iconoclastic and consequently falls flat, every time. To even criticize Sam Harris' response at the AAI conference is to beg attention, to direct the spotlight right back onto himself while consciously aware that his banter will be read and nothing more. PZ Meyers' every post is a memetic attempt at establishing some vacuous, personal longevity. This is all completely unrelated to what Sam Harris had actually said and PZ Meyers should honestly feel embarrassed by his inane response. Not to mention that he could ever consider himself at the same level as Harris intellectually. What's the point of the whole "Dangerous Ideas" make-up other than to present something that may or may not be of substance? It just seems where Sam Harris takes an intellectual step forward, PZ Meyers takes an infantile step backward.

4. Is Prince Philip an island god?

Comment #49131 by BeauHMcLendon on June 10, 2007 at 2:45 pm

...John Frum.

5. Religion and Child Abuse

Comment #47523 by BeauHMcLendon on June 4, 2007 at 9:15 pm

Separation of Church and State. This is fantastic, but obviously not infallible considering the second any Secular organization or those of opposed faiths revolt against religious pressure in the school systems are instantly charged as somehow encroaching on religious belief itself.

It's obvious why the religious pressure their dogma on children, such is the meme (I had to add "meme" to the dictionary, ha). If this were to prevented, then it would increase the chances of religion eventually withering.

6. Answers To the Atheists

Comment #30521 by BeauHMcLendon on April 8, 2007 at 10:39 am

In E.J. Dionne Jr.'s obvious defense of faith he fails to make an argument, thus he embarks on a diatribe and not even an impressive one. Dionne Jr. attempts to make comparisons with the arguments formed by what he calls the "neo-atheist" movement, but it quickly becomes reminiscent of childish mimicry: There is a sound argument against religious doctrine and especially the indoctrination of children and Dionne Jr., not surprisingly, retorts that Atheists suffer from a dogmatism of their own. Of course just what dogma Atheists adhere to is never stated and why not, because Christians don't want to admit, after the fact, that they are referring to reason, altruism, and intellectual honesty as dogma...

7. Prophets of the new atheism

Comment #30491 by BeauHMcLendon on April 8, 2007 at 7:58 am

It's unsettling how such articles never form sound or even valid arguments and divulge their faith as if they were personally attacked. Nor do they realize that their efforts to somehow defend their God only makes them look quite appropriately crazy. Never do they even make their uneducated efforts to make a point or two; they simply feel offended and immediately resort to ad hominem arguments, but that is case in point for they have no points to make but an inane emphasis on faith so they, in turn, feel cornered and begin to attack the character of others.

8. The God Debate

Comment #29437 by BeauHMcLendon on April 2, 2007 at 11:56 pm

Little does Warren realize that with every vacuous attempt at a defense he only conceded how little he truly knows. I mean, at least do some actual research and form an unbiased opinion before a debate!

9. Atheism hasn't hurt Fremont Rep. Stark

Comment #27035 by BeauHMcLendon on March 23, 2007 at 1:31 am

It's funny how we consider this good news and relieving when it should simply be a tacit acknowledgment no different from nodding one's head at a passerby. http://beauhmclendon.blogspot.com/