1. MySpace: No place for Atheists?

Comment #121542 by Jimill on February 3, 2008 at 3:42 pm

I wonder what the ACLU would say about this?

2. Jury Awards Father $11M in Funeral Case

Comment #83995 by Jimill on November 1, 2007 at 1:15 am

thelivingbrian - "Certainly this will be overturned. Their speech may not be nice, but it is constitutionally protected."

By definition of the word, their actions are more along the lines of harassment than protest.

Harassment - to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.

Protest - an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid.

Protests are supposed to be aimed towards the ones who have to power to so something about it and not the victims and their families. Hopefully the verdict stands, and their ill actions are recognized for what they truly are.

3. Jury Awards Father $11M in Funeral Case

Comment #83972 by Jimill on October 31, 2007 at 11:54 pm

Hopefully this verdict will successfully damage their monetary resources. To the point where they just give up!

4. India to charge writer Nasreen with 'hurting Muslim feelings'

Comment #67441 by Jimill on September 3, 2007 at 12:48 pm

"...an Indian Muslim group from Uttar Pradesh state offered a bounty of 500,000 rupees ($13,000 Cdn) for her beheading."

Rioting politicians, calls for her death and a bounty for her beheading... all because their "feelings are hurt"?

Sticks and stones people!

It's so ironic how most muslims will claim they are part of a peaceful religion. All the while knowing their teacher, the "supposed" prophet Mohammed, was a war-mongering army general.

5. The Stupidity of Fox News is Truly Beyond Belief

Comment #53646 by Jimill on July 2, 2007 at 11:47 am

FOX NEWS = National Enquierer of News Networks

6. The 'Is God...Great?' Debate

Comment #48713 by Jimill on June 8, 2007 at 7:29 pm

Darwin2. To fully experience the promises that religions profess to us, we must first die. Death isn't an easy thing for the living to accept, nor is it generally a good topic to discuss. But it is central to religion. Every organism is affected by it. But chances are the obvious is happening. We may simply cease to exist, and that's it. Glorification of death is cold, deluded and self serving. Life is fragile, delicate, and the only thing we truly have. We need to seriously get over ourselves.

7. The planet hunters

Comment #47259 by Jimill on June 3, 2007 at 7:04 pm

Rebel, I think you may have missed the point of the article.

Finding planets that could possibly support life is very relevent and very important to science and humanity. To know our planet isn't the only one that can sustain life. That we are not alone (as cheezy as it sounds). Even if it isnt intelligent life on one of those planets, it still tells us that it is possible for life to form on its own and propagate itself. And it could even show us different directions evolution can go or forms it can take.

YES! Very Relevent! Not a waste of time for Science at all. This field could possibly lead to some of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time. No exageration. Just think about the outcome of finding, with much evidence, that there actually is life elsewhere in the universe. That is a major (MAJOR!) discovery!

8. Man to die over insult

Comment #47221 by Jimill on June 3, 2007 at 3:10 pm

Islam is clearly not a peaceful religion.

This article is even more proof to the equation:

Church + State = Disaster

Come to think of it! Hasn't the Christian Church only just recently, within the last couple hundred years, ended its public lynching and killing of innocent people using similar, and absurd, laws?

Hell!!! I bet they still would if they could get away with it!

9. Global Warming (includes commentary about creationism)

Comment #41323 by Jimill on May 15, 2007 at 10:43 pm

From an ethical standpoint, it is in our best interest to do something about our consumption habbits and the wreckless wasting of our natural resources. This Global Warming Crisis is, in a way, a call to our common sense, and to that mammallian part of our brains that contols our caring nature. I wouldn't say we should change our ways out of apocalyptic fears, but out of concern for our fragile planet. This is a call to the nearsighted, to broaden their view and to envolve themselves, conciously, in nessesary change. We know how toxic many of our everyday commercial and household products, we depend on, are to our environment. Just take a good look at your local dump or landfill and think about how much waste we just dump into a bag in our kitchens and sent off once a week to be burried with everyone elses. A large portion of these products are petrolium based, such as plastics and styrofoams, and do not biodegrate for thousands of years.

Prior to the industiral revolution, there has never been so much polution carelessly spewed into our thin atmosphere, and the numbers are increasing. More cars are being built, new drivers are getting their licenses to drive them, more oil is drilled, refined and finally filled into the tanks of these cars only to be burned and upchucked into our atmosphere. Just look at how many cars you pass on the road everyday. The number of houses and buildings you pass that house the people who drive those cars. Just think about the numbers of people going about their day, oblivious to what affect they are having as a whole. A combined, wasteful, entitiy.

As the global population grows our demand for these dependancies grow with them. As a whole, we are not making many of the nessesary changes, nor are we taking much responsibility for our actions. And if we are, it's because we are being made to change by the scientific community, who have proven our ways to have detrimental effects on our environment.

If we don't change our habbits now, they just may be our undoing, and, if that is the case, they will die with us.

I'm sorry. All this bickering about whether global warming is a hoax or not, is only taking our attention away from the actual issues. It's almost as though these videos were funded by the people who have sometihng to lose from them. It is quite plausable. They do have the resources. Look how much we are paying for gas at the pumps nowadays. Conveniently, when we find out for a fact that the carbon we are emitting from our combustable engines is one of the many direct causes to the Rapidly-Unatural warming of our planet. It's almost as though they know their faults and are scrambling to get every last penny out of us before a viable alternative to our dependancy on them is made available. If you were them, why not make a series of rebuttals, refuting what your opponents say, only to stir controversy and have all the intelligent people debating eachother. Making us lose focus. While all the dumb people blindly pick the side of the debate that best suits their personal needs, their religious and political stand points and have them fight it out too. Way to keep us distracted and delay any sort of constructive consortium.

10. Unintelligent Design

Comment #39934 by Jimill on May 12, 2007 at 10:42 am

"Science, then, may never replace religion in the lives of most people and in any society that hopes to survive for very long."

What!? Is he also claiming that as long as there is no religion, there is no hope for survival? The typical claim that the only source of "morality" is religion/belief in God. Or that religion is good for survival. Hmmm... And which group of people is it again that believe in, and are expecting, an Apocalypse to wipe out humanity? Or the group that want a Jihad?

It's as though any Idiot can write an article, let alone become the President of the United States.

11. Better God-fearing than sneering

Comment #38941 by Jimill on May 9, 2007 at 3:28 pm

"...'Is truth less important than comfort, even for the lonely and afraid? Are there not truthful ways to comfort them from the resources of human compassion?' Grayling asks. Well, yes, is the answer, but he fails to acknowledge that, too often, it is only the churches which bother to comfort the lonely and the dying; part of their attraction is that there is too little kindness in the world."

Is it really the church promoting kindness or their parasitic nature, trying to lock in another blind believer?

12. Convention ends with Satan and immigrants

Comment #37701 by Jimill on May 5, 2007 at 1:36 pm

They'd be more accurate if they had replaced the term "Illegal Imigrants" with "Ultra Right-Wing Fundementalists" when they say they "are determined to destroy this country, and there is nothing they won't do."

13. Atheism's Big Night In Little Rock

Comment #35710 by Jimill on April 28, 2007 at 1:22 pm

"Closing to a standing ovation, he told a story about traveling last week to Brussels. There he spoke to a member of the European Parliament who told him he had recently been negotiating to get President Bush to travel to Brussels to speak.

The man told Dawkins negotiations broke down when Bush demanded a guaranteed standing ovation."

Ha! Could that be how Bush got a standing ovation at the state of the union adress?

14. A Brief History of Disbelief

Comment #35703 by Jimill on April 28, 2007 at 12:21 pm

According to the listings, there doesn't seem to be a broad range of public broadcasting stations airing this program. But ther is good news, for those who are either not fortunate enough to reside in the very limited areas this show will air, or those who do but just can't wait, the first episode is available to watch on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhsMKQF1ROE&mode=related&search=

15. Where Is Atheism When Bad Things Happen?

Comment #33268 by Jimill on April 19, 2007 at 7:00 pm

Atheist don't strike me as the type of people who would use an incident like this to promote their beliefs or their agendas. That would be insensitive and pretty insulting to the victims and their families, wouldn't it?

Surprisingly, he never asked where the Atheists were when the WTCs fell.

16. Kadra attacked in public

Comment #32046 by Jimill on April 15, 2007 at 10:34 am

This incident should definately be classified a hate crime. If it were done to an Islamist by a Christian, or, specially, to a Jew, it would instantly be seen as one. Somethings gotta give!

17. For God's Sake

Comment #31634 by Jimill on April 13, 2007 at 2:51 pm

Spagetti monster, this time the cruisaders have nuclear weapons... I think it's safe to say the word Danger is not an exageration! And we should be very scared! Specially when the people who have these stockpiles of weapons tend to be believers in the word of a deity that does not really exist. No matter how much you convince yourself it does. We are in Danger!

18. For God's Sake

Comment #31628 by Jimill on April 13, 2007 at 2:36 pm

WilliamP, you know, the one way to fight this serious threat is to infultrate Regent and destroy it from the inside. It's quite obvious that something has to be done to counter this.

19. Stephen Hawking Says Universe Created from Nothing

Comment #28907 by Jimill on March 31, 2007 at 2:51 pm

Oh no!! This sounds like fuel for the Intelligent Design fire!!!

20. How Many Scientists?

Comment #28899 by Jimill on March 31, 2007 at 2:18 pm

Scooter, you are very well spoken and articulate, moreso than myself. But to "Take a side" on the issue is buying in to the efforts of the people who are threatened by the changes we need to make.

Generally, this "supposed" GW hype is showing that we citizens of the planet earth have great potential for compassion. A very good sign considering our BRUTAL past. The non constructive counter arguments to the issue sound equal to those of Intelligent Design peddlers.

The problem is real and the time to change is litterally NOW! The more we delay the hotter it'll get. We should also be equally focusing our energy on the stockpiling of Nuclear weapons!