Comments by Border Collie

Comment #207322 by Border Collie on July 9, 2008 at 2:01 pm

Doesn't this just make one long for the good old days ... when men were men and sheep were nervous ... when the faithful actually sacrificed their 'kings' and stripped and ate the raw flesh from their bones while they were still alive? THEY didn't screw around with this pansy-assed 'cracker' bullshit. I mean, no symbolism for those folks. And here we are today, thousands of years later, and they're still screaming for blood ... over symbolism ... OVER SYMBOLISM! Damn, I love the religious mind.

452. Atheist soldier sues Army for 'unconstitutional' discrimination

Comment #207308 by Border Collie on July 9, 2008 at 1:35 pm

Death cults will be death cults ...

453. A trip to the Creation Museum

Comment #207295 by Border Collie on July 9, 2008 at 1:09 pm

I just love it when atheists support things like this with their money ...

454. Atheism on the buses

Comment #206577 by Border Collie on July 8, 2008 at 1:32 pm

Good for a smile ...

455. Landlords protest after pub swearing ban gets them sacked

Comment #206574 by Border Collie on July 8, 2008 at 1:31 pm

Damn, now this is big news ...

456. McDonald's Makes Jesus Cry

Comment #206572 by Border Collie on July 8, 2008 at 1:28 pm

Oh, well, McDonalds is as good a target as any for personal issues to be projected upon. I wonder if their burgers are any better now?

457. Degrees of religion

Comment #206565 by Border Collie on July 8, 2008 at 1:21 pm

Not hurting anyone and staying within normal behavior boundaries doesn't deserve any respect. To me, that is zero. It's like showing up at work with clothes on. 'Oh, hiiiii, I have clothes on, I didn't murder anyone today, I didn't blow up a building, I didn't molest a child ... respect me!' Sorry, I think one has to go way past zero to deserve respect. F'tards ...

458. Sir John M. Templeton, Philanthropist, Dies at 95

Comment #206532 by Border Collie on July 8, 2008 at 12:50 pm

I had my tonsils (sp?) taken out when I was seven or eight. I woke up from the surgery and there were about eight people standing around my bed praying at about sundown. It scared the hell out of me. I thought I had died. Oh, well.

Can't fault Templeton for his money making ability. He must have had some good backing. Ten grand was a LOT of monty to borrow during that time period.

459. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #206480 by Border Collie on July 8, 2008 at 12:00 pm

It could be an actual insect with a hook through it ... me being a fisherman and all ... but, who cares?

The dumber the book is the more the Creationists will belive it anyway. Seriously.

460. Teaching Evolution in Mexico: Preaching to the Choir

Comment #205841 by Border Collie on July 7, 2008 at 8:13 pm

Missionaries ... cluck, cluck ... scratch, scratch ...

461. Churches' secret talks to stop gay surge

Comment #205675 by Border Collie on July 7, 2008 at 4:06 pm

Seems to me that they're about 2,000 years too late ...

462. Origin of the Novel Species Noodleous doubleous: Evidence for Intelligent Design

Comment #205673 by Border Collie on July 7, 2008 at 4:05 pm

How do the Italians feel about this research? I've heard that there is a group of Islamists who are already planning a lawsuit.

463. Harper says new mosque shows 'the true and benevolent face of Islam'

Comment #205652 by Border Collie on July 7, 2008 at 3:31 pm

Damn, just knowing that there's another mosque on the North American continent makes me absolutely joyous and tingly all over ... Will someone please tell me where the Muslim ass-kissing line starts so I can get in line?

464. Religion's role in the climate debate

Comment #205645 by Border Collie on July 7, 2008 at 3:20 pm

I was going to say something ... Seems like everything's just about been covered, though ...
I loved the 'high priest of atheism' bit ...
Screw 'em ...

465. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #205640 by Border Collie on July 7, 2008 at 3:08 pm

Burn it in the fireplace on a cold night ...

466. The Boundaries of Belief

Comment #205120 by Border Collie on July 6, 2008 at 3:55 pm

If you interview 35,000 Joe Blows off the street, more than five percent of them won't even be able to read and I'd guess a fairly large percentage would misread 'atheist' or not know what it means.

Is there a monetary prize for being first post? Seems like such a big deal to some people.

467. Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection

Comment #204789 by Border Collie on July 5, 2008 at 6:41 pm

Wonder why they're treating this like it's something new. There's nothing new about world redeemer mythology. It was going on a long, long time before Mr. Jesus.

468. Prayer refusal pupils 'disciplined'

Comment #204788 by Border Collie on July 5, 2008 at 6:37 pm

Not just another isolated incident. A sypmtom of overriding, permeating pathology.

469. Decades Later, Still Asking: Would I Pull That Switch?

Comment #204783 by Border Collie on July 5, 2008 at 6:28 pm

Damn, I thought this had been beat to death when I was an undergrad. If we knew how many imaginary amps they were administering we'd really know how imaginarily dangerous it was. Is imaginarily a word?

470. Merger of U.S. earth science agencies proposed

Comment #204774 by Border Collie on July 5, 2008 at 6:14 pm

Could be good except that it would make it easier for another Bush-like administration to interfere with real science.

471. When too much Rapture is barely enough

Comment #204765 by Border Collie on July 5, 2008 at 5:55 pm

TWP ... I think you and I were hatched from similar eggs. I recognize your stories as if my own. We do live on the buckle of the Bible Belt, though. You on the east diamond eye of Jesus, me on the western one. Although, I never had to do the speaking in tongues, rattlesnakes, tambourines or twin-bicycle mission work.

I've heard this stuff my entire life. It doesn't even affect me any longer. It's just tiring. Well, I guess the implied threats, like the one at the end, still piss me off a little ... the arrogance of believing that one has God in his back pocket, like a loaded pistol ...

472. Christians challenge teaching of evolution

Comment #204540 by Border Collie on July 5, 2008 at 6:30 am

Next they'll simply walk into the classroom and take over ...

473. Does the Pope wear Prada?

Comment #204536 by Border Collie on July 5, 2008 at 6:13 am

Just more tabloid baloney ...

474. Sharia law 'could have UK role'

Comment #204176 by Border Collie on July 4, 2008 at 9:48 am

You Brits have lost your f'ing minds!

475. A secular world is a sane world

Comment #204107 by Border Collie on July 4, 2008 at 6:40 am

"just another angry white man"?

That is the silliest, shallowest description of Pat Condell that I can imagine ...

I can't believe any graduate of the University of Unthinking Politically-Correct Multi-Culural Sanctimony would even come to this site.

476. New Zealand man sells his soul to 'Hell'

Comment #203695 by Border Collie on July 3, 2008 at 11:26 am

Good grief ...

477. Science is thrilling - except in our schools

Comment #203693 by Border Collie on July 3, 2008 at 11:24 am

This is nothing new. When Ronald Reagan was first elected president and proceeded to tell Americans 'to not worry about education, we'll teach you everything you need to know', things really started to go to hell in a handbasket. Welcome to this brave new world of superstition, celebrity worship and pure intellectual laziness.

478. Former state science director sues over intelligent design e-mail

Comment #203401 by Border Collie on July 2, 2008 at 8:19 pm

Science education is abysmally weak in Texas as it is. Maybe if she wins it will help a little. It's hellish when one has to file a lawsuit in an attempt to simply create or maintain normalcy.

ModernDayThomas ... fantastic observation. It seems that this entire US culture has turned to tabloid superstition ... with celebreties, preachers, lawyers and politicians informing us about reality.

479. Obama Wants to Expand Role of Religious Groups

Comment #203398 by Border Collie on July 2, 2008 at 8:04 pm

Free trade with Colombia and Mexico ... what a laugh, considering the tons of illegal drugs that have come into the US from those countries over the past decades.

Maybe the joining of church and state isn't so bad. Government money comes with a very high price of government goons looking over your shoulder, the necessity of a huge private bureaucracy to handle the required paperwork, etc. I think they will find that it will simply be cheaper and more effective to ask for private donations. I figure that nothing can ruin a church faster and more effectively than government intervention ... maybe that's a good thing. On the other hand, the prospect of of church/state cooperation in today's political climate is very frightening.

480. Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat

Comment #203274 by Border Collie on July 2, 2008 at 2:46 pm

How do I purchase the poster?

481. Obama Wants to Expand Role of Religious Groups

Comment #203179 by Border Collie on July 2, 2008 at 12:44 pm

More tax dollars down the drain ...

482. Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat

Comment #203171 by Border Collie on July 2, 2008 at 12:38 pm

"Tayside Police caused uproar in the Muslim community after they released this advertisement featuring police puppy Rebel sitting in a hat.

The advert has upset Muslims because dogs are considered ritually unclean and has sparked such anger that some shopkeepers in Dundee have refused to display the advert."

WHAT?!

Neither the Tayside Police nor the advertisement have "caused" anything. The general, prevalent insanity of Muslims has caused the uproar.

What a bunch of pussy wankers, backing down from this! Bye, bye, Britian ...

483. Can't Darwin and God get along?

Comment #202618 by Border Collie on July 1, 2008 at 5:19 pm

Darwin lite, Darwin revised, Darwin dumbed down, Darwin absorbed by Christian creation mythology? Just read Darwin, as it is. That's enough.
If I remember correctly, isn't there a very good analysis of why ALL the fossils aren't there in The Blind Watchmaker? Read that too.

484. Biologist Teaches the Nation's Judges About Genetics

Comment #202601 by Border Collie on July 1, 2008 at 4:29 pm

Lack of science knowledge by judges is no surprise to me. In many cases one needs little but the most votes to be a judge. The courts are archaic, fossilized in Texas.

485. It can be right to discriminate against the religious

Comment #202328 by Border Collie on July 1, 2008 at 10:01 am

OK, we can't hate this group any longer so let's invent or choose a group we can hate. Political correctness, the new sanctimony.

486. CFI-UN Hamid Karzai Letter

Comment #202259 by Border Collie on July 1, 2008 at 6:40 am

Nothing but a continuation of the practice of human sacrifice. They've just come up with a 'legal' reason instead of a 'religious' reason. Same barbaric BS, however. I love it ... They believe that their 'god' is great enough to have created the known universe but also petty enough to demand death blood from an Earth creature for a rules infraction. Religions are death cults. Governments are death cults. Put them together and what do you have?

487. Jesus and Mo on Militant Atheists

Comment #202254 by Border Collie on July 1, 2008 at 6:29 am

As usual, Mr. Jesus just isn't keeping up with the times. Get with the program, Mr. J! The phrase should be 'strident atheists' ...

488. A secular world is a sane world

Comment #202049 by Border Collie on June 30, 2008 at 5:50 pm

If anyone wants to get a feel for the sanity and real heart-warming creampuffiness of Islam, go to Pat Condell's website and read the feedback section. I'm sure there's feedback from other equally brotherly love types, but Islam seems to stand out.

489. Who Was More Important: Lincoln or Darwin?

Comment #202026 by Border Collie on June 30, 2008 at 3:58 pm

I have just ascertained why dumbass articles like this are written ... so I can come home after a hard day's work and LMAO at all of your posts ... thanks everyone ... keep 'em comin'!

490. Faith schools undermined by 'Government witch hunt'

Comment #201777 by Border Collie on June 30, 2008 at 8:57 am

Why are secularists constantly described as 'strident'? The two words I'm most sick of are 'strident' and 'robust'. My most-sick-of phrase is 'connect the dots'. What were we talking about?

491. Charles Darwin was not the father of atheism

Comment #201769 by Border Collie on June 30, 2008 at 8:43 am

I guess these guys have to write something, anything, to get their paychecks ...

492. Who Was More Important: Lincoln or Darwin?

Comment #201761 by Border Collie on June 30, 2008 at 8:16 am

The fewer pirates/more global warming guys will love this one ...
To me, this article verges on the tabloid. But, then it seems to be the purpose of American media to attempt to associate things that have little or no relation whatsoever except some artificial thing like a birthday. Maybe there's just nothing to write about any longer.

493. Aliens need Christ's redemption, too

Comment #201425 by Border Collie on June 29, 2008 at 4:23 pm

I hope this guy and Rob Hood get caught together in a hot tub ... he is no loss to the secular world ...
Sorry, 8teist, there is no end ... and, it seems to be expanding exponentially ...
Or maybe the Chinese buffet food I ate for dinner is making me hallucinate ...
Think I'll go take an antacid with a big glass of water ...

494. Richard Dawkins on Doctor Who

Comment #201171 by Border Collie on June 29, 2008 at 10:35 am

My oh my, so some of you think RD is a bad actor? I'd say considering some of the stupid f'ing questions asked of him and his typically civil responses, I'd say he's a very good actor. And besides, he can't hold a candle to Chuck Norris when it comes to bad acting.

495. A secular world is a sane world

Comment #201155 by Border Collie on June 29, 2008 at 8:05 am

Precisely why free speech is a good thing ... Most enjoyable 6:55 I've had in a while ...
Addicts, of whatever type, always think that 'more' of whatever it is, is the solution, the answer ... more product, more often, more quality, more rationalization, etc. This video really points out the need to go the other way with religion, which is an addiction (partly to the emotional enema it provides on a constant basis). Ever wonder why there are so many closet addicts of the religious bent, esp. those involved in sex/abuse type behaviors? They're addicts just doing their thing. Anyway, less religion, no religion ... sounds good to me.
I just read the first linked article. How on Earth could anyone ever get the idea that terrorism and Islam are linked?! Beats me. And, hey, don't worry. They'll wake up in the Netherlands ... when it's too late. And to you'se Euros ... The US is hot on your heels in the politically correct, thought/word police, whining about everything race. I propose that we all stop equivocating about and pandering to Islam. It has shown its face. What else does it need to do to get out attention. Pretending it hasn't is a dangerous waste of time and energy.

496. Your Brain Lies to You

Comment #201021 by Border Collie on June 28, 2008 at 7:17 pm

If a Jewish person marries a Muslim person of the opposite sex and they have children the children will be human.

497. Evangelical grunts

Comment #200949 by Border Collie on June 28, 2008 at 3:16 pm

'special audience for evangelistic outreach'?
Seems like a captive audience to me.
The military is a cult anyway. This just makes it moreso. They only want 'sheeple', to borrow a word, so they're in favor of anthing that enhances the process. This has been going on for decades. The degree of such might be new. I don't know. Who's surprised? I'm not. It must be hell on the soldiers who aren't interested. Personally, I think their time would be better spent learning to be real warriors rather than Christian soldiers.

498. The $10,000-a-Month Psychic

Comment #200888 by Border Collie on June 28, 2008 at 11:58 am

The only explanation I have for this is that apparently she's dealing with a basically detached from reality clientele anyway ... even though it seems idiotic, maybe she just closely observes them and offers a little reality advice which they think is miraculous because they're so wacked out. Or, maybe I'm just dreaming.

499. Texas Supreme Court rules church can't be sued in exorcism

Comment #200883 by Border Collie on June 28, 2008 at 11:43 am

What have I been telling you guys about Fort Worth/Tarrant County?

500. Common New Atheist Fallacies

Comment #200880 by Border Collie on June 28, 2008 at 11:36 am

I almost feel sorry for these poor saps ... attending this 'seminar' and believing that they've actually gained in knowledge. My guess is that this particular emotional enema simply lightend their pocketbooks to a considerable degree.