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851. His word: Attacking religion can seem like breaking a butterfly on a wheel

Comment #51550 by BillySands on June 23, 2007 at 11:03 am

Wee free,
homophobia is illogical as is your belief that the pope is the antichrist

852. In the know

Comment #51514 by BillySands on June 23, 2007 at 7:50 am

Still at least he isn't completely barmy.


Nobody's perfect

853. Create a back-up copy of your immune system

Comment #51350 by BillySands on June 22, 2007 at 12:55 pm

Steven Madding,
That would definately be a possibility, although the host's own immune system (assuming it is still functional) should deal with the transferred immune cells. There is something called graft vs host disease where the graft attacks the host. Tissue typing guards against this, but can easily be induced in inbred strains of mice. If you breed two mice with different forms of the same gene for Major Histocompatibility Complex proteins and graft tissue from the ofspring to the parents, you can get the disease. For example, if both parents have two different forms, arbitralily called A and a, then they can produce offspring that contain AA, Aa or aa combinations of these genes. If you graft tissue from AA individuals onto the parents, the immume cells recognise the parent's a version of the gene as foreign (since they dont contain it) and attack it. It would be the same with aa tissue grafted on to the parents. This would recognise th A form as foreign. The parent mice would not recognise either grapt as foreign, because they already contan the A and a forms of the genes.


Personally, I think particular strain of mouse called the nude mouse (which has a severely crippled immune system) could be used to grow boobs on their back. For no reason other than the fact it would be cool and they could be sold to stressed out executives BWWWAAAAHAHAHAH!


Bone marrow is a much better source of stem cells, but not so easy to extract

854. 'Purity' ring case in High Court

Comment #51346 by BillySands on June 22, 2007 at 12:15 pm

Tell me WTF is an holy kiss? And why do so few Christians ever do this? Can you imagine a big church congregation carrying this out to the letter? One massive snog-in?

I think it means you kiss everyone on the ring - like Ted Haggaed does.

855. An Inquisition in science's name

Comment #51258 by BillySands on June 22, 2007 at 6:06 am

Time for more expletives I think http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uBAPbOWLxc Bizzarro, the language here is so naughty you better insert your femidom lest ye get pregnant

856. An Inquisition in science's name

Comment #51239 by BillySands on June 22, 2007 at 3:27 am

Looks like someone has losened Bizarri's straight jacket enough for him to type

"Your first cause argument, still leads to the question, who caused the first cause?"

This question, for all practical purposes, is totally irrational. To ask who created God is to ask who created an entity that by definition must possess aseity, or the property of non-contingency. The question makes no sense.


The problem is that you are assuming properties about this so called entity without any evidence that it exists in the first place. The fact that you may have a problem considering initial causes - if indeed that is even the right question to be asking is not an arguement for its existance. If you start out with these assumptions about it, you have a very irrational starting point. You have essentially created it in the image you want it to have and decided what is the correct question to ask concerning "first causes" without any apparent justification. I find it bizzare that you are clutching at such straws. Your God is supposed to want a relationship with people, he is supposed to be able to heal the sick, raise the dead and perform all sorts of miracles. He is supposedly aware of our innermost thoughts and knows when stars drift out of place. He has supposedly spoken to prophets and brought plagues and judgements on those he does not like, and you are telling me that you asre using the fact that you can't explain the begining of the universe is evidence that he exists.

Robert
Let's be clear - neither am I. :|


Let's be clear, neither is Bizarro. He is driven by the agenda of his meme
PS Manning sounds scared and is trying to demonise atheism - soon he will be gathering angry mobs carrying torches

857. Atheists: stand up and be counted

Comment #50862 by BillySands on June 20, 2007 at 8:31 am

sargeist
Don't know about ceasar, but this reminds me of something

Betrayed by a friend = er.. Betrayed by a friend

Concerning the betryal, christians claim that Psalm 41:9 predicted that jesus would be betrayed by a friend. Firstly, anyone reading the psalm can see it is not about jesus. Secondly, this friend is actually described as a devil. John 6:70. Strange friends jesus has.

I cant believe they are trying to introduce ID into scottish science classes: http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.1477583.0.0.php Lets introduce The God Delusion into RE classes and school assemblies - fairs fair after all

858. U.S. circumcision rate drops

Comment #50718 by BillySands on June 19, 2007 at 4:02 pm

let's say a young lady friend of his was like a clumsy oaf with filo pastry. Riiiiiip!


Ow, sounds like he needs a new banjo string

859. The Great Mutator

Comment #50657 by BillySands on June 19, 2007 at 8:50 am

I saw this worrying article about considering intelligent design for Scottish science classes http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.1477583.0.0.php

860. U.S. circumcision rate drops

Comment #50619 by BillySands on June 19, 2007 at 5:35 am

Stephend, dare one ask how your friend managed to mutilate his boaby? Did he make a wallet out of the skin? It would be handy going on holiday - give it two strokes and it becomes a suit case

861. U.S. circumcision rate drops

Comment #50612 by BillySands on June 19, 2007 at 4:53 am

If the religious stop being circumcised, does that mean the next generation will be complete pricks?

What do you call a 50p circumcision?




A rip off

862. The God of the Bible is No Delusion!

Comment #50457 by BillySands on June 18, 2007 at 9:04 am

Hi Theo, thought you had become one of us.

I will be coming back shortly, just have some things to deal with first.


Hope you're not as late for your second comming as jesus is :-)

863. In the know

Comment #50253 by BillySands on June 16, 2007 at 3:52 am

Since when was providing evidence (or lack of) reason and arguement telling people what to believe. Wee Flea could have written that bullshit - I see you have been misrepresenting atheists in the scottish parliment news letter again. You never did tell us, should a homosexual be allowed to be in charge of your church - naturally, I'm not talking about god here, but he often breaks his own rules, so in principle, he could be gay: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUtDWru1po0

864. Can we really learn to love people who aren't like us?

Comment #50250 by BillySands on June 16, 2007 at 3:21 am

Devolved, I think you can take it we assume it rained before the flood. However, the word "nathan" which is used in gen 9:13 actually means "to make". Look at verse 14:"It shall come about, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will be seen in the cloud,"So, pay attention to context and try again!
Your desparate explanation is a bit like god saying to someone with 2 legs "here, have two legs as a sign" Still, what a bastard, killing every thing, and you actually believe he is loving and forgiving

865. The Benny Hinn Report

Comment #50121 by BillySands on June 15, 2007 at 6:30 am

I remember seeing people wheeled in on hospital beds attached to oxygen, all hoping to be healed. They are probably all dead now. Yet, miraculously someone with a sore wrist and a numb leg got healed. I would happily kick him in the hairy swingers untill my foot hurts, then change feet.
Talking of btutal beatings, this is hilarious http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HuobIhYVmU

866. The Benny Hinn Report

Comment #50113 by BillySands on June 15, 2007 at 5:50 am

This guy is a total C*nt! I remember seeing him pretend to heal a white guy with a black disease - scickle cell anemia. Sill, the only difference between this con man and the purveyors of lies and false hope found in other churches (lets call them ministers for short) is that he is more sucessful at lying and stealing than them

867. The God of the Bible is No Delusion!

Comment #49942 by BillySands on June 14, 2007 at 7:49 am

David ran off crying, we seem to have kicked his arse so hard the bruising has formed itself into a rather amusing shade of tartan!


Yes, that must have really hurt given his attitude to getting your ring bashed - I think Frankie Howard momentarily possessed me there.

just heard some scurrilous rumour there were 6 Jesus shaped people hanging around in Jerusalem around that period

I believe one was callefd Apollonius of Tyana http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollonius_of_Tyana

He Wanks as highly as any messiah known in Wome you know. He was a bit of a Sillius Soddus you know

868. Can we really learn to love people who aren't like us?

Comment #49940 by BillySands on June 14, 2007 at 7:30 am

Newathiest, Devolved is working on the assumption that life can only occur in the form will lead to people.
Ozone is no problem. Life lives in the sea and UV does not penetrate. Also, who is to say that in the abscence of ozone, natural sun block would not evolve - infact, it did!
Temperature - we get life at the bottom of antarctic glaciers and in hydrothermal vents at temperatures of a few 100 degrees (I'm actually about to play with a protein that can work at 95 C).
The colour of the sun and photosynthesis - life does not need the sun for energy - see hydrothermal vents ad chemosynthesis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemosynthesis Then, there are all the other photopigments in nature: eg Chlorophyll A and B, carotenoids, bacteriorhodopsin and opsins (remember them?) that all absorb at different wavelengths, so, other ways of harvesting light energy already exist.


Auchtung, I'm completely bloody sick of this misanthropic stuff give us some difficult ones devolved you bottom burp. See you teddy bear! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxkFwwRYnco

869. The God of the Bible is No Delusion!

Comment #49934 by BillySands on June 14, 2007 at 6:33 am

Hi Philip,
Dont remember sideshow Dave challenging you. He deflected and ran more like.
It was Indeed Herod who ordered the command (although a different Herod appears later in the jesus story - the one who killed John the baptist - who according to the bible was the return of Elijah (matt3:1-2) who was to precede the messiah, although according to the bible, he wasn't(john 1:21-23)?????????)How ever, he did not fulfil the purpose of Elijah MKII: bring family harmony: Malachi 4:5-6 - so someones fibbing.
Anyway, as well as the fact the genealogies of Jesus in Matt 1 and Luke 3 wildly contradict each other, they give different times for the birth of Jesus. Herod died in 4BCE, Luke says that Jesus was born during the census of Quirinius (cyreneus) This did not happen before 6CE. So if luke is right, the visit of the wise men and the slaughter of the innocents was made up (something historians have thought for a while. If Matt is right, then luke is wrong. The bible also contradicts itself on where jesus grew up, but that is another story. This is the so-called fulfillment of the travel to egypt prophecy

Matthew claimed that this fulfilled a prophecy that said "I have called my son out of Egypt" (Matt. 2:15). He also says that this fulfills another prophecy stating that "he will be called a Nazarine" (Matt. 2:23) because they moved to Nazareth. It is very important to note that Matthew himself states that both these stories fulfill genuine prophecies. It is not the case that some uninformed believer has come up with this idea by himself, and it has then worked its way into popular tradition. It is stated by a so called inspired writer of the bible. It is therefore considered by believers to be the true word of their god. Therefore, if any prophecies should be true, these two should be. The first one is taken from the book of Hosea, (11:1). It states "When Israel was a child, I loved him as a son, and I called my son out of Egypt". So, the "son" is a metaphor for the nation of Israel, and not Jesus (also note that God "called his son", he did not say that he will call his son). This verse is about the exodus that Moses lead out of Egypt, and even more importantly, this son is referred to as rebellious (Verse 2), unappreciative of God (verse 3) and because of this, the "son" will be punished (verse 5). The last time I read the bible, Jesus was the perfect example to us all. Therefore, this is yet another reason to doubt that this verse is about a future incident in the life of Jesus.
The Nazarene prophecy can not be found anywhere in the bible, so perhaps Matthew just made this up, to make Jesus sound more like the messiah. Some Christians claim that it refers to Judges 13:5 "You will become pregnant and give birth to a son, and his hair must never be cut. For he will be dedicated to God as a Nazirite from birth. He will rescue Israel from the Philistines." Clearly, this is not about Jesus. It is about Samson. Furthermore, a Nazirite is not a Nazerene. A Nazirite is member of a Jewish sect that amongst other things must not drink wine (Lev.6:1-31). The fact that Jesus drank wine disqualifies him from this verse (Matt. 26:8) .This claim only goes to show that some Christians will grasp at anything to try and assert that the bible is always correct

Any way, if you can put up with it's length, this link discusses the time of jesus' birth http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/quirinius.html

I actually challenged David on this and he got abusive and ran off crying http://richarddawkins.net/articleComments,1197,Debate-between-Richard-Dawkins-and-Robert-Winston,Today-BBC,page5#47314

Welcome back down under

870. Can we really learn to love people who aren't like us?

Comment #49925 by BillySands on June 14, 2007 at 5:57 am

Oh well, it seems OK now. I was just commenting that Steve's comment reminded me of one somewhere else that said that if the universe was designed for mankind, then mankind was designed for pubic lice. Therefore the universe was actually designed for pubic lice.

Zaphod's was more scientific

871. Can we really learn to love people who aren't like us?

Comment #49881 by BillySands on June 14, 2007 at 2:24 am

Zaphod and I had posted comments last night. They have now mysteriously disapeared. Has this happened to anyone else?

872. Baptists Warned About Islam, Atheism

Comment #49707 by BillySands on June 13, 2007 at 3:50 am

am still waiting for David to realise the importance of knowing where his towel is rather than his god, towels are so much more useful!

Perhaps he has thrown it in?

873. Baptists Warned About Islam, Atheism

Comment #49705 by BillySands on June 13, 2007 at 3:45 am

Oh, still waiting for the answers to my questions on that other thread.....


Me too

874. Can we really learn to love people who aren't like us?

Comment #49695 by BillySands on June 13, 2007 at 2:23 am

Devolved, dont talk rubbish. You are spouting the same refuted junk - although you probably never actually read the rebuttals. Did you actually read any of those CMI articles you posted? and did you agree with them? Do you thing those funny drawings were actually evidence that Eryops co-existed with humans? What about Rainbows? What about opsin genes that allow us to see them?
I dont believe for a minute that those comments are the real reason you specifically belive -out of all man's false gods - in yours. You are just retrospectively clutching at straws to try and make delusion apear rational

875. Baptists Warned About Islam, Atheism

Comment #49693 by BillySands on June 13, 2007 at 2:12 am

Wee Flea, a man who publicly declared the pope to be the antichrist should not try and take the moral high ground

876. Can we really learn to love people who aren't like us?

Comment #49556 by BillySands on June 12, 2007 at 11:28 am

Could I ask therefore that you don't rise to the bait until he has answered the questions that have been raised in other discussions


However, feel free to throw rotten fruit at him and boo as he fiendishly avoids debate :-)

877. Interview with Richard Dawkins

Comment #49489 by BillySands on June 12, 2007 at 5:00 am

Thanks Philip, I thought he had something up with him that prayer cant fix like---welll....anything at all.
Quetz, Do I still get to play Ride of the Valkyries when I happens?

I'm happy to accept that I was once deluded in faith. There is no other way to put it. Many christians no doubt think the devil has deluded me. That's their opinion, I couldn't really care what they think. I may think they are silly, but dont take offence - its called maturity - sticks and stones etc. If christians take offense at being called deluded, well, you have to break a few eggs to make an omlette.

How do you tell someone they are so morally corrupt that they are going to burn in hell for all eternity with out causing offence?

878. Interview with Richard Dawkins

Comment #49474 by BillySands on June 12, 2007 at 4:01 am

Quetz, I'm worried about him, this is his 3rd post on different threads where he has not called us fundies or been generally abusive.
I'll make it easy for him:
I don't care about reason, religion must be eradicated by force - kill fundies - kill kill - fundies are Japan and I am Godzilla - exterminate all gods in the name of atheism!

That should put the colour back in his cheeks :-)

879. Interview with Richard Dawkins

Comment #49468 by BillySands on June 12, 2007 at 3:20 am

Bring back the real wee flea! Then he can answer the questions put to him on other threads

880. 60 SECONDS: Richard Dawkins

Comment #49450 by BillySands on June 12, 2007 at 2:16 am

Tie Interceptor,
There were 4 lengthy rebuttals in the Scottish metro, and no faith heads today. I'll try and scan them - my scanner is knackered at the mo) and I'll ask zaphod to post them (beyond my PC skills)

881. Can we really learn to love people who aren't like us?

Comment #49358 by BillySands on June 11, 2007 at 3:36 pm

Devolved, it was rather rude of you not to read Roberts lengthy rebuttal of that trash you posted on dating. A lot of time clearly went into it. But then, we already know you are not interested in the truth - if itsnot biblical, then its not true - right. Rather than debate, you njust paste and run.

Sorry I missed the fun here guys. We should have a devolved watch and send each other PMs as to his whereabouts. That way we can deal with this constant posting of the same stuff.
Devolved, you have posted links that state duplications happen, mutations happen and selection happens, so what is your problem? Remember opsins? I think it is wierd that you ignore other evidence and demand an asnswer to a specific question that you percieve as a weakness. However, it is not a weakness, and you have been given answers. Strange you are not consistent and reject god because you have not seen him or heard him or or met someone who has sen him, or met someone who has heard him, or seen a miracle or realised that biblical genalogies contradict each other or....or....or etc........... Your mind truely is closed to reason

Hows' the dinosaur hunting?

882. Evolution: God as Genetic Engineer

Comment #49254 by BillySands on June 11, 2007 at 7:14 am

I really like the stuff Carroll writes - he makes sense.

More Behe sloppyness here http://www.nature.com/ni/journal/v7/n5/full/ni0506-433.html

883. 60 SECONDS: Richard Dawkins

Comment #49230 by BillySands on June 11, 2007 at 4:46 am

Nice one Zaphod, here was my response to it
"Chris, the Catholic Church has indeed given us a lot: civil wars, unrest in the middle east, torture, suppression of truth, black slavery and easier spread of HIV to name but a few. So, what then is your point? Dawkins' point is very clear: there is no evidence for any gods. Here's something for you, go read the so called virgin birth prophecy in its original context (Isaiah 7) you will see that it has nothing to do with Jesus, but relates to events relevant to King Ahaz around 730 BCE. So, even the so called evidence is twisted in an attempt to deceive. Couple that to the fact that many other pagans believed in virgin births at that time, and we expose a possible motive for Matthew's deception."


On average only about a quarter of my letters get published, so it is important that as many people as possible write in. Weight of numbers does affect editorial decisions.

884. 60 SECONDS: Richard Dawkins

Comment #49212 by BillySands on June 11, 2007 at 3:29 am

tieInterceptor
I sent this in
P Jennings and P Wainright, Where is the substance of your arguements? What vitriol? Dawkins is concerned about the harm religion does. It is just wrong to say that all Christians act out of gratitude and not fear. I also suggest you do a little research on the concept of hell houses, where fear of eternal torment is the tool of choice in brainwashing vulnerable children. The god of the bible even endorses fear as a means of making people do "good". People who do good because it is the right thing to do are so much more moral than those who do it out of fear- regardless of what they do or don't believe. As for newton, what does that have to do with evidence of God? The fact is, that most people at that time believed in God, and it had no bearing on his science - including his "satanic" alchemy. He also denied the existence of the trinity. As the bible clearly says: "only a simpleton believes everything they are told (prov 14:15) - apply that to your ministers!"

Unfortunately, I dont get the English version, so let me know if it gets published. It would be cool to be published in the scottish and English versions on the same day

885. 60 SECONDS: Richard Dawkins

Comment #49203 by BillySands on June 11, 2007 at 2:19 am

doctor regtools,
There was some muppet banging on about catholicism and how it funded certain oxford colleges in the Scottish version today. He also says that cililisation owes catholicism
The address to send letters to for that one is critics@metroscot.co.uk. perhaps you could try critics@metro.co.uk. Also supply full name, postcode and day time telephone no

886. The Myth of Secular Moral Chaos

Comment #49104 by BillySands on June 10, 2007 at 10:34 am

Nice article here on religiosity and societal health http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2005/2005-11.html - guess who fares worst?

887. The Myth of Secular Moral Chaos

Comment #49103 by BillySands on June 10, 2007 at 10:27 am

The Bible's teaching about morality is that humans beings are moral because they are created in the image of God.


My big problem here is the assumption that god exists - evidence?. We also evolved, we were not created, and evolution favours selfish traits. EVOLUTION MEANS THERE IS NO FALL AND THERE IS NO SIN. Just good and bad social behaviour

This only makes sense if the religion concerned was claiming that only those of that religion were moral. The Biblical teaching is that all human beings are created with a sense of right and wrong. Therefore the whole point is moot.

Shame paul disagrees with you (and himself)Rom. 7:7:"Well then, am I suggesting that the law of God is sinful? Of course not! In fact, it was the law that showed me my sin. I would never have known that coveting is wrong if the law had not said, "You must not covet."

and 2:21 "Well then, if you teach others, why don't you teach yourself? You tell others not to steal, but do you steal?"
If we had an innate sense of gods morality, we wouldn't need to be taught, and I could rape women, keep slaves and kill homosexuals just as god likes. Thankfully, I dont get my standards from that bigoted book

So, bits of the bible say we dont have an innate sense of right and wrong. Darwinism however explains things nicely

more realistic figures for atheism http://www.pitzer.edu/academics/faculty/zuckerman/atheism.html
It turns out that children are automatically made members ofthe church at birth if one of their parents are a member, although actual weeklt attendance is less than 10% http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Sweden#Religion_in_Sweden_today that's a lot of athiests who have membership forced upon them. More sloppy misrepresentations david!

888. The Myth of Secular Moral Chaos

Comment #49085 by BillySands on June 10, 2007 at 8:50 am

so David, am i perverted for not wanting to kill homosexuals? god does afterall command it.

889. 60 SECONDS: Richard Dawkins

Comment #49066 by BillySands on June 10, 2007 at 7:19 am

Hi creeping jesus,
The metro is good at allowing some god debate in its letters pages. I loved it when some muppet called top cat wrote in saying that evolution defied the second law of thermodynamics, and he got torn to shreds. I hope you will contribute. I wrote in suggesting that Richard gets his own show every other sunday instead of songs of praise. That should stir it up a bit.
I see you are in Govan, if you are interested, the glasgow brights are meeting tomorrow in waxy o connors (near queen st station) from 7:30 onwards

890. Atheism is the absence of belief

Comment #48841 by BillySands on June 9, 2007 at 7:08 am

Hows the dinosaur hunting going devolved/GMB? I was playing about with a cacharodontosaurus tooth earlier - unfortunately it is of no use to you as it is 110 million years old
Pewkatchoo, support given - i used an anti inflammatory alias :-) Seems devolved needs to think life must have a meaning

891. House Votes to Expand Stem Cell Research

Comment #48515 by BillySands on June 8, 2007 at 8:20 am

Can they also pass a law so that if President Bush is so upset about doing damage to 150 cells of almost potential human being he is not allowed to scratch his nose or swat flies (thanks Sam Harris!)


Or indeed admire the Kylie calendar with a jumbo box of kleenex handy.

Now that we can clone mammals, surely every cell is a potential human

892. House Votes to Expand Stem Cell Research

Comment #48514 by BillySands on June 8, 2007 at 8:16 am

"Science is a gift of God to all of us and science has taken us to a place that is biblical in its power to cure," said Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, arguing for the bill's passage."And that is the embryonic stem cell research."


Richard Dawkins is a scientist. He must therefore be a gift from god. Of course we wouldn't need science if god hadn't created small pox, HIV and the like. People who say such things are truely muppets.
What about epidurals? god wanted birth to hurt for a reason - cos hes a cu*t!

893. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Robert Winston

Comment #48463 by BillySands on June 8, 2007 at 3:28 am

I do wonder if other members of the church know that David is posting here. I wonder what their reaction would be to the quality of his debating.


Some of them are just like him. Others no doubt take pleasure in the thought that we will go to hell - I even remember one person on his site advocating the burning of the god delusion. Some are decent people. A few christians I have spoken to find him an embarassment. I cant figure out from David whether his church read the site or not. On one occasion, he said he discouraged them, then on another he said he encourages them.

894. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Robert Winston

Comment #48450 by BillySands on June 8, 2007 at 2:20 am

Actually the translation for 2 Samuel 21:8 is Merab (one of Sauls other daughters – see 1 Samuel 18:19). However I am delighted that you are reading the Bible so diligently! Keep reading with an open mind and you might get there!


Erm no David, here is the NIV foot note to that verse: 2 Samuel 21:8 Two Hebrew manuscripts, some Septuagint manuscripts and Syriac (see also 1 Samuel 18:19 most Hebrew and Septuagint manuscripts Michal

Do you accept that those contradictions have nothing to do with the KJV?

We still want to hear about homosexuality. It is only an accuasation if you can not defend it rationally, and you havn't, so please tell us what harm it does? We have pointed out the harm paedophilia does. So how does homosexuality compare? How does it differ from heterosexual relationships?

You seem almost pleasant today. Is your bishop watching or something?

895. Atheism is pretentious and cowardly

Comment #48281 by BillySands on June 7, 2007 at 9:45 am

Hi NLHB,
Good to hear from you again. I must admit I couldn't finish the article either, it was so brain dead. I couldn't believe the atheists dont understand faith line. We are both ex christians, we understand very well - it is a delusion!

Started taking creatine - it has caused an inprovement in performance, but no weight gain - cant stand the stuff though. Once it runs out, I wont try any more.
Shame about the shoulder. Took me over a year for mine to get better. Had to give up kick boxing because of it - been too busy to take it up again - just as well, I was crap my previous karatae indoctrination kept surfacing and confusing my technique.
You notice faith keeps resurfacing as you are losing it. Now it never resurfaces - even when you are in dodgy situations on icy mountains. Interesting analogy though

896. Atheism is pretentious and cowardly

Comment #48275 by BillySands on June 7, 2007 at 9:18 am

And just for ad-hominem purposes - this guy looks like a twat.



He has a face only a jack-boot could love

897. Atheism is pretentious and cowardly

Comment #48254 by BillySands on June 7, 2007 at 7:47 am

I can onyl assume that RD is correct - christians have gone so long being immune from criticism, thatt even polite, reasoned analysis seems like fundementalist ranting to them.

I have often found that when christians find out I used to be one of them, they attempt to reconvert me. When I then try and deconvert them, they take offence at the fact I believe they are wrong, despite the fact that is what they are essentially saying to me. Seems they want it all their way

898. Atheism is pretentious and cowardly

Comment #48248 by BillySands on June 7, 2007 at 7:36 am

Yaaaaaaaawn!!!!!!!! Why dont we step into the ring with baseball bats dipped in burning tar and covered with broken glass and we'll see who is the coward.

(awaits comment from stupid theist taking that literally)

899. God is not responsible for war and suffering

Comment #48234 by BillySands on June 7, 2007 at 6:39 am

Examples of bad behaviour perpetrated by religious believers simply don't tell us anything definitive about religions themselves and certainly nothing necessarily negative about the gods they posit.


Try reading the book of joshua then - mean, unforgiving infanticidal god!

Of course, god is not responsible, because he does not exist. if he did, the god of the bible would be responible, because he is an evil cu*t!

900. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Robert Winston

Comment #47973 by BillySands on June 6, 2007 at 7:17 am

Philip and quetz, you might just be right.
I have always wondered about this business of sin. We are supposed to all do it, and that it is part of us. Because of it we cant get into heaven. Let us assume that heaven is real and that we have free will. Then, we are going to keep on sinning in heaven, so what's the point? or is god going to intervene and stop bad things happening there? If so, why not on earth?

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