51. US military accused of harboring fundamentalism

Comment #127679 by Duff on February 15, 2008 at 2:06 pm

al Rawandi,
Britain would have been the wimp posterboys of the world had they not reacted to the Argentinian invasion of the Faulklands/Malvinas.

As a former officer in the US military, I saw none of this kind of religious nonsense. Had I been confronted with it, I would have smiled a little smile and simply ignored any suggestion to join in with the other christian soldiers. Had the issue been pressed, I would have had the perpetrators before a military court faster than the little farts could have squacked, "fucktard".

52. Conservative Rabbis to Vote on Resolution Criticizing Pope's Revision of Prayer

Comment #125472 by Duff on February 11, 2008 at 12:17 pm

Richard Morgen,
Instead of calling them stupid, maybe we could make use of Bertrand Russell's description of a particular pope as: "Saintliness didn't suffice to make him intelligent".

We could say of the religious: "Religion didn't suffice to make you anywhere near intelligent". We would still be calling them stupid, but a little more artfully and less stridently.

53. Good people doing evil things

Comment #125462 by Duff on February 11, 2008 at 12:02 pm

MaxD,
At the risk of oversimplification, the problem in Kenya is all about tribalism/religion/ingroup/outgroup; my tribe is the annointed by god tribe; the members of the other tribe smell. Its all the same old thing.

54. Exploding black holes could expose hidden dimensions

Comment #123128 by Duff on February 6, 2008 at 1:33 pm

Didn't I read something about Lisa Randall preparing an experiment on the LHC that if successful would be the first minor proof of string theory??

55. The New Atheist Movement

Comment #123114 by Duff on February 6, 2008 at 1:19 pm

The proofs!! The proofs!! We want to see the proofs!! And we want to see them now!! It's time to publish the proofs of religion! No more talk. Right now!

Maybe if the millions of atheists in the world would adopt that mantra we could embarrass the lame ones and they would stop making such claims.

56. U.S.: 'Demonic' militants sent women to bomb markets in Iraq

Comment #121355 by Duff on February 3, 2008 at 9:35 am

Phopas,
Excellent! A muslim smart (not) bomb.

Agn,
I will have to disagree with you. While it is true that we shouldn't immediately jump to the conclusion it was a muslim who put these women up to this, it is wrong of you to blame shintoists. We all know it was those damned Norwegians again.

57. Documents detail church coverup

Comment #121351 by Duff on February 3, 2008 at 9:29 am

Perhaps one of the reasons so few priests are ever jailed as a result of their crimes is that the church has had 1500 plus years of experience with these sorts of crimes. Ever since celibacy became the norm in the church, some 500 years after christ, they have been dealing with these kinds of people and their victims. That's a lot of experience hushing things up.

In the middle ages the church could buy, or scare, anyone off. Now it is a totally different matter. Maybe in time, the celibacy issue will bankrupt the church and finally usher in some sanity.
Sanity in religion??? What am I saying?

58. Pope says some science shatters human dignity

Comment #120575 by Duff on February 2, 2008 at 3:21 am

There was a woman pope, at least she ruled as pope while her sixteen year old son nominally held the title. I forget her name. Marganu or something.

I say we encourage the pope to continue to make it a choice between religion and science. We all know who is going to win that war.

59. U.S.: 'Demonic' militants sent women to bomb markets in Iraq

Comment #120570 by Duff on February 2, 2008 at 3:11 am

I read they found a head of one of the women. I'm assuming she had a cleft pallet, which would lead one to surmise she had downs syndrome. Just a guess.

60. Atheism and Violence

Comment #117936 by Duff on January 30, 2008 at 2:55 am

The good Jesuit father solved one of the most philosophical conundrums with the wave of his jebus wand.
"If god created the world, who created god?" Has confounded thinkers since there were thinkers. He brushes it off by stating it is a "dorm room question", or something like that. ( I don't have the courage to go back to that stupid article and search for the exact quote.)

61. Belief in Belief

Comment #117558 by Duff on January 29, 2008 at 5:38 am

Testimony bearing in Mormondom is a great device they've hit upon to facilitate the brainwashing of the young and re-wash the established members. It is embarrassing to watch, but when one participates it has a endorphin effect that makes you feel good and makes you want to someday have that feeling again.

Mormons, and others, claim they've been touched by the holy ghost, but it's really just a flood of emotion you get by exposing your feelings in front of a crowd.

As a former mormon, I look back and chuckle at how it effected me, but at the time it gave me a good feeling a couple of times.

That is the problem with being poorly educated. You don't have enough information to recognize these things for what they are. Brainwashing, pure and simple.

62. 'Telepathic' Genes Recognize Similarities In Each Other

Comment #117167 by Duff on January 28, 2008 at 11:13 am

The writers of this paper should be dope slapped for using the word telepathic. They then go on to correctly state that the attraction is not magically telepathic but due to "...complementary patterns of electrical charges...". Well, duh!

Don't they know about the morons and woo woos lurking out there?

63. Math Religion Trouble

Comment #117009 by Duff on January 28, 2008 at 3:29 am

I, personally, will be as kind in my denunciations of the religious types as I would be of the ninny who suggests a troll lurks under yon bridge.

Cartomancer,
I seem to recall no less a thinker than Bertrand Russell saying that after a certain philosopher, I forget which, who lived a little after the time of Christ, no great thinker appeared again for a thousand years, until the Rennaissance. Mostly due to the influence of the church. Sorry to be so general, but I don't have the time at the moment to look up the details.

64. Launch of 'Atheists in Foxholes' Book Anthology

Comment #116248 by Duff on January 26, 2008 at 2:54 am

I "proudly" served during Vietnam. Either that or Canada.

However distasteful a military can be, it is a necessity no great country can be without. Machiavelli put it best when he said if a man is entirely peaceful, a bad guy will come along and cut off his arms.

65. Mandrake: Charles's letter in support of Islamic 'fundamentalism'

Comment #113826 by Duff on January 20, 2008 at 5:12 pm

Epeeist,
Oh, you British, you are sooo arrogant! You have the nerve to refer to The Prince of Wales, probably the next King of England, as a " twat"! I"ll have you know that we here in America are appearantly far more respectful of British Royalty than the British themselves.

I'll have you know he is not a twat, but a twit!!

A "twat" has sexual connotations that I assure you do not describe a person of his....gender, or....station. A "twit" is, however, a perfect description of the long nosed person you refer to.

66. Ben Stein Bribing Schools to See His Anti-Evolution Movie 'Expelled'

Comment #112653 by Duff on January 17, 2008 at 4:58 pm

Ben Klein is an actor. I need say no more! Actors, and I am one of them, so I know the memotype, are notoriously uneducated (not me) and pathetically drawn to the metaphysical. It comes from their obsession with themselves and their fear of relating to people outside their profession. A recipe for ignorance if there ever was one.

67. Questions Delay Creationist Master's Degrees

Comment #112645 by Duff on January 17, 2008 at 4:37 pm

If the commissioner of higher education, Paredes, really does insist that the perpetrators of this fuckwittian proposal must actually provide a description of the research they are prepared to do, it will be their undoing.

What research could they possibly propose??? The mind is boggled!

68. Canadian fossil makes waves in Huckabee's presidential run

Comment #111926 by Duff on January 16, 2008 at 2:57 am

Trust me. Smirking Hick Huckabee really, really does believe the earth is six thousand years old and all the animals that ever existed were on the ark. He can believe that kind of moronic, fuckwittian, irrational, simpleminded hogwash because he, like all the other rationally unencumbered religionists have never really thought about it. And they don't want to start thinking about it.

Do your duty boys and girls. Get in the face of a religionist everyday, in every way!

69. Richard Dawkins on The Late Edition with Marcus Brigstocke

Comment #110112 by Duff on January 10, 2008 at 1:53 pm

I think some of you are being too harsh on ADH. He has the hardest of all jobs in the world; justifying the unjustifiable. He never gets to sleep soundly at night and knows all the intelligent people think him stupid, even if he's not. Well....maybe a little.

As to making fun of the religious. It worked on me. I remember two biting comments non-religious people made to me in my believing youth and it made me feel my beliefs were "perhaps" a little less than sophisticated.

Now, I firmly believe in trashing the religious simplepeople.

70. It was a bad year for God.

Comment #109284 by Duff on January 8, 2008 at 6:09 pm

AndreG,
We atheists aren't shaking our fists at god, we're merely lamenting the existence of so many very fine, simple, salt of the earth type people, much like yourself, who bring tears of sadness to our caring, loving eyes because of the adolescent brainwashing which has left so many of you bereft of any ability to be rational beings.

Trust me, my son, and know that we love you and hope your affliction will not last your entire life. We hope that you too can know the peace and tranquility that comes from being freed of the bonds of theistic servitude.

71. The religiosity test: Doubters need not apply

Comment #107885 by Duff on January 5, 2008 at 2:42 pm

Let me go out on a limb here, folks. The "Smirking Hick Huckabee" (Hitche's mandatory moniker), Brother Romney, strange Guliani, and the other lightweights are history.

In the end, it will be between John McCain and Hillary Clinton. Neither of which are stupid, nor overly religious, and both of which will be fabulous presidents compared to the present holder of the office.

72. Huckabee: Guns, God and rock'n'roll

Comment #107858 by Duff on January 5, 2008 at 2:06 pm

The "smirking hick, Huckabee" and Chuck Norris!!! Now those two are a perfect indictment of the religious right and the republican party in the US. What could be more perfect?

If this shallow simpleton and his cellulose sidekick make it past New Hampshire, we will all have to get thoroughly involved in American politics.

73. Pope's exorcist squads will wage war on Satan

Comment #104626 by Duff on December 29, 2007 at 3:08 am

This is going to be the best pope ever!! Demented Medieval Pope, directly out of central casting. The last one was a nice guy, but this crank wanker is just perfect! I hope he lives for many many years. Think of the damage The Rat can do.

74. Top Ten Stories of 2007

Comment #104049 by Duff on December 27, 2007 at 5:28 pm

Michael P.
Perfect choice for a headline story! "Jesus once again fails to return to earth!!!"

Everyday I pass a sign on a mennonite property that states, JESUS IS COMING
ARE YOU READY
I am sorely tempted to...never mind.

75. New journal to target education in evolution

Comment #104046 by Duff on December 27, 2007 at 5:21 pm

robotaholic,
Hang in there, Sir. Your head is certainly in the right place.

Al Rawandi,
Why do I get the sneaking suspicion that you think the muslim version of ridiculousness is a little less ridiculous than the christian version of ridiculousness. They are equally ridiculous, my friend. And don't blame the silly Israelis for the sorry state of the muslim world. The muslims got themselves into their sorry state long before 1945.

76. Wisdom From The Founding Rationalists

Comment #104038 by Duff on December 27, 2007 at 4:56 pm

gkkalai,
You should get on you metaphorical knees and thank Thomas Jefferson for saving your metaphorical minority ass.
Were it not for the likes of Jefferson, we would have been another hundred years wallowing in the sickening morass of white man's superiority over the colored masses.

77. Top Ten Stories of 2007

Comment #103646 by Duff on December 26, 2007 at 11:55 am

A sorry collection of stories that should make every religious person proud.
1. The Taliban, a pathetic religious org. takes hostages of another group of religionists trying to convert the other pathetic group.
2. Sour grapes and snide asides at atheists.
3. None of the arse kissing republicans are good enough for the self righteous evangelicals.
4. A crank who wanted to be martyred is instead content to be married to a televangelist and as a consolation, at least make a load of cash.
5. A religious denomination breaks apart because one half doesn't hate minorities enough.
6. More religious torture in the mideast.
7. Two religious cranks bite the dust leaving the world better off and the religionites are actually crying about it.
8.A religious crank apostatizes and then re-apostatizes back. Reason for one group to celebrate and the other to curse the dirty blaggards who took him away. He was probably Flewingly alzheimered, were the truth to be known.
9. The really right wing cranks tried and fail to have the lesser right wing cranks thrown out. Jesus is love.
10. Finally, a small crack has opened in the cranks efforts to control women and their bodies. Calooh, Calley, of frabjous joy!

Who wouldn't be proud of those ten wonderful stories? Mankind becomes enlightened and ennobled by religion every day, in every way.

78. Huckabee Stands by Christmas Campaign Ad

Comment #103182 by Duff on December 24, 2007 at 12:21 pm

Some of you folks have forgotten you were ordered never to refer to this clown without including the Hitche's description. In the future, it is always, Mike "Smirking Hick" Huckabee.

79. Disquiet over schools' moment of silence

Comment #103180 by Duff on December 24, 2007 at 12:15 pm

A proposition: Make prayer mandatory in every school class. Everyday, a different student must say an original prayer they have prepared. The sniggering and ribbing will make the daily prayer a source of humor and derision that will cheapen prayer in the minds of the children for the rest of their lives. I know, thats how we used to do it in Idaho back in the old days.

80. Al Qaeda: We're open to questions

Comment #101830 by Duff on December 21, 2007 at 2:30 am

Al,
It isn't racism which leads me to believe arabs are backward. They didn't used to be backward, they were THE leaders in the sciences when the jews were still herding goats. They became backward because of the direction their religion evolved to take them. The jews have since left them in the dust because the majority of the jews became secular and they marginalized their own backward, orthodox religious elements.

81. For the Love of Christ

Comment #101820 by Duff on December 21, 2007 at 2:21 am

This clown is no different than all the other televangelists. He's found a way to make a living off the simple people, and I might add, in the process find the girls who are sinners. Pretty good scam, actually.

82. 2007, a bad year for God squadders

Comment #101798 by Duff on December 21, 2007 at 1:57 am

You boys are all too nasty. I don't think the author is much of a believer, I think he was just being facetious. His last sentence was just a nod to the old credo quaia absurdum excuse, throwing a crumb to the intelligent believer (sorry about the oxy).

83. Al Qaeda: We're open to questions

Comment #101560 by Duff on December 20, 2007 at 2:07 pm

al Rawandi,
The arabs aren't suicide bombers because of Israel. They are suicide bombers because they are products of a non-productive, non-competitive, un-modern, backward, embarrassing society, cause primarily by the backwardness their religion imposes on them. The Jews just came along at an inopportune moment and made fools of them.

The muslim world will continue to be marginalized unless and until they join the 21st century. If on the other hand they choose the 12th century, they are going to be in contention with and have the contempt of the modern world. And guess who is going to win that battle? Suicide bombers will take you only so far.

At some point al Zawahiri and his ilk will acquire a nuclear weapon and detonate it somewhere in the West, and if they do, Arabs and Muslims alike will forced to modernize or they'll be erased from the earth.

84. Three wise men just legend: archbishop

Comment #101500 by Duff on December 20, 2007 at 12:58 pm

Are we entirely sure this isn't an Onion piece? Would an archbishop actually say Jesus' mother was Mary and his father was Joseph??? I don't friggin think so!

85. Al Qaeda: We're open to questions

Comment #101491 by Duff on December 20, 2007 at 12:41 pm

I would like to ask the kind Mr. Zawahiri why, if Allah has the best interests of his Muslim people at heart, has HE failed to give them their own technology so that they don't have to rely on the evil, "scientific" technology of the godless West to get their message out? And why can't HE protect you, sir, so that you don't have to keep living in assorted caves the way your ancestors did a thousand years ago? Just asking.

86. What Your Brain Looks Like on Faith

Comment #99994 by Duff on December 18, 2007 at 3:18 am

As the believer rises through the ranks he looks up to the top guy as the one who has the direct line to god and then all the sudden he makes it to the top and goes in to talk to god and there is.....nothing. OOOPs. It must be a bummer of a letdown.
You just know all the top guys are faking it.

87. This Is Not a Test

Comment #99991 by Duff on December 18, 2007 at 3:07 am

Ok, here's the rule. No one on this blog refers to Huckabee ever again as anything other than "that smirking hick Huckabee".

88. Synthetic DNA on the Brink of Yielding New Life Forms

Comment #99742 by Duff on December 17, 2007 at 1:17 pm

In 200 years, or sooner, there will be a church which worships the god Ventnor, or maybe he'll be called Venthor, their creator.

89. Dawkins: I'm a cultural Christian

Comment #99740 by Duff on December 17, 2007 at 1:12 pm

I am the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary of the Suppress Simple People Party and its Minister of Clinginess. Our party is not politically correct, nor do we condone anything considered culturally significant by simple people, ie., religious festivals, miracles and ID publications. But we do exchange gifts and sing nice songs when in the company of more complex people, but frown and roll our eyes when simple people expound upon simplistic notions. And we like good food.

90. Jumbo shrimp, creationist astronomy

Comment #99245 by Duff on December 16, 2007 at 4:14 am

So science can't explain why the solar system is the way it is. If goddidit, then I'd like to see their next video explaining why god did it the way he did.
Why did god make some of the planets spin backwards?
Why did god put rings around some of the planets?
Why did god make the planets out of different elements?
And my own personal favorite, as these questions relate to the entire galaxy, why so many extra stars that we can't even see?
Science has answers. Let's hear gods answers.

91. Creation college seeks state's OK to train teachers

Comment #99095 by Duff on December 15, 2007 at 2:02 pm

They moved the school to Dallas not because of the good airport, but because Texas has an inexhaustible supply of simple people.

92. Happy Newton Day!

Comment #98959 by Duff on December 15, 2007 at 3:00 am

Professor Dawkins, we Americans have been celebrating Newton's birthday for nearly a hundred years with a delightful, sweet cake filled with sweetened figs.

I'm sorry for that. I apologize.

93. Atheists' sign sparks controversy

Comment #97099 by Duff on December 11, 2007 at 12:09 pm

Isn't it interesting that the christians have god, the creator of the known universe, his son, jesus, the holy ghost, mary, a shi*-load of angels and various and sundry saints to help them out and we poor atheists have nothing more than our little brains to fight with, and yet they cry at being picked on. It hardly seems fair. We don't even have any magical underwear.

94. An Open Letter to Richard Dawkins

Comment #96875 by Duff on December 11, 2007 at 3:19 am

If atheists had killed half the population of the earth it still wouldn't make religion true.

95. Biologist fired for beliefs, suit says

Comment #96103 by Duff on December 10, 2007 at 2:06 am

I thinks it was really, really nice how several of you took some valuable time to respond to the comments of ADH. Your responses were cogent, reasoned, intelligent and most of all, scientific. But, I'm afraid, because ADH is a stupid, moronic, uneducated fuckwit, your efforts will go unrewarded.

96. Former Evangelical Minister Has a New Message: Jesus Hearts Darwin

Comment #95160 by Duff on December 7, 2007 at 1:17 pm

This guy is simply hustling the Templeton Foundation. He's tired of living in his van and wants the million bucks.

The evangelicals will never believe in evolution. All the evidence in the world isn't going to make them accept Darwin. They will continue to say, "I didn't evolve from an ape", and "atheism is the root of all evil."

97. Colouring book warns kids of pedophile priests

Comment #94948 by Duff on December 7, 2007 at 3:19 am

"Trust me, my child, when I tell you not to trust me."

Are we sure this didn't come from the Onion?

98. Highway to hysteria

Comment #93950 by Duff on December 4, 2007 at 1:36 pm

Didn't that Oden dude have a big chaw of tobacco in his cheek?
Its sooo hard not to meet these people and tell them to their faces how utterly, completely stupid they are - with the exception of Pat Robertson, who is a genuine, cynical, snake oil...no he's stupid, too.

99. Atheism's Wrong Turn

Comment #93311 by Duff on December 2, 2007 at 4:23 pm

Poor religionists, suffering from "cosmic loneliness". I want to cry.
I suppose we must cut them some slack because the "difference in life experience, social class, intelligence and the capacity for introspection will prevent a free community from reaching unanimity."
In other words, they are simple, unwashed and lacking intelligence, or to be more kind, wisdom. So what else is new?

100. Papal encyclical attacks atheism, lauds hope

Comment #92522 by Duff on November 30, 2007 at 5:24 pm

Herr Doctor Ratzzzzinger hast said,
Vee vill never be beholdin zu den scientistiten, sie haben uns nothing gegeben. Nicht den guten healthly dingen, nor den really guten bioligishe thingen. Gott hat uns alles gegeben. Ich will nicht alle die different dinge describen das gott uns gegeben hast, but es ist a lot of dingen. We mussen alle trusten in got, und nicht die scientisten.