51. Researchers use neuroimaging to study ESP

Comment #108392 by A on January 6, 2008 at 5:41 pm

Pointless.

Psychologists at Harvard University will achieve nothing.

If you want to eradicate such supernatural bullshit - don't let the 'enemy' do some tests and then proclaim victory, give money, enough money, to the adherents to build a psychic healing hospital or ESP detective agency or divination based oil exploration enterprise - and arrange brightly lit media coverage.

52. Priest who committed suicide for rebirth cremated

Comment #103306 by A on December 25, 2007 at 3:56 am

Merry Christmas !

Silly idiot.

Don't feel sorry for the parents ERTT ^^ the fact that their son did not come back to life will impact on their belief/faith very little, if at all, and of course it may even strengthen their faith.

The gene pool is a little clearer.

53. 'Atheistic fundamentalism' fears

Comment #102308 by A on December 22, 2007 at 10:08 am

Yawn.

54. The empty myths peddled by evangelists of unbelief

Comment #97290 by A on December 11, 2007 at 9:07 pm

I mostly get annoyed, sometime I laugh.

This time I laughed. Silly man.

55. 'Teddy' teacher jailed in Sudan

Comment #91963 by A on November 29, 2007 at 4:08 pm

Own goal.

56. Report on Hindu god Ram withdrawn

Comment #79142 by A on October 16, 2007 at 9:32 am

This intellectually cancerous horseshit is just Christianity from another angle, zero difference.

57. The Price of Freedom

Comment #77840 by A on October 10, 2007 at 9:06 pm

I can see Hitchens becoming a target !

58. Teacher: I was fired, said Bible isn't literal

Comment #73434 by A on September 25, 2007 at 2:11 am

Excellent !

Give these imbeciles enough rope.

59. God Talk on 'The View'

Comment #71628 by A on September 19, 2007 at 11:26 am

Fucking idiots.

Fucking silly idiots creeping around subjects they know nothing about, while conspicuously showing deference to JudeoChristianity lest the audience think them out-of-line with the intellectual/cutural status-quo, rambling pointless ignorance.

Fucking idiots.

60. Do you have to read up on leprechology before disbelieving in them?

Comment #70936 by A on September 17, 2007 at 9:39 am

Religion, as he sums it up, "simply isn't about facts." Exactly. I couldn't have put it better myself.

I laughed out loud, wonderful.

61. Griffin's 'offensive' Emmy speech to be censored

Comment #69676 by A on September 12, 2007 at 6:51 am

Good girl :)

62. The Rise of Atheist America

Comment #68960 by A on September 9, 2007 at 9:31 am

I genuinely though the article was a parody !

63. A hole lot of nothing found by astronomers

Comment #66002 by A on August 27, 2007 at 6:56 pm

Richard Morgan, Windfall appears to have made a simple point.

We know of empty space locally, if you move this phenomena further away and scale it up it does not automatically take on a mysterious quality that it did not have already.

Some people seem to have a desire to be mystified, to them an apple growing on a tree in their garden is commonplace, an apple twice as large growing on the other side of the word is a mind boggling mystery.

Your harassing of windfall's post was petty, pointless and entirely missed the point, a simple point I suspect still eludes you.

Your insult: "with humans like "A" around, the likeness with the intellectual capacity of the amoeba is sometimes quite striking", is very good, I will write it down and save it for my tightest conversational corner.

Thank you :)

64. A hole lot of nothing found by astronomers

Comment #65776 by A on August 26, 2007 at 1:25 pm

Richard Morgan, you sir, are an idiot ! :)

I have just read through your discussion with windfall, he is making a simple and arguable point, you seem only to want to argue against the person and do not challenge his point at all.

Laughable.

65. Arrogance, dogma and why science - not faith - is the new enemy of reason

Comment #62089 by A on August 8, 2007 at 5:54 am

"The heart of the Judeo-Christian tradition is the belief in the concept of truth"

"Far from upholding reason, science itself has become unreasonable."

Very very silly article, and from (I am assuming) a fully grown adult ?

66. The Flea Circus Invites a Newcomer!

Comment #60832 by A on August 3, 2007 at 12:50 am

This should cover 'em all.

Whoops, just spotted the spelling mistake. Sorry Mr D.

67. OUT Campaign Launched, 'Scarlet Letter' Shirts Now Available!

Comment #60049 by A on July 31, 2007 at 4:42 pm

Awful idea !


'OUT' sounds like you have something to be ashamed of and are willing to 'come out' about it.

Awful.

68. New Research Proves Single Origin Of Humans In Africa

Comment #57615 by A on July 20, 2007 at 8:27 am

Black Adam Shocker !

69. The US map of faith

Comment #55768 by A on July 12, 2007 at 7:29 am

"Essentially, the redder it is, the stronger the faith."

Poor wording - better wording would be "Essentially, the redder it is, the higher the incidence of faith."

'Stronger the faith' to me suggests that where it is redder the people hold their beliefs with more conviction, when I suspect these redder areas simply have a higher the incidence of faith.

70. Sean Hannity with Christopher Hitchens

Comment #55578 by A on July 11, 2007 at 3:06 pm

'A' wrote: Atheists, by definition (that is, a negative position) cannot be inerrant, the same is not true of (or possible) of history's recent slew of populist monotheists, who by their own voice, cannot be errant."

That's the most arrogant unscientific statement that has been made on this website. You sound like a born again Christian who says their position can't be wrong . . .

71. Sean Hannity with Christopher Hitchens

Comment #55328 by A on July 10, 2007 at 4:09 pm

darwin2 We have inerrant supernatural wish thinkers who are fixed in their belief systems that God exists and consciousness survives after death. We have inerrant atheists who are fixed in their belief systems that God does not exist and consciousness does not survive after death.

72. Sean Hannity with Christopher Hitchens

Comment #55002 by A on July 9, 2007 at 4:27 pm

darwin2 Hannity did an excellent job demonstrating that the energy behind the creation of our universe had to come from Intelligent Design. One up for Sean Hannity.

73. The Panel

Comment #54018 by A on July 5, 2007 at 1:06 am

Krister Bratland: The frequency of mains in the UK is around 60Hz. This is due to the frequency of revolutions in the magnet/coil which is inducing the current.

Krister Bratland: You are right, I got them backwards. 60Hz is for the US. My apologies.

74. The Panel

Comment #53716 by A on July 2, 2007 at 8:17 pm

Krister Bratland: The frequency of mains in the UK is around 60Hz. This is due to the frequency of revolutions in the magnet/coil which is inducing the current.

75. Floods are judgment on society, say bishops

Comment #53614 by A on July 2, 2007 at 8:52 am

I knew it was the gays, I just knew it were them pesky gays.

76. 'I have never been happier' says the man who won gold but lost God

Comment #52693 by A on June 27, 2007 at 6:59 pm

May I add my voice to those who always thought Jonathan was a nice chap - it is wonderful to see someone such as him throw off the veil of superstition.

77. God, Dawkins, and Paris Hilton

Comment #52320 by A on June 26, 2007 at 5:59 pm

Hilton and Christ both cartoon.

78. God Hates the World

Comment #52166 by A on June 26, 2007 at 11:48 am

I don't think it is that bad really, nothing a guitar solo and some eugenics couldn't solve.

79. 'Purity' ring case in High Court

Comment #51563 by A on June 23, 2007 at 12:03 pm

These people are manipulative and divisive, fucking around with their daughters education to win approval/exposure for their particular superstition is contemptible.

But you all probably already know that.

Fuck these slaves.

80. Hitchens vs. Hitchens

Comment #51411 by A on June 22, 2007 at 5:26 pm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/question_time/default.stm

81. Bill O'Reilly and Kirk Cameron on Atheism

Comment #51406 by A on June 22, 2007 at 5:08 pm

'Complexity' - no such thing.

82. Pundit Christopher Hitchens picks a fight in book, 'God is Not Great'

Comment #35988 by A on April 29, 2007 at 6:27 pm

There is no hope.

There will be confrontation.

83. Study: Religion is Good for Kids

Comment #35656 by A on April 28, 2007 at 6:02 am

The study may be true.

It may also be true that children who believe in Santa Claus or the green death fairy may be better behaved than those who do not.

84. Gay hate church to picket VT gun rampage funerals

Comment #33597 by A on April 20, 2007 at 5:03 pm

I love the Westboro Baptist Church.

A gift to reason, a gift to atheism, don't squander it, encourage them.

85. Coming out as atheist: Noel Gallagher & Gabriel Byrne

Comment #31910 by A on April 14, 2007 at 11:43 pm

Freelance Scientist I'm happy to see people from anywhere be confident enough to state their atheism . . . . All the time more and more people are coming to terms with the fact that atheist is not a dirty word and worthy of extremism:

Although I agree with your general sentiment, here in the UK - saying you are an atheist is nothing much, it does not take confidence or bravery - It is about as bold as saying you do not believe in the Loch-ness monster or the abominable snow man (Yeti).

In fact I would go as far as to say that declaring yourself a fundamentalist Christian or Muslim is more likely to alienate you in the great majority of UK life than declaring yourself an atheist.

When I worked in Soho/London around 1997/8 (my garden then backed on to the garden of Liam Gallagher and his then wife, Pasty Kensit - I still live in the house but they have moved on ) - a young 3D animator who we knew to be Christian revealed his inerrant belief in creation and his absolute and total rejection of evolution, the usual arguments followed through which he completely alienated himself from the rest of the staff (around 12 of us if I remember correctly) and was eventually sacked - pretty much for being too religious.

Anyhow my point is that here in the UK declaration of atheism is nothing controversial or bold and is seen by the great majority as a reasonable position much like saying you do not believe in astrology.

86. Atheist says he's victim of religious hate crime

Comment #29655 by A on April 3, 2007 at 9:15 pm

Religious violence ?

Whatever next !

87. U.N. Panel OKs Measure on Islam

Comment #29046 by A on April 1, 2007 at 11:05 am

Absolutely awful.

"to take resolute action to prohibit the dissemination of racist and xenophobic ideas and material aimed at any religion or its followers that constitute incitement and religious hatred, hostility, or violence."

As Muslims can live in both Bolton, Boston and Bagdad, criticism of religion is not 'racism', nor is it 'Xenophobia'.

So would saying a passage from the Koran promotes the subjugation of women be labeled as racist or xenophobic - when those who live by its word are neither a single race nor a single nation ?

We are fucked.

88. John Paul Sainthood Nun 'Gentle, Simple'

Comment #28700 by A on March 30, 2007 at 12:30 pm

Silly old men and women playing with each others desires.

"She is a gentle, reserved woman,'' he said. ''She is a very simple, very ordinary person"

Why do they tell us this >

89. Believers are away with the fairies

Comment #27949 by A on March 27, 2007 at 11:29 am

excellent argument + crazy hair style !

90. Peanut Butter, The Atheist's Nightmare!

Comment #27942 by A on March 27, 2007 at 10:55 am

Peanut butter choices:

A) Smooth

B) Crunchy

C) Primordial

I think is encouraging that these people are so lost as to a decent refutation of evolution that they have to put forward such an uneducated idea.

A rather comic own goal if ever I saw one.

91. Mormons miffed over coffee-swilling angel image

Comment #27578 by A on March 25, 2007 at 11:45 am

"The shirts have upset the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."

Two words.

'so what?'

92. Atheism hasn't hurt Fremont Rep. Stark

Comment #26266 by A on March 18, 2007 at 6:34 am

I think the article has an open italics tag somewhere !

93. Atheism hasn't hurt Fremont Rep. Stark

Comment #26264 by A on March 18, 2007 at 6:33 am

"With the current political climate, many think it would be difficult to come out and say they don't believe in God,'' he said after speaking with the congressman outside Newark City Hall. "But Pete Stark hasn't paid a political price.''


. . . 'yet'

94. Does God answer prayer? ASU research says 'yes'

Comment #26023 by A on March 16, 2007 at 6:43 am

OK, studies conducted on psychological and medical problems.

The prayer studies found:

"Some have found positive results for prayer. Others have found no effect."

So can I take it either that every medical and psychological condition was either cured or at the very least the disorder's pathology was stopped in its tracks ?

Unless every single case study ceased to have their condition worsen we must add "some found [b]negative[/b] effects" to the list of:

"Some have found positive results for prayer. Others have found no effect."

That is unless we attribute positive effects to prayer and negative effects to the disease or disorder.

95. Houses of the Holy

Comment #24177 by A on March 5, 2007 at 6:50 am

Simonchase - I am with you !!

[i]What's more, Pastor Paul and his twins fly to family reunions in a helicopter, and they frequently travel to their Florida vacation villa, which was built last year.[/i]

In all honesty I actually laughed out loud at this part !

96. Pope is warned of a green Antichrist

Comment #24044 by A on March 4, 2007 at 12:38 pm

What can I say that would contribute to the conversation, what could I say that would be considered reasonable to this man, he is a fucking idiot, and with power, dangerous.

97. No exemption from gay rights law

Comment #19933 by A on January 30, 2007 at 5:50 pm

The 21 month period may well pass the issue over to the conservatives.