101. Open letter to YouTube video

Comment #70384 by JemyM on September 15, 2007 at 7:54 am

Atheist rap!

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

Comment #69608 by JemyM on September 11, 2007 at 10:03 pm

I am starting to see Christians using "What if they attacked Mohammad?" as an excuse for censorship, capitalizing on the extreme and aggressive reactions of muslims.That's not good.

103. The Rise of Atheist America

Comment #68857 by JemyM on September 9, 2007 at 12:44 am

Ironically, atheism is the default position in Sweden, so default really that if you officially claim you are an atheist people will start to question why you call yourself that and assume you have some kind of hostile agenda against religious people.

104. The Rise of Atheist America

Comment #68840 by JemyM on September 8, 2007 at 11:03 pm

The best thing with atheism is that you never need to lie.

105. The Fleas Are Multiplying!

Comment #68760 by JemyM on September 8, 2007 at 1:20 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)

"The Labour Party grew out of the trade union movement and socialist political parties of the 19th century, and continues to describe itself as a party of democratic socialism."

Yes, I know, wikipedia, yadda yadda, but blame them if you think I was incorrect. And as I said, the old movements have evolved.

106. The Fleas Are Multiplying!

Comment #68753 by JemyM on September 8, 2007 at 12:41 pm

NMcC, the most sucessful european countries had socialist movements which evolved. I would not say that Britain, Germany and France are in "disaster" and they are all lead by their socialist party atm.

The Swedish Social Democrats gave Sweden a very strong economy but then tore it to pieces in the 90'ies, leading to them loosing the election 2006, ironically to a party that adapted social liberalism.

None of theese still support hardcore socialism even if they once did.

107. The Fleas Are Multiplying!

Comment #68739 by JemyM on September 8, 2007 at 11:19 am

NMcC, ironically I had to use my dictionary for the word "impeccable" :D

I cannot help but comparing your comment on socialism to what is said about religion, that it can move far away from it's core dogma and still call itself socialism and people cherrypick the philosophy and apply it to their own social landscape. I know many distinct agendas in Sweden, all calling themselves socialist but quite different on their point of view. Even nazism is an alternate name for "national socialism" even if they have little in common.

I took a search for "Socialist Standard" and I found some comments about it, but no actal magazines. I noted it's published by british socialists.

108. The Fleas Are Multiplying!

Comment #68722 by JemyM on September 8, 2007 at 9:32 am

NMcC, you can study the socialist movement in every country all over Europe and Asia and you will find a very different story from each country. In most european countries it was the socialist movement that introduced real democracy with voting rights for workers and women.

In Sweden, abolishing the feudal system was not enough. Prior to 1921 workers had almost no rights. Considering my roots I would personally not have voting rights if it was not for the social movement. This does not mean I am a socialist, I consider socialism to be a philosophy that did what it was meant to do 1-2 generations ago and now I vote for something else.

109. The Fleas Are Multiplying!

Comment #68695 by JemyM on September 8, 2007 at 7:14 am

I gave up on NMcC. Yes, I am a Swede.
I am not a socialist. I have an interest in world philosophy, culture and history and I try to take an unbiased standpoint when I can. The "born equal in the USA" line refered to USA not having separate laws based on social class, maybe I should have pointed this out. If this is untrue, tell me so.

110. The Fleas Are Multiplying!

Comment #68680 by JemyM on September 8, 2007 at 5:50 am

29. Comment #68676 by fides_et_ratio on September 8, 2007 at 5:23 am

What you speak about is racism which is an entirely different issue based on a completely different history, controversy and cultural landscape.

111. The Fleas Are Multiplying!

Comment #68668 by JemyM on September 8, 2007 at 3:52 am

NMcC, in old Europe/Asia your rights was determined by your bloodline/family, not what you could pay for. If your mother/father belonged to the lower class you had literally less legal rights than if your mother/father belonged to the upper class. Insulting an upper class could lead to death penalty while murdering a lower class could lead to a small fine. While the system softened up bit by bit throughout 1600-1900, Swedish citiziens did not get equal legal rights and free democracy until 1921, prior to that workers (majority at the time) had no rights to vote. Most European countries have gone through the same revolution.

The US might have problems with poverty and unfavorable laws depending what you and your family can pay for, but they have never had a class system where citiziens are branded with no rights for their whole life just because they were born by the wrong parents.

As for the rest of your reply, switch to decaf. I have been active on richarddawkins.net since the site went up.

112. The Fleas Are Multiplying!

Comment #68637 by JemyM on September 8, 2007 at 1:15 am

The comparision between atheism and communism is profound ignorance. Whenever I see it I can only shake my head over the lack of formal education of theese people. Really, already as a young adult you should know exactly what communism is and there's good excuse not to.

To even understand socialism one must understand European and Asian history where people were divided by class. Unlike the US where you are born equal, if you were born poor in Europe/Asia you belonged to the bottom class for the rest of your life. One must also remember that among the upper class, priests was included and even controlled the countries next to kings for 1500 years. Beyond that, church was used to keep the poor from rebelling against authority. In most places socialism suceeded peacefully, abolished the class system and eventually turned into capitalism. In some places, socialism was blended with absolutism and as always when it comes to absolutism, things get ugly.

An atheist deny god while a socialist fight the class system and everything that represent a "class". That's a huge difference. You can be communist and christian at the same time, in fact many in the old days were.

The connection between Atheism and the Soviet Union/China is as profund as calling any christian a muslim because they believe in god, or automaticly assume that thoose who speak against dictatorship are anarchs.

113. Christopher Hitchens and Bill Donohue on Mother Teresa

Comment #66531 by JemyM on August 30, 2007 at 9:51 am

Bless atheist icons like Christopher Hitchens and Mother Theresa.

114. A Matter of Faith

Comment #64713 by JemyM on August 21, 2007 at 12:31 pm

There are more than enough to disprove the organised religions so I really do not understand the whole "prove/disprove" god deal. Who cares about god when you know that the abrahamic religions do not describe true events.

You believe in a creator. Then what? You do not know the creator is, what he/she wants... You can look in the bible but that's not based on true events so it wont help you at all. In fact, you have to completely forget all concepts introduced by that book such as afterlife, ten commandments etc. You are completely blank with nothing to go on. Then what?

Oh, so you are going to hold on to the bible anyway. Well, that's when you are DELUSIONAL.

115. The Out Campaign

Comment #59921 by JemyM on July 31, 2007 at 5:53 am

Since I am from Sweden, this is a bit pointless to me, but I give standing ovation to the guys in the US who dare to take on this movement. I put my faith in you. I also applaud the people who came up with the idea.

116. Beyond Belief: Atheism (with AC Grayling)

Comment #57119 by JemyM on July 18, 2007 at 10:08 am

Even from a religious mouth, the "Atheist Government" argument always strike me as EXTREMELY uneducated. It's as stupid as calling Irak a "non-anarchist government", or something like that.

117. Religion - our maelstrom of ignorance

Comment #49884 by JemyM on June 14, 2007 at 2:34 am

Nails wrote:
WTF? and how would anyone 2000 years ago have known what a dragon looked like?


My theory is that it was thanks to dinosaur skeletons. People found them and assumed they were dead dragons. That's why the dragon myth is pretty much global.

118. Freethinking Ruins All Things

Comment #42244 by JemyM on May 18, 2007 at 1:20 am

Religion consists of two kinds of followers:
1. The political agenda
2. The flock

Stopping freethinkers (freedom to think) from questioning the political agenda is important for thoose who want to own the world, and yes, we have a corrosive effect of the voters who they need to take power.

119. Hitchens on Falwell

Comment #42211 by JemyM on May 17, 2007 at 11:21 pm

While Dawkins approach is to label god as illogic and something you wouldnt believe if you think it through, Hitchens approach, like Sam Harris, is more focused on the direct damage that religion creates in this world. His book is great ammo, creating an understanding not only the problem with Christianity but also tells us why the eastern religions arent better. To build my library even further I also grabbed "The Christ Conspiracy" by Acharya S, a few lectures by Bart D Ehrman from the Teaching Company as well as a swedish book called "The Jesus That Never Existed" (Den Jesus som aldrig funnits). I also grabbed Bible Unearthed. I am thinking about ordering The Truth About Mohammad.

120. Thought vs. feeling in religion

Comment #41524 by JemyM on May 16, 2007 at 8:29 am

Lost me at second sentence as well.

121. Statement of Concern about Impact of AIG's Creation 'Museum'

Comment #41389 by JemyM on May 16, 2007 at 4:17 am

"How's the fishing in Scandinavia?"

I do not know if there is a country who eat so much fish in the whole world like Norway. Maybe Japan.

122. State Darwin museum

Comment #41048 by JemyM on May 15, 2007 at 12:16 pm

Lol.

123. Dogma

Comment #40852 by JemyM on May 15, 2007 at 5:10 am

Brian Coughlan have 3 great virtues.
1. He is highly intelligent.
2. He have alot of knowledge.
3. He is a great teacher.

He is an excellent member of the atheist community.

124. Richard Dawkins' lecture at the State House Convention Center

Comment #40382 by JemyM on May 14, 2007 at 8:14 am

hurray! Something to listen to while I... eh... while I... eh... well. Something to listen to!

125. Atheism in America

Comment #40379 by JemyM on May 14, 2007 at 7:46 am

The US is lost. They barely show any sign of following western world values anymore.

126. Christians and atheists start a calmer dialogue

Comment #40365 by JemyM on May 14, 2007 at 7:20 am

Every converted counts.

127. Better God-fearing than sneering

Comment #38650 by JemyM on May 8, 2007 at 10:27 pm

The basic human needs...

We stand for the right to not be discriminated based on who you are, and this is written by a WOMAN one of the groups that religion discriminate the most...
We stand for human rights and modern morals and understanding. We stand for the need for knowledge and truth, thus we oppose the religious attacks on science, schools and critical thinking. We stand for the idea that all are born equal, but heavily separated by religion. We stand for the need for peace if our species should be able to prosper, not battle eachother out on religious grounds.

WE stand for the basic HUMAN needs, not the basic religious needs.

128. A Bunch of Monkeys

Comment #38301 by JemyM on May 7, 2007 at 1:02 pm

Bananas was created for monkeys >_<

129. Study: Religion is Good for Kids

Comment #34892 by JemyM on April 25, 2007 at 2:12 pm

Links from the same page:

Churchgoers Live Longer
http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/060403_church_good.html

Online Prayer Helps Cancer Patients
http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/070104_cancer_prayer.html

130. Pope says science too narrow to explain creation

Comment #33122 by JemyM on April 19, 2007 at 11:02 am

JemyM says the Pope is too narrow to explain anything at all.