101. Public school teacher tells class: 'You belong in hell'

Comment #8824 by RascoHeldall on November 22, 2006 at 11:32 am

This man is a child abuser and it is an utter disgrace that such actions do not currently constitute a criminal offence.

102. I'm an atheist, BUT . . .

Comment #7441 by RascoHeldall on November 18, 2006 at 2:35 pm

" I think that it's funny how scientists try to explain everything in the world. Such as all of the little biddy itty atoms or genes that make up life. It's completely endless and no one can explain how babies are born or what defines their genetics. But the biggest theory that's just an utter let down is the big bang theory of how everything just came to existence. So, how does complete nothingness just come into complete living ability?"

Hmm, what are those thingummies again? Oh yes, that's it - books!

Just read a few books, friend. That's all we ask.

103. Losing Our Religion

Comment #5776 by RascoHeldall on November 11, 2006 at 2:51 am

Science is more comforting than religion could ever be. Having an inkling of why we're here that we can be confident is at least a step in the right direction of the truth, rather than a made-up stab in the dark, is such a liberating feeling, and it saddens me that the majority of the population just don't know enough evolutionary science to be able to put two and two together. IF ONLY biological sciences were taught properly in schools (i.e. from an evolutionary perspective) then perhaps fewer people would grow up trying desperately to believe in a fairytale because they don't think there is any alternative explanation for their lives.

104. The terrorist virus is no lightweight matter. We must contain its spread

Comment #5773 by RascoHeldall on November 11, 2006 at 2:44 am

I wrote to my MP recently asking him to ask the Government whether they had considered that pushing for more faith schools may be leading to more extremists and whether they had done any research into this.

They hadn't.

105. Dawkins v God - stop the fight

Comment #4091 by RascoHeldall on November 2, 2006 at 9:35 am

"So here we have a leader, who admits to being Christian. He wants to promote Faith Schools. He sends soldiers to Iraq to kill Muslims whilst going to church on Sundays to serve God. Isn't this in violation of 'Thou Shalt Not Kill', one of the ten commandments that a Christian should observe? I heard him asked about this and he insisted he'd done the right thing!"

A small piece in the news today revealed Blair had real difficulty with science at school. No wonder he is such a gullible, confused twat. How much better would the Government be if scientifically literate people were running it?

106. The Dawkins Delusion

Comment #1264 by RascoHeldall on October 11, 2006 at 4:15 am

It is interesting how anti-Dawkins reviewers always have to resort to (what amounts to) lying in order to give the impression of robust rebuttal. Can't ANYONE counter Dawkins' arguments honestly?

107. A question of respect

Comment #476 by RascoHeldall on October 1, 2006 at 5:46 am

What Cornwell doesn’t seem to realise is that there is a smooth continuum leading from what might be described as a 'benign' set of beliefs to one that is wholly malignant. It would be demonstrably false to insist, on the contrary, that all religious people clearly fall into one of either two groups, that there is somehow an acceptable level of religious piety which then somehow morphs into dangerous fundamentalism. Many people recognise the metaphorical nature of scripture and are content to reconcile their religion to science in this way. Then there will be those religious people who are generally decent citizens, for example, but who still possess uncivilised views which society is content for them to impose upon their children (such as the vile lie that children who don’t pray, or perform other such tragically pointless rituals, will go to ‘Hell’). But we don’t seem to make the connection between these sorts of non-violent but backward beliefs, and the very small number of steps required to tip people from such ‘acceptable’ beliefs into (what has been euphemistically labelled as) extremism.

Isn’t the point that any society which encourages, fosters, and hallows religious belief will INEVITABLY produce its fair share of people who ‘take it too far’? Since the currently accepted ‘cut-off point’ (i.e. where a religious delusion ceases to be tolerable and is viewed as a threat to civilisation) seems to be extremism itself, it is hardly surprising that so many people can be easily and readily tipped into this tragic state of mind. Surely the cut-off point, if there is one, should be far earlier in the continuum of belief, to ensure that we stop facilitating such people’s existence? Why on earth is a so-called civilised society still forced by etiquette to value beliefs in demonstrable falsehoods and obvious fantasies? And what on earth is the British government playing at by establishing schools to be set up with the specific intention of indoctrinating fertile innocent young minds in nonsensical, often poisonous dogma? Quite aside from the obvious this mockery this makes of the entire concept of ‘education’, it hardly helps, does it?