151. [Warning: Graphic] Children's foreheads slashed in Muslim saint's name

Comment #19983 by Roy_H on January 31, 2007 at 1:48 am

"When the rest of the world is going to the moon, look where these people are -- still drawing blood from their heads," she said.
It is good to know some of them are waking up. Is "The God Delusion" available in Arabic?

152. He Calls Himself God

Comment #19783 by Roy_H on January 29, 2007 at 11:17 pm

Why does this remind me of the queue of people waiting to give a statue of an elephant-god a drink of milk that was on the news recently ? Note the bucket being filled with envelopes of 'offerings'
Poor, gullible deluded idiots!
Anyway, everybody knows that the real re-incarnation of Jesus Christ is David Icke, after all, he said so first.

153. Young, British Muslims 'getting more radical'

Comment #19608 by Roy_H on January 28, 2007 at 10:47 pm

"Forty per cent of Muslims between the ages of 16 and 24 said they would prefer to live under sharia law in Britain, a legal system based on the teachings of the Koran. The figure among over-55s, in contrast, was only 17 per cent."
OK live by Sharia law if you want to ,but not in my country, the airport is thataway >>>>>>

154. A Culture of Faith, Devoted Yet Complex

Comment #19215 by Roy_H on January 25, 2007 at 3:38 pm

Another fraud, Hovind has got a 10 stretch!
"Pensacola evangelist Kent Hovind was sentenced Friday afternoon to 10 years in prison on charges of tax fraud."
http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17231/dr-dino-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison

155. Ruth Kelly, her hard-line church and a devout PM wrestling with his conscience

Comment #19098 by Roy_H on January 24, 2007 at 10:21 pm

Re: Comment #18527 by RickM on January 21, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Remember this guy?
http://dwindlinginunbelief.blogspot.com/2006/11/ted-haggard-bashing-gays-from-jesus.html
Talk about hypocrisy!

156. For the Bible told them so

Comment #18979 by Roy_H on January 24, 2007 at 6:32 am

You have all probably seen this :-
"Penn and Teller Bullshit : The Bible"
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=8152208608191358213&q=%22Penn+and+Teller%22+%22bible%22

The video quality is mediocre to say the least,but the message is clear enough! Actually, I am amazed it got shown on TV, maybe not all of the states though?

157. Intelligent design to feature in school RE lessons

Comment #18792 by Roy_H on January 23, 2007 at 2:45 am

"...and read texts by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins under new government guidelines."
Well that's a good move.

158. 12 Year Old Girl Prodigy Paints Pictures of God

Comment #18772 by Roy_H on January 22, 2007 at 11:15 pm

Wonderful talent!,even if the paintings do remind me of what might be called "Victorian Sentimentalism". The story seems very "Joan of Arc" ( young girl, visions of God ) to me.

159. Unscientific American: US Almost Last in Understanding Evolution

Comment #18647 by Roy_H on January 22, 2007 at 7:44 am

Which country came out on top? The one which is not exactly famous for its wide diversity of native plant and animal species and by definition, the one with no fossils! Now you cannot say that about the U.S.A. can you?

160. Zeus devotees worship in Athens

Comment #18592 by Roy_H on January 21, 2007 at 10:41 pm

Why does it remind me of "Trekkies?" (In the words of William Shatner, "You guys, get a life!" )

161. Mr. Deity

Comment #18339 by Roy_H on January 19, 2007 at 10:33 pm

OK, its a deal, kids can watch dvds about intelligent design on one condition, they have to watch these too!

162. Deliver us from the god delusion that imperils our humanity

Comment #18203 by Roy_H on January 19, 2007 at 1:54 am

I was looking at a programme last night on The UKTV History Channel about The Spanish Inquisition. When you consider the amount of ink and blood that has been spilled in the name of mindless superstition over the centuries, it is incredible.

163. Radical cleric sparks fury in Australia

Comment #18185 by Roy_H on January 18, 2007 at 10:35 pm

We tolerated Abu Hamza for too long and look what happened, at least he is in Jail now.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3752517.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6276209.stm

164. Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory

Comment #18106 by Roy_H on January 18, 2007 at 11:06 am

Comment #18026 by David A Robertson on January 18, 2007 at 2:35 am

Quite a few devout Christians swallowed the "Hole to Hell" story, hook line and sinker!
Geologists working somewhere in remote Siberia had drilled a hole some 14.4 kilometers deep (about 9 miles) when the drill bit suddenly began to rotate wildly. A Mr. Azzacov (identified as the project's manager) was quoted as saying they decided that the center of the earth was hollow.
Supposedly, the geologists measured temperatures of over 2,000 degrees in the deep hole. They lowered super sensitive microphones to the bottom of the well, and to their astonishment they heard the sounds of thousands, perhaps millions, of suffering souls screaming.

http://www.snopes.com/religion/wellhell.htm

165. Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory

Comment #18043 by Roy_H on January 18, 2007 at 3:55 am

Comment #18042 by Homo economicus They are going to leave it in, but the entry will now read :"Gullible... see Religious"

166. Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory

Comment #18036 by Roy_H on January 18, 2007 at 3:27 am

http://www.re-discovery.org/ Read the "Geology Uncovered: Mud, Rocks and Stones for the Masses " piece it is hilarious
"Metamorphic rocks. Metamorphic rocks were once igneous or sedimentary rocks but were changed under intense heat and
pressure. Where does the heat and pressure come from? Glory. Metamorphic rocks are Born Again Rocks (BAR). All rocks have been exposed to glory throughout their existence, but some rocks have been exposed to more glory than others, which is why they are BAR"

I wish I could write stuff like that!

167. Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory

Comment #18006 by Roy_H on January 17, 2007 at 10:33 pm

Yes I "fell" ( pun intended sorry ) for that one a while ago,until the penny dropped ( due to Newtonian gravity). But it does show how cleverly the article is written. The Onion is one of my favourite websites.

168. Christian Shrine Needs Two Exits, Israel Says

Comment #17862 by Roy_H on January 17, 2007 at 4:34 am

Yes it needs at least 2 exits, but ideally no entrances.

"Since god would never allow a fire in one of his churches" What about York Minster in 1984, or was that "Tongue in cheek" ?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/9/newsid_2498000/2498525.stm

169. Lil' Markie live, part 2

Comment #17748 by Roy_H on January 15, 2007 at 10:40 pm

Ugh creepy!I only managed 5 minutes before I had to stop. Unfortunately I kept thinking to myself things like "Only in America" and even worse, "It would take a far shorter rope to pull his head of than the one they used on Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti".

170. News Quiz on bigotry

Comment #17747 by Roy_H on January 15, 2007 at 10:32 pm

Very funny, very typical attitude too by the fundimentalists (Pronounced Funded - mental- ists )against the gay community.
Now then, what was the name of that preacher that was in the news recently? ah yes, Ted Haggard.

171. Creationism Song

Comment #17623 by Roy_H on January 15, 2007 at 6:57 am

"Well, I don't know, maybe the singer had a point.. He did look somewhat unevolved!"

"A bunch of zombies singing a zombie song to continue to feed their delusional zombie nation. They're turning our kids into vegetables."
http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2006/bill-hicks-p1.php

This is hilarious. Note, he mentions President Bush. It is G.W.'s Daddy he is refering too, but nothing changes, same crazy God fearing attitude.

172. Creationism Song

Comment #17593 by Roy_H on January 15, 2007 at 4:08 am

All together now : "Ernie, Ernie, and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west"
"Guest speaker Ken Ham", well that guy is an insult to science for a start!

173. Creationism special

Comment #17583 by Roy_H on January 15, 2007 at 1:43 am

What a typical audacious Title they give themselves "Truth in Science" a 'There is a God,we know it, so there!' Attitude.

Quote :"Inevitably there is a reaction. In Australia, the then federal education minister unwisely opined that he could see some sense in exposing students to "both sides" (he is a former president of the medical association, making his comments particularly scandalous). However, within days a coalition representing 70,000 scientists and science teachers slammed ID as equivalent to flat earth theory in a well publicised statement, and the whole thing died in weeks, not to be heard of since."
That is good news! We can only hope that the same attitude is adopted here in the UK.

174. Creationism special

Comment #17576 by Roy_H on January 14, 2007 at 11:10 pm

The I.D. er's seem to be saying :-
"The Eye is irrefutably complex, therefore it was intelligently designed ,that is definitely science"
"So who designed the designer?"
"Ah, but that is outside of science, that is religion!"
Can you run that past me again please? It is like the term "Creation Science", it is an oxymoron.It reminds me of Father Ted teaching a drunk and bewildered Father Jack to say "That would be an Ecumenical matter!"

175. Send a Message to God: He has gone too far this time

Comment #17522 by Roy_H on January 14, 2007 at 11:53 am

YES! I remember many years ago I used to say :Someone is in a hospital bed on the verge of death,but they make a remarkable recovery..."Ah tis a miracle, God be praised!" but if they die it is "Ah tis God's will" To the devout, God never gets it wrong.

176. You come up here and say that, Dawkins!

Comment #17339 by Roy_H on January 13, 2007 at 1:30 am

Imagine if that cartoon guy had "Allah" written across him! What a furore that would cause. Demonstrations with placards with "Death to all infidels!" on them.

177. Intelligent design is a science, not a faith

Comment #17239 by Roy_H on January 12, 2007 at 9:09 am

"Studies of plant life, animal life, and human life available in centuries past were primitive, to say the least. Concepts commonplace today in the world of physics, subatomic physics, astrophysics, and cosmology would have drawn from Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, to say nothing of the author of the Book of Genesis, nothing except blank stares of incredulity."
Bishop John Shelby Spong, Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism

178. Homophobia, not injustice, is what really fires the faiths

Comment #17104 by Roy_H on January 10, 2007 at 10:34 pm

Jack: Thank you for the links. "After all, these syrupy thoughtlets of consensual religious platitude" "that creationist fruitcakes have "thoughts" of more depth and resonance than moral philosophers who lack the requisite superstition"
Wow,to think they criticise Richard for bieng to strident when it comes to talking about religion! She really does go for the jugular. All very true though.

179. Intelligent design is a science, not a faith

Comment #16967 by Roy_H on January 9, 2007 at 10:27 pm

"Or that bacteria gain pathogenicity (the ability to cause disease) by losing genes?"
Does that mean the almighty and merciful father is on the side of harmful bacteria? Thanks God, I will bear that in mind.

180. The Nodder

Comment #16752 by Roy_H on January 8, 2007 at 1:08 pm

Either that or he got a Viagra pill stuck in his throat..

181. How Old is the Grand Canyon? Park Service Won't Say

Comment #16559 by Roy_H on January 7, 2007 at 10:21 am

The Way AIG tries to distort children's minds. Is this really from an adults mind?:-

"Real-life dinosaur researcher/recording artist Buddy Davis, and the rest of the Creation Adventure Team, explore a dinosaur museum and discover incredible answers to the amazing mystery of the giant lizards. When did they live? How did they die? What about Noah's Flood, and how do we know that there were dinosaurs on the Ark? This fun-filled drama also includes animation and animatronics to keep your elementary and junior high aged kids coming back again and again. Fun for adults, too!"


http://shop5.gospelcom.net/epages/AIGUS.storefront/en/product/30-9-015
Well, apart from the obvious 'Dinosaurs on Noah's Ark' rubbish, Dinosaurs, although they were indeed reptiles, were NOT lizards!

182. Ancient religion may face extinction

Comment #16502 by Roy_H on January 7, 2007 at 1:38 am

It seems our very own Rev. J.C. Flannel has problems too!
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/07012007/325/anglican-leader-fears-losing-control-church.html

183. Pat Robertson: God told me of 'mass killing' in 2007

Comment #15955 by Roy_H on January 4, 2007 at 1:37 am

Talk about "The God Delusion"
http://www.ugandandiscussions.co.uk/1143/

One of my favourite "Private Eye" covers.

184. How Old is the Grand Canyon? Park Service Won't Say

Comment #15724 by Roy_H on January 2, 2007 at 9:33 am

beebhack
I just had a good laugh myself. I wondered what the "Answers in Genesis" website has to say about Plate Tectonics ( thinking about a young earth scenario and the rate at which plates actually move,so how to square that circle ) But of course, how silly of me! The plates used to move across the earth far quicker than they do now ( 20 miles per hour perhaps? )but they have slowed down now. Ah,so that's alright then!

185. How Old is the Grand Canyon? Park Service Won't Say

Comment #15659 by Roy_H on January 1, 2007 at 10:43 pm

A website about Young-Earth Creationism and the Geology of the Grand Canyon, knocking the "flood theory" into a cocked hat.
http://www.jwoolfden.com/gc_rocks.html

186. How Old is the Grand Canyon? Park Service Won't Say

Comment #15455 by Roy_H on December 31, 2006 at 12:30 pm

Thanks Jeff! I have added it to favourites. The average Creationist would not see the irony in all that would they?

187. How Old is the Grand Canyon? Park Service Won't Say

Comment #15433 by Roy_H on December 31, 2006 at 9:24 am

Jeff,
OOPS I should have looked more carefully! Some of the site is quite funny actually. Still, if Liberty University have exhibits of '3000 year old dinosaur fossils...' That is every bit as hilarious!
Ole,
Apparently,Darwin's book broke Captain Fitzroy's heart! When The Origin of Species was published FitzRoy apparently felt betrayed, and guilty for his part in the theory's development. Unfortunately he was in Oxford on 30 June 1860 to present a paper on storms and attended the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at which Samuel Wilberforce attacked Darwin's theory. During the debate FitzRoy, seen as "a grey haired Roman nosed elderly gentleman", stood in the centre of the audience and "lifting an immense Bible first with both and afterwards with one hand over his head, solemnly implored the audience to believe God rather than man". As he admitted that The Origin of Species had given him "acutest pain", the crowd shouted him down.
FitzRoy retired in 1863, having been promoted by reason of seniority to vice-admiral. He suffered from depression and in 1865 died as a result of suicide, using a razor in a sad echo of his uncle's death. He is buried in the graveyard of All Saints' Church, Upper Norwood, south London.

188. How Old is the Grand Canyon? Park Service Won't Say

Comment #15423 by Roy_H on December 31, 2006 at 7:17 am

"Let's take a look at the evidence," said ECFR senior fellow Gregory Lunsden."In Matthew 15:14, Jesus says, 'And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.' He says nothing about some gravity making them fall—just that they will fall. Then, in Job 5:7, we read, 'But mankind is born to trouble, as surely as sparks fly upwards.' If gravity is pulling everything down, why do the sparks fly upwards with great surety? This clearly indicates that a conscious intelligence governs all falling."
Intelligent falling... let's clutch at another straw! Note the pseudoscientific equation behind the "scientist" complete with Michelangelo's god doing all the work. What next? thunder is caused by god farting?

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39511

189. How Old is the Grand Canyon? Park Service Won't Say

Comment #15403 by Roy_H on December 31, 2006 at 2:45 am

Everyone knows how The Grand Canyon Was Formed. A 'Televangelist' priest dropped a 10 cents piece down a gopher hole!

190. Response to Richard Dawkins' Criticisms in The God Delusion

Comment #15138 by Roy_H on December 29, 2006 at 4:55 am

Veronique, you are very welcome. The insane are taking over the asylum. Now look at this:-
http://baconeatingatheistjew.blogspot.com/2006/04/penn-and-teller-creationism.html
"Scary and sad. It is amazing how absolutely ignorant ID supporters are when it comes to science"

Penn and Teller on the teaching of I.D. ( Idiot's Drivel ) in schools in U.S.A.

191. What I found out about God

Comment #14647 by Roy_H on December 23, 2006 at 10:41 pm

"Terrible though it is to us, God grants the same freedom to cancer cells that he grants even to the most noble and virtuous of us."
That sounds all too typical.Most vicars seem to suffer from acute "foot in mouth disease " at funerals, thus managing to upset at least some, if not all of the congregation by their cock-ups. At my own father's funeral the vicar kept getting my mother's name totally wrong (in fact half way through the service I heckeled him about it!) Afterwards, a friend of mine told me that he had recently been to the funeral of a woman who was in only in her early 40's when she died. The vicar said in his eulogy how she "Would be sadly missed by both her children and grandchildren".In fact,she did not have any grandchildren at all. At a recent funeral I attended the vicar said "___'s Nephew would like to say a few word. The guy mounted the pulpit and said "Well thank you for the introduction, but I happen to be his Grandson!"

192. The Only One in Step

Comment #14522 by Roy_H on December 23, 2006 at 1:56 am

I am reminded of John Playfair's remarks when he and James Hall were taken to Siccar Point in Scotland by Scottish geologist James Hutton (1726-97) :-
'We felt ourselves necessarily carried back to the time when the schistus on which we stood was yet at the bottom of the sea, and when the sandstone before us was only beginning to be deposited in the shape of sand or mud,from the waters of a superincumbent ocean. An epocha still more remote presented itself, when even the most ancient of these rocks, instead of standing upright in vertical beds, lay in horizontal planes at the bottom of the sea, and was not yet disturbed by that immeasurable force which had burst asunder the solid pavement of the globe.... The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time.' (Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol. V, pt. III, 1805)
In other words, over two hundred years ago, the early geologists had a better understanding of the history of the Earth than these present day "Wingnuts" ( I love the word Richard! )This is of course, way before Rutherford's discovery of radioactive decay.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Siccar_Point.jpg

193. The Only One in Step

Comment #14511 by Roy_H on December 22, 2006 at 10:35 pm

Plus of course, other "transitional fossils" i.e. Tiktaalik, which shows both fish and amphibian characteristics, or the many mammal like reptile specimens that have been found in Permian and Triassic strata.

194. The Only One in Step

Comment #14479 by Roy_H on December 22, 2006 at 3:52 pm

Well The second law of thermodynamics thing is way above my head I am afraid,but as for the Earth only being 6000 years old? what about COMMON SENSE. A tiny little example, the white cliffs of Dover. Please do not try and convince me that those tiny little coccoliths built the great thicknesses of chalk in a few thousand years! Even the Victorian field Geologists could not agree with Lord Kelvin that the earth was only about 20 million years old,let alone 6000 years because of the great thickness of the stratigraphic column.

195. Now we know how to make the IDists dance in their petticoats: blaspheme.

Comment #14202 by Roy_H on December 21, 2006 at 1:24 pm

Fancy a another good laugh?
http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/1221

196. 7 monks injured in clash over monastery

Comment #14110 by Roy_H on December 21, 2006 at 6:53 am

"Not only are women banned from Mount Athos. So are female sheep presumably for fear they would offer too much temptation to frustrated monks"
Puts a whole new slant on the phrase "Lamb of God!"

197. CBC Segment on Evangelist Christians

Comment #14060 by Roy_H on December 21, 2006 at 2:44 am

I loved the way he said how the crucifixtion thing "Really got to him".... That was until his mobile phone rang. Maybe they could all do with a reality check!

198. CBC Segment on Evangelist Christians

Comment #14034 by Roy_H on December 20, 2006 at 10:51 pm

It made my flesh crawl,truly. To paraphrase the actor William Shatner, when approached by some "Trekkies" ( Devout Star Trek fans, that go to Star trek conventions, learn to speak Klingon etc) "You guys... get a life!"

199. Merry Mithras

Comment #13891 by Roy_H on December 20, 2006 at 1:39 am

http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2006/islam-christianity-p1.php
Many a true word spoken in jest ( or is it ridicule? )

200. Talk in Class Turns to God, Setting Off Public Debate on Rights

Comment #13871 by Roy_H on December 19, 2006 at 10:25 pm

The Home of the Brave and the Land of the Free?
I went to a bog standard comprehensive school in England in the 1970's. If a teacher had been spouting such drivel to us back then,he would have been kicked out I am sure.