Comments by Duff
Comment #88267 by Duff on November 15, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Kelly,
Are you telling us this religious person is being dishonest!!! I'm shocked, I tell you! Shocked! A representative of the religious, simple people dishonest??? This just might destroy my faith in religion. Well...if I had any faith in religion it would destroy it. Well...if the religionites had any credibility it would be diminished by this...so, if they are slimy and slippery, I shouldn't be surprised, should I? Are you telling me they are a bunch of fuckwits after all? Shocked!!
152. Why Science Will Triumph Only When Theory Becomes Law
Comment #88169 by Duff on November 15, 2007 at 3:10 am
Why not let both camps keep "theory" in their descriptions. Lets say Evolution Theory is for grown ups and ID theory is for the simple people.
153. Georgia plans service to pray for rain
Comment #86734 by Duff on November 10, 2007 at 3:22 am
Isn't it wonderful how these simple people start praying after the drought has been going on for a while and then, just like magic, it rains and they think god has finally noticed their plight and has decided to answer their prayers and give them a little rain.
We'd all be more impressed if they would pray for rain to fall every wednesday and god answered that prayer.
154. Church row evolves over fossil boy
Comment #86538 by Duff on November 9, 2007 at 1:41 pm
And people still continue to say we should be gentle with the creationist f**kwits. I say, in their face!
155. Same Flea, Different Name?
Comment #86057 by Duff on November 8, 2007 at 2:54 am
"Crean...uses evidence and reason to prove miracles..."!
In that case, since we now have "evidence", faith is superfluous.
156. Mother dies after refusing blood
Comment #85628 by Duff on November 6, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Cerbera,
I can assure you that the bereaved will not question their decision. They will be assured by their pastors and the congregation that they made a decision that was not only pleasing to god, but was the only decision they could have made since god had called that woman to him and she had no choice but to go.
There are a million rationalizations available to the simple minded.
157. Response to Dinesh D'Souza op-ed
Comment #85619 by Duff on November 6, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Kelly,
...well, never mind. Just keep on doing what your doing. It was a fun, well written article.
Janus,
If you're going to take your writerself so seriously, and feel you actually have something to add to the debate, get it out there and we'll judge how well you write. Talk is cheap.
158. Gorilla slaughter sparks campaign
Comment #85387 by Duff on November 5, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Isn't it interesting that if we saw some Homo sapien sapien splayed out on bamboo frames we would be less mortified than to see these poor gorilla gorillas. Maybe because there is an over abundance of sapiens and so few gorillas. When the last one is killed for "bush meat", I hope the last african who eats it, chokes to death.
159. Response to Theodore Dalrymple
Comment #85384 by Duff on November 5, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Professor Blackford,
You may not be a professor, but I think of you that way.
You may think a "sudden universal loss of religion" would cause problems, but I think you fret too much.
Why would a sudden abandonment of superstition be a bad thing? If the unwashed, simple people, suddenly realized the nonsense they have always believed is false, it could only be because they have seen the light of something much more edifying. Seeing the light would be such an "enlightening", freshening thing, it would change the world.
I won't hold my breath.
160. The Turning of an Atheist
Comment #85121 by Duff on November 5, 2007 at 3:12 am
I think we're all getting a bit too excited about this Flew business. If they did in fact hijack a demented old man, it will come back to haunt them. They will look like the troglodytes they surely are.
Comment #84882 by Duff on November 4, 2007 at 2:49 am
Perhaps this good reverend doesn't so much believe his own apologetics but is nearing retirement and could use a nice cash infusion. He hasn't already won the Templeton has he? He could share it with the good professor Anthony Flew, who, apparently, in an alzheimerish fog has reverted to his childhood beliefs.
162. The Year of Living Biblically
Comment #84820 by Duff on November 3, 2007 at 5:50 pm
Set the bears on those disobedient little children. Let's see him live up to that biblical injunction. What a freak!
163. Jesus Rides the Number 7 Train
Comment #84817 by Duff on November 3, 2007 at 5:34 pm
To mention State Department press releases and New York Times editorials in the same sentence is a bit much. Otherwise, it was a cute piece.
Satanburiedfossils, how dare you minimize the neat trick of Mary appearing in a hard water stain. I'll have you know that is very difficult to pull off. Getting your face in a tortilla is a piece of cake, so to speak, but staining a window with a sprinkler takes time and a lot of special powers.
164. What the New Atheists Don't See
Comment #84432 by Duff on November 2, 2007 at 3:30 am
Aside from some nice buildings and some great music (something non-theists have also produced) name one positive thing religion has brought to western civilization.
165. Believe it or not, courtesy counts
Comment #84035 by Duff on November 1, 2007 at 3:31 am
All I can say is god has certainly made a hash of his sacred texts. Some god! Some sacred texts!
166. Jury Awards Father $11M in Funeral Case
Comment #84028 by Duff on November 1, 2007 at 3:17 am
I'm certainly not advocating violence, but it is amazing to me that these people are not so beat up they can't get around anymore. They have been at this for years now and I'm astounded a grieving family member or friend hasn't visited upon them the "wrath of god" they so obviously believe in.
I'm afraid this is going to be overturned, but couldn't it be argued that they, like most true believers, are mentally incompetent and should be locked up to protect them from physical harm?
167. Tests of faith over 'The Golden Compass'
Comment #83623 by Duff on October 30, 2007 at 5:17 pm
My next candidate for the Zealot Scratch Test is William Donahue. "Scratch a zealot and underneath you will find a hypocrite". There is something far too zealotriotic about that guy. Within the next couple of years it will be revealed he is some kind of pervert. You heard it here first.
168. Pope's 'morning after pill' speech criticized
Comment #83618 by Duff on October 30, 2007 at 4:47 pm
This pope is the perfect christian counterpart to the iron-aged muslim simple people who want to behead apostates. The catholics deserve their mirror image, fuckwit, muslim brethren.
169. Lessons in hate found at leading mosques
Comment #83617 by Duff on October 30, 2007 at 4:42 pm
If you, by choice, drive a gas guzzler, and if you, by choice, waste resources, you enable these arab, stone-aged, simpletons. You make the choice. No one lives in a vacuum these days.
170. Face to faith
Comment #82908 by Duff on October 28, 2007 at 8:22 am
To say science is limited is the same thing as saying knowledge is limited. We are a very long way from knowing everything there is to know about the universe, so I think it is a bit premature to decry science/knowledge as "limited".
Fifty years from now, we will astounded at how much "science" has advanced. Religion will still be the same; stuck in the iron age with not a single factoid to prove it.
171. Don't write off religion - it can be the key to a stable family
Comment #82626 by Duff on October 27, 2007 at 3:16 am
Isn't it cute how she says it ok for parents to teach their children things that are not "purely rational". Everyone knows a little ignorance and stupidness makes for a well balanced child.
172. AAI 07
Comment #82579 by Duff on October 26, 2007 at 7:31 pm
Might I suggest, that at the next conference - showcasing the best that atheism has to offer - someone might be able to provide a suitable microphone/microphones attached to the podium so that the speakers don't have to use half their energy and concentration holding a mike. Is that too much to ask of the people who claim to have a corner on science and technology? Imagine a half-baked televangelist struggling to gesture with both his hands, while he has to hold the microphone close enough to his lips so the simple people can hear him. Surely, we can do better!
Comment #81689 by Duff on October 25, 2007 at 3:27 am
Perhaps a bit of an over reaction, this article.
I'm smarter than my parents and my children are a heck of a lot smarter than I. There was a recent survey conducted somewhere her in America and it found the one thing these young people were most interested in was becoming good parents.
I wouldn't be so upset, if I were you.
174. Prejudicial concerns
Comment #80924 by Duff on October 23, 2007 at 2:13 pm
I'm waiting with bated breath for the first bloviating religiousite to actually come out and proclaim himself (it will be man) a literal believer in the old testament and advocate stoning of those wicked gays.
175. Debate between Michael Shermer and Dinesh D'Souza
Comment #80405 by Duff on October 21, 2007 at 4:37 pm
9/11 caused by Hillary and Brittany Spears???
I think by now it is clear to everyone who has any knowledge of 9/11 that those towers were brought down by Brittany and Brad Pitt!! If you don't believe that, then just ask yourself; where were Brittany and Brad in the weeks leading up to 9/11?? No body knows!!! That should be proof enough.
176. Help Counter the New Atheist Crusade to 'Evangelize' America!
Comment #79459 by Duff on October 17, 2007 at 10:02 am
Please! No one in this world should be surprised that making money is central to all religions. This is the God Business, after all. If one suggests to these pontifical bloviators that their beloved Jesus recommended they leave their worldly goods behind and follow him, they will hem and haw and shrewdly tell you it takes a lot of money to support the "mission of the ______",(fill in the blank) which supports the flock. You are never allowed to find out how much they skim off the top.
177. Patience, fairness and the human condition
Comment #78544 by Duff on October 13, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Artemisa,
The chimp is us!! At least a "few" years previous.
178. A Revelation
Comment #78303 by Duff on October 12, 2007 at 11:40 am
Most any article concerning a debate, printed in the Wall Street Journal, will of necessity demonstrate a bias in favor of whomever is more conservative, be it a political, commerce, or even a religious debate. Professor Dawkins, in the eyes of America's conservative press, is about as liberal as one can be, and he, therefore, will automatically get the sharp end of the biased stick. This girl probably doesn't know squat about the nuances of the topics being debated.
179. Muslims tell Christians: 'Make peace with us or survival of world is at stake'
Comment #78172 by Duff on October 12, 2007 at 3:28 am
Translated from the original arabic, this letter says, "We muslims, paranoid and insecure from living in the 12th century, are tired of watching everyone else enjoy modern civilization, so we would like a little fear and respect from you westerners, or we're going to kill you."
180. 'Dirty War' priest gets life term
Comment #78024 by Duff on October 11, 2007 at 2:09 pm
It's shocking! Shocking, I tell you! I can't believe a catholic priest would ever do anything bad. Has this sort of thing EVER, in the entire history of the church, happened before?
Comment #77894 by Duff on October 11, 2007 at 3:26 am
"...knees on the ground, bottom in the air". Wonderful description of the simple people.
182. If Muslim doctors are intolerant, let them go
Comment #77789 by Duff on October 10, 2007 at 2:18 pm
One can be as politically correct as can be, but when all is said and done it is extremely difficult for a poorly educated, supremely brainwashed, paranoid, socially backward, sexually frustrated 12th century throwback to find their way in any Western country in the 21st century.
If these religious perversions, be they muslim, orthodox jew, fundamentalist christian, or whatever, creep their way into a modern society, they are going to cause problems. And the answer is to discourage their practices with as much energy and reason we can muster, not let them continue sacrificing goats and mutilating women.
183. Ban teachers from religious dress, Quebec group says
Comment #77783 by Duff on October 10, 2007 at 1:54 pm
People of all religious superstitions should be allowed to wear all the religious paraphernalia they can possibly muster and then the rest of us should point at them and laugh. Maybe after a while they will catch on that their iron age silliness is exactly that.
184. Sam Harris seems like a nice fellow, but very confused
Comment #77317 by Duff on October 9, 2007 at 3:33 am
When asked if I'm a believer, I reply, "What? Do I look stupid?" The asker is then left to decide whether a handsome, intelligent looking devil like myself is a believer or an infidel. It is amazing how many equate stupidity with being a believer rather than the other way around.
Comment #76832 by Duff on October 7, 2007 at 12:21 pm
Having survived 6 decades plus with nary a personal hero in sight, it is nice at last to have several; Dan Dennett and Richard Dawkins, my intellectual heroes and Hitchens, my nasty, evil twin.
May the teapot protect them!
186. 'Flying Spaghetti Monster' Religious Group Turning Heads at MSU
Comment #76406 by Duff on October 5, 2007 at 6:10 pm
The wicked will rail against the pasta GOD, but it will avail them not. In the last days, the godless will say the pasta God is nothing, but it will avail them not. The Past God will bring down the unbeliever and deliver him unto the pasta bowls of hell. The crying and lamenting of the wicked will be their undoing. Their lamentations will be a testament against them. Their tears will grease the engines of their destruction, as its grinds the wicked into a grist that will delight the simple and give pleasure to the poor in spirit. Yeah, the downtrodden and the stupid will inherit the earth.
187. Scandal brewing at Oral Roberts U.
Comment #76397 by Duff on October 5, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Oral and his family are GGGOOODD's children. Be kind!!! They deserve a special dispensation of kindness, because they have declared their obedience and love to GOODD to all His followers. Be kind!!! Because they have declared that love of GOD, we have to give them a special beneficence. Be kind to them. They may be dirt bags and special hypocritical sinners, but we must be kind to them...!!! They have declared their obedience to GGOODD.
188. Debate between Richard Dawkins and John Lennox
Comment #76389 by Duff on October 5, 2007 at 5:18 pm
"I don't think there's any question that the audience was preferential to Professor Dawkins".
Are these guys kidding. Whoever selected this Lennox clown to go up against Dawkins should be lashed. What a clown!
189. Debate between Richard Dawkins and John Lennox
Comment #76061 by Duff on October 4, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Why is everyone surprised that these debates all end the same way. Why, why would we expect something better from the religionists? I'm beginning to believe the best we can do is to just shout at them, "you're stupid, you're idiots, you're morons!!" It is probably as effective as using reason and logic. Reason and logic are anathema to these people. I'm going to yell at them.
190. Root and Branch
Comment #73458 by Duff on September 25, 2007 at 3:00 am
We must, by all means, be gentle to the dear fundamentalist. It will only offend him if we let him think we look down on his stupidity.
I think Mr. Hacking is not quite the atheist he claims to be.
Comment #71999 by Duff on September 20, 2007 at 5:14 am
Zamboro,
At what numerical sufficiency do people arrive at the "correct conclusion"?
Does the fact that there are numerically more non-christians than christians mean that they are more correct than the christians?
Your logic is cuddly, cute and ridiculous.
192. Faith schools should not be tax-funded, and here's why
Comment #71797 by Duff on September 19, 2007 at 5:13 pm
Jimbob,
Are you aware that the use of two first names in the states classifies one as an inbred, retarded, less than human, moonshine slurpin, hollows habitating, cousin marrying, bible thumpin, southern nitwit? Just thought you should know.
Comment #71795 by Duff on September 19, 2007 at 5:02 pm
This Jake person thinks science should have an attitude. He should take a page from Richard Feynman's description of what science is. Feynman simply stated that science doesn't have an opinion, it is simply a METHOD to keep man from deceiving himself. Nothing could be more simple.
194. Do you have to read up on leprechology before disbelieving in them?
Comment #71424 by Duff on September 18, 2007 at 6:37 pm
How dare anyone mention atheism and "intellectual suicide" in the same breath?
The rule is as follows:
There are three kinds of theists, those who are too simple to know better. Those who are smart enough to know better, but have been trained not to think, and those who really do know better but have, because of their upbringing, chosen to commit intellectual suicide and believe in spite of what they KNOW.
195. Honest Mistakes or Willful Mendacity
Comment #70457 by Duff on September 15, 2007 at 2:53 pm
How dare you heathens suggest that a religious person, a person of faith, would lie, cheat, steal, misrepresent, kill a non-believer or abuse a child!!! Shame on all of you! I want an apology and I want it now!
196. 'Jane Doe' Testifies as Trial of Polygamist Leader Begins
Comment #70394 by Duff on September 15, 2007 at 9:50 am
I'm not sure this was the best case to test the law in Utah. There are many other plural marriages where the "husband" is not a teenager, but a much older man with one or two other wives.
Mormons have always made the excuse that polygamy was practiced in the early days of the church because there were so many more women than men in the church. I'm not sure that was ever true, but it surely isn't true today, where many of the young men are having to leave the fundamentalist communities because all the girls have been wedded by the more established men.
197. How the Public Resolves Conflicts Between Faith and Science
Comment #70393 by Duff on September 15, 2007 at 9:37 am
What these data show is that to be religious requires not just that a person disengage from reality (science) but that he/she also be able to live for long periods of time with their head firmly implanted up the alimentary canal.
198. Childhood Origins of Adult Resistance to Science
Comment #70021 by Duff on September 13, 2007 at 5:15 pm
Jiten,
"Science is counterintuitive"!!!!? Science is a latin name for "knowledge". If Knowledge is counter-intuitive then I don't know what would be intuitive.
I suggest you re-invent yourself and come to a proper realization of just what it means to have a "real" sense of what constitutes science. Reality is what can be demonstrated. And if you "don't care" what is real and what is imaginable, may I suggest you get a grip on yourself and embrace science/knowledge..
199. Alex the Parrot
Comment #69755 by Duff on September 12, 2007 at 3:00 pm
I know a woman who had a very clever African Grey parrot who had an amazing vocabulary. Whenever she would invite the media in to interview the bird, he would turn his feathers inside out and screech. She could never get him to say a word to the press. Very clever bird, indeed.
Comment #69533 by Duff on September 11, 2007 at 4:22 pm
Never under estimate the power of suggesting that religious people are not the brightest of the bright. That is what started me thinking I might be on the wrong side of the argument. As a Mormon missionary, i distinctly remember a very smart young person saying my beliefs were ridiculous. Such a simple statement, but it had an effect that caused me to begin a long process that has ended with a complete rejection of all supernatural beliefs.
Never under estimate the power of a simple comment of ridicule.
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