201. Fleabytes

Comment #147895 by the great teapot on March 21, 2008 at 2:22 pm

pathfinder
you have shattered my illusion. I had always assumed our monkey brains were infallible. Obviously they are not.
I have no other choice left but to bow down to god.

202. Sci-fi guru Clarke to have secular funeral

Comment #147486 by the great teapot on March 20, 2008 at 3:49 pm

I am sure he is looking over us all now with a wry smile on his face.

203. Fleabytes

Comment #145391 by the great teapot on March 17, 2008 at 2:29 pm

didn't god create oppenheimer?

204. Fleabytes

Comment #145388 by the great teapot on March 17, 2008 at 2:26 pm

bloody hell.
My last 3 posts have evapourated.
I'll bet this sticks

205. Fleabytes

Comment #145386 by the great teapot on March 17, 2008 at 2:23 pm

Pathfinder,
I want to believe but the evidence is inconclusive.
Give me a reason, based on evidence, and i shall do so. after all who does't want to live forever.
But if you have no arguement for me how can you convince yourself?

206. Fleabytes

Comment #145380 by the great teapot on March 17, 2008 at 2:17 pm

pathfinder
I am willing to be converted.
Point me to the evidence and i will join the fold.
After all who doesn't want to believe they will live forever.
just give me some evidence and i will believe.

207. Fleabytes

Comment #145349 by the great teapot on March 17, 2008 at 1:53 pm

churchill called nazism perverted science because amongst other things that is what it was, not science but perverted science, it was also perverted religion.

208. Fleabytes

Comment #145327 by the great teapot on March 17, 2008 at 1:35 pm

Robertson, pathfinder.
Name one thing that has ever happend or exists on this planet that can be soley attributal to god.
ie that has no other explanation other than the god of the bible, and not the god of the gaps . Such as a sandwhich toaster buried in precambrian rocks or a video of jesus wanking over herod.

209. Bulldozers tear down giant religious teapot

Comment #139097 by the great teapot on March 5, 2008 at 5:54 am

ygern.
That's the one thing that really hacks me off about the religious, the genuine ones at least.
They'll never know they are wrong.

210. Bulldozers tear down giant religious teapot

Comment #139077 by the great teapot on March 5, 2008 at 5:24 am

Please help me, anyone.
I am getting weaker, my life force is straining away.

211. My Argument With God

Comment #131693 by the great teapot on February 23, 2008 at 2:53 am

those 15 percent who are neither atheist or god fearing must be the real evil bastards of the world. Never trust a fence sitter.

212. Fleabytes

Comment #131555 by the great teapot on February 22, 2008 at 2:51 pm

helaas god leeft, blijkbaar in sud afrika.

213. Fleabytes

Comment #131547 by the great teapot on February 22, 2008 at 2:35 pm

If you doubt , Richard, that DR has anything to say at all then why ever visit this website again.If to you the religious matter is closed then why do you return?
Especially on the eve of the six nations. Like the rest of the usual suspects you are addicted.
On second thoughts you are right, this is no longer a healthy debate, this debate is feeding addictions.
Atheists are seeking theists to debate and without DR who else would step up to the plate?

214. Over half of Britons claim no religion

Comment #131541 by the great teapot on February 22, 2008 at 2:13 pm

Thanks diacanu, sorry for any offence.
Sounds like chimps were responsible for most british sit coms in the 1980s.

215. Over half of Britons claim no religion

Comment #131534 by the great teapot on February 22, 2008 at 2:03 pm

it was zoo monkeys and gas humour i didn't understand.
but I am always ready to be educated.

216. Over half of Britons claim no religion

Comment #131524 by the great teapot on February 22, 2008 at 1:56 pm

Diacanu,
Why not speak english, or stop hiding behind your fake "cool" persona.

217. Over half of Britons claim no religion

Comment #131511 by the great teapot on February 22, 2008 at 1:41 pm

Steve, next time you say something dumb can you drop it down a few more notches so that i can understand it.

218. Over half of Britons claim no religion

Comment #131497 by the great teapot on February 22, 2008 at 1:30 pm

Steve, why not say something dumb for a change.
It never inhibits anyone else.

219. Over half of Britons claim no religion

Comment #131491 by the great teapot on February 22, 2008 at 1:25 pm

At last people are starting to realise that just because their birth certificate says church of England this does not override the fact that they actually have no religion. I have tried to convince otherwise rational people of this for years, finally the collective penny is dropping.
(No thanks to me of course)

220. Bart Ehrman, Questioning Religion on Why We Suffer

Comment #131001 by the great teapot on February 21, 2008 at 5:03 pm

The book of job, to me, is the best example of everything that is wrong with religion. It is completely egocentric, the only thing that matters in the story is job and his faith.
Why is the fact that job, once his faith has been proven,is granted a happy life with a new family and servants considered a happy ending while countless lives have already been destroyed around him in order for him to be happy. Is his life more important than those who died and suffered. If there suffering is of no consequence then why should jobs happiness and suffering be of any importance and why should his new life on earth be considered a reward?
The whole thing is so contradictory only blind faith could not see the flaws in it.
It should definitely be required reading.
Presumably the xians empathy when reading this is with Job and not all the poor bastards whose misfortune it was to know him.
I once put this to a friend who believes and asked him was this one of those non literal stories, to my astonishment he believed that job actually existed.
I despair. how do these people dress themselves in the morning.

221. Bart Ehrman, Questioning Religion on Why We Suffer

Comment #130155 by the great teapot on February 20, 2008 at 6:34 am

I see the entendres and I like a joke like the next man, but I dunno, sometimes humour crosses a thin line.

222. Bart Ehrman, Questioning Religion on Why We Suffer

Comment #130115 by the great teapot on February 20, 2008 at 5:40 am

Chuckgoeke,

If that is your T-shirt, please burn it. Now.
And even if it isn't change the pic. Just not funny, at all.

223. Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?

Comment #128494 by the great teapot on February 17, 2008 at 7:30 am

why can we no longer edit or make 2nd posts

224. Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?

Comment #128475 by the great teapot on February 17, 2008 at 4:56 am

To be fair to the contestant I didn't know that the hungry mentioned by the host was a country either. Hungary I have heard of though.
And besides which she was game for a laugh and played along with the fun willingly.
All this "don't you even know that" stuff should stay in the playground.

Having said that I was shocked to hear that only one third of people questioned in the UK knew the earth went around the sun once a year. Can that really be true?

225. The Search for Truth, God and Braver Scientists in 'Expelled'

Comment #128451 by the great teapot on February 17, 2008 at 3:30 am

What would Intelligent design research exactly consist of.
Apart from trying to disprove other peoples theories, what positive research might they be doing?

226. Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?

Comment #128444 by the great teapot on February 17, 2008 at 2:44 am

Annabannana,

Don't let those 3 dollars change you. We like you just the way you are.

227. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Madeline Bunting

Comment #126967 by the great teapot on February 14, 2008 at 3:17 pm

Correct me if I am wrong but I am sure Chritopher Hitchens existed long before the God delusion, we need more evidence Richard.
Sally, looking at that list I think I will leave the bible on my bookshelf.

228. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Madeline Bunting

Comment #126958 by the great teapot on February 14, 2008 at 2:55 pm

Strange that she thinks only poverty stricken religion is being ridiculed, whereas her well- to-do religious conviction are perfectly rational or acceptable.
Belief in belief is a sad thing.
A catholic who doesn't believe in jesus as a literal figure and god as an interventionist?
She is right we are all in the same place, she can call it what she likes ,but I prefer to call it atheism just like the church and the dictionary do. If every person has there own different language conversation becomes very tiresome.

229. Dawkins is third most prolific internet Briton

Comment #117727 by the great teapot on January 29, 2008 at 1:25 pm

I was pleased to read this, until I read the other contenders.
At first I was saaad, just for a whiiile, then it made me smiiile, just for a whiiile.

230. Interview with Richard Dawkins

Comment #116417 by the great teapot on January 26, 2008 at 12:44 pm

thanks for your call John.
Very enligthening.

231. Three Little Pigs 'too offensive'

Comment #115587 by the great teapot on January 24, 2008 at 11:21 am

Just a small point but as far as I know muslims refrain from eating meat because they consider it unsuitable to eat. i don't believe they actually object to the existence of pigs or consider them sacred, so why would they object to pigs depicted as builders. I eat no animals but i can still watch Tom and jerry or foghorn leghorn without taking offence, why should the competition judges think muslims are any different.

232. Islam in Europe

Comment #114595 by the great teapot on January 22, 2008 at 12:52 pm

I am all for islamification.

It sounds much better than that horrible islamicization.

233. Interview with Ian McEwan

Comment #114217 by the great teapot on January 21, 2008 at 3:06 pm

It is built in to human nature.
yup we all want to live forever, and if our parents tell us we will,why should we let go?
I'm gunna live forever.
I'm gunna live forever.
I ain't never been into no book reading but papa says its so.
You smart arsed atheists sure gunna look dumb when you go to hell.

234. Minnesota Atheists Interview Richard Dawkins

Comment #114209 by the great teapot on January 21, 2008 at 2:42 pm

God damn it, why do I always forget when I log in that the page refreshes and I lose the audio link.
Oh well.
Regarding the difference between the reaction in England or the UK and America to the God delusion, while I can not speak for America I can only assume that the reason the reception is cooler in the Uk is that only the "nerds and slightly odd people" believe in god in the Uk these days. ( I am being a little unkind ,I know) and therefore his book is not so much a breath of fresh air but merely a mirror to what most of us already took for granted. This is probably due to the earlier efforts of Richard, David Attenborough , Leakey, Terry Nutkins ,Bill Oddie and Michael Palin and the countless more too numerous to mention. All of whom had killed off any belief in me even before they made me say school prayers. Thank Python.

235. Gay Jesus play blasted by bishop

Comment #114131 by the great teapot on January 21, 2008 at 12:14 pm

"These ideas border on the blasphemous"
Yes, and?

236. George Scales, War Hero and Generous Friend of RDFRS

Comment #111397 by the great teapot on January 14, 2008 at 2:05 pm

Good job you committed those health and safety infringements in France George. In the Uk today you would be looking at a serious fine for breaching health and safety regulations, and you wouldn't have had to wait 63 years for it's arrival.
All the best and thanks for everything, if I ever need a roof thatching your my man. Good luck and a speedy recovery.

John ( the great teapot isn't my real name),

237. US 'doomed' if creationist president elected: scientists

Comment #108823 by the great teapot on January 7, 2008 at 5:06 pm

you think we are the only universe god has to look out for. He is a very busy man. Floods and tsunamis and eartquakes and droughts and fires and ms and cancer and smallpox and malaria and tb and aids and pneumonia and fatal accidents and alzeimers and diabetes and starvation and ..... don't just happen themselves you know, you have to pray for them.

238. US 'doomed' if creationist president elected: scientists

Comment #108815 by the great teapot on January 7, 2008 at 4:47 pm

The thing about history Ashton is - the winner always writes the history books, so just because the history books say you won doesn't mean you actually did.

239. US 'doomed' if creationist president elected: scientists

Comment #108809 by the great teapot on January 7, 2008 at 4:22 pm

Epeeist,
You are from yorkshire, ah, finally that explains the tach. I knew there had to be an irrational explanation.
Headingley brings back fond memories for me too, I wasted the best years of my life and screwed up my degree there. Still I enjoyed the football, cricket and beer so it was worth while.
Anna, the real beer is great anywhere in England but stay away from the the lagers and cream flows, shoddy attempts to appeal to the lager/pop drinking youth.
If you ever come to England I recommend anywhere but Lancashire and scotland,(well youv'e already met billy Sands 'nough said) and keep away from wales if there is a full moon. And if you are a monkey don't go to hartlepool.

240. Six Reasons to be an Atheist

Comment #108335 by the great teapot on January 6, 2008 at 2:06 pm

Our non belief in god allows us to do all all the above, which are denied to us if we are theist daydreamers.

241. The Pagan Christ

Comment #107036 by the great teapot on January 4, 2008 at 1:17 am

Is it OK to kill someone while they are sleeping?

242. The religiosity test: Doubters need not apply

Comment #106776 by the great teapot on January 3, 2008 at 12:47 pm

You are asking too many questions Al-Rawndi it is almost as though you are searching for evidence.
Never put your candidates to the test.

243. The religiosity test: Doubters need not apply

Comment #106769 by the great teapot on January 3, 2008 at 12:39 pm

Mr Romney,
I believe that all male politicians are prophets of the lord. I have had it revealed to me that all the chosen ones achieved this status when they caught a sexual disease during the act of copulation with their mother, other than the fact I have had this revealed to me by God I have no other proof but I accept this revelation on faith. Can I now join the ranks of presidential candidates now I am a man of faith.
Naturally no woman could have met this criteria and they are unsuitable for office.

244. It is possible to be moral without God

Comment #104999 by the great teapot on December 30, 2007 at 9:54 am

Not normally one to police anything, originating from Middlesbrough, I have also flagged 26 as spam.
What a fuck wit of a time waster.
Thanks for the video link Brian, it was the only thing I,ve seen worth watching this xmas.
Go Buffalos. Lions and crocs "you're shit and you know you are"
Sorry I forgot the kids XMAS lectures, always a worthy treat even if they are on five these days.

245. It is possible to be moral without God

Comment #104925 by the great teapot on December 30, 2007 at 3:24 am

Dostoyevsky said if god doesn't exist everything is permitted and satre agrees.
Well 2 famous people have said it, so it must be true.
I would also like to ask Mr Ruse what exactly about stating that God does not exist and expecting to see some evidence for the claims of religion, just as we would for any other tall story, he finds embarrasing.

246. The Pagan Christ

Comment #104904 by the great teapot on December 29, 2007 at 11:26 pm

Down under,

I have no problem reading your posts.
On the other hand I do find the posts of Don quix(avoiding the tricky apostrophy question) difficult to read. I suggest he contributes in red and yellow text. Most of my noddy books are red and yellow and they keep me fascinated for hours.
If only there was a noddy version of the bible.
And a gelukkig nieuwjaar mate.

247. Blair converts to Catholicism

Comment #102524 by the great teapot on December 23, 2007 at 5:40 am

"The church said less than 10% of it's members are regular church goers"
I presume they are including me as a member.
I'v been dating Jennifer Lopez for the last seven years using the same logic.I hope Maria sharapova will forgive my infidelity.

248. Blair converts to Catholicism

Comment #102523 by the great teapot on December 23, 2007 at 5:30 am

Nutter.

249. 2007, a bad year for God squadders

Comment #101606 by the great teapot on December 20, 2007 at 3:03 pm

?

250. Do the laws of God trump those of man?

Comment #99482 by the great teapot on December 16, 2007 at 6:45 pm

sorry Freelance cynic but Have I missed something.
_surely gnder equality is an absolute right.
Why would anyone think otherwise.