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Comments by notsobad


401. Why Science Will Triumph Only When Theory Becomes Law

Comment #97909 by notsobad on December 12, 2007 at 8:23 pm

Creationists were funny to laugh at when I first heard about them (we don't really have those in Europe), but now it's kinda boring. Although I gotta say that the part with big fruits on trees had some originality to it.
...and I never know if it's parody or really someone so dim-witted.

402. The empty myths peddled by evangelists of unbelief

Comment #97805 by notsobad on December 12, 2007 at 5:00 pm

It comes from Christianity, which has always held that humans are different from all other animals in possessing free will.

This is like bragging that you invented a deadly virus.
So far this so-called free will is the worst thing that happened to life.

403. Controversial Anti-Muslim Dutch Film Adds to Already Simmering Tensions

Comment #97718 by notsobad on December 12, 2007 at 2:41 pm

That is because there is nothing in Christianity (short of, perhaps, the Lord's Army) that equals the sheer barbarity of Islam.

There isn't much like that now but there was just a few centuries ago.

404. Former Evangelical Minister Has a New Message: Jesus Hearts Darwin

Comment #97710 by notsobad on December 12, 2007 at 2:37 pm

The Name Adam is also a word that is used to represent mankind. Evolution does not contradict the Bible. Much of the Bible was never intended to be read literally; certainly not the creation story.

Really? You just cherry pick now because the world has moved on rendering the Bible inaccurate and obsolete. And that pick and choose approach confirms that the Bible is indeed inaccurate and now obsolete.
Before 1859, the creation story (and similar stories in other religions) was the only explanation for most people and was taken very seriously. Even today you have many people that believe in it.

405. Girl, 16, dies after hijab dispute with father

Comment #97331 by notsobad on December 11, 2007 at 10:25 pm

I don't think a father strangling his daughter has much to do with religion. If some non-Muslim nutter strangled his daughter for not wearing clothing he deemed modest, we'd say he was a domineering chauvinist and a psychopath.

And where would that father learn what's modest and what's not? Not from a rational, dogma-free source in my opinion.

406. Where Is Atheism When Bad Things Happen?

Comment #97327 by notsobad on December 11, 2007 at 10:13 pm

I think the logical answer is to conclude that "all is meaningless",

That's not a logical answer; that's your answer. You are afraid everything would be meaningless to you if you didn't have an imaginary friend to entertain you.
You remind me of those Muslims talking how women must be all dressed up or otherwise they would be raped on the street because men wouldn't be able to control themselves. What they are saying is that they wouldn't be able to control themselves.

407. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, etc. were atheists, and they were terrible! Answer that!

Comment #97252 by notsobad on December 11, 2007 at 8:09 pm

Shouldn't it say "lack of belief in god/s, period"?

408. An Open Letter to Richard Dawkins

Comment #97210 by notsobad on December 11, 2007 at 6:07 pm

I do however agree that athiesm is nice and neutral, we won't do good or bad because of it. Our goodness or badness is defined by us not by what we believe.

So in the end it's defined by what we believe. However, as an atheist you can choose. As a religious person, you are supposed to follow unquestionable commandments and dogmas no matter what.

409. Atheists' sign sparks controversy

Comment #97207 by notsobad on December 11, 2007 at 6:04 pm

Of course we have to listen. They may say that religion is the main motivating force, but their intention is political not religious. These leaders use religion to motivate their people to self-destructive acts.

That is bound to happen with dogmatic absolutist belief systems and ideologies.

410. The empty myths peddled by evangelists of unbelief

Comment #97069 by notsobad on December 11, 2007 at 11:06 am

"militant unbelievers"

And what about the militant moustache-weavers?

From where does Dawkins derive this faith in human freedom? Not from science. It comes from Christianity, which has always held that humans are different from all other animals in possessing free will.

What's next? Are they gonna tell us Jesus invented democracy? Or that Greeks were Christians?

411. An Open Letter to Richard Dawkins

Comment #97024 by notsobad on December 11, 2007 at 9:46 am

This guy also - probably deliberately - ignored that Dawkins explicitly said that he doesn't want religious people to take responsibility for actions of other religious people, but religion and dogmatic thinking in general (and people following dogmatic religious thinking in particular).

412. Laugh at Sudan

Comment #96987 by notsobad on December 11, 2007 at 8:00 am

Rtambree,
lame job? Do you prefer O'Reilly-style debate to an intelligent speech?
Condell said he wouldn't debate fundamentalists, since they will never listen.

413. This deadly religious resistance to vaccinations

Comment #96984 by notsobad on December 11, 2007 at 7:56 am

Why wouldn't we stop eating pork? There is nothing good about pork. Don't tell me it tastes good. So do many other things.

414. An Open Letter to Richard Dawkins

Comment #96928 by notsobad on December 11, 2007 at 5:41 am

a coalition of rational-minded people to condemn all fanaticism

It's hard to consider a person who gives up sex and family life because of their job rational, at least to some degree.

415. This deadly religious resistance to vaccinations

Comment #96925 by notsobad on December 11, 2007 at 5:34 am

Both are necessary notsobad, are you saying it's still okay to have a country plagued by disease as long as the birth rate is kept down?

Work on your reading and comprehension skills.

416. A Call For a Presidential Debate on Science and Technology

Comment #96923 by notsobad on December 11, 2007 at 5:22 am

The Bush administration is active in science, in fighting against it:

Report Describes Systematic White House Effort to Manipulate Climate Change Science

http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1653

417. An Open Letter to Richard Dawkins

Comment #96921 by notsobad on December 11, 2007 at 5:12 am

Written by chuckgoecke:

Dear Father Jonathan,
So you think the horrible governments of Stalin, Mao, Pol , et al were horrible because they were atheist, then consider this. How do you think Richard Dawkins and the other free thought secularists (i.e. the four horsemen) would have faired in the Stalinist Soviet Union, or Pot Paul's Cambodia, trying to promote their ideas of free thought and stuff? Free thinkers would have been the first to disappear.


That's a very good point. In Nazi Germany, free thinkers and democrats speaking against dogma and totalitarian practices of NSDAP (Nazi Party) were the ones first harassed and arrested. The only priests and other clergy arrested were the ones speaking and acting against the Nazis. Their religious background was not the reason of their arrest.
In communist regimes, intellectuals were also the main target of the dictators and their parties.

418. This deadly religious resistance to vaccinations

Comment #96900 by notsobad on December 11, 2007 at 4:17 am

Lower birth rate is the only thing that can help poor African countries in the long run, but only through sex education and contraceptives.
Fighting against vaccines instead and letting women give birth into this environment is despicable to say the least.

419. In the Beginning was the Song

Comment #96890 by notsobad on December 11, 2007 at 4:03 am

Is music a useless by-product of evolution, as renowned cognitive scientist Steven Pinker says?

Useless? I'd like to see the reasoning behind that.

420. A Call For a Presidential Debate on Science and Technology

Comment #96662 by notsobad on December 10, 2007 at 8:01 pm

The current administration is a joke when it comes to science.
It's full of people with degrees from Liberty University founded by Jerry Falwell.

421. Atheists' sign sparks controversy

Comment #96653 by notsobad on December 10, 2007 at 7:46 pm

Generally speaking, anybody who offends irrational and dogmatic beliefs - religious or not - deserves a cookie.

422. An Open Letter to Richard Dawkins

Comment #96633 by notsobad on December 10, 2007 at 7:26 pm

Atheistic ideology? I heard moustache ideology is trendy now.

He urges Christians to put their hope for the future in God and not in technology, economic or political ideologies.

And by God he means the church promoting its own ideologies. How convenient.

423. ...and another FLEA...

Comment #96426 by notsobad on December 10, 2007 at 2:12 pm

Old-school fonts

424. Atheists' sign sparks controversy

Comment #96425 by notsobad on December 10, 2007 at 2:12 pm

"The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them."
---Bill Maher

425. Richard Dawkins on 'Have Your Say'

Comment #95977 by notsobad on December 9, 2007 at 3:27 pm

They are just using religion (or being used by their equally greed-driven manipulators) to gild the walls of the prison-cells of their own egos - just as many others use atheism for the same purpos.

Many? Such as who?

Anyway, that FOX priest is always entertaining. If I had sex forbidden, I would need to elevate my ego by overly theatrical performances too, probably.

426. Banishing the Green-Eyed Monster

Comment #95338 by notsobad on December 8, 2007 at 3:20 am

Oh my! Playing semantics? Substitute vice for sin ("the vice of sexual jealousy") and its opposite ("rising above" it), whatever name you want to call it. Now what?

See, it isn't about sex without love. It's not a virtue, nor a sin. It's a normal understandable thing and everybody's own matter.

427. The God Delusion in Turkey

Comment #95337 by notsobad on December 8, 2007 at 3:16 am

You won't see any niqabs in Turkey.

You will. You just need to get outside the tourist destinations and especially into the parts near Syria with Arabic minority.

428. Banishing the Green-Eyed Monster

Comment #95254 by notsobad on December 7, 2007 at 6:18 pm

But IMHO, someone who explains that sexual jealousy is a sin while sex without love and/or polyamori are a virtue, must have some personal interest in the question, well beyond "pure intellect", don't you think?

No, I don't since nobody called jealousy a sin and nobody called sex without love a virtue.

429. Banishing the Green-Eyed Monster

Comment #95055 by notsobad on December 7, 2007 at 9:05 am

etny,
I don't what you have been through but just because someone says something it doesn't mean he wants you to do it or even that he wants to do it.

Weren't you the one mentioning cults here? Personal/close experience maybe?

430. Banishing the Green-Eyed Monster

Comment #94990 by notsobad on December 7, 2007 at 5:51 am

Skeptic1972,
it's up to her, don't you think?

431. Former Evangelical Minister Has a New Message: Jesus Hearts Darwin

Comment #94961 by notsobad on December 7, 2007 at 4:03 am

This guy sounds more like a pantheist or atheist than a Christian.

Many intelligent educated Christians do. It's like they want to keep the tradition but just can't put up with the nonsense.
I find that even more blind that an uneducated simple person believing in that shit.

432. Banishing the Green-Eyed Monster

Comment #94960 by notsobad on December 7, 2007 at 4:01 am

Whatever Dawkins may or may not have taught his daughter, he has no right to tell other people what they should teach their children.

He has a full right to do so, just like everyone else. He does/should not have a right to enforce his views by laws and/or force, just like everyone else. But he doesn't want to.

parents have a right to teach their children about the things they care about, whatever they may be.

Really whatever? And if it is so, then they should also take at least partial responsibility when the kid fucks up.

433. Debate: Ayaan Hirsi Ali vs Ed Husain

Comment #94698 by notsobad on December 6, 2007 at 9:21 am

"My religion was hijacked !!!!"

What a load of bull.

434. Fox: 'Atheist Outrage' over holiday 'Tree of Knowledge'

Comment #94618 by notsobad on December 6, 2007 at 4:12 am

Gotta admit, Fox News and all their regular "commentators" make me laugh.

Another funny part is that the priest has some biblical reference about it.

435. Sherri Shepherd needs to go away now

Comment #94612 by notsobad on December 6, 2007 at 3:58 am

People are fucking dumb. I also thought everybody knew at least basic history when I was younger and only met my family and friends regularly.

436. Banishing the Green-Eyed Monster

Comment #94267 by notsobad on December 5, 2007 at 5:58 am

So basically, sex outside marriage is ok because people like sex.

However, being jealous because of sex outside marriage is not ok -- because people like being jealous.

It's the sort of crystal-clear reasoning I've come to expect from atheists.

It's the sort of simplification I've come to expect from people with an ignorant mind (atheist or theist).

It's also funny how your silly generalization is crushed by the comments from atheists here who criticize the writing.

437. Chimps beat humans in memory test

Comment #94265 by notsobad on December 5, 2007 at 5:52 am

Humans are the first species on earth to have the ability to pass information down through the generations.

I disagree. Hunting skills are obviously based on passed information.

438. Daniel Dennett Debates Dinesh D'Souza

Comment #94260 by notsobad on December 5, 2007 at 5:42 am

Why do you spend so much time watching these debates if nothing, absolutely nothing makes you think other than your position?

E-V-I-D-E-N-C-E

Remember that scientists (rationalists, sceptics..) are always the first ones to "believe" in things others don't believe in, such as evolution.
So it's not the theists who are special for having faith in something cultural. It's scientists who are the first to come with something that sometimes seems absolutely insane to explore and describe it. If there was real evidence for god/s, it would be scientists on the forefront talking about it, exploring it and so on.

439. Atheism's Wrong Turn

Comment #94247 by notsobad on December 5, 2007 at 5:04 am

The funny thing is that parents will try to tell you that they have the full right to raise their children however they want, indoctrinate them, teach them close-minded thoughts and so on.
But when the kid fucks up, there are suddenly not a tiny bit responsible. They even have the courage to blame others - video games, TV, kid's friends, society.

440. Evolution and Texas

Comment #94090 by notsobad on December 4, 2007 at 6:33 pm

What about this one?
http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/monkey-business/

441. Nurses Told to Turn Muslims' Beds to Mecca

Comment #93989 by notsobad on December 4, 2007 at 2:28 pm

Your tax money at work.

442. Highway to hysteria

Comment #93954 by notsobad on December 4, 2007 at 1:39 pm

So, god needs a delusional intolerant prick to shout Fire! at people to take away their homosexuality (...). What an omnipotent god that is. And why did he even create homosexuality in the first place then? absurdity

443. Banishing the Green-Eyed Monster

Comment #93806 by notsobad on December 4, 2007 at 8:32 am

Yes, etny, that's the kind of silly jealousy this article is about.

444. Chimps beat humans in memory test

Comment #93744 by notsobad on December 4, 2007 at 5:08 am

Planet of the Apes was a documentary.

445. Interview with Christopher Hitchens

Comment #93742 by notsobad on December 4, 2007 at 4:40 am

"I will keep this book away from my sons."

That sums these hypocrites always acting like they have the moral and rational ground up.

446. Daniel Dennett Debates Dinesh D'Souza

Comment #93593 by notsobad on December 3, 2007 at 3:50 pm

When someone starts with, "the communists were atheists and muss murderers," remind them that communism is a totalitarian ideology similar to religions without the supernatural part.

Tell them that you are against all irrational and totalitarian ideologies (well, if you are), which includes communism, Nazism, etc.

Also, suggesting that Nazism in itself and specifically Nazi Germany were atheist is beyond ridiculous.
Hitler's words:

The fact that the Vatican is concluding a treaty with the new Germany means the acknowledgment of the National Socialist state by the Catholic Church. This treaty shows the whole world clearly and unequivocally that the assertion that National Socialism is hostile to religion is a lie.

447. Banishing the Green-Eyed Monster

Comment #93561 by notsobad on December 3, 2007 at 1:45 pm

Logician said it for me.
And Louise, your experience didn't have to be personal.

Are you really so mentally impoverished that you cannot imagine it is possible to feel sympathy for another person without actually having found yourself in their situation?

On the contrary - I have sympathy with you. It must be easier going through life with such a black and white vision.

448. Banishing the Green-Eyed Monster

Comment #93529 by notsobad on December 3, 2007 at 11:39 am

One of the things I find interesting about Mr Dawkins's article is the evident contempt he feels for Mrs Tarrant, a woman who was obviously very hurt by her husband's infidelity. He sneers at her in what seems to me a thoroughly nasty way.

Mr Dawkins is always expressing sympathy with feminism, and I'm always a bit suspicious of male feminists. In this article it seems to me he has revealed his true colours. What he really thinks is that women should just put up with their husbands' philandering like Hilary Clinton, rather than stand up to them, like Mrs Tarrant did to her husband. So much for his feminism. you don't have to scratch the male feminist very deep to reveal the male chauvinist pig.

Louise

You obviously have some negative experience with infidelity in your life. That's not a good reason to offend others just because they want an open discussion about it.
Maybe you need to learn how to find suitable partners.

449. Banishing the Green-Eyed Monster

Comment #93335 by notsobad on December 2, 2007 at 6:34 pm

Observing such a principle seems now to be widely regarded as an outdated religious eccentricity, but it deserves mention, at least, in guidance to young people, as a lifestyle option with health benefits.

Sydney Norris

London SW14


Sounds nice in theory, but it doesn't work.
Teenagers who take virginity pledges -- public declarations to abstain from sex -- are almost as likely to be infected with a sexually transmitted disease as those who never made the pledge, an eight-year study released yesterday found.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48509-2005Mar18.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7232643/

450. Atheism's Wrong Turn

Comment #93313 by notsobad on December 2, 2007 at 4:32 pm

Yet the fact remains that the atheism of Dawkins, Dennett, Harris, and Hitchens is a brutally intolerant, proselytizing faith

The fact remains?
So ad hominems and straw men are facts now? And "their" atheism is faith?

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