Comments by celticcrossfire

1. Don't eat at the Outback Steakhouse on Route 3...

Comment #58968 by celticcrossfire on July 26, 2007 at 7:23 pm

Wow. I'm lost for words.

Comment #46994 by celticcrossfire on June 2, 2007 at 3:29 pm

Claim: God Exists

Side 1: God Exists.
Side 2: God Doesn't Exist.

Believer: Side 1 is 100% (or close to) chance of being correct.
Atheist: Side 2 is 100% (or close to) chance of being correct.
Agnostic: Sides 1 and 2 have 50% chance of being correct.

That's how I look at it.

3. 'god is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything' by Christopher Hitchens

Comment #36203 by celticcrossfire on April 30, 2007 at 1:19 pm

Well, all those Left Behind books must just be preaching to the choir. All those responses to Harris' and Dawkins' books must be preaching to the choir. Any books that preach to the choir shouldn't be written.

Well, I guess any books that take a particular view point will be preaching to the choir, so most books shouldn't have been written.

Brilliant [/Guinness guy]

4. Atheists split on how to not believe

Comment #33961 by celticcrossfire on April 22, 2007 at 9:50 pm

Thanks for the link to PZ's article. It's exactly what I had been contemplating writing for a while, but with the added emphasis on historical examples. People say we're "militant" because we're attacking some of the basic tenets of society - and life. Any such movement, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender, etc will get the majority calling the minority "militant".

5. The Empty Wager

Comment #32936 by celticcrossfire on April 18, 2007 at 6:53 pm

I hadn't read the debate in its entirety, but my, oh my, Warren just kept getting beat.

But he's right and Pascal's wager highlights it; atheism has a bad PR campaign. I was given Pascal's wager before I had read the books by Harris and Dawkins and was subsequently unaware of it. Now, I'm ready for it.