Comments by AnatheistinNigeria

Comment #38517 by AnatheistinNigeria on May 8, 2007 at 1:24 pm

CH likes Proust: He is a good man.

Also that he understands that the civilised world must protect itself against Islamic Terror.

2. The moment a teenage girl was stoned to death for loving the wrong boy

Comment #37727 by AnatheistinNigeria on May 5, 2007 at 2:36 pm

Honor killings go on all the time, even in Europe. And the worse thing is; These men and the women that support them actually win every time they get away with this kind of murder. Because women will be frightened and rightfuly so, and will feel themselves forced to abide by the morality of their group.

It is terrorism against women of the worse kind.

3. How multiculturalism is betraying women

Comment #36827 by AnatheistinNigeria on May 2, 2007 at 1:10 pm

This is so shameful for German/European law.

I am especially disappointed that such verdicts go unchallanged. These cases should appealed to higher and higher courts, if necessary until it reaches the European Court. I cannot image that these insane verdicts would not be struck down as being against European Laws related to the right for equal treatment for all people.

Are there any (German) lawyers on this blog that may be able to help?

4. An atheist's call to arms

Comment #36534 by AnatheistinNigeria on May 1, 2007 at 12:50 pm

Reading the posts on this site, let me believe that there is a world filled with well-thinking people.

But look at the comments made on Richard Dawkins TED talk. Filled with nonsense and such empty allegations of miletant atheism of the side of RD.

Perhaps we shopuld devote some of our energies to responding to the more general blogs

5. New Noah's Ark ready to sail

Comment #35922 by AnatheistinNigeria on April 29, 2007 at 10:40 am

When I read this article, I felt ashamed to be Dutch.

I still think that these bible thumpers are still a small minority in the Netherlands

6. Evolution Booklet

Comment #35582 by AnatheistinNigeria on April 27, 2007 at 4:42 pm

Good evolution and much needed.

I suppose the booklet must be marginally positive towards religions to be acceptable and read. Good tactics (perhaps), but most likely poor strategically.

The Sihk and the Muslim commentator spewed anti-scientific nonsense. "We believe in science as long as it is line with our holy books, otherwise we reject it".

Also the bit that when scientists step over into the realm of religion, it will create problems is bollocks. Religions make statements about the real world (prayer, miracles, and the like) and the real world is fair game for scientific inquiry.

On the other hand, I love it how far religions have had to retreat. In the olden days, not a raindrop could fall without the expressed wish of god. Now, when one talks to a half well informed religious person, they have to retreat all the way to the big bang to allow for god to intervene.

Unfortunately the olden days still exists on many places on earth.

7. Was Muhammad Epileptic?

Comment #35209 by AnatheistinNigeria on April 26, 2007 at 3:10 pm

I always wonder how a well educated, well read, religious Mulsim would react to an article as this.

Ir seems that the man-made character of the Kuran is impossible not to see.

8. Study: Religion is Good for Kids

Comment #34898 by AnatheistinNigeria on April 25, 2007 at 2:17 pm

As in the USA the large majority of families are religious, the non-religious families would have been statistically insignificant.

Therefore the study did not compare religious and non-religious families.

Instead the study compared (religious) families going to some kind of religious service and talked to their kids to (also religious) families that don't attend and talked less to their kids.

Then, there may indeed be real difference in behavior between these two groups.

9. In the beginning

Comment #34025 by AnatheistinNigeria on April 23, 2007 at 4:26 am

The battle lines are now more clearly being drawn with well funded Christian and Muslim organisations convincing their flock that evolution is wrong. The question: "Where do we come from " is essential to keep their people believing. Without this argument, their dogmas will collapse. And they know it and they are scared of it.

Here in Nigeria when I engage people in the argument on the existence of god I am often asked: "So if you do not believe in God, then who created people, who created the world". None of these people have ever heard of the big bang theory and that we are made of star dust and only have the faintest, mostly faulty notions about evolution. That makes it hard to give a short coherent response.

Given the funding available to them and the lack of knowledge on the greatest scientific stories ever told by the majority of believers, they may be very succeful.

Even more so because even in the West I see a reluctance to teach evolution and cosmology, I am afraid out of deference to our own religious sub-groups. If I hadn't taken care of teaching my own children about these things, their school definitely would not have told them.

A worrying situation.