1. Ben Stein Wins Intelligent Design Money

Comment #127982 by Captain Yesterday on February 15, 2008 at 8:35 pm

At least for once they appropriately title something ... The Johnson Award, hehe.

2. Talking Action Figure Jesus

Comment #73601 by Captain Yesterday on September 25, 2007 at 12:38 pm

Awesome, this should make it easier for Robot Chicken to give us high quality mockery of christianity :)

3. Youtube hater, I respect your right to free speech.

Comment #70968 by Captain Yesterday on September 17, 2007 at 11:20 am

Let's be honest. No matter the personality of any outspoken atheist, the faithheads will demean it in some way or another.

Prof. Dawkins is arrogant, Chris Hitchens is pompous, Brian Sapient is low-brow etc ...

Time to get over the fact that they will characterize us badly at every turn because that's the only thing they have as a defense against reality.

Cheers for Brian!

4. The New Atheists loathe religion far too much to plausibly challenge it

Comment #38181 by Captain Yesterday on May 7, 2007 at 7:20 am

"and Martin Luther King a "plagiarist and an orgiast" and in no real sense a Christian"

I have to question if she has even read the book at all or just picked up some very out of context statements. Hitchens fairly lavishes praise upon MLK in the section regarding him. Yes, he (eventually) does point out that MLK had some personality quirks that most christians would rail against, but makes it very clear that those quirks did not make him less of a christian nor minimize the impact and importance of what he set out to accomplish. How anyone could read Hitchens' book and think he was calling King "in no real sense a christian" is beyond me.

Getting a bit tired of this "hysterical" tripe as well. Dawkins et al essentially have said "bring forth evidence and we'll gladly listen. Barring that evidence, there is no reason to accept your folklore and myths". Counterpoise that with the typical hellfire and damnation, atheist/homosexual-agenda, ID christians and one wonders if these people have any concept of the meaning of the term "hysterical".

5. Atheism's Big Night In Little Rock

Comment #35881 by Captain Yesterday on April 29, 2007 at 7:29 am

[chrisrkline: You can buy both Dawkins and Harris' books at the two Barns and Nobel book stores.]

Yep, I have to go to the Jonesboro B&N to get my books (when I don't use Amazon). It annoys me that our Wal-Mart supercenter, which ostensibly carries a "bestseller" section of books does not contain any of the "atheist" literature, not even Ayaan Hirsan Ali. But boy, you can sure find plenty of theist bestsellers and books on the shelves ... and Sylvia Browne :(

6. Atheism's Big Night In Little Rock

Comment #35780 by Captain Yesterday on April 28, 2007 at 8:52 pm

I am so disappointed that I was not able to attend. Stupid job ;)

As a disclaimer to an undercurrent found in this article, there are surprisingly far more free-thinkers to be found here in Arkansas than one would imagine. While there are a great many churches (many, many, many churches) in the state, my experience has been that most believers are of the type that acknowledge a belief in a God but it plays almost no part in their actual lives. I actually know more atheists than I do theists!

7. 'The Day They Kicked God out of the Schools' & Rebuttal

Comment #34314 by Captain Yesterday on April 23, 2007 at 7:18 pm

"Was anyone else really bugged by the fact that they place the Taber AB shooting somewhere in SW Manitoba. I mean i know the provincial lines weren't on the map, but still..."

It's not the only error Pieter. I live just outside Jonesboro, Arkansas and was amazed to see in the first video that God seems to think we live on the other side of the state in Fayetteville. If these folk can't even get simple geography right, how can they expect anyone to take their insipid garbage even slightly seriously.