1. Let us pray for the soul of Richard Dawkins

Comment #40312 by newathiest on May 14, 2007 at 5:35 am

jeepinci -

I dunno man, I think another, more wide ranging dilemma could have been used to demonstrate that point. Would we kill the last thousand elephants to save a baby? That's tougher.

2. Let us pray for the soul of Richard Dawkins

Comment #40303 by newathiest on May 14, 2007 at 5:23 am

Assuming he's not been misrepresented, then
I disagree with Prof. Dawkins, and I'd shoot the elephant.
Not because humans have a soul, but because of what wahoonie said. (comment 9) Own species and all that.

Anyhoo, this caught my eye -

With their loudest persecutor silenced, believers would see no need for hard-line posturing. They would once again feel like ordinary citizens rather than a hunted species that must bare its fangs to survive.

Wow. Questioning = Persecution

And the hunted species will bare its fangs? A veiled threat perhaps. Apart from the ever-present potential for religious extremism, it's a good thing xtianity is completely toothless in its fight against science, as recent articles on this site have shown.

3. Those fanatical atheists

Comment #38153 by newathiest on May 7, 2007 at 6:13 am

It's so true. I can only echo Kurzweilfreak (Comment 38063). Now that athiesm seems to be breaking the last taboo of not affording religious belief any actual respect, (a crime I was guilty of until recently) the religious are crying foul.

How dare Richard Dawkins actually speak the plain truth! That's dirty tactics indeed.

4. Unholy row at clergy soccer game

Comment #38147 by newathiest on May 7, 2007 at 5:56 am

When I read the headline, I thought this story was going to be about brawling priests, proving all at once how "human" they are in the heat of competition, when perhaps they ignored the peaceful teachings of their religion.

Alas. No such pleasant surprises, just the usual nonsense.

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

Comment #37877 by newathiest on May 6, 2007 at 4:45 am

I felt sorry for Mohammed Attar. I really did. And the rest of the 9/11 hijackers.

I thought - those poor bastards. All they had to do was live life. They could've been anywhere else doing anything else, enjoying life for what it is. But they were brainwashed from birth, and they didn't stand a chance.

That's what religion does, but can any of us muster sympathy for the perpetrators in this sickening story who might have been any of us, had we been born in Iraq?

It's almost incomprehensible that this story has more than one innocent victim, but it does.

6. Hubble Celebrates Its Seventeenth Birthday with the Birth of a Star

Comment #35843 by newathiest on April 29, 2007 at 3:27 am

Beautiful. The power is unimaginable.

"Our Sun and our solar system may have been born inside such a cosmic crucible 4.6 billion years ago."

Hydrogen, oxygen, sulphur. Life stuff.

Good luck to any intelligent beings that might evolve in the Carina region over the next 4.6 billion years. I hope they make a better go of it than us. ;)

7. Shout your doubt out loud, my fellow unbelievers

Comment #35415 by newathiest on April 27, 2007 at 5:05 am

Ah yes.
Now that's what I'm talkin' 'bout!

People bringing their best and most relevant examples to back their positions in the forum.

So many volumes of university attained knowledge does weefree have at his disposal, that he can mine this nugget to support his position on Hitler's persecution (or intended persecution) of Christians. Was it a speech from Hitler? A document? A manifesto? No. - "This from Hitler's secretary. (Hitler said..)
"Only mankind and above all the church have made it their aim to keep alive the weak, those unfit to live, and people of an inferior kind."

Wow. Persecution of Christians if ever I saw it.
The infirm, homosexuals, and any other group or race Hitler saw as inferior are the apparent targets here. Not the church.

And there was this question from wf - "De-conversion through argument, logic and ridicule? Well I guess you have managed to get one of those right! And what happens when these fail? How will you eradicate the virus of religion then?"

With religion intact, seems to me the church will have won back the upper hand. See above from Mr Parris -
"..when the Church had the upper hand it was happy to persecute, imprison or behead non-believers and fight crusades against other religions."

My thanks to BillySands comment 35123. I like to think the comments in these forums help the thousands of people who finally heard of Richard Dawkins last week, yesterday, and today, and who will come to this site to see what the best (so called) arguments against him and other atheists are. No doubt the arguments are old. A couple of thousand years old. But I'm a NEW atheist.