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Comments by Crazymalc


1. Richard Dawkins' US Tour begins this week

Comment #138000 by Crazymalc on March 3, 2008 at 6:12 pm

That's great, but why not head over to South Korea?

TGD delusion has been released here, both in Korean and English and there are a whole swag of Fundies over here that need to hear the message!

For example, the world's biggest Christian church - The Yoido Full Gospel Church - recently invited that charlatan Benny Hinn over.

I am seriously annoyed that I missed the show as I would of been handing out pamphlets!

2. Richard Dawkins talks about The Out Campaign and Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Comment #116158 by Crazymalc on January 25, 2008 at 4:32 pm

Nice vids.

Ayan and Prof. Richard = the shizzy

3. The devilish church practice of exorcism

Comment #114231 by Crazymalc on January 21, 2008 at 3:31 pm

Some of you might find this interesting. It was from one such crazy exorcism in Uganda.

http://www.crazymalc.co.nz/06Nov/08Nov/08Nov.htm

4. Interview with Neil Shubin, author of 'Your Inner Fish'

Comment #112622 by Crazymalc on January 17, 2008 at 3:09 pm

I love this interview.

Colbert has a great ability to make people look like idiots (See the d'souza interview for example).

Shubin does a great job at talking about science in a fascinating and interesting way.

Well done that man!

5. George Scales, War Hero and Generous Friend of RDFRS

Comment #111462 by Crazymalc on January 14, 2008 at 5:03 pm

Well done sir!

Thanks for courage and your generosity.

6. New attempt to end blasphemy law

Comment #109770 by Crazymalc on January 9, 2008 at 4:37 pm

What is interesting about this is that they are legalizing "sin'.

Maybe the Catholic Church could take not and relax it stance on condoms.

Because, of course, promoting sex outside of marriage is sin and sin in bad.

Much worse than AIDS, war and famine

7. Did mozzies, not a meteor, do for the dinosaurs?

Comment #108817 by Crazymalc on January 7, 2008 at 4:51 pm

Bastard Mozzies! Or, more precisely, bastard-parasite-that-lives-in-the-mosquitos-salvia!

Anything that gives me malaria for two weeks gets no sympathy from me!

http://www.crazymalc.co.nz/2007/Jan/24Jan/24Jan.htm

8. Response to Orr

Comment #91597 by Crazymalc on November 28, 2007 at 4:23 pm

Dan Dennett is god

9. Turkey probes atheist's 'God' book

Comment #91595 by Crazymalc on November 28, 2007 at 4:15 pm

I don't have anything to add.

Just want to register my general outrage at this.

First Hayann Hirsi Ali, now this

10. My life under a fatwa

Comment #91239 by Crazymalc on November 27, 2007 at 6:20 pm

Great article.

Can't wait to read her new book

11. My life under a fatwa

Comment #91238 by Crazymalc on November 27, 2007 at 6:20 pm

Comment #91200 by Watts_Pete on November 27, 2007 at 2:53 pm

Ayaan is my heroin,

but thanks to the mutilators

I can't get my coc aine.


What a reprehensible thing to say.

12. URGENT APPEAL: Please Help Protect Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Comment #89109 by Crazymalc on November 19, 2007 at 6:10 pm

Josh
Keep up the good work.

There are those who did nothing, and posted nothing.

And some of us who donated and did not post.

Ayaan
I hope my meager offering helps to keep you safe.

Prof. Dawkins is right. You deserve a Nobel Peace Prize.

13. Exorcism death shocks archdeacon

Comment #87944 by Crazymalc on November 13, 2007 at 6:53 pm

My take:

http://www.crazymalc.co.nz/2007/Nov/13Nov/13Nov.htm

14. The evolution of creationism

Comment #87936 by Crazymalc on November 13, 2007 at 5:39 pm

Eugenie Scott has some fascinating things to say about this topic. Her talk "Who took out the stake" is very interesting.

15. 'Growing Up in the Universe' now available free online

Comment #87935 by Crazymalc on November 13, 2007 at 5:32 pm

Wow. This is awesome. Thank you RDFRS and Prof. Dawkins.

16. Malaysia firm's 'Muslim car' plan

Comment #87644 by Crazymalc on November 12, 2007 at 4:54 pm

Why on earth would you need a compass pointing to Mecca? So you could prostate yourself and pray mid trip? A little dangerous to do while you are driving methinks.

Reminds me of my flight on Brunei Airlines and the similar level of stoopidity:

http://www.crazymalc.co.nz/2007/Apr/07Apr/07Apr.htm

17. A third of adults believe God watches over them

Comment #87642 by Crazymalc on November 12, 2007 at 4:49 pm

Comment #87557 by Diacanu


Geez, it's like these stories were constructed by child-minded primitives from the bronze age or something.


If this abomination of a sentence is anything to go by, then you might indeed be onto something!


Two in five adults say prayers and one in three believes that God is watching over them, a new poll reveals

18. Exorcism death shocks archdeacon

Comment #87638 by Crazymalc on November 12, 2007 at 4:43 pm

Comment #87559 by Shuggy


The Maori were NOT conquered. They signed a treaty in 1840 with Queen Victoria's representatives granting them the rights of British citizens. International law has forced recent goverments to acknowledge this and redress past wrongs.


Hi Shuggy,
As a (I assume) fellow Kiwi, I agree with almost everything you said. Very astute comments as well.

As yes, there was the Treaty in 1840. There is also the small matter of the NZ land wars though. The Maori put up a good fight to start with, but soon succumbed to colonial might. Large areas of land were confiscated and all native schools closed down.

This is a different type of conquering to other areas, but it is still conquering.

To NZ's credit though, we have gone a long way to addressing these past wrongs.

*sniff* *sniff* Just my two cents

19. Exorcism death shocks archdeacon

Comment #87448 by Crazymalc on November 12, 2007 at 6:43 am

Yay! New Zealand is my country!

Err... wait...

Comment #87351 by mandrellian


All sensitivity to indigenous culture aside, this kind of murderous superstitious bullshit has to be condemned by the NZ government and stamped out in the most vigorous possible way


Don't put it to one side. A fooked up thing is a fooked up thing no matter who does it.

20. Georgia plans service to pray for rain

Comment #86624 by Crazymalc on November 9, 2007 at 6:17 pm

If it just happens to rain when they do pray, then we'll get a B.F.Skinner effect:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_f_skinner#Superstition_in_the_Pigeon

and superstition will flourish

21. Church row evolves over fossil boy

Comment #86560 by Crazymalc on November 9, 2007 at 3:42 pm

I think this Richard Dawkins response is best for this type of nonsense:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_2xGIwQfik

22. Fox News Discussion on 'The Golden Compass'

Comment #85789 by Crazymalc on November 7, 2007 at 5:41 am

Wow. Can't wait to watch the movie!

And, it is a little rich of the Catholic church to accuse others of indocrtrinating children.

I'm sure we are alll well aware of the the problems with a "Catholic Child".

23. Gorilla slaughter sparks campaign

Comment #85380 by Crazymalc on November 5, 2007 at 4:07 pm

That's a heartbreaking pic.

24. I didn't know the FLEA CIRCUS was back in town!

Comment #85007 by Crazymalc on November 4, 2007 at 1:33 pm

Comment #85002 by BaronOchs


Crazymalc The guy on the right of the cover is Martin Amis.


Thanks! Why is he there though? I read his entry on Wiki and noted that he is a good friend of Christopher Hitchens, but I can see nothing in his writings that would clasify him into the "New Atheists" in the way that Dennett et. all are.

Can anyone shed any light?

25. I didn't know the FLEA CIRCUS was back in town!

Comment #84997 by Crazymalc on November 4, 2007 at 1:11 pm

Who is that on the extreme right (as it were...) on the cover of "The New Atheists: The Twilight of Reason & The War on Religion"

I can place all the others

26. Rome playing politics

Comment #84826 by Crazymalc on November 3, 2007 at 6:50 pm


and encouraging greater participation and opportunities for women in Spain's society and economy.


How can any sane minded organisation oppose something as basic as this?

The mind boggles

27. Jesus Rides the Number 7 Train

Comment #84825 by Crazymalc on November 3, 2007 at 6:45 pm

Jesus vs. Godzilla?

No Contest.

Jesus would whip some but.

http://overcompensating.com/posts/20071030.html

28. Tests of faith over 'The Golden Compass'

Comment #83481 by Crazymalc on October 30, 2007 at 6:42 am

Keith,


Do you wear boxing gloves while your typing?


Eek! That was pretty bad, wasn't it?

You'd think that if StrongBad could do it, then so could I...

29. Tests of faith over 'The Golden Compass'

Comment #83342 by Crazymalc on October 29, 2007 at 6:16 pm

Err... Why problem did the have with my main main Spongebob Squarepants?

Please don't tell me that they thought he was gay...

30. Face to faith

Comment #82879 by Crazymalc on October 28, 2007 at 5:38 am

Kinda odd how he acknowledges Unweaving the Rainbow, then dismisses it without reason.

Wonder is not reduced by understanding. You can stand in awe of a rainbow even when you get the whole refraction thing

31. Italy's Padre Pio 'faked his stigmata with acid'

Comment #81438 by Crazymalc on October 24, 2007 at 6:01 pm

This sort of claim is easy to dismiss.

One Pharmacist saying that he gave him some acid is hardly a convincing agrument that he faked his stigmata.

32. Catholic condom ban helping AIDS spread in Latam: U.N.

Comment #81432 by Crazymalc on October 24, 2007 at 5:56 pm

Comment #80967 by Veronique


Not the same as your experience, but did you realise that overseas Aid money from both the US and Australia (the only two countries to my knowledge) bears the caveat that no Aid money is to be used on contraception, abortion clinics or female reproductive health education?


Yup. A lot of pissed off HIV/AID workers in Africa over this. As if the epidemic wasn't already hard enough...

A good letter too.

Religion does poison everything

33. Catholic condom ban helping AIDS spread in Latam: U.N.

Comment #80962 by Crazymalc on October 23, 2007 at 5:34 pm

Putting a rubber sheath on is so much worse than keeping a superman in the sky happy.

I saw a lot of this sort of shit while I was volutneering in Africa. Not all from the Catholic church either.

USAIDS - a U.S. funded agency - goes for the abstience approach, mostly due to the religious right in America leaning on George W.

Such a waste of life.

And then of course there are idiots like this guy:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7014335.stm

34. Does fundamentalist religion cause the rejection of evolution? or is it the other way around?

Comment #80222 by Crazymalc on October 20, 2007 at 8:27 pm

Comment #80218 by Theocrapcy


I think it's counter-intuitive to accept that the theory of evolution is counter-intuitive


*nods in agreement*

I think Prof. Dennett was quite right when he said in Darwin's Dangerous Idea that Darwin had the greatest idea of all time.

Greater than Einsten, Newton... and so on because it is so damn simple!

It is not complicated like quantum theory, or the theory of relativity. You don't need any high level math to understand evolution.

35. Dan Dennett award and speech at AAI 07

Comment #78986 by Crazymalc on October 15, 2007 at 4:38 pm

I love that "Thank Goodness" piece so much

36. Report on Hindu god Ram withdrawn

Comment #78981 by Crazymalc on October 15, 2007 at 4:16 pm

On a related note, a new report suggests that an infinite number of monekys hacking away at a keyboard will NOT produce works of the quality of Shakespeare.

A spokesman said: "Plainly, the internet has shown our findings to be true".

37. Richard Dawkins receives the Deschner Prize

Comment #78744 by Crazymalc on October 14, 2007 at 5:01 pm

Congrats. Prof. Dawkins!

38. Ayaan Hirsi Ali at AAI 07

Comment #78661 by Crazymalc on October 14, 2007 at 6:32 am

What a truly beautiful woman in so many ways

39. The Religious Right's New Tactics for Invading Public Schools

Comment #77588 by Crazymalc on October 9, 2007 at 7:25 pm

Comment #77567 by Frankus1122


Didn't Daniel Dennet suggest that the proper place of religion in public schools was to teach it as a course of study? If we teach the tenets of Christianity and Islam and Pastafarianism, and look at the effects of relgion on society, and ask questions about where the religious impulse come from, we might see some serious thinking about the subject.
I think there is great value in getting religion into the public school system - not to promote it as truth but to hold it up as an object of study. When people begin to look at religion from outside of the bubble it quickly becomes apparent how silly it is.


Yes, he did. And it is a most brilliant idea.

40. A Nation of Christians Is Not a Christian Nation

Comment #76784 by Crazymalc on October 7, 2007 at 8:43 am

"the Constitution established the United States of America as a Christian nation."

What a load of crap

41. In honour of Dan Dennett

Comment #76775 by Crazymalc on October 7, 2007 at 8:04 am

Dan Dennett is a personal hero of mine also.

When I read the topic of this post I thought that is was going to be a In Memoriam.

Darwin's Dangerous Idea was quite literally a life changing book for me. I was Born Again Boy and become Agnostic Boy after some personal tragedies. Dennett's book cemented my Atheism and allowed me to get on with life. Still scared, but at least I had the truth on my side.

Thank goodness for Dan Dennett

42. Scandal brewing at Oral Roberts U.

Comment #76380 by Crazymalc on October 5, 2007 at 4:42 pm

Twenty years ago, televangelist Oral Roberts said he was reading a spy novel when God appeared to him and told him to raise $8 million for Roberts' university, or else he would be "called home."


Oral Roberts makes it sound like a bad thing.

God: "You better do this thing for me or I'll send you to eternal paradise"

Oral (tee hee): "Ok! Ok! I'll do anything, just don't send me to heaven!"

43. 'Flying Spaghetti Monster' Religious Group Turning Heads at MSU

Comment #76376 by Crazymalc on October 5, 2007 at 4:32 pm

I agree with the others here in that the reporters (esp. the guy) never got the irony.

And I love the way the leader of campus group was called "Captain".

I mean, the FSM, is not real and everyone is just pretending that it is real.

*Zap*

(Crazymalc will no longer be posting here as I have killed him for his blasphemy. signed, your Lord and Master - the FSM)

44. We Few, We Happy Few, We Band of Brothers

Comment #76231 by Crazymalc on October 5, 2007 at 6:41 am

Thanks for the video. Appreciated.

I've become fascinated with the evolution of religion since reading "Breaking the spell" and I appreciated Prof. Thomson added to the ideas in the book

45. Christianity's Image Problem

Comment #76107 by Crazymalc on October 4, 2007 at 6:17 pm

On the flip side, Christianity is on the rise here in South Korea. Estimates range from 26-49% of the population. (definitions are always problematic).

Korea has a Buddhist past and it is only in the last few decades that Christianity has really took off.

46. Hirsi Ali Returns to the Netherlands after Losing Body Guards

Comment #75806 by Crazymalc on October 3, 2007 at 5:12 pm

Hirsi Ali = Much respect

47. Logical Path from Religious Beliefs to Evil Deeds

Comment #75284 by Crazymalc on October 2, 2007 at 8:33 am

Comment #75279 by silent_brook


There is no logical path between Atheism and "good deeds".


I agree.

I think the best way to look at though is to start from the Secular Humanist point-of-view, which states that (according to Wiki):


Secular humanism is a humanist philosophy that upholds reason, ethics, and justice, and specifically rejects the supernatural and the spiritual as warrants of moral reflection and decision-making.


The atheism flows from this.

The moral implications etc also flow from the Secular Humanist point of view.

So, I would call myself a Secular Humanist first and an Atheist second.

Any morals I may claim to have came from the first thing, not the second. (Waves to C.S.Lewis)

It is also a useful P.O.V. as it enables to positively identify yourself, as opposed to defining yourself as something you're not ("I believe in no god").

48. Logical Path from Religious Beliefs to Evil Deeds

Comment #75283 by Crazymalc on October 2, 2007 at 8:27 am

There is a logical path from religious faith to evil deeds. There is no logical path from atheism to evil deeds


Very succinct and clear. Thank you Prof. Dawkins

Comment #75274 by Dr Benway


Atheist response to that: If the religious are serious about that, they've got to update their holy books. They must delete the bad laws, or publish an authoritative document eschewing the bad laws.


Very well put Dr. Benway.

49. Atheists arise: Dawkins spreads the A-word among America's unbelievers

Comment #75208 by Crazymalc on October 2, 2007 at 3:52 am

Come to Korea Prof. Dawkins! I'll buy you some shabu-shabu!

The religious right here is outta control. 1 in 20 people in Seoul go to one church, called the Full Yoido Gospel Church. (About 40% of Koreans are Christians.)

Yoido fully endorse this book as the literal word of God:

http://www.crazymalc.co.nz/2007/Sep/16Sep/16Sep.htm

which I think - see abovee review - is incredibly damamging for a host of reason.

Malcolm

50. Polygamist Leader Convicted in Utah

Comment #73722 by Crazymalc on September 26, 2007 at 1:24 am

This is sad on so many levels.

One can't help but feel sorry for the poor, poor little girl.

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