1. The $10,000-a-Month Psychic

Comment #200749 by bladesman on June 28, 2008 at 7:40 am

Mentalist. Haha, yeah, that's a name I'd use for them too.

2. God hates Mars

Comment #199596 by bladesman on June 26, 2008 at 3:51 am

A jihad upon all you infidels who deny the mighty Wispa bar as Lord Of The Chocolates. A jihad I say.

;o)

3. Band T-shirt draws charge

Comment #199263 by bladesman on June 25, 2008 at 12:03 pm

Ah, the c-word. Most delicious and forbidden of words. Personally, my favourite use of it is when Jodie Foster says 'He said - "I can smell your cunt"' in Silence Of The Lambs. Awesome. :o)

4. What Happens When a School Board of Religious Zealots Will 'Lie for Jesus'?

Comment #197443 by bladesman on June 22, 2008 at 3:59 am

The book sounds like it's gonna be gripping. It's gone straight on my Amazon wishlist. :o)

5. Record-setting Laser May Aid Searches for Earthlike Planets

Comment #175982 by bladesman on May 6, 2008 at 10:13 am

So pretty soon, astronomers could literally be looking for extra-solar planets with a fine tooth comb?! ;o)

6. Church is paying a high price for its celibacy rule

Comment #132833 by bladesman on February 25, 2008 at 9:06 am

Candidates must be men who have a good knowledge of the Gospel, a well-established spiritual life

Anyone know exactly what a 'well-established spiritual life' might entail?

7. Apologetic billboard replaces atheistic sign

Comment #123444 by bladesman on February 7, 2008 at 7:27 am

As an atheist, I find it offensive that they found it necessary to apologise and distance themselves from the atheist message in the 'No Religion' sign...thats the kind of reaction I'd expect if it was an anti-black message put up by the KKK or something.

8. 'Muhammad' teddy teacher arrested

Comment #91060 by bladesman on November 27, 2007 at 6:02 am

This story was the front page of the Daily Mirror today. The thing I found most disgusting about the coverage was that in the entire article, only 'moderate' muslim spokes-people (specifically some writer called Razzaque and Britain's first muslim minister Shahid Malik) were allowed to comment on it. No word from any non-muslim source, because we all know that for any non-muslim to criticise Islam is 'racist'. :roll-eyes:

And in neither of our 'moderate's' cases did they condemn the reaction to the 'crime' this teacher had committed...merely that 40 lashes would be an 'over-reaction' and that surely she had never intended to insult Islam...thereby tacitly agreeing with the idea that one cannot be allowed to insult Islam.

The sooner these idiots grow up and learn the precept of 'sticks and stones may break my bones but calling names can't hurt me' the better off the world will be.

9. Dr Bari: Government stoking Muslim tension

Comment #87239 by bladesman on November 11, 2007 at 2:50 pm

So to promote better cohesion and integration betwixt Muslims and Britain, Britain should

1) Have arranged marriages
2) Force women to cover up
3) Ban homosexuality
4) Ban women from having the choice of having an abortion
5) Seriously consider stoning as a punishment
6) Worst of all, ban alcohol

And people wonder why we hate this vile religion.

10. Crisis of faith in first secular school

Comment #72815 by bladesman on September 23, 2007 at 3:22 am

A spokesman for the Church of England said: 'If he is arguing for a way for individual schools to opt out of those bits of the act he does not like that is not something we would support. Either overtly or by default, this country is still a Christian one.'

I will fight against that despicable lie to my dying breath.

11. Anger over 'blasphemous' balls

Comment #66065 by bladesman on August 28, 2007 at 7:21 am

Try as I might to take this article seriously, all I keep getting are images of sheepish Yank troops knocking on Afghan doors going 'can we have our balls back then please?' :oD

12. Interview with Richard Dawkins

Comment #63197 by bladesman on August 13, 2007 at 1:17 pm

I believe it is unrealistic and unscientific to use the atrocities and stupidities of organized religion as a proof against the existence of God.

I don't ever recall anyone - certainly not Professor Dawkins - using the argument 'X number of people died or were tortured today as a result of religion therefore God does not exist.' The atrocities and stupidity are however, a damn good argument against organised religion. The simple fact of absolutely not one shred of unambiguous evidence in thousands of years of human history is all the argument against God that anyone needs.

And as for the rest of your proposals, all that needs to be said is - infinite regression. If the universe is so vastly complex that it needs a designer/creator...then that designer/creator must be vastly more complex than the universe...so who designed/created him/her?

Thats the point where you disappear in a puff of logic, I believe. :o)

Are you actually going to comment on the actual contents of this post?

13. A Compass That Can Clash With Modern Life

Comment #49586 by bladesman on June 12, 2007 at 12:57 pm

More evidence, if any was needed, that what we call insanity in one person, we call religion in many.

14. Baptists Warned About Islam, Atheism

Comment #49574 by bladesman on June 12, 2007 at 12:35 pm

Religion is the disease.

We are the cure! :oD

15. Christopher Hitchens on Religion

Comment #48297 by bladesman on June 7, 2007 at 11:03 am

"I'm unsure how you can look at nature and the things that are unexplainable by scientists and unexplainable by mankind and not see that there is a God that has formed these things on earth." Listener

Typical God of the Gaps reaction. Poor scientists can't keep up with the incessant need of the religious to have an explanation for everything, NOW, and so they fall back on the default 'Goddidit'.