1. Happy Birthday, Richard Dawkins!

Comment #149958 by Moridin on March 26, 2008 at 11:09 am

Happy birthday Prof. Dawkins!

2. Ayaan Hirsi Ali to get EU protection

Comment #136274 by Moridin on February 29, 2008 at 4:33 pm

Finally. I am so happy for her!

3. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, etc. were atheists, and they were terrible! Answer that!

Comment #81669 by Moridin on October 25, 2007 at 2:41 am

The thing that was wrong with the communist and fascist totalitarian regimes lead by Hitler and Stalin etc. was not that it was so irreligious, but because it was so much like a religion.

Neither Russia nor Germany experienced the Renaissance or the Enlightenment. Germany was busy with religious wars and Russia was basically stuck in the dark ages until the industrialization. So they never had these rationalistic movements that sought to apply reason, science and to base their knowledge on evidence in order to question dogma and religion. It is not surprising to see that it was the most religious countries that fell to facsism and communism.

None of the countries that had enlightened rational philosophy was subverted by fascism or communism.

So what was characteristic of the fascist and communistic totalitarian regimes? Certainly not a rational evidence-based application of reason and science.

Since they never experienced the Renaissance or the Enlightenment the people where very prone to the irrational worship of abstracts (state, nation, class, race etc.) and the unquestioning support of dogmatic leaders. Stalin was a demigod to the people of Russia. They had their own form of superiority claims. Nazi Germany had the delusion that their 'race' where the best and Soviet Russia claimed that their Homo sovieticus (New Soviet Man) was superior. Both nations had their very own form of anti-scientific tendencies; eugenics in Germany and Lysenkoism in Russia, which was also full of superstitious thinking.

* Irrational Worship of Abstracts
* Unquestioning Support of Dogmatic Leaders
* Superiority Claims
* Knowledge based on superstition, not evidence and reason.

These are the very hallmark of religion. The reason that Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia was so bad was not because their leaders where irreligious, it was because they following irrational doctrines of communism and fascism that told them to kill everyone that disagreed.

4. Good News: Both our Foundations are now Officially Recognized as Charities

Comment #70341 by Moridin on September 15, 2007 at 1:50 am

Congratulations and thank you for the hard work. One small step for RDF, one giant leap for mankind.

5. There is no God and Dawkins is his Prophet

Comment #66437 by Moridin on August 30, 2007 at 2:14 am

Yes finally! I'm from Sweden (but I read the English version).

This is exactly what Sweden needs, even though it is the least religious country in the world. This will push the majority in-the-middle people to reject religion.

The Swedish titles will be Illusionen om Gud (The Illusion of God) and Atheismens Illusioner (The Illusions of Atheism).

6. CNN Request for 'I-Reports' on religion

Comment #65240 by Moridin on August 23, 2007 at 10:06 am

My message

"Religion and faith is under attack in our modern society, and for good reasons. Why? Because it is a threat to the survival of our civilization. Virtually all progress during the last 300 years have come from rational science such as longer life span, improvement in health and a greater understanding of our Universe. Religion and faith has contributed nothing. In fact, it has been the biggest reactionary to the progress of science and tries to inject its irrational dogma into modern politics. They may succeed, but if so, humanity will not."

7. Atheists and believers have got religion wrong

Comment #63640 by Moridin on August 15, 2007 at 7:23 am

In fact everyone who ever lived up to about 1800, and most people since then have been stupid stupid stupid.

The problem with this argument is that religion serves as a much stronger identifier than a mere football club.

When the animosities between Manchester United and Real Madrid have been active for 2000+ years with hundred of thousands of deaths on both sides because the different clubs makes incompatible and unsupported metaphysical claims, then we can talk.

8. Interview with Richard Dawkins

Comment #63191 by Moridin on August 13, 2007 at 1:06 pm

darwin2, a space shuttle is not a biological entity. Furthermoore, complexity is not the way we see if something has been designed or not, it is its artificiality. We know that a paper clip has been designed by looking at it, but it is so far from complex as you can get, but it is artificial. Biological life is natural.

9. Richard Dawkins and the New Age fakers

Comment #62805 by Moridin on August 11, 2007 at 1:45 pm

Stock Market Analysts actually use evidence-based methods. Most of them anyways.

It will be interested to see The Enemies of Reason. I kind of liked his approach in RAE, but I'm sure I'll like this one too.

Hope it generates a lot of media attention.

10. Sean Hannity with Christopher Hitchens

Comment #54790 by Moridin on July 9, 2007 at 1:28 am

Too bad he did not attempt to destroy the first-cause argument. Well, Fox is that way it is.

11. Inferior Design: Richard Dawkins reviews Behe's lastest book

Comment #53768 by Moridin on July 3, 2007 at 4:45 am

I am happy to see the Intelligent Design movement getting another stab from science and reason. Dawkins did an excellent job with this article and still, I cannot imagine how Behe could have overlooked dog breeding. Might be from all the stress he has gone through because of the scientific community has shunned him. Oh well.