1. Group finds Starbucks logo too hot to handle

Comment #180839 by JamesDB on May 16, 2008 at 12:22 am

HAHA icanus thats great, i got a nice laugh out of your last comment.

Wah wah boo frickedy hoo. They really can find anything to complain about. Whats up with them calling themselves the resistence, they are the majority in the country. Who are they supposed to be afraid of?

2. Childish superstition: Einstein's letter makes view of religion relatively clear

Comment #179143 by JamesDB on May 12, 2008 at 6:55 pm

This is nice bit of news but in the end really doesn't make a difference. It doesn't matter who is on whos side, just that the evidence doesn't support the religious. Having einstein now proven to not believe in religion is just another thing that will be disputed anyway seeing as christians don't pay attention to evidence.

3. An Atheist Goes Undercover to Join the Flock of Mad Pastor John Hagee

Comment #176587 by JamesDB on May 7, 2008 at 4:39 pm

I love when christians talk about how god controls the weather. If god controls the weather then how do they figure the weather channel works. Are the meteorologists linked to god via the super weather telephone line. The ignorance goes on and on.

4. Life after Jehovah's Witnesses: website offers help to followers who lose their faith

Comment #175740 by JamesDB on May 6, 2008 at 12:27 am

There's nothing like someone asking you to sign a paper that pretty much says you would rather die and leave you kids motherless than live to shake your faith away. Why is it always the extreme examples that turn people.
I would say thats one of the bigger problems with people not wanting to leave christianity, they don't force you to risk your life as much.

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

Comment #175729 by JamesDB on May 6, 2008 at 12:00 am

How irritating is that, to simply stand by your point of view no matter what. I guess we are going to have to wait for these crazies to get old and die off to rid ourselves of that type of mindset. How do you stop someone like that from poisoning their children's minds? Especially when they think what we have to say is the real poison.

6. Rover instrument to sniff out life on Mars

Comment #175725 by JamesDB on May 5, 2008 at 11:54 pm

If there is one thing that bugs me about space exploration its the amount of time we have to wait for things to happen. I may be young still but who knows how long it will take before we can travel great distances in space. We need some kind of quick jump into a star trek type of space program so im around to experience it, and if you are wondering no im not a trekky just a space junkie.

7. Regulating Evolution: How Gene Switches Make Life

Comment #175722 by JamesDB on May 5, 2008 at 11:51 pm

Interesting article, does this mean they might be able to figure out how to change these "switches" on humans to change our physical appearance one day. No more plastic surgeons purhaps, just gene altering for sexiness. Sounds good to me but i probably just don't know what im talking about.

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

Comment #175718 by JamesDB on May 5, 2008 at 11:44 pm

I always like hearing about technology like this. The idea of finding planets that can sustain life really helps boost our case in the sense that if we find life elsewhere will that shut the creationists up?
Maybe this new technology can find the evidence needed to convince creationists they've got no arguments left.

(if you can't tell what my avatar is its jesus floating above his apostles with the ghostbusters holding him with a confinement beam)

9. Girl, 17, killed in Iraq for loving a British soldier

Comment #171746 by JamesDB on April 28, 2008 at 6:53 pm

NO MORE ISLAM

10. Faith healing church parents charged over toddler's death

Comment #153367 by JamesDB on April 1, 2008 at 12:25 pm

good good good good and finally

Thats all I need to say here

11. Expelled from Expelled: PZ story goes global

Comment #150430 by JamesDB on March 26, 2008 at 10:29 pm

I figured that these blogs were getting a lot of hits but for PZ's to be one of the most viewed on the internet because of this is crazy. I would't consider this a case of any publicity is good publicity because it is all soooo bad you can't possibly turn it around. This movie is done and not getting back up, end of story.

12. Religious groups want Russian cartoon channel shut down

Comment #145973 by JamesDB on March 18, 2008 at 12:25 pm

Damn straight they should show south park. I don't think there is a funnier show out there making fun of religious people on a regular basis.

If they cancel this channel they need to cancel the religious ones too just like doglosheveva said. Religious people seem to forget the road goes both ways.

13. Religion 'linked to happy life'

Comment #145970 by JamesDB on March 18, 2008 at 12:20 pm

Hah this really does show that religion is a crutch.

I agree with you Geoff, why don't they conduct a survey to see if people who drink or smoke weed are happier then the religious. This survey is too vague to be taken seriously.

14. The Great Tantra Challenge

Comment #144603 by JamesDB on March 16, 2008 at 12:02 pm

Haha this is brilliant, it just shows that this shaman truly believed what he does works, now he has to re-think his life. Really he will keep pretending until he dies and telling people that his magic is real. How do you change this guys mind?

15. 'Anonymous' takes anti-Scientology to the streets

Comment #144583 by JamesDB on March 16, 2008 at 11:20 am

I try to think that made up religions like this help show christians how easily people can be fooled by crazy ideas. Why the religious fail to understand is hard for me to figure out.

What kind of sci-fi writer fails to include a kickass hero into his story. Why is there no messiah/luke skywalker for this "religion"

16. Deadly Sins 101

Comment #143088 by JamesDB on March 13, 2008 at 12:29 pm

What qualifies them to make up new sins anyways. I'm pretty sure I should be allowed to make up sins too in this case, or for that matter just say that none of them are sins and we can all just be done with it.

We need to figure out a way to change these sins the way the priests do, there have to be some people on this site who know their way into vatican computers ;)

17. Oklahoma: One Step from Doom

Comment #141065 by JamesDB on March 10, 2008 at 12:38 am

Oh and we also have stronger beer;)

18. Oklahoma: One Step from Doom

Comment #141063 by JamesDB on March 10, 2008 at 12:34 am

Where are the people standing up to this when it gets brought up in the first place. It shouldn't even get the time of day. Hopefully once this set of wackos has retired away the younger generation won't tolerate people coming forward with ideas like this.
Sad times for yet another american state.
I say all you secularists down there come on up to canada, we have more then enough room to spare for the enlightened. Then you won't have to put up with all this bs.

19. Richard Dawkins' US Tour begins this week

Comment #138095 by JamesDB on March 3, 2008 at 11:03 pm

Hey how about a trip to Vancouver B.C. Canada. There are a whack load of us who would show up to see him talk. If you are going to do US tours you might as well slip to the kickass part of North America. (No offence to any americans, George Bush makes you not kick ass, well maybe just "terrorist ass"):)

20. Turkey in radical revision of Islamic texts

Comment #134996 by JamesDB on February 28, 2008 at 12:32 pm

This is a smart move by the Turkish government. I like to see that they are especially taking notice to the rules that are spefically targeted at women, giving them the rights they should have anyways.

No travelling for 3 days without permission, haha why would anyone take that seriously. This is the kind of thing that shows us that religion is stupid and people are stupid for believing in it.

21. Are they running for President or Pastor-in-Chief?

Comment #134511 by JamesDB on February 27, 2008 at 11:20 pm

I really don't like how none of them take a second to think about how they are in a political debate. Religion has nothing to do with politics therefor the question "what is your favourite bible verse?" is completely meaningless.

And then they have to quickly think of whatever bible verse they figure will catch them more votes. Pathetic.

At least Hillary Clinton went with the most basic of principles in only do to others what you would want done to you yada yada.

I guess i prefer her to win but I see some people disagreeing with me on that. A woman american president could really shake things up down there.(im a canuck)

22. Don't blame Islam for terrorism, expert says

Comment #130870 by JamesDB on February 21, 2008 at 12:15 pm

This is a pretty interesting take on terrorism, I wouldn't say that i agree though.
Its hard to say that these attacks weren't faith based when the suicide bombers scream out allah's name as they push the button.

I do however agree that the U.S. has pushed its way into far too many places it doesn't belong and I can understand how residents of those countries would have an issue with americans.

I just wouldn't go so far to say that because the U.S. is a bully, people start flying planes into buildings and strapping bombs to their chests. Religion seems to be the only motive for those loony toons.

23. The Dog Allusion

Comment #128162 by JamesDB on February 16, 2008 at 11:34 am

This looks like an interesting book. I would somewhat disagree on the fact that you can't tell if your animals love you or not. Ive seen plenty of dogs and cats that wait by the door for an owner who just got home from work and they ignore the other people in the room.
At least I can say that dogs are real, a trait god seems to be missing.

24. Science Debate 2008

Comment #122602 by JamesDB on February 5, 2008 at 3:24 pm

I really don't see why they can't just attempt to add the applicable questions into the big debate the candidates already do. Instead of trying to have a whole scientific debate which im sure presidential nominees won't like the idea of, we should be pushing to have important scientific questions added to the televised debate that happens every time there is an election. Then the candidates can't refuse to attend and will be put on the spot about these important topics.

25. God the psycho

Comment #121142 by JamesDB on February 3, 2008 at 2:01 am

Haha I quite liked this one, blunt and to the point.

How come christians can send atheists letters about finding god and loving jesus and we just laugh and toss it out but when an atheist sends a christian anything everything goes to hell.
The christians rights are being violated and blah blah blah.
I think an interesting experiment would be to hook a bible believing christian up to a polygraph and ask them questions about which parts of the bible they believe and which parts they don't accept, and see if we can get a difinitive answer on which god all these people are talking about. Its time to stop with all the excuses and distractions used by the faithful. I want to know what they truly believe is real.

26. Believe it or not

Comment #97345 by JamesDB on December 11, 2007 at 11:27 pm

This is an amuzing little article. I have to say that I wouldn't be too offended if I was an american atheist left out of romneys freedom speech. I really think that all this publicity is really helping his numbers though. I think its time for the american people to stop caring so much about religion in politics when its really supposed to have no bearing on any decisions made by the government.
Maybe next time around the controversy will be over the first declared atheist running for president.
I hope Im around to see the day, what a beauty it will be.

27. 'Boycott Worked': Compass Flops - Opening Weekend $26 Million; Narnia $63 Million

Comment #96525 by JamesDB on December 10, 2007 at 5:12 pm

Donahue is the douchebag that is being talked about in one of this sites members avatar that says
"free speech for all, even douchebags"
I always just find it hard to believe that people keep listening to him. Only a group as close minded as christians could use him as their spokesman and think its a good thing.

28. Evolution Debate Led to Ouster, Official Says

Comment #92793 by JamesDB on December 1, 2007 at 1:33 pm

Intelligent Design in schools again huh. How many court cases does it take to convince a christian? apparently an infinite amount won't do the trick. I'm thinking some other kind of tactic needs to be put in place to combat these people and their crazy agendas.

How many more honest teachers will lose their jobs fighting this battle for all of us?

29. For the glory of God

Comment #88596 by JamesDB on November 18, 2007 at 2:13 am

heh Im a little happy by the whole Liberal British Columbia being from that part of the world. I hope that this isn't a classic case of the ontario people who love to think that its the best part of canada crap.
Those numbers are somewhat hard to believe based on the number of churches in the town i live in. With a population of about 20,000 there are 4 churches and one hall for jehova's witnesses.(one of the churches is baptist and its quite large, its where the highschool has its graduation ceremonies(purely for the seating capacity))
How do we rid ourselves of this ignorance

30. Religious scholars mull Flying Spaghetti Monster

Comment #88391 by JamesDB on November 16, 2007 at 12:36 pm

Again with the semantics. Religion already has a decent definition, we don't need to be going around trying to convince everyone that nonreligious things may be religions.
This is a little like the "theory" issue and if the evangelicals get their greedy hands on it and twist it they are going to say that all of us are religious in some way, like the FSM or the celestial teapot.

31. Judgement Day: Intelligent Design on Trial

Comment #88389 by JamesDB on November 16, 2007 at 12:23 pm

I actually managed to get this on tv last night before it was poster here.
I quite enjoyed it, perfect example of the ignorance of religious people especially the behe parts.
I also found it hilarious when they had the early drafts of pandas and people and in it there was the
"cdesign proponentsists"
Lazy buggers can't even fully delete the words they are replacing. Then at the end the part where the creationists are calling the judge an idiot. bah How long can we put up with this, it went to trial and has been resolved.

They need to accept the facts and stop pushing because we are never gonna stop pushing back.

32. The good that comes from belief

Comment #86595 by JamesDB on November 9, 2007 at 5:00 pm

Hasn't this argument been dismissed time and time again. Why don't these columnists ever read any other articles related before sending it out.
They need to stop being so lazy and read a little, then they would realize there is no point in printing articles saying what dozens of people said before them.

33. Georgia plans service to pray for rain

Comment #86591 by JamesDB on November 9, 2007 at 4:56 pm

This reminds me of a comment my grandma made this summer in front of a bunch of my family at a reunion we had.
"well i prayed for good weather but god just couldn't come through for us"
I grumbled under my breath seeing as its my grandma and i hate the idea of tearing into her for such a small offence but do any of these people ever watch the news. Do they figure that the meteorologists are talking to god about what the weather is going to be like tomorrow.

Bah this ignorance is a perfect example of the problems the US has with its public officials.

34. Hello Again, Michael Behe!

Comment #86279 by JamesDB on November 8, 2007 at 11:59 pm

I liked the part about her not even wanting to give him the time of day but felt like he needed a good bashing.
And thats just what he seems to have gotten.
Will this be just another one of those things behe decides are irrelevant to his "work" and pretend it never happened.
It seems quite likely.

35. Velociraptor and prehistoric co. breathed like birds: study

Comment #86274 by JamesDB on November 8, 2007 at 10:34 pm

Hahah i love that,

Chicken tastes like dinosaur.

Pure gold pentecost

And just toss this atop the massive pile of evidence that the faithful continue to ignore.

36. On Being Not Muslim Enough

Comment #86273 by JamesDB on November 8, 2007 at 10:29 pm

Im interested in knowing why these kinds of interactions don't sway her faith more. I always have felt that the majority of faithful people usually stick with it due to the community it provides them with.
You would think that with no community to support her she would think about turning her back on her faith, not just claim that she isn't welcome and keep it.

37. Judgement Day: Intelligent Design on Trial

Comment #86039 by JamesDB on November 8, 2007 at 12:10 am

Bah I hope i get this show on the west coast of canada. Im pretty sure i get pbs.
It doesn't make sense that canada wouldn't get this show when half the networks i get through cable are american channels.
However i do love how international these posts seem to be, good to know that we are spread all over the world with the ability to communicate like this. Its a bit of a sad note that so many of these tv programs are american based. We need more international tv representation i say.
It would be nice to see shows like this come from religion dominated countries. I think its a good way to show the religious that we are among them everywhere.

38. Pentagon Sued Over Mandatory Christianity

Comment #86036 by JamesDB on November 7, 2007 at 11:53 pm

Oh man no one will probably read this post seeing as it is quite an old thread but i just wanted to make a quick point to cover the point i made earlier that munky82 commented on.

American soldiers are semi-brainwashed killing machines. When they are praying and you don't and single yourself out its kind of like a bunny rabbit in a fox den. Pretend to be a fox purely for your safety because i don't trust a bunch of soldiers in the desert after critisizing their beliefs

39. When Congress Interferes With Science, Who You Gonna Call? (Hint: It's not Ghostbusters)

Comment #86032 by JamesDB on November 7, 2007 at 11:32 pm

Sounds like something I would definitely sign up for if i was american but i just so happen to be a close neighbor so can only watch and hope intently.
(Im a canadian who lives about 20km from the washington state border)
All I get to do is sit back and hope we make progress down there so the yahoos don't turn the world against them which affects me and my quiet country to the north directly.
You can do it guys, go team.

40. Fox News Discussion on 'The Golden Compass'

Comment #85706 by JamesDB on November 6, 2007 at 10:39 pm

Yikes another good example of why i don't watch fox news.
TV interviews like this always piss me off when they talk over eachother and you can't hear what points are being made. How can you have a decent conversation in 2 minutes?
All i ever get out of these are blah blah fox loves jesus blah blah. Enough already.

41. Richard Dawkins at AAI 07

Comment #85454 by JamesDB on November 6, 2007 at 12:39 am

Awesome speech, i enjoyed it thoroughly. Does anyone else find RD's voice somewhat comforting like I do?

I also loved the part with the comedian who i have never heard of before. Are there youtube videos of things hes done?

42. The Year of Living Biblically

Comment #84635 by JamesDB on November 3, 2007 at 1:43 am

Im a canadian and a big fan of george stroumbo. He is a actually getting a spot on a local radio station out here in Van. BC which just so happens to be on sundays. I didn't like the part about how he prayed a lot and ended up feeling like he was actually talking to someone at that time. I was raised in a christian household and used to pray but i always had that im only talking to myself feeling. I really dislike the idea that if you pray over and over you start to feel like you are talking to someone, isn't that along the lines of a mental illnesses. I guess religion really does fall into the category of mental illness. It messes with minds in a way few things can.

43. Jury Awards Father $11M in Funeral Case

Comment #83973 by JamesDB on November 1, 2007 at 12:01 am

This is a good move on the part of the American legal system, these loons need to have some kind of punishment dropped on them for being so nuts. They definitely deserve to be knocked down a bunch of pegs so they no longer go out and bother grieving families. It would be nice to see some kind of laws passed that threaten them with jail time if they continue going out and running their unpleasant mouths.

44. Help Counter the New Atheist Crusade to 'Evangelize' America!

Comment #79413 by JamesDB on October 17, 2007 at 8:07 am

This is a little bit terrifying and absurd at the same time. It does however help to show the kind of impact we are having on these christian groups. I guess they are finally getting scared enough to change their tactics against us, which I feel is a good sign. Its good to know we are moving forward in this direction, pushing these groups against the wall so they make desparate moves like this one. Lets all hope the trend continues.

45. Sam Harris seems like a nice fellow, but very confused

Comment #77273 by JamesDB on October 8, 2007 at 11:49 pm

This controversy is both hilarious and ironic. Did anyone happen to see the two south park episodes that had richard in them. Part of it is about the future where the whole world is religion free but there are groups that are at war. The groups are two separate atheist populations and they are at war over what to call the collective group of atheists. South Park can teach all of us a valuable lesson, who cares what we call ourselves as long as everyone knows what position we have on the subject of religion.

46. Scientists Feel Miscast in Film on Life's Origin

Comment #74208 by JamesDB on September 27, 2007 at 5:11 pm

This is a pretty funny article as i remember reading the post by pz myers before. Ignorance Ignorace Ignorace. Stop trying to sell everyone creationism, its getting old. I also don't like that the director is from B.C. seeing as thats where i live, I was hoping we were moving in the right direction in this part of the world, im wrong again though.

47. Row Brews Over DUP Call for Schools to Teach Creationism

Comment #72595 by JamesDB on September 21, 2007 at 8:08 pm

I really don't understand why these people don't pay attention to what happens in the world. Dont' they realize that this has been tried over and over and always ends up the same. Creationism isn't science so where are they getting the idea that it is. Maybe we need to make some kind of creation island where all these people can live cut off from the normal rational world, there they can believe whatever they want and teach eachother whatever they make up, which seems to be what they do anyway.

48. Pentagon Sued Over Mandatory Christianity

Comment #71925 by JamesDB on September 20, 2007 at 12:30 am

If you thought it may have been hard to come out to your mother about being an atheist then imagine being surrounded by dozens of highly trained, brainwashed american soldiers who kill for a living who love jesus. Telling them you think their deity doesn't exist isn't something i would feel comfortable doing in the middle of the desert. This is a good example of one of those places closet atheists must be hiding.

49. Open letter to YouTube video

Comment #70340 by JamesDB on September 15, 2007 at 1:49 am

This is totally crazy, how can someone in jail manipulate this kind of system so much. Does youtube have some kind of anti-atheist agenda or are they just attempting to cover their butts from any real legal action against them. Either way I say anyone with a youtube account should send a little email so we can flood their servers with this. Maybe they will come to a more appropriate conclusion rather then banning innocent users.

50. San Diego Diocese Settles Lawsuit for $200 Million

Comment #68736 by JamesDB on September 8, 2007 at 11:11 am

Its good that they ended up paying more than they were attempting to get away with i just can't get past the idea that no criminal charges were filed. Child abuse is one of those crimes that most would define as unforgivable but it seems when you are a member of the church you get some kind of special protection from the "laws of man". I would like to see some kind of court order forbidding the church to take care of younger kids and make some kind of mandatory age before they are allowed to go. Let the kids decide for themselves if they wanna talk privately with a priest.