1. Pope's Views on Science Invoke Spirited Debate

Comment #165306 by papavb on April 21, 2008 at 10:11 am

"One obviously got the very distinct impression that the cardinal really did have a regard for science,"

If the pope "had regard" for science, he would abolish the Catholic Church.

2. Richard Dawkins' secular army must be stopped. God is behind some of our greatest art

Comment #160294 by papavb on April 13, 2008 at 10:46 pm

Bah!

This is probably the most flaccid piece of apologetics I've yet to come across. Beyond the ignorance the author displays of the person he's criticizing, he fails to cook up anything novel.

Of all the people who want us to revere the daydreams of dead sunbaked mountebanks, this I-dont-believe-it-but-we-best-respect-it-lest-all-of-society-flounder-into-the-roiled-brine-of-rapine-and-despondency, is the least humorous, most nebulous, and ultimately boring and nettlesome type.

p.s.: sorry for rambling on, it's 2 am and I'm half-asleep

3. CBC News: Sunday - Richard Dawkins

Comment #100081 by papavb on December 18, 2007 at 8:19 am

what a prat that interviewer is

4. Debate: Ayaan Hirsi Ali vs Ed Husain

Comment #92105 by papavb on November 29, 2007 at 9:59 pm

Interesting, I would have thought that they were in concurrence, but maybe it's the strident atheist in her yawning at the moderate.

5. Interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Comment #92091 by papavb on November 29, 2007 at 9:27 pm

I hope you mean heroine, one little letter can make you into a needlewhore.

anyways, I agree wholeheartedly, more things like this need to be said on tv, by people who aren't reticent out of fear.

more power to her

6. Losing faith in Quebec

Comment #86275 by papavb on November 8, 2007 at 10:38 pm

Was I the only one who found, catholic thinking oxymoronic?

I hope some legislator runs this policy to its inevitable ad absurdum conclusion, a veritable clusterfuck of zaniness taught in all schools.

The Apollonians and the Mahometans will finally get along! Odin's prophecy is fulfilled!

7. Pope's 'morning after pill' speech criticized

Comment #83604 by papavb on October 30, 2007 at 3:30 pm

@ brian

maybe a subsidized abortion or something

8. Debate between Michael Shermer and Dinesh D'Souza

Comment #80413 by papavb on October 21, 2007 at 6:03 pm

And don't forget how his poison fangs came out after the Vermont Tech shootings.
(I was lurking the site when that went down)
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I can only assume you mean Virginia Tech.

9. Christopher Hitchens at AAI 07

Comment #80033 by papavb on October 19, 2007 at 3:14 pm

In support of steve99's assertion, I think a quote from Sartre is in order

"If god exists, man is not free, and if man is free, god does not exist"

you're either a fatalist, or you're not

10. Griffin's 'offensive' Emmy speech to be censored

Comment #69531 by papavb on September 11, 2007 at 4:17 pm

She's a fervid atheist alright, and thank god for that speech. The charge for defamation doesn't hold up, she's not talking about believers, she talked about god and his son(aka himself) Jesus. Bill Donahue is a waste of carbon, he never has anything relevant to say, ever.

11. Christopher Hitchens on BookTV

Comment #67565 by papavb on September 3, 2007 at 8:01 pm

One funny thing about the pro-lifers, is to notice that their opponents, aren't the pro-death people. I would assume no one here would choose abortion as the first solution to any such question, and quite literally throw out the baby with the bathwater. A certain amount of discretion and deftness in these matters is required, and I would feel somewhat uneasy comparing unborn children to X's and potential X's. The choice doth lay with the mother when it comes to it though.

12. The New Atheists

Comment #67431 by papavb on September 3, 2007 at 12:08 pm

Great article, we need more learned discussions by honest folk, because these questions really do affect us in public and private arenas.