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

Comment #100017 by Deoradh on December 18, 2007 at 4:41 am

I've just started reading this thread so I don't know if this observation has been made, sorry if it has

If we take Mikhail Gorbachev
Like Stalin he was/is an atheist
Like Stalin he was/is a Russian/Soviet citizen
Like Stalin he was a Communist
Like Stalin he was a Communist Leader
Unlike Stalin he was not a mass murderer he won the Nobel Peace Prize

And then ask the faith head what make of that

I'm hoping that someone can confirm my assumptions. I'm not great on Soviet politics and history

2. Christopher Hitchens on BookTV

Comment #67715 by Deoradh on September 4, 2007 at 1:47 pm

All 19 parts are now available - It's been a good evenings viewing

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

Comment #64959 by Deoradh on August 22, 2007 at 1:46 pm

Done, I posted the following

"Religion is not so much under attack. It's, when faced with reason, asked to prove itself by giving evidence it has nothing to fight with. Except sticking it's fingers in its ears and yelling "I believe"

Religion is used as a tool by cynical politicians who don't believe in god to get the gullible to vote for them. Statistically there has to be more than one atheist in Congress.

When you compare the beliefs of the religious with the facts, religion is small, pathetic, restricting. The more you learn about nature, science, history, art, philosophy, mythology and the cosmos, the more inspiring life is.

We are all made of Stardust, set your mind free"

Are the any more current surveys or polls out there. Larry King 71% on a roll

4. Scientists should unite against threat from religion

Comment #64938 by Deoradh on August 22, 2007 at 12:47 pm

51:47 We built the heaven with our might, giving it a vast expanse, and stretched the earth beneath it - translated by N.J. Dawood

Another one for the list, also who is "We"?

5. Poll: Which religion do you associate with?

Comment #64852 by Deoradh on August 22, 2007 at 4:53 am

Good example of a Meme at work. I got the link of the forum. Can't remember who posted it, but thanks anyway, you know who are

6. Unreasonably superstitious

Comment #62743 by Deoradh on August 11, 2007 at 5:07 am

I have consulted the cards, and they tell me the viewing figures will be good

7. Was Muhammad Epileptic?

Comment #35357 by Deoradh on April 27, 2007 at 1:28 am

I've read Robert Spenser's book "The truth about Muhammad" what he has to say about the history of Islam and Muhammad is very similar to Hitchens. The book falls apart at the end when he gives a summation of what needs to be done about Islam. Given that he is a right wing catholic the rhetoric is not unexpected, but toned down more than I thought it would be. Having said that I would still recommend it as it will probably cover ground that Hitchens does not and Spenser for the most part only uses Islamic sources.

As for the Qur'an, which I've also read recently, it is a joke. Hitchens and Spenser cover it's absurdities very well.

8. Sam's Flea!

Comment #32708 by Deoradh on April 18, 2007 at 4:18 am

Alister McGrath must be pissed that he was beaten to it

9. Christian soldier takes up arms as hustings near

Comment #26536 by Deoradh on March 20, 2007 at 6:51 am

Nastler – Yes, the Greens are pro-independence. If they highlighted this and their secularism more, this could be a vote winner for them

10. Christian soldier takes up arms as hustings near

Comment #26520 by Deoradh on March 20, 2007 at 4:40 am

"The absence of a Christian or religious party is unusual," The way that most mainstream parties are chasing the religious vote, there is no need. This is leaving a democratic deficit The Greens are the only truly secular party that I know of.

After these other related stories, I am now an ex-SNP voter

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2090-2535451.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/612409.stm

11. Faith

Comment #23069 by Deoradh on February 26, 2007 at 5:14 am

For those not familiar with Stalin's childhood
http://www.sparknotes.com/biography/stalin/section1.html

Basically he was in Gods hands for his first twenty years

SAINT Ignatius Loyola, Founder of the Jesuits "Give me a boy until he is seven-years-old and I will give you the man."

12. Foreword for the UK edition of 'Letter to a Christian Nation'

Comment #22467 by Deoradh on February 19, 2007 at 4:31 am

If you are buying a copy of The God Delusion at a bookstore, before taking your copy to the check out. Take out the bookmark and put it in a copy of the bible, and for good measure put the Bible in the horror section

13. Atheists in Jail

Comment #19819 by Deoradh on January 30, 2007 at 4:32 am

God is just as lazy, he didn't even finish his creation and made a pretty botched job of it as well. We have nebula that he didn't turn into systems, planets that should have been suns but forgot to light. Some of the suns he did light blew up. There are asteroids smashing into planets ruining the décor. Galaxies colliding and too much stuff is disappearing down black holes. What a slipshod job
If he were a plumber would you employ him?

14. Dispatches: Undercover Mosque

Comment #18231 by Deoradh on January 19, 2007 at 4:43 am

Did any of the content actually surprise anybody

15. 10 myths - and 10 truths - about atheism

Comment #14948 by Deoradh on December 27, 2006 at 4:54 am

2) Atheism is responsible for the greatest crimes in human history.

Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot's regimes were totalitarian, and since they were totalitarian could have no form of opposition in their one party states. They didn't arrive at atheism through rationalism or humanism you simply weren't allowed to be a member of any other organisation other than the Party or believe in anything but the Party doctrine.

16. Intelligent Design teaching materials sent to UK schools

Comment #12469 by Deoradh on December 12, 2006 at 4:38 am

Where in the Bible does God tell Adam/Moses/Jesus, or anyone else, about Intelligent Design? Sorry Theists but if it's not in the Bible you don't get to believe in it.

17. Humphrys In Search of God

Comment #6608 by Deoradh on November 15, 2006 at 4:45 am

Jonathan Sacks:
"We know that child sacrifice was incredibly wide spread in the ancient world, we know that from every kind of archaeological evidence. Child sacrifice which is referred to many many in the Hebrew bible as the most abominable of all acts, was the kind of thing you expected a God to ask of you, it's what gods regularly asked for their devotees. The essence of the story of Abraham is that at the critical moment God says "Stop - I am not that kind of god"."

Oh yes he is

Judges Jephthah,

29 "And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD : "If you give the Ammonites into my hands, 31 whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites will be the LORD's, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering.".

34 When Jephthah returned to his home in Mizpah, who should come out to meet him but his daughter, dancing to the sound of tambourines! She was an only child. Except for her he had neither son nor daughter. 35 When he saw her, he tore his clothes and cried, "Oh! My daughter! You have made me miserable and wretched, because I have made a vow to the LORD that I cannot break."