1. Red hot enlightenment led me to believe in one fewer god

Comment #218386 by DragonOfColour on July 25, 2008 at 10:57 am

My pet peeve (actually one of many) is the way that Christians invent new words to make their religious spittle sound 'cool' and 'hip'. One of my all-time "favourites" that causes me to tear my mental hair out is "brokenness" which of course Muehlenberg uses. Why can't they just use a fucking real English word for godsakes? Because they are just not COOL enough for the jesus freaks, I suppose.

2. Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?

Comment #127673 by DragonOfColour on February 15, 2008 at 1:58 pm

The Solution (for anabanana who wants a solution) is:

ENCOURAGE READING!!!!!

I was encouraged to read from an early age and I'm now what I consider well read, well informed and of above average literacy compared to those around me. It starts with the parents fostering the interest in their children, not with the government.

I come from South Africa and honestly the average American seems to be as well informed about the world around him as the poor, underprivileged, uneducated masses we have in our country. But at least ours have some excuses on their side: the climate in which they and their parents grew up (apartheid) was not at all conducive to getting an education. America however has no such excuse, its just plain laziness, indolence. Disinterest in the world around them. Shame on you!

3. Atheism and Violence

Comment #117999 by DragonOfColour on January 30, 2008 at 7:28 am

The good Jesuit father solved one of the most philosophical conundrums with the wave of his jebus wand.
"If god created the world, who created god?" Has confounded thinkers since there were thinkers. He brushes it off by stating it is a "dorm room question", or something like that. ( I don't have the courage to go back to that stupid article and search for the exact quote.)

I picked up on this as well. It infuriates me when a critic lambasts an argument by calling it "old" or "immature" but then COMPLETELY IGNORES it throughout the remainder of his article. He ignores it because, By God, if he actually had an answer to it, he'd be falling over himself to present it to us!

For they at least, unlike Dawkins, Harris, Daniel Dennett and Christopher Hitchens, can see that after Nietzsche a moral critique of the Christian God has become impossible, for it denies the very presupposition that makes its own critique possible.

Reading this article (and I managed to get through most of it) is like wading through rapidly hardening tar. Its so full of high-brow obfuscations, deliberate use of complicated-word-when-simple-one-will-do, and verbiage that it makes my mind glaze over. I mean, I'm GOOD at English, and I can't understand what this fucktard is saying. Or maybe its just that I don't want to have to pull apart the intricate mess off his convoluted arguments, its just too much work. Ugh, its terrible. I'll bet his students just nod their heads in submission hoping the pain will go away. Or stab themselves with their pencils, like a previous poster said.

4. 'Irrational Atheist' trounces God-deniers

Comment #117884 by DragonOfColour on January 29, 2008 at 10:56 pm

This book is parasitic on the success of the Dawkins (et al) books. Doesn't he realise this?