1. Hell is real and eternal: Pope

Comment #28076 by themoonsays on March 27, 2007 at 8:41 pm

The pope is nuts, but isn't catholicism supposed to be less virulent than the ridiculous nonsense the evangelicals constantly spew? Gives the term "Pick your poison" a strange resonance.

Incidentally, my clock radio is tuned to some Christian radio station--the morning evangelist does his part in getting me to shut him off and wake up as soon as I possibly can.

Oh, and please listen to "Jesus, Dirt Roads, and Whiskey," my hillbilly atheist rant, at www.myspace.com/actualrabbits. Listen and let me know what you think!

2. The Case for Teaching The Bible

Comment #28067 by themoonsays on March 27, 2007 at 7:36 pm

Shameless self-promotion aside, I've tried to sum up my feelings about being surrounded on all sides by religious nonsense in my song "Jesus, Dirt Roads, and Whiskey." You can hear it at www.myspace.com/actualrabbits. Listen and let me know what you think!

3. 'Don't discuss polar bears': memo to scientists

Comment #25035 by themoonsays on March 9, 2007 at 7:21 pm

So who wants to talk about polar bears anyway?

Does this mean we won't be subjected to that awful Coca Cola commercial with the polar bears and penguins together. Question: where are polar bears and penguins ever seen together, or even near each other, except at the Central Park Zoo?

4. Response to Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris

Comment #25034 by themoonsays on March 9, 2007 at 7:15 pm

The worst speaker defending the stupidest ideas. The "George Foreman of religion?" Are you fucking kidding me?

The Nazi genocide of the Jews was not about religion? It was science? So anti-semitism in Germany wasn't the result of the legacy of medieval Christianity? And all of the 'science' that the Nazis used to justify their actions wasn't in the least part influenced by religious hatred? Wow, I guess I learned something.

No need to go point for point about this. This insufferable moron doesn't deserve anyone's time. But, he's getting it. Argh!

Who in the world actually believes this crap? Turns out, most people. Not much hope for us, I'm afraid.

Good night.

5. You can't trust science!

Comment #24911 by themoonsays on March 9, 2007 at 7:16 am

I thought the earth was flatulent.

6. Science, Faith, and Evolution

Comment #24910 by themoonsays on March 9, 2007 at 7:08 am

Imagine someone living out of his van, traveling the country, preaching to everyone who will listen, even going on national radio to say:

If you have two apples, and your friend gives you two more apples, then you actually have four apples! This is so because it is part of god's plan, and I actually see god in your apples!

Imagine his bumper sticker.

An otherwise hopelessly deluded individual who accepts certain self-evident facts to be true (that the earth is round-ish, that there are people, that these people have probably evolved over lots of time from other animals, and so on) is still a hopelessly deluded individual, but one who gets lots of airtime for trying to bridge unbridgeable gaps between fairyland and reality by taking people on a detour through a slightly more tangible fairyland. One can only hope that the people who get to this fairyland are led out by their own common sense, or, failing that, by any middle school science textbook.

7. Why there are almost no genuine atheists

Comment #24483 by themoonsays on March 6, 2007 at 9:18 pm

Pick a word you don't like, or that you've been taught not to like without really thinking about it, then associate every possible negative thing with that word, however unrelated, and you'll seem to have fallen upon how so many sorry, sorry people have defined the word 'atheist.'

Soon the word comes to mean the monster in the closet, the bully who took your lunch money, the girlfriend who cheated on you and broke your heart, the hidden charges on your phone bill, the time they got your order wrong at the diner, a complete breakdown of morality, the time you went out of the house with mismatched socks, utter chaos, in general, all manner of unpleasantness.

One cannot expect a rational reaction to this word or the ideas it represents from such people.

On the other hand, and this has been said so many times before, those who associate morality with religion have been able to find justification for too many evils to count.

Luckily for us all, our sense of morality has evolved over time, and it has done so in spite of, not because of, religious beliefs.

8. Talk in Class Turns to God, Setting Off Public Debate on Rights

Comment #13617 by themoonsays on December 18, 2006 at 8:42 pm

Did he say which dinosaurs made it onto the ark? And do all dinosaurs go to heaven? And do you think the former student just might have misinterpreted the First Amendment?

I would be even more horrified about this if it weren't the norm.