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1. Two More Fleas

Comment #144682 by hello on March 16, 2008 at 3:22 pm

Geoff

two days late, that's already been shredded here:


Thanks for that. I've had a look. I disagree with you that it has been shredded. It's just the usual knee-jerk and thoughtless reactions of people repeating the atheist mantra. I think that in some cases his assessment of atheists is not too far off the mark, at least from what I have read of comments appearing on this web-site.

2. The atheist delusion

Comment #144667 by hello on March 16, 2008 at 2:47 pm

Inferno

Science reveals, or attempts to reveal, facts about the world. It does not tell you how to act in knowledge of those facts



Absolutely right. Does atheism?

3. Two More Fleas

Comment #144660 by hello on March 16, 2008 at 2:23 pm

http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/politicsphilosophyandsociety/story/0,,2265446,00.html



Something for you all to read.

4. Christopher Hitchens on Real Time with Bill Maher

Comment #137859 by hello on March 3, 2008 at 2:34 pm

Steve Zara

Only if you pay the fee


At least that is clear.

5. Christopher Hitchens on Real Time with Bill Maher

Comment #137857 by hello on March 3, 2008 at 2:33 pm

Peacebeuponme

Whatever do you mean?


Well, I seem to have been lumped into the theist camp by some contributors, who are demanding answers to questions that have been put to me.

I don't really see it as my role to provide answers for theists.

I would have thought this was obviously a site where answers about atheism can be sought.

Have a look at Frankus1122's comments a bit further up.

6. Christopher Hitchens on Real Time with Bill Maher

Comment #137847 by hello on March 3, 2008 at 2:28 pm

Frankus1122

they have won this argument with you.



Have a look at this article for a more balanced view of the state of things.

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/05/21/070521crbo_books_gottlieb

7. Christopher Hitchens on Real Time with Bill Maher

Comment #137842 by hello on March 3, 2008 at 2:26 pm

Frankus1122

wondering when you were going to get around to answering any questions.



Surely this is site for providing answers about atheism!

8. Christopher Hitchens on Real Time with Bill Maher

Comment #137840 by hello on March 3, 2008 at 2:24 pm

Frankus1122

Our eternal souls depend on you.



No, they don't.

9. Christopher Hitchens on Real Time with Bill Maher

Comment #137790 by hello on March 3, 2008 at 1:36 pm

Firehot

hahahaha loved the very last comment hitchens made


I guess, on the basis of his last comment, we can look forward to Hitchens suddenly and unexpectedly turning Christian!

10. Christopher Hitchens on Real Time with Bill Maher

Comment #137216 by hello on March 2, 2008 at 2:22 pm

To me, any idea that is dogmatically telling people what to think about the big questions of life, i.e. the what's, the how's and the why's of the universe, is not appealing,


You mean....like atheists do?

11. Fleabytes

Comment #137212 by hello on March 2, 2008 at 2:16 pm

Paula Kirby

Have you read John C. Lennox's "God's Undertaker"? I think you should add that to your list of reviews.

12. Fleabytes

Comment #137182 by hello on March 2, 2008 at 1:37 pm

Anyone with the most basic knowledge of science must realise that with every advance in knowledge the kingdom of God is shrunk into ever diminishing shadows.


Which scientific advance is that, then?

13. Fleabytes

Comment #136681 by hello on March 1, 2008 at 2:52 pm

Well, for all those of you who think we are unduly influenced by the church in the UK....


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/02/10/do1001.xml

14. Fleabytes

Comment #136657 by hello on March 1, 2008 at 2:25 pm

How do you account for the fact that I made the decision to stop working with the homeless whilst I was still a Christian?


Perhaps you got fed up with the way the organisers were behaving..... much as I did when I left a beach mission in the North of France one year because the leader was so angrily and vociferously opposed to and condemning of anyone who was a Catholic.

15. Fleabytes

Comment #136652 by hello on March 1, 2008 at 2:20 pm

you have made it clear that you think this website is a waste of time and is olfactorily offensive to you.


Ha ha.....that was my 11 year old daughter....who can't understand why I keep logging into this site either!!!

...out or the mouths of babes and infants comes forth wisdom.

I guess she's right!!

16. Fleabytes

Comment #136629 by hello on March 1, 2008 at 1:59 pm

How do you distinguish between proper and improper use of religion?


That is self-evident, if you can tell right from wrong and good from evil.

17. Fleabytes

Comment #136618 by hello on March 1, 2008 at 1:52 pm

gravity



Proper use of gravity is good for us and helps us, improper use is bad for and harms us.....bit like religion really.

18. Fleabytes

Comment #136616 by hello on March 1, 2008 at 1:50 pm

I quite liked my analogy with gravity, that i provided earlier, and as someone pointed out if you jump out of a plane from a great height you would be defying gravity............ I guess this would constitute (at the very least) unwise use of gravity.

19. Fleabytes

Comment #136615 by hello on March 1, 2008 at 1:48 pm

What is your purpose


Purpose? What's that?


...and what's your purpose?

(in the context of Darwinian evolution)

20. Fleabytes

Comment #136612 by hello on March 1, 2008 at 1:47 pm

Would you like to hear about the tut-tuts, and the dirty looks, and the open abuse he got from the dear, sweet, Christian souls in his congregation, and the way it was made absolutely clear to him that such actions would be unwelcome in future?


No, I can imagine. Shame on them.

don't feel I owe you any explanations on this score.


But you did feel in the first place that you needed to! It's not for me to be demanding justifications from anyone.

21. Fleabytes

Comment #136604 by hello on March 1, 2008 at 1:41 pm

What exactly DO you believe?


No, Paula, you have been there. you know what we are talking about. You have made the decision to walk away. You have decided that it did not satisfy your desires, nor fulfill your longings.

22. Fleabytes

Comment #136595 by hello on March 1, 2008 at 1:33 pm

In my Christian days I used to volunteer with a soup run. There weren't any atheists on the team.


and what stops you from organising your own?

23. Fleabytes

Comment #136590 by hello on March 1, 2008 at 1:29 pm

Paula

We ask them questions, but they don't answer us



No, Paula. You just don't like the answers.

24. Fleabytes

Comment #136531 by hello on March 1, 2008 at 11:11 am

Soup kitchen volunteers sign up here:

>http://www.shorelinesoupkitchens.org/Spring 2007.htm


Or donate to UNICEF here.

25. Fleabytes

Comment #136528 by hello on March 1, 2008 at 11:09 am

Soup kitchen volunteers sign up here:

http://www.shorelinesoupkitchens.org/Spring 2007.htm

26. Fleabytes

Comment #136524 by hello on March 1, 2008 at 11:03 am

irate_atheist

What makes your pathetic cash flow problem so important that it warrants a miracle, when a child dies every 30 seconds from malaria. (Source: UNICEF http://www.unicef.org/immunization/index_why.html)


Incidentally, I agree with you on this. Why aren't we do more to solve this kind of situation? Surely, that is not beyond the wit of science to solve!

27. Fleabytes

Comment #136522 by hello on March 1, 2008 at 11:01 am

irate_atheist

What makes you think that you're so fucking special.

What ignorance. What arrogance. What filth.


Still angry? I think you need to go and meet some real christians in real life and have a chat to them.

28. Fleabytes

Comment #136520 by hello on March 1, 2008 at 10:59 am

I invented atheism,! honest...


Sorry mate! Atheism in mentioned in the Old Testament....

29. Fleabytes

Comment #136516 by hello on March 1, 2008 at 10:56 am

As a matter of interest, anyone know the relationship between the number of atheists and the number of theists who help out at soup kitchens?

30. Fleabytes

Comment #136511 by hello on March 1, 2008 at 10:51 am

irate_atheist

I was stating an opinion.


Me too. I don't know you from Adam.... so you could just be pretending! Just don't let the true Christians get to you.

31. Fleabytes

Comment #136507 by hello on March 1, 2008 at 10:49 am

If Professor Dawkins thinks


I met someone the other day who has met this guy. Apparently he gave a talk at a secondary school.

Have any of you met him? What is he like in real life?

32. Fleabytes

Comment #136501 by hello on March 1, 2008 at 10:45 am

Frankuss

Please clearthinker or anyone could you direct me to a post where a theist has provided evidence?



You've been provided with plenty of evidence. You just don't want to see it!

33. Fleabytes

Comment #136499 by hello on March 1, 2008 at 10:44 am

irate_atheist

Complete bollocks, end to end.



Haven't you exploded yet?...... You are just so angry.... you need to see a therapist.

34. Fleabytes

Comment #136368 by hello on March 1, 2008 at 2:43 am

i am not hello

i think you all smell funny and i don't see the point of this stupid website

i mean what's the point of you all discussing some thing from the same point of view why not just agree and be done with it

oh by the way you smell funny

35. Fleabytes

Comment #136366 by hello on March 1, 2008 at 2:31 am

Richard Morgan

Talking of staying on topic....


Just wanted to say that my daughter loves your picture with your hand moving up and down on the banjo. (Is it a banjo? Hope I got that right)

36. Fleabytes

Comment #136356 by hello on March 1, 2008 at 1:18 am

irate_atheist

Where has that ignorant prick known as 'hello' gone.


You poor thing....are you still fuming? haven't you gone into meltdown yet?

37. Fleabytes

Comment #135941 by hello on February 29, 2008 at 11:13 am

We KNOW he doesn't exist


No, you don't. You have only worked out that he probably doesn't exist.

he exists cause of the difference in people's lives


I am not referring to individuals, but to whole communities of people.

38. Fleabytes

Comment #135933 by hello on February 29, 2008 at 11:07 am

If you don't reply, I will assume that further conversation with you is redundant.


Well, I suggest that you may indeed be right. Argument will not get you any nearer to knowing God. Anymore than you guys discussing who or what I am like is going to reveal anything about me. You can only get to know a person by interacting with them.

39. Fleabytes

Comment #135926 by hello on February 29, 2008 at 11:00 am

Perhaps you'd like to read a book of someone's own experiences. Try "The Cross and the Switchblade" by David Wilkerson.

40. Fleabytes

Comment #135914 by hello on February 29, 2008 at 10:52 am

# If you don't believe in Jesus, you will "die in your sins" (and then go to hell). 8:24



Well, that's an interesting list. Let me take one example from the list. Who was speaking? Jesus was. Who was he speaking to? The very people who had spent his adult life opposing him and trying to get rid of him.

Now, look up an opposite list.

41. Fleabytes

Comment #135910 by hello on February 29, 2008 at 10:48 am

That person will also drink of the wine of God's anger



Which person?


"If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives his mark on the forehead or on the hand, 10he, too, will drink of the wine of God's fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath."

The context is important.

42. Fleabytes

Comment #135907 by hello on February 29, 2008 at 10:44 am

Dr Benway

Artful_Dodger, clearthinker, mylearnedfriend, and hello are non-believers just like us. They don't believe in any of the world's religions, save one. Their explanations for unbelief must also apply to themselves.


I don't believe in Religions either, any religions.

43. Fleabytes

Comment #135902 by hello on February 29, 2008 at 10:38 am


Or accept there is "no god except allah and Muhammad is his messenger".

And I wasn't born a jew, so I am racially excluded there.


Not necessarily. God does not exclude people.

44. Fleabytes

Comment #135892 by hello on February 29, 2008 at 10:28 am

MPhil

Matthew 13, 41-43. they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil.


Don't you think that is fair enough? Even in our own societies we consider it just to punish people who break the law. Surely you are not against that?

45. Fleabytes

Comment #135886 by hello on February 29, 2008 at 10:20 am

al-rawandi

So I guess that means I am going to hell as a result of my "choice"?


What gives you this idea?

46. Fleabytes

Comment #135883 by hello on February 29, 2008 at 10:18 am

MPhil

Yea, that's right... the freedom to obey and worship or suffer eternal torture in a celestial Auschwitz. Nice chap this "god" guy..


Where did you get this idea of God?

47. Fleabytes

Comment #135871 by hello on February 29, 2008 at 10:06 am

It is operating within the possible parameters of gravity.



Well, that is the same as knowing God. You don't have to have anything to do with him if you don't want. He doesn't stop you. You can choose.

48. Fleabytes

Comment #135866 by hello on February 29, 2008 at 10:02 am

Firstly, I, like many other atheists on this forum, used to be a Christian


..but I doubt very much that it was lack of evidence that led you to choose atheism.

49. Fleabytes

Comment #135863 by hello on February 29, 2008 at 9:57 am

Even we can defy gravity.


No. We can use a variety of technologies to overcome the force of gravity.


I'd say that was defying gravity.

50. Fleabytes

Comment #135860 by hello on February 29, 2008 at 9:55 am

There's too many of these unbelieving congregations about these days.


Sadly...this is perhaps truer than you realise.

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