1. After Bibles seized, U.S. group won't leave Chinese airport

Comment #237149 by Alrischa on August 26, 2008 at 3:56 am

Well, I wouldn't expect to get by the customs with that load. But seeing how the Chinese government works, I'm not surprised. China doesn't have state-endorsed religion nor does she like it very much. If somebody smuggled a load of radical, anarchocapitalist pamphlet into China and distribute it freely, I suppose they'd have a problem with it. I don't find it strange that they'd do this to Christianity; it's equal treatment for all in this one. What they don't like, they get rid of. She doesn't give a damn about anyone's opinions.

2. Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat

Comment #205395 by Alrischa on July 7, 2008 at 8:19 am

"Images of Dog are forbidden in Islam "

Wow. Are you serious? I never knew. If Muslims can get so hyped up at the image of an adorable puppy, wouldn't they go insane if they move into a dog-loving culture? As far as I know, many developed and semi-developed countries LOVE dogs.

3. Christianity 'could die out within a century'

Comment #197990 by Alrischa on June 23, 2008 at 3:13 am

Well, could this be that the religious (in UK, most people are religious) see themselves as threatened, thus expressing their views? Religion isn't as strong as before, but I don't see it dying out anytime soon. It'd be more convincing if we can see a study as to what amount of people 'deconverted'.

4. Muslim countries win concession regarding religious debates

Comment #196498 by Alrischa on June 20, 2008 at 3:43 am

UN was never a useful organisation by any means, and now it's trying to push its nonsense on us, because they care so much about the precious feelings of the Islamic fundamentalists. Well, I won't have that. I'll debate religion whenever I like, I'll praise Logos wherever I like. You know what? Screw UN if they're in on this bull.

5. Logical Proof of the Existence of a Divine Creator, Why Atheism is Not Logically Sound

Comment #190903 by Alrischa on June 9, 2008 at 9:08 pm

"No one in their right mind would claim that 10,000 hundred story buildings built themselves from randomness, even over time. Yet those who doubt the existence of a Creator believe that an entire universe, containing all of the billions of elements necessary for life to form, may have come about without a builder. As such, they give credence to billions of times more coincidences to having come about. "

That's assuming that we haven't given it enough planets to play with. It has to happen; LIFE has to happen. Chance dictates so. And when it does we get nonsense like this.

"Nowhere does the above hold more true than with regard to the existence of a Divine Creator. Proof of a conscious Creator is readily available. The simplest proof (yet one that no atheist has ever been able to counter effectively) is that a universe of this size and magnitude does not somehow build itself, just as a set of encyclopedias doesn't write itself or form randomly from the spill of a massive inkblot. "

Of course it doesn't. The most prominent model states that things are just 'settling in'. It's just like evolution, I suppose. It was a small universe a while after the 'creation'. How do they account for that eh?

"They believe that not only did whole planets appear spontaneously, but also believe that the fact that these planets do not collide as meteors do, that they have gravity, that they contain the proper atmospheric conditions for life to take hold and contain sustenance to sustain this life all happened by mere fluke"

Fluke has to happen somewhere. If the chances of winning the lottery (as I've read somewhere) is smaller than getting struck by lightning twice in the same location; even if it's a billion to one, how much are you going to bet somebody actually WINS?

I'm going to entertain this crap to this point. The rest isn't worth my time. I can't bear it.

6. Storm erupts over 'virginity' divorce

Comment #186648 by Alrischa on May 30, 2008 at 10:57 pm

I'd say divorce is the best way to go. She's better off without him. If he's like that about virginity, then who's to say he won't be on other issues? Like if she forgot to pray one day? Seriously. Join another religion, or renounce it. She won't do well in a Muslim society, regardless of how she lost her hymen.

7. 'Uncontacted tribe' sighted in Amazon

Comment #186633 by Alrischa on May 30, 2008 at 9:59 pm

- Evangelicals will no doubt 'target' them (whether we decide to contact them or not).
- We might bring in new disease
- If they wish to be left alone, we should respect that. We have no right to force anything on anyone. If they wish to contact us, however, they are very welcome to do so.

8. Repulsive but right

Comment #184808 by Alrischa on May 26, 2008 at 8:02 am

Repulsive? Rude? Au contraire, I find Richard quite polite. I treat mostly everything the same; or I try to. When I criticize my Year 9 Chemistry teacher, nobody has a problem with it. Replace him with God, everyone's in uproar. There just can't be anything that's negative about him. I think this is the case here.

9. Six 'uniquely' human traits now found in animals

Comment #184403 by Alrischa on May 25, 2008 at 2:23 am

This is exactly what I thought about this article: Wow. It's wonderful, really, to have interspecies appreciation and communication.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised. I have a cocker spaniel who is something like a big baby with a distinct personality from rest of the dogs. And dogs aren't even one of the most intelligent animals. My dog isn't allowed upstairs; there was no tangible barrier, but he seemed to have understood when we told him. One night, my family and I were watching movie in the AV room when we heard frantic footsteps on the stairs; the noise of the impact clearly created by claws instead of feet. We opened the door, looked downstairs and saw him looking guiltily at us and rolled on his back. We deduced that he snuck upstairs, but chickened out. He certainly isn't good at being subtle.

10. My quest to get de-baptised

Comment #152451 by Alrischa on March 31, 2008 at 4:33 am

Although I wish you luck, I don't really understand the practical need to be 'de-baptised'. It doesn't really matter if I'm still a statistic on the 'Successfully Indoctrinated' list (I was a 'Christian' once, but I never bought it anyhow. I didn't voice my opinions, so who knows?). Besides, if they ever try to use the statistics to their advantage, we can always say 'ad populum'.

11. Expelled Overview

Comment #151672 by Alrischa on March 29, 2008 at 7:12 am

"Stein says something like "I can't go up against Big Science all by myself!" over images of what looked like Nazi tanks and troops protecting a building, driving home the alleged connection between scientists and Nazis. We see B&W images of armed fortresses with barbed wire. Science looks really scary! "
That sounds like he's confronted with the Death Star unarmed... Wow... Lots of drama involved.

I haven't watched the film, but eugenics? Holocaust? How does one associate them with Darwinism? I have an idea that I'm going to be very bored during the film, but I'm still very curious... I guess I can always watch it with my Christian acquaintances under the guise of converting.