Comments by lazlow

1. It's no wonder evangelical atheists need to shout so loud

Comment #238388 by lazlow on August 28, 2008 at 4:22 am

The problem, however, is that some people find raising the question, even if they don't know the answer, a meaningful act.

Isn't this what science is about? I mean trying to find answers to questions they DON'T know the answer to. You know, other than "God did it!".

Wonder is something enlightened atheists never could abide. No wonder they shout so much.

It would be fun to walk around in the world and look at magnificent things and wonder "how did that happen? Or that? Or This?" and instantly answer it "oh, yeah, God did it". I really fail to see the wonder with that.

2. Science Has No Place in Politics

Comment #238378 by lazlow on August 28, 2008 at 4:08 am

ridelo:
As a matter of fact with lots and lots of hot air you could solve the energy problem. And that would be very helpful to solve environmental problems...

Am I the only one thinking of strapping a tube over the mouth of every politician?

3. Bill Maher hates your (fill in the blank) religion

Comment #227500 by lazlow on August 10, 2008 at 3:45 am

In many ways, the film is a comic bookend to Sam Harris' "The End of Faith," a humorless best seller that views religion as a bastion of superstition and moral hypocrisy.

But religion is a bastion of superstition and moral hypocrisy.

4. Band T-shirt draws charge

Comment #199275 by lazlow on June 25, 2008 at 12:23 pm

"When someone comes to the point of saying Jesus is the devil or Jesus is 'expletive', the Bible does say be very careful because you're on thin ice."

So, basically, you have nothing to worry about, unless you believe in said book.

5. Vatican bans Dan Brown film Angels & Demons from Rome churches

Comment #195084 by lazlow on June 17, 2008 at 5:06 pm

The plot of Angels & Demons is, if anything even more preposterous than The Da Vinci Code, and scholars have been quick to point out the book's factual errors.

Factual errors? Not Dan Brown! Really? I must say that came as a total surprise to me and that my world just fell apart!

Next thing you'll be telling me that Michael Crichton and Clive Cussler are factually flawed as well. The nerve!

That said, when reading Dan Brown's books, am I the only one that gets that "I've read this book before" feeling?

6. The Faith of Flanders

Comment #184880 by lazlow on May 26, 2008 at 10:26 am

Superintendent Chalmers: "Thank the Lord"? That sounded like a prayer. A prayer in a public school. God has no place within these walls, just like facts don't have a place within an organized religion.

7. Kenya mob reportedly burns 11 'witches'

Comment #183563 by lazlow on May 22, 2008 at 9:20 am

Well, I for one will sleep good tonight, safe in the knowledge that there are 11 witches and wizards less in the world!

Now what is 0 take away 11?

8. Group finds Starbucks logo too hot to handle

Comment #180886 by lazlow on May 16, 2008 at 3:04 am

Three WARM meals!

I think they can accept cold meals, too. I never new Gazpacho soup to be the work of the devil. Of course, Rimmer would disagree!

9. Group finds Starbucks logo too hot to handle

Comment #180876 by lazlow on May 16, 2008 at 2:29 am

How do these people actually populate the planet?

Well, they get a home, have jobs, eat three meals a day and eventually children just show up.

I think that's how it gos.

10. Americans pray at the pump for cheaper petrol

Comment #179169 by lazlow on May 12, 2008 at 8:12 pm

If the price of gas falls and these people rejoice in the presence of the power of God for what he has done, would they question his motives for letting the people in Burma and China suffer or would they find the trade-off acceptable? I mean, when you think about it, what's 30-40000 lives lost in a typhoon or 9000 lives lost in an earthquake compared to 4 bucks at the pump?

11. Dumb and Dumber: A discussion between Ben Stein and Glenn Beck

Comment #176161 by lazlow on May 6, 2008 at 5:49 pm

argibson: "Shouldn't an explanation be a bit more robust and describe the time, place, & method of such a creation?"

Nope, "God did it" is plenty good enough! If it was good enough for Jesus, the king of all men, then surly it must be good enough for the rest of us.

Karlsson: "And i don't like that some evolutionists, like Richard Dawkins, are joining in on the debate with arguments that NO, evolution wasn't the cause of nazism...

That argumentation will to the general public look like an acceptance of the premise that if evolution leads to bad things (like nazism) then it must be wrong."

Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't people be corrected when they are wrong? Evolution is pretty brutal and Dawkins has expressed that very clearly in his books, but nazism has nothing to do with evolution, it has to do with politics and power. Evolution is about the survival of a species through natural selection, nazism is about a tyrannical regime. These two things have nothing to do with each other.

12. Cult leader Pyotr Kuznetsov tries suicide after realising he was wrong about doomsday

Comment #155791 by lazlow on April 5, 2008 at 8:58 pm

I just loved this part:

""The people in the cave consider themselves Orthodox Christians and not cult members."

Villagers said that the cult followers..."

No smoother transition ever existed!

13. Police: Girl Dies After Parents Pray for Healing Instead of Seeking Medical Help

Comment #151833 by lazlow on March 29, 2008 at 2:19 pm

This is a sad story for so many reasons. The parents thought they were doing good by praying for their daughter and when that didn't help they rounded up more people to help. I mean these were people that truly loved their daughter, but thanks to religious belief they were led down a path of superstitious belief that a God would save their child. For most people this is a hard pill to swallow and I would hope that for people of religious faith and conviction this would be an eye opener of what real damage religion really cause.

It might seem innocent to yap about how great God is, that he created the earth and people and whatever and that you can pray for help when you need it, but when it takes this turn it's about time you put and end to it once and for all. This is why people should not respect religion or give it room to breathe and fester.