1. Murder plot against Danish cartoonist

Comment #126829 by DavidJMH on February 14, 2008 at 9:34 am

Ladies and Gentlemen,
The trouble with prisons today is they are not "hell Holes" enough. The whole point as some of you have pointed out is to stop criminals re-offending and you don't achieve that by coddling and pleading.
Civilizing people is a stick and carrot process; violent offenders need the grating and the cat to focus their attention on their behavior and counciling to show them the proper direction. Spare the rod and spoil the child; no matter how much you try to educate, there is always the need for the threat of corporal punishment.
The trouble with the western world is all this liberal thinking has made us soft. A hundred years ago we knew what we stood for and we knew we were right. We are a society that is in decline now through lack of courage and determination; decadence and self interest prevail and we will very soon be overrun.
DM-H.

2. Why multiculturalism must be abandoned

Comment #125650 by DavidJMH on February 11, 2008 at 7:25 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
The British people were not asked whether they wanted a multi-cultural society or not; it was imposed upon them as cynical political tool by the looney left to attract more adherents to their marxist policies. The Britons have their own culture of which they can be justly proud and there is not the slightest justification for watering it down with foreign influences.
Three generations of a socialist nanny state have shrivelled the wits and the balls of the British male to where he now is no longer able to stand up for what deep down he knows is right. Unless something drastic is done very soon there will be no opportunity to resist the power of an ancient, ignorant, violent and bigotted faith. There is a growing movement and legitimate British political party who are pledged to stopping this rot; join the BNP and be proud to be British.
DM-H.

3. Blasphemy

Comment #124150 by DavidJMH on February 8, 2008 at 1:38 pm

Dear Teratornis,

"Essentially Gould was asking religion to reduce itself to nothing more than a form of entertainment, a masturbatory thought pattern having no measurable impact in the real world, and thus no possibility of scientific testability. In other words, push God into his steadily shrinking gap."

Is this not exactly what religion is and where it is going in the West. Marx said religion was an opiate for the masses which is in a sense an entertainment. I see hordes here in the US, dressing up on Sundays and strutting their stuff and being entertained. Of course they do not see it as such because they are blinded by some emotional fervour to feel good about themselves.

"But such a religion would not be very appealing to hoi polloi, who are for the time being stuck in the real world and have lots of vexing real world problems they cannot solve yet."

I understand your meaning and surely the decline specifically in Western Europe of religion is the proof of what you have written. It isn't very appealing because with enlightenment, it is seen to be more and more irrelevant to one's everyday world problems. Religion has always been a political tool wealded by the powerful to subjugate the masses. More and more only basically educated people are seeing religion for what it is; an illusion not a reality. In the US, evangelicalism is precisely an entertainment and a snake oil remedy for the trials of everyday stress.
DM-H.

4. Sharia law in UK is 'unavoidable'

Comment #123730 by DavidJMH on February 7, 2008 at 2:58 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Rod-the Farmer's comments are eminently correct, just so long as one looks at the World through logic and reason; however, that is not how Muslims are. They are motivated by ignorance and bigotry of the worst kind; fairness doesn't enter into their way of thinking. For them it is about control of the individual, complete subservience to their Imams wishes by claiming every sort of diversion to their antiquated faith is not the will of Allah.
They have every intention of setting up Islamic States wherever the local populace are too weak to resist. The Brits have had their wits and balls shrivelled by three generations of a nanny state and simply do not now have the stomach to resist. Their only chance for survival will be by recognizing that what the BNP stands for is right, reasonable and their only saviour, and should give the only truly British party their unqualified support.
DM-H.

5. Ad 'likely to offend gay people'

Comment #123227 by DavidJMH on February 6, 2008 at 4:31 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Little wonder the western world sits precariously upon the edge of oblivion. Acceptance of homosexuality as a society norm has been shown to be a serious symptom of society's demise throughout the history; there is nothing likely to be different now. It is the most important of a number of social ills such as drug addiction, promiscuity and the cult of self above all else.
There is one saving grace for the spread of Islamic forces throughout Europe today; the queers and all the other social deviants will be eradicated. Unfortunately for the majority of decent, clean living and morally upright people, the scum of the western world will drag them into the abyss of ignorance, oppression and religious despotism as well.
Take heed, we will all pay very dearly for the "rights" of a few who have throughout mankind forced their selfish, adolescent and irresponsible behavior on the populace. Squeal as much as they like, the downfall of civilized reason and values is on their weak shoulders.
DM-H

6. Happy Newton Day!

Comment #99431 by DavidJMH on December 16, 2007 at 4:44 pm

"Most but not all scholars think, on balance, that a charismatic wandering preacher called Jesus (or Joshua) probably was executed during the Roman occupation, though all objective historians agree that the evidence is weak."

Ladies and Gentlemen,
This sentence pretty much says it all, however, when are we going to stop using the words "Jesus" and "Christ" as names. Nobody by the name "Jesus Christ" ever lived 2000 years ago. "Jesus" is a corruption of the Greek word "lesous" which in turn was a transliteration of the Hebrew "messiah" meaning "leader from Roman occupation". "Christ" comes from the Greek title "Christos" meaning "annointed one"; neither of these words originally meant what they have become to mean through centuries of manipulation by "Christian" dogmatists. We must take every opportunity, as with that silly virgin business, to point these facts out to the brainwashed sheep.
Yours sincerely, David.

7. Onward Christian teachers?

Comment #88726 by DavidJMH on November 18, 2007 at 5:26 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Quill's comment is most apropriate, however, in the US, school education in general is of such a low quality that ignorance has become the breeding ground for religious bigotry. This is a deliberate policy not just a simple act of neglect.
Those countries (Britain used to be one of them) where the standard of education was high, religion takes on a more benign approach. The antithesis of this is to be seen in it's extreme in the Middle East and Asia Minor, hence the radical Islamic and Judaic problem today. Britain is headed in this direction and to let this go without serious objection, will turn it's population into a religious orientated ignorant mass in another generation.
Yours sincerely, David J. Millea-Hunt.

8. For the glory of God

Comment #88725 by DavidJMH on November 18, 2007 at 5:06 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
How did this off topic BS about America's 51st State get in here (for those of you who don't believe Canada is America's 51st State, over 85% of the Canadian economy is directly dependent upon the US). The subject is Dawkin's view of religion and it's evil bigotry no matter how benign most of it's followers may appear.
I have a number of colleagues at work, all supposedly reasonably intellegent, educated people who make up the 40% the Archbishop of Canterbury denies exist. Every single one of them believes in ID, their ancestors were put on Earth 10k years ago intact and if pushed, would shoot anyone in the name of God who contradicts them. These are nice ordinary people for the most part but they really are insane.
People, we are surrounded by nutcases and they look just like you and me, not a raghead in sight.
Yours sincerely, David J. Millea-Hunt.

9. URGENT APPEAL: Please Help Protect Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Comment #88717 by DavidJMH on November 18, 2007 at 4:32 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
The typical American response is "don't actually do anything just throw money at it so as not to be in the line of fire". Ms. Ali probably could use money as we all could but more importantly she could use our actions, words and deeds more.
Everytime a Jew, Christian or Muslim bigot, which incidently means all of them, so much as hints they should be treated specially, speak directly without fear or rancour and ask for the evidence that supports their beliefs. Their discomfort and anger shows they know it is all BS; face them down. Is there risk? Certainly. The earlier we all do this, the sooner we can stop their ignorance.
Yours sincerely, David J. Millea-Hunt.

10. The planet hunters

Comment #47276 by DavidJMH on June 3, 2007 at 10:45 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Not one of you seems to have the slightest interest in science or the wonder it holds; you are all so wrapped up in your one track mind set of religion bashing you completely miss the grandeur of the universe. As for MIND REBEL, MIND LESS would be more appropriate.

11. Atheism isn't the final word

Comment #32318 by DavidJMH on April 16, 2007 at 9:04 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
What does anything of the above have to do with reason and enlightenment. Adherence to a traditional, though invented socio-political doctrine, simply because it has been forced upon the populace for millenia, is no reason to give it any credence in these scientifically enlightened times. As comforting as the idea of an all seeing, knowing and "forgiving" universal entity may be, showing it for the brainwashing fraud it has always been must be the duty of all freethinking people. It is clear from the article, the author is not a freethinker and is incapable of imagining his life without having this supposed entity taking the responsibility for it.

12. New Primate Species Found In 42 Million-year-old Texas Fossils

Comment #32307 by DavidJMH on April 16, 2007 at 8:36 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
"Ev3nt H0riz0n" is right. Most postings on this website have now become inane, religion bashing and hardly ever on topic. The retort following his/her criticism confirms the low mentality all too prevalent. If you cannot keep it intelligent and on topic, go back to your sandbox.

13. Coming out as atheist: Noel Gallagher & Gabriel Byrne

Comment #31796 by DavidJMH on April 14, 2007 at 10:25 am

Ladies and Gentlemen,
A reminder if I may. The term "atheist" is a religiously coined denegration for someone who mistakenly, in their view, does not believe what they believe. Richard Dawkins does not use the term about himself and neither should we. "Atheism" is to us a contradiction; one cannot be a non-believer in something which does not exist in the first place.

14. Medical 'Miracles' Not Supported by Evidence

Comment #31793 by DavidJMH on April 14, 2007 at 10:16 am

Ladies and Gentlemen,
"Alric" tries to make a point about amputees never having been "miraculously cured" but I have witnessed such an event.
During 1997 I worked as an EMS helicopter pilot for North Carolina Baptist Hospital. We were dispatched to a small rural clinic to bring in a three year old negro boy who had had his left arm completely severed above the elbow by a railway train running over him. The clinic had put his severed arm in a plastic bag in a bucket of ice and we flew him back to the hospital, all within an hour of the accident.
The surgeons were able to re-attach his arm and connect blood vessels, tissue, nerves, etc. and within moments were able to determine proper blood flow to the limb. Weeks later, the little boy walked out of the hospital with some use of his arm. The prognosis was, with proper therapy and exercise, he would regain 85% of the use of that arm.
That is a miracle, not of mysticism but one of the will of man to overcome what seems to be the impossible to benefit his fellow man.

15. Pope says science too narrow to explain creation

Comment #31265 by DavidJMH on April 11, 2007 at 7:50 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
The pope and others with this sort of reasoning are claiming evolution as being a rationally driven process which it is not, whilst trying to claim the theory of evolution is irrational simply because it cannot be entirely explained at present. The religious, no matter their flavour, are always incapable of putting aside their cherished, irrational beliefs for just a moment to see reason. I suppose they must have too much emotion, time and money invested in this fraud.

16. Then Call it God

Comment #30792 by DavidJMH on April 9, 2007 at 8:37 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Don't encourage Richard; he may start to believe many of you posters sycophantic adulations of him and declare himself the diety you all want him to be.

17. The Coulter Hoax: How Ann Coulter Exposed the Intelligent Design Movement

Comment #30791 by DavidJMH on April 9, 2007 at 8:29 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
One can always tell when someone like Ann Coulter is hitting the mark; the loony left liberals who think they are so so free thinking and intellectualy superior squeal like squashed cats. Ann is an example of someone who is successful; she has found a large market in those little nobodies who like to vilify her. What you lot can't see is she is taking the piss out of you.

18. Aids Victims Risk Lives

Comment #30362 by DavidJMH on April 7, 2007 at 8:36 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
There is hope for the survival of the white race yet. We may have to rely upon the innate laziness, ignorance and stupidity of the aboriginal peoples rather than our own cleverness, but combined, both these traits should see us through. Darwinism; isn't it great?

19. U.N. Draft Cites Humans in Recent Climate Shifts

Comment #30359 by DavidJMH on April 7, 2007 at 8:14 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Doesn't anyone see a self regulating mechanism in the plus column. The overabundance of people is the fundemental cause of accelerated global warming. As the climate changes and becomes for many, noticeably the poor underdeveloped masses, a detriment to their survival, a large reduction in population could well be the result, thereby reducing the emissions. Whether we want it or not, worldwide conflagrations are on their way and certainly within this century. As ever, it is the healthy, strong and determined who will survive, no matter how much the liberal minded nature huggers may try to make it otherwise; pure Darwin, isn't it great. The more I drive my Roller the sooner it may happen.

20. Militant atheists: too clever for their own good

Comment #30349 by DavidJMH on April 7, 2007 at 7:07 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
"Militant Theists: too dumb for anybody's good.

21. Answers To the Atheists

Comment #30348 by DavidJMH on April 7, 2007 at 6:59 pm

E. J. Dionne Jr.
There never was anyone by the "name" of Jesus Christ. Both words are Greek and mean "messiah" and "annointed one". The character to whom they are attributed is an amalgam of a number of revolutionaries who were executed by the Romans during this period, mostly Levites and Athenes who were railing against Roman and corrupt Jewish leadership.
I don't think it will be too long before Marx is deified if he hasn't been already. It is an odd facet of the human condition to put revolutionaries on a pedestal, or in this case a cross and then worship them.

22. God and His Gays

Comment #27580 by DavidJMH on March 25, 2007 at 12:18 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Richard Dawkins has done the western world a great disservice by using ideas and language associated with homosexuality, to put forward the argument for atheists to "come out". Either deliberately or inadvertently, he has equated enlightenment and reason in the minds of those with a religious bent, to be a license for licentious and irresponsible behavior. Homosexuality is not a lifestyle nor is it acceptable for a society to survive, advance and prosper.
Certainly, homosexual behavior is practiced by various primates and other mammals, but only during adolescence and here is the point, it is simply practice at sexual experimentation amongst adolescent males which are not mature enough to command the right to service females. They grow out of it and assert their position to that right, and those that don't are shunned and ostracized, for their society innately recognizes the danger they are in if they do not.
Humans innately know this to be true too and the western world, led by the hedonistic USA, is headed down the path to destruction because it has become too self indulgent and decadent to recognize it. Homosexuality, once accepted as the norm by a society, is a precursor to inevitable decline. History shows this to be the case and every civilization which ignores this rule does so at it's peril. This rule has nothing the do with religion, it is a proven evolutionary fact, no matter how unpalatable it may be to some, and the meddling priesthood are doing their flock and western civilization a great mischief by prevaricating and trying to appeal to a wider group to fill their coffers; they have no balls either.
Again, homosexuality is not an acceptable lifestyle; it is a mental sickness, a physical perversion and a social vice. Those who are unable to give it up are not men at all, but self indulgent, cowardly and immature boys and do not have the right to be called men or treated with the respect that that title presumes. The only upside about homosexuality, is the lack of maturity and cowardliness exhibited by adherents is not passed into the genetic pool.

23. Sex in the 1700s

Comment #27479 by DavidJMH on March 24, 2007 at 9:14 pm

WittyReference,
A very good point but it was not the one I was trying to make. A doctorate study of a base instinct doesn't exactly uplift the mind above the navel or provide humanity with anything new. I hope you agree that to rise above one's animalistic preoccupations is a noble and civilizing endeavour and Jenny Skipp's time and the money that paid for it could have been better spent.

24. Gimme That Old Time Religion (Bashing)

Comment #27460 by DavidJMH on March 24, 2007 at 6:03 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Surely there is no such thing as a moderate approach to religion. They all have tenets which must be blindly accepted in order to belong. It is blind acceptance which Harris so rightly points out is the knub of the problem. The religious, no matter their stripe, are entirely outside reasonable dialogue by definition; there can be no dialogue or compromise with ignorant dogma.

25. The many forms of fundamentalism

Comment #27454 by DavidJMH on March 24, 2007 at 5:50 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
James Carroll has made the point precisely, even if he has to some extent confined himself to Roman Catholic Christianity. Let us be clear, all religions pray upon the mentality of sheep and that is exactly what all fundementalists are. A point the religious are entirely unable to grasp is Atheists et al are not sheep and Darwinian evolution is not a belief; we question everything and demand reasonable explanations.

26. Mormons miffed over coffee-swilling angel image

Comment #27449 by DavidJMH on March 24, 2007 at 5:29 pm

Crysknife,
On the contrary, your fundementalist colleagues work with you. The fact that you know they are fundementalist god botherers mean they haven't been shy about letting you know it. Dawkins can be in their faces and so should we; it's just a teeshirt; no further comment by you to them is necessary and any rate, your right to free expression is just as valid as theirs.

27. Polish woman wins abortion case

Comment #27390 by DavidJMH on March 24, 2007 at 10:54 am

DistrictSelectman & Jonathan Dore,
The sequence of events is very clear. The woman concerned, through her self indulgence and lack of restraint, has three children and now finds herself blind as a direct result. Pregnancy, just in case you don't know, is not an unavoidable desease but the direct result of a deliberate act; abortion is not a cure for pregnancy which many on this posting seem to think.
The point that you all are missing is this woman expects society at large to be responsible for her actions because she has abdicated from the social norms of her country. It is obvious she just doesn't care about anyone except herself and expects tax payers to pick up the tab for her indulgences.
Atheism or theism have nothing to do with this issue, this is about personal responsibility and self discipline, concepts which are demonstrably lacking in todays Western Society, hence the ever increasing tax burden upon the very group of people who can least afford it, and this woman's example is typical. The fact so many young people today consider there is nothing wrong with her behaviour as shown on this posting, shows a clear moral laxity and little thought for the future of society at large.

28. Sex in the 1700s

Comment #27382 by DavidJMH on March 24, 2007 at 10:10 am

Ladies and Gentlemen,
All very illuminating and enervating I am sure, but what might I be so bold as to ask is Jenny Skipps going to use her new found knowledge and doctorate for; educating the sex obsessed, adolescent, western world that it is somehow justified to carry on with the profligate, licentious, self indulgence because there is an evolutionary precursor?

29. If only gay sex caused global warming

Comment #27309 by DavidJMH on March 23, 2007 at 9:41 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
There is nothing gay about homosexuality; it is just one symptom of a society which no longer has the determination to be adult and responsible; a social disaster. Those who do not read history are doomed to repeat it.
There is nothing gay about Global Warming for the same reason. It is much more important to indulge our every whim, in this case cheap and convenient air travel (one Boeing 737 dumps over two tons of greenhouse gases into the upper atmosphere per hour of flight; do the math) than to contol an accelerated natural disaster. Some of you are correct to point out that if everyone were to be adult and socially responsible, this impending disaster may be averted.
The "gayer" a society becomes the sooner the trumpets of doom blow down it's walls.

30. Piecing Together the Clues of an Old Collision, Iceball by Iceball

Comment #27308 by DavidJMH on March 23, 2007 at 9:00 pm

"Luthien",
The GOD particle is only slightly more speculative than the graviton, but it must exist otherwise ID would have nothing upon which to hang it's hat. Apples fall from trees because of the GOD particle don't they?

31. Episcopal Church Rejects Demand for a 2nd Leadership

Comment #27306 by DavidJMH on March 23, 2007 at 8:37 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
"anotherclinton" is right. What is illuminating with this piece is that as societies decline into decadence and self serving indulgence, once homogenous and powerful institutions which held sway over the masses minds, devolve into smaller and smaller divisions until all meaning and discipline is eventually lost. Make no error, Western Civilization as we know it is finished because there is less and less community spirit and determination to prevail. The god botherers, no matter how much they may try to retrieve their hold, are doomed to the same fate as the liberal left; they and most of the rest of us just don't know it yet. Atheism, for all it's open mindedness and reason has no lasting glue.

32. Polish woman wins abortion case

Comment #27305 by DavidJMH on March 23, 2007 at 8:18 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Thank you for making my point for me. Your liberal views and the government policies they encourage are the prime cause for the undisciplined, selfish and irresponsible behavior of people such as this stupid woman in the first place. According to you lot, everyone should be able to do as they please, without taking personal responsibity for those actions and then foist the repercussions upon everyone else.
Atheism is far too good for liberals, you all squander it away leaving a vacuum for the likes of the religious right nutters to fill. Self discipline is the first requisite of individual freedom; freedom is not as most of you seem to think, a licence to be decadent and self indulgent.

33. Britain Proposes Allowing Schools to Forbid Full-Face Muslim Veils

Comment #26830 by DavidJMH on March 21, 2007 at 9:32 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
"jonecc" has completely missed the point. This issue is about the greater good of the greater all, not about the individual girls or their religion. These Muslim people left their own country to live in a totally different culture for money, make no error, now they want to change our culture. The British Government, driven by an ever increasing number of sensible Britains supporting the BNP are absolutely right and proper to insist that Britain's culture not be eroded by this foreign, repulsive and ignorant religious dogma. If they don't like being made to fit in with British culture, then they should bugger off back to the dump they came from. That is what this website is about as well and if directness offends you "jonecc" then take your looney left, multi-cultural views elsewhere too.

34. Polish woman wins abortion case

Comment #26826 by DavidJMH on March 21, 2007 at 9:08 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
To abort or not to abort is not the question here. Read the bloody article; she is a single parent already with three children. This woman and this woman alone is responsible for her blindness by being so irresponsible as to have sex. But oh no, it is the EU or Polands conservative views or religious dogma that is to blame and now the already overburdened tax payers have to cough up even further to support this stupid womans licentiousness.

35. Biology teacher fired for referring to Bible

Comment #26821 by DavidJMH on March 21, 2007 at 8:49 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
"John P" has seen the point of the the teachers reasoning as he claimed. The article is not clear, but by simply making references during class to areas of thought outside the subject matter in hand, is not of itself sufficient reason for dismissal. The young man's sin was expecting his students "to think for themselves". As I have mentioned in posts before, American schoolchildren in Government schools are deliberately discouraged from freedom of thought, making balanced judgements and developing cognitive skills, because it doesn't help the teacher for those all too important grade statistics. The poor girl was confused because she was expected to think for herself and make a reasoned judgement, an ability for which she had not been trained.
There is no evidence here of malicious religious backdoor brainwashing, certainly not from the article. We all need to be a little less intolerant of views different from our own and the only way children can develop a broad spectrum of understanding is to experience it.

36. Remote sheep population resists genetic drift

Comment #25500 by DavidJMH on March 13, 2007 at 8:09 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
A whimsical comment about sporting Mouflon sheep and French immigrants maintaining the sheep's genetic diversity is I suppose unnecessary, but I couldn't resist the temptation.

37. The Archbishop whose words came from same hymnsheet as a Marxist

Comment #25044 by DavidJMH on March 9, 2007 at 9:40 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
As these two gentlemen seem equally deluded, it is only fitting that they should play with each other.

38. Long live satire

Comment #24473 by DavidJMH on March 6, 2007 at 8:03 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Islam is offensive, as offensive as Christianity and Judaism. These monotheistic religions are an affront to decent, reasonable thinking people the World over. They are oppressive and pretend freedom from fear, they are based upon ignorance yet promise enlightenment and profess forgiveness yet practice vicious punishment.
These three religions particularly and all others in general should be treated with derision and contempt on every possible occasion; treat their practitioners and adherents as mentally ill for that is what they are.

39. Why there are almost no genuine atheists

Comment #24469 by DavidJMH on March 6, 2007 at 7:40 pm

Dear Mr. Paul Campos,
Your article, although well written in places is based upon false logic, ignorance and bigotry. In short, it is nonsense.

40. Religion and Politics

Comment #24310 by DavidJMH on March 5, 2007 at 9:32 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is clear that most of you know little or nothing about the American system of state education. Government schools are not about educating children so they may make reasonable decisions as adults upon issues which may seriously effect their lives. If fact, education and American government schooling are a contradiction in terms. The system is designed to make unionised teachers look good by making sure children can pass the necessary exams to graduate without knowing anything in depth with as little effort and money as possible.
Over 40% of the American population believe the "Bible" is the literal truth because they have no basis upon which to make any other judgement. In addition, the religious right deliberately whip up fear amongst the electorate that anything other than god fearing politicians will bring anarchy and moral laxity. A large proportion of the American electorate, certainly of sufficient importance during Presidential elections to swing the vote, come from "Middle America" which is both a geographic and political term. "Middle America" is predominantly the farming and industrial Mid-West and the South, the "Bible Belt.
Mormons do not believe that the individual Christians call Jesus Christ is the son of "God". Do the math. I will eat my copy of "The God Delusion" if Romney becomes president. However, the really scary part is the American voters just may put a self serving, power hungry, dictatorial individual like Hillary (Winnie Mandela) Clinton into the White House; she is deceitful enough to fool the god botherers who are neither educated nor bright, that she is really one of them.

41. The Dawkins Confusion: Naturalism ad absurdum

Comment #23614 by DavidJMH on March 1, 2007 at 6:32 pm

Mr. Plantinga,
There is no god; there is no need of a god for the universe to exist. This is not a belief, it is simple logic. There most certainly is no personal god and this is obvious; open your eyes and look around you. Your religion and every other one which has ever existed are pure bunkum. Morality has nothing to do with any religion; it is a social and political enterprise with no need of mystical input. Belief in any religion is pure bigotry, nothing less. Please do not continue to try to convince reasonable people to the contrary.

42. Religion in Conflict: Are 'Evangelical Atheists' Too Outspoken?

Comment #23309 by DavidJMH on February 27, 2007 at 6:31 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
The article is both reasoned and well written. What the author does not write is also very illuminating.
Religion has always been, since it's earliest days of simple superstition about fear from the elements etc., primarily a political tool. Early leaders of social "human" groups quickly discovered it was easier to control and maintain power over the others and have them do his bidding by appealing to their natural fears and ignorance, rather than spend time and energy wielding a big stick. Religions have become ever more versatile and sophisticated in maintaining the illusions of morality and a better place after death if you follow their dictates.
Religion is still the primative tool of acquiring and maintaining power as there is an over abundance of ignorant, weak minded, self serving, gullible masses for whom belief in the mystical requires infinitely less effort than the pursuit of truth and understanding. The extortion of money (life tokens) is the crowning result of this fraud which supports the whole deceitful edifice.
India/Pakistan, Cyprus, Ireland, Sudan, Iraq et al throughout history have been and are nothing more than struggles for wealth and therefore power. What better tool for energizing the great unwashed to fight your battles for you than religion. Tell a big enough lie and you have them by the balls. Fear is a natural and deep seated part of all life, primarily the fear of not surviving, the first instinct. Pray upon that fear and the world is yours.
Professor Dawkins and others are right to attack the very foundations of this bankrupt system directly and without pulling any punches. America has separation of Church and State written into the Constitution. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson et al knew what they were doing. This is now under grave threat from a very few powerful people who are using yet another ignorant mob to serve their own purposes for World power to their order. At every opportunity we must all do our bit to support reason and enlightenment and try to turn this tide before we are drowned into silence once again.

43. Hubble Finds Evidence for Dark Energy in the Young Universe

Comment #21532 by DavidJMH on February 9, 2007 at 8:42 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
I hope this website will post more scientific articles of this type, even though they do not generate much lay comment. They stimulate and expand (pun not intended) our interlect into subject matter areas which are mostly beyond the experience of the general public.

44. Ancient boy's skeleton sparks evolution debate

Comment #21521 by DavidJMH on February 9, 2007 at 6:00 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Scooternyc is right and the bigotry lies with those who choose to try rewrite truth to suit their own ignorance. The aboriginal peoples of this planet are an evolutionary anachronism whether one wishes to accept that or not. I know it is unfashionable to say so but it is nevertheless the case. This fact has nothing to do with racial or colour prejudice; all that is required for those of you who think you know differently, is go and work in darkest Africa for a year or two, especially if you are an American negro.
The Christian missionaries have since the middle of the nineteenth century all made the same error in thinking they can uplift the African into the modern era simply with belief and medicine. The end result is more ignorance and bigotry like the nonsense illuminated in the article above. You can take the African out of the bush but you cannot take the bush out of the African; that is something that only evolution can do. If that offends you then go and see for yourself.

45. Ancient boy's skeleton sparks evolution debate

Comment #21353 by DavidJMH on February 8, 2007 at 9:56 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Evolution is not and cannot be suspended simply to pander to the overly PC sensibilities of the liberal atheist left. The influence of the Catholic church in Africa and elsewhere is part of evolution and if people are so dumb as to follow nonsensical edicts and perverted sexual practices to their own detriment, then they will be part of the natural selection process.
The negro community in the USA are in denial about the transmission of HIV/AIDS, so it is hardly surprising that Africa suffers the way it does. So many of you seem to still be blaming the colonial white man for the woes of the undeveloped and aboriginal peoples of this planet; nothing could be further from the truth. These peoples would be in poor straits regardless of any outside influence because they are for the most part, ignorant, lazy, selfish and dumb, and that is evolution whether you like it or not.
By the way, before you all get bent out of shape, I spent 13 years as a pilot for a non-religious flying doctors service in Africa, that tried desperately to change attitudes towards desease and health care through treatment and education. For the most part it was a waste of time and money because these people simply are incapable of controlling their base instincts. It will take centuries of evolution for them to change that is if they haven't become extinct by then.

46. Britons unconvinced on evolution

Comment #18743 by DavidJMH on January 22, 2007 at 6:06 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
It matters not how the various surveys differ, what is notable is the number of people who do accept Darwinian evolution as fact. Considering less than 10% of any given population are well educated, it is amazing that after thousands of years of religious dogmatism, as many as +/- 40% do consider it valid after only 150 years.

47. Atheist Outreach: Group Coaxes Unbelievers Into the Open

Comment #17812 by DavidJMH on January 16, 2007 at 5:37 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Admirable; were do I join.

48. Creationism Song

Comment #17722 by DavidJMH on January 15, 2007 at 5:14 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Children of the ages shown only want to please their elders and "betters", this a prime example of the most basic form of brain washing; the tune will always bring back the words for the rest of their lives. Whenever I hear the music of the psalms from my choirboy days over 50 years ago, the words are as clear as they ever were. Absolutely ghastly, a Christian madrassa.

49. Wash. school board restricts Gore's global-warming film

Comment #17721 by DavidJMH on January 15, 2007 at 4:51 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
How refreshing to have the opinion directly from the horses arse. It is pointless trying to debate such an ignorant bigot; reason and enlightenment are simple not part of his genome. Frosty deserves our pity and so do his poor children whom he wishes to keep in the dark ages.

50. Conservative Atheists

Comment #17556 by DavidJMH on January 14, 2007 at 5:46 pm

Ladies and Gentlemen,
It would be very interesting to have a debate and have both Richard Dawkins and Heather MacDonald with the Pope and the Archbishop of York.