1. Three Godless Christmas shows

Comment #306504 by huzonfurst on December 24, 2008 at 10:03 pm

Re comment #26: "My new moth navigation system" had me laughing so hard I cried! That and your "Nobody's laughing now" bit are hilarious - I take it you're a professional comedian, and if so where can we find more of you'

2. Vatican tightens in vitro opposition

Comment #301070 by huzonfurst on December 13, 2008 at 10:00 am

By what supernatural feat of legerdemain does the vatican dare to claim to be supporting "knowledge, freedom (!) and love (!!)" [question marks not showing up again -- this board is full of annoyances like this]

3. Hubble Finds Carbon Dioxide on an Extrasolar Planet

Comment #300229 by huzonfurst on December 11, 2008 at 8:38 am

"Tau Zero" by Poul Andersen is a cool (when I read it as a teenager at least) novel about a runaway starship that gets its fuel on the fly by converting whatever mass is nearby into energy. As it accelerates it needs more and more energy and as the story unfolds it eventually devours whole galaxies in its approach to light speed. The crew is horrified at this but can't do anything about it, and ultimately they arrive at the Big Crunch...

4. Hitchens Debates Rabbi Wolpe on God

Comment #298354 by huzonfurst on December 7, 2008 at 10:59 am

Philosophers have always had a bad case of physics envy, and always will.

5. I'm Not One Of Those 'Love Thy Neighbor' Christians

Comment #288604 by huzonfurst on November 22, 2008 at 4:36 am

Re comment 4 by ty90:

Follow the advice my Dad gave me: "Be like the real estate man and get a lot while you're young." ;>)

And of course don't panic,and always carry a towel.

6. The 'Great Debate' in Texas

Comment #285188 by huzonfurst on November 16, 2008 at 7:39 pm

I could justify taking their money and pretending to support them if the ultimate goal were to gather enough evidence to obliterate their claims once and for all: the Marjoe effect, in other words.

Once revealing my devious scheme I have no doubt I would make even more money entertaining atheist audiences with stories of what it's like behind the scenes with these freakish people, and then it would be possible to make some substantial donations to atheist and scientific cause.

I did hear some interesting comments from a conference room at the Institute for Creation Research (near San Diego) one day as I was snooping around in their hallways. The topic was like a war briefing: how do we get enough people to take our side, with absolutely nothing about how do we do any research for creationism.

I have no problem spying on these pricks if anyone has any ideas about what would be valuable information to gather. Contact me by email if you do. They want a war - let's give it to them!

7. Religion

Comment #285160 by huzonfurst on November 16, 2008 at 7:10 pm

A non e-moose: because it was funny! Everyone needs to lighten up once in a while.

8. Beyond Belief 3: Candles in the Dark

Comment #285152 by huzonfurst on November 16, 2008 at 7:03 pm

Re comment 53:

Beyond Belief has apparently become invitation only. I attended all three days of the first conference in 2006 and had the time of my life talking to *everybody*: Dawkins, Harris, Shermer, Krauss, Druyan, Davies, Weinberg, Tyson, etc, etc. Imagine a room full of such intellect and wit; it was just incredible.

In 2007 I called them again but they would only let "the public" in on the last day, a real disappointment but I did get to meet Dan Dennett, PZ Myers, Peter Atkins, Michael Crick (son of Francis), Harold Kroto and many others including several from the first conference.

2008 was totally restricted and I am pissed off about it! If they're trying to reach out to the community at large this seems like an awfully counter-productive way to do it. There were no whackos at the first one if that's what they're afraid of - I had to give them quite a resume to get into 2006 but it worked and the only irritating people were the Templetons.

I wonder if there were some invitees who weren't comfortable mixing with non-invitees despite our good behavior and ability to appreciate the discussions. I will try to get to the bottom of this and let RD.net know the results. Maybe next year things will be different.

9. Ricky Gervais and The Archbishop Of Canterbury

Comment #281141 by huzonfurst on November 9, 2008 at 8:01 pm

Archbishops of anything bore the crap out of me whether they're "nice" or not. This guy is a tool - listen him chat with RD to get a better idea of this personification of disingenuousness.

10. A 'values' voter speaks her mind on Obama

Comment #267319 by huzonfurst on October 20, 2008 at 12:33 pm

Right on, Bonzai.

11. Cross purposes

Comment #263471 by huzonfurst on October 11, 2008 at 10:33 am

To Scottishgeologist, #28: I think you may have given me a hernia from laughing so hard at that faux Rowan Williams speech - but it was worth it!

It reminded me of the fake postmodernist article actually published by one of their absurd journals and then exposed by the authors as intentional gibberish. Dog but I love it when that happens.

12. Bill Maher's Religulous Opens Today

Comment #263467 by huzonfurst on October 11, 2008 at 9:25 am

What's with all the Maher-bashing (bashing in the American sense of criticising) here? The guy is hilarious 90% of the time, and have any of you considered that his "smugness" might just be part of his act?

13. Heavy Metal-Eating 'Superworms' Unearthed in U.K.

Comment #263026 by huzonfurst on October 10, 2008 at 5:30 am

Dylan Thomas made up a Welsh word - Llareggub - and got in trouble when people figured it out.

14. Sherri Shepherd, Bill Maher Spar Over God: Bill Tells Sherri She Should Go To Psych Ward

Comment #257686 by huzonfurst on October 1, 2008 at 12:55 am

My soft-on-religion girlfriend called to tell me about this so I got to watch it as it happened, and Bill was hilarious (she didn't watch it though 'cause straight talk about religion makes her cogitive dissonance set in).

15. Jewish 'ultras' defend morals with menace

Comment #251620 by huzonfurst on September 21, 2008 at 6:27 pm

Right you are, Titania. There are more identified atheists than Jews in the US anyway, so why don't we get a country too? Imagine the possibilities with no religion to fight with all the tme.

16. Jewish 'ultras' defend morals with menace

Comment #251609 by huzonfurst on September 21, 2008 at 6:08 pm

Because Europe and America didn't want Jewish refugees even after WW II ended, the pressure to allow the creation of the state of Israel in Palestine led directly to today's neverending conflict. Israel could not survive without the massive foreign aid it gets from the US, amounting to roughly $10,000 per Israeli per year, much of it in the form of military hardware - and for what?? In support of orthodox bullying like this?

SCREW ISRAEL!! END ALL FOREIGN AID TO THIS PARASITE NATION!!

(Before the inevitable accusations come pouring in, I know plenty of Jews who agree with me on this.)

17. When Atheists Attack

Comment #251348 by huzonfurst on September 21, 2008 at 11:43 am

Fanusi, where does your abhorrence for Obama come from? Is it the fact that he makes right-wing views look as myopic as they are, and does it eloquently? And that he is genuinely (shudder) *progressive* when compared to Republicans?

I think you are having an attack of cognitive dissonance between your lizard-brain conservatism and your higher-functioning atheism. I agree that Islam is more of a threat than Christianity, but only at the present time and only due to historical contingencies - or haven't you heard of the Inquisition? Do you really believe that Christians wouldn't go back to their stake-burnings the moment they had the chance?

We are in a war of survival against both religion - all religion - and the ideologies which it enables, and those are overwhelmingly reactionary and conservative.

Someone else here called himself right-wing because he would happily see drug dealers lined up against a wall and shot, revealing a deep ignorance of what the "drug war" really is, a distraction to take the public's excuse for a mind off the far greater crimes being committed by those now in power.

Prohibition in the 1920s caused more problems than it solved, and prohibition now is doing the same. Legalize, tax and regulate all drugs and the drug gangs would go out of business overnight - or quite possibly stay in the business but without the violence and corruption.

As for long-term associations with unsavory characters, many of us including myself have had that experience despite not wanting it. Obama disowned his preacher but Palin celebrates hers, and therein lies the difference.

By the way, Sarah Palin is one of the most unattractive women I've seen in a long time. Everything about her shouts *PLASTIC* and I run from those phony types. Add what we know about her politics and I'd sooner be caught naked with Mr T!

18. When Atheists Attack

Comment #250971 by huzonfurst on September 21, 2008 at 12:27 am

Sam Harris for President!

19. Turkish edition of The Ancestor's Tale sells out within a day!

Comment #250631 by huzonfurst on September 20, 2008 at 3:30 am

I joined the chorus of Turkey-bashers by sending a scathing e-mail to contact@turkishembassy.org (sp?). Turkey gets points for maintaining a secular government for all these decades, but it seems to be weakening just when it wants into the EU. Of course with all the BONEHEADED MULTICULTURALISTS infesting so many European governments these days they just might let it in!

20. 'Climate crisis' needs brain gain

Comment #244442 by huzonfurst on September 8, 2008 at 6:15 pm

Yes, climate change is a huge problem, but diverting all resources to solving it and neglecting everything else is no solution. Shallow thinkers use the same "logic" when they insist we solve all our earthly problems before spending anything on space exploration, as if all our problems will *ever* be solved no matter what we try. This Pollyannish position also ignores the gains brought by initially pure research: climate-monitoring satellites come to mind, as well as the Internet of course.

A day doesn't go by when my astonishment at human stupidity doesn't go up yet another notch!

21. Devolution in Education

Comment #244436 by huzonfurst on September 8, 2008 at 5:57 pm

Just finished reading "Only A Theory" by Ken Miller, a detailed defense of evolution by a scientist who also happens to be religious (go figure, but it adds to his credibility among the yahoos).

He goes as far as quoting St Augustine in defense of science:

Even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens...the kinds of animals, shrubs, stones and so forth, and this knowledge he holds to as being certain from reason and experience. Now it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics; and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn.

Right on, Auggy!

22. Museum in censorship row over Darwin sign

Comment #239728 by huzonfurst on August 30, 2008 at 9:05 am

Out here in "America's Finest (Christian) City" - San Diego - whose slogan should really be "The Best Government Money Can Buy," I've been able to get religious symbols removed from the interior walls of church buildings when they are used as polling places. People complain but comply because so far they realize they couldn't win in court (despite the Soledad Cross fiasco).

I wish more secularists would do this and simply demand the respect that we are due. It worked for the gay community when they adopted the worst slur and made it their own: "We're here, we're queer, get used to it!"

23. Genesis and the origin of the Origin of the species

Comment #239717 by huzonfurst on August 30, 2008 at 8:41 am

Does anyone else ever wonder that perhaps we're asking the wrong question when we say "Why?" The other side of "Why?" is Why not?" - an equally valid question.

24. Science Has No Place in Politics

Comment #238261 by huzonfurst on August 27, 2008 at 9:46 pm

Acardia (#29), is that the same Ron Paul who isn't sure he accepts evolution?

Or did he say that because he's a republican, i.e. someone who couldn't tell the truth if his life depended on it!

25. Channel 4 announces return of Undercover Mosque

Comment #237263 by huzonfurst on August 26, 2008 at 9:17 am

Sheesh, Fanusi, quomak is only stating the practical truth that no one person can ever hope to acquire all human knowledge on his own. Whom one can trust is now a combination of study and their standing in their profession, in other words a bit of argument from authority has become necessary. One's opinions then have to come with disclaimers of various levels of ignorance, as when Dawkins talks about physics with Krauss.

26. The heretic

Comment #237242 by huzonfurst on August 26, 2008 at 8:46 am

Sargeist (#8), it makes me wonder if breeding humans with chimps has already been done in secret. Extreme capitalists would love it for the slave labor potential, and Bushite governments for all the obedient (and expendible) soldiers it might produce.

Wait a tick - where did all these creationists really come from...?

27. Plan to exhume cardinal is 'homophobic'

Comment #237227 by huzonfurst on August 26, 2008 at 8:25 am

Re Dhamma #14: It's also like Loretta in Life of Brian insisting on her right to have babies, even though she's a man. "It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression" - or reality.

I'm sure I've watched that movie at least a dozen times and I laugh harder every time - then stories like this come along and prove once again that truth is indeed even stranger than fiction.

28. Channel 4 announces return of Undercover Mosque

Comment #237034 by huzonfurst on August 25, 2008 at 6:02 pm

Mordy (#454), I was suggesting that the 14th amendment be amended to disallow automatic citizenship to babies born to illegals. Is that such a radical idea?

29. Channel 4 announces return of Undercover Mosque

Comment #236863 by huzonfurst on August 25, 2008 at 1:33 pm

SPS: That's a sickening article, all right. I wonder what that flip-flopping phony John McCain would have to say about it?

This kind of abuse is what the right wing really means when it howls about "our precious freedoms": freedom to them is the freedom to exploit, with as little "interference" from government as possible. After all, that would be socialism...

30. Channel 4 announces return of Undercover Mosque

Comment #236787 by huzonfurst on August 25, 2008 at 10:17 am

Titania, thanks for your answers in #274.

It seems rather quaint that we still don't allow communists into the country; replacing "communist" with "boogeyman" will give a good indication of my reaction to that law.

As for anchor babies not being much of an issue, it does not surprise me to learn that the right-wingers have been lying again. However, here in San Diego there are lots of very pregnant women crossing into the US so they can have their babies here - maybe it's for the better health care, free to indigent illegals yet costing a small fortune for the rest of us. I'd like to see Mexico or any other Latin American country offer the same to us! (Don't get me wrong though, I've been all over Mexico, speak a fair amount of Spanish and have an excellent dentist in Tijuana whom I wouldn't trade for any of the bloodsuckers up here.)

Illegal immigrants to Mexico, by the way, are unceremoniously robbed then booted back to where they came from - if they're lucky.

Also, it seems to me that the 14th Amendment has outlived its usefulness, frankly. If it takes a constitutional amendment to change it, so be it; it's been done before.

Of course the real solution to illegal immigration is for the government to enforce existing laws, but it refuses to do that in deference to large commercial interests who like having cheap labor to mercilessly exploit. The fascist pigs (always loved that term) then point to the squalid conditions in which the grossly underpaid workers live and blame it on them, since they aren't "like us (wink, wink)."

Bob Dylan said it:
"You're better than them, you been born with white skin (they explain).
And the poor white remains, on the caboose of the train, but it ain't him to blame, he's only a pawn in their game."

31. Channel 4 announces return of Undercover Mosque

Comment #236251 by huzonfurst on August 24, 2008 at 12:03 pm

Glad to hear it, J Mac, but it's only effective if the enemy soldiers know about it. Why we don't airdrop millions of pamphlets warning that all ammunition has been annointed with pork products is beyond me. It would deter a significant number of fighters, at least until some imam has a holy revelation that allah has made an exception in this case.

Diacanu, the battlefield is no longer only in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's in our midst at home until we decide to do something about it.

I'll revise my suggesting of nuking a Muslim city every time there is a terrorist incident to demolishing a mosque every time that happens; it might actually get their attention (and if they then decide to destroy a church that just makes it into a win-win situation).

By the way, what's wrong with a little revenge? Incarceration is revenge, after all.

32. Channel 4 announces return of Undercover Mosque

Comment #236212 by huzonfurst on August 24, 2008 at 11:32 am

Well, Diacanu, how about pork grease on our bullets then? That way they would only have to eat it if they got shot in the mouth.

33. Channel 4 announces return of Undercover Mosque

Comment #236171 by huzonfurst on August 24, 2008 at 10:41 am

The new motto for Muslim prisoners: "Let them eat pork!"

(And when they're finished eating, let them know there were a few fragments of a Koran in there, just to rub it in - bon appetit!)

34. Channel 4 announces return of Undercover Mosque

Comment #236158 by huzonfurst on August 24, 2008 at 10:14 am

Whew, this has been quite a discussion. A grab bag of quick comments on several comments:

#11 (dpsych) Splitter! The correct phrase is Sauce Be Upon Him (SBUH).

#73 (Laurie) I was with you until you included Afghanistan among the places we should leave. It's the only place we *need* to be in until
the Taliban are utterly and permanently defeated.

#78 (Fanusi) Thank you for mentioning a comment of Hitchens' that I hadn't heard before, about "no more mosques until the West until there are churches in Muslim countries."

#98 (utelme) I share your despair about finding a particular comment in a previous post. Once again, Josh, WHY DON'T WE HAVE A DECENT SEARCH
FUNCTION HERE?!

#100 (Fanusi) Another excellent post. I think this is the one where you mentioned exposing Muslim prisoners to pig's blood in one way or
another, and it made me wonder why the U.S. Army isn't applying it to their bullets now the way they did in 1898 in the Philippines. Another
way to make prison a real punishment for jihadists is to give them all live pigs for roommates, even in 'solitary.'

#102 (Steve) Sorry, but you sound like a real hand-wringer to me. Sometimes it's necessary to bend a principle for the sake of survival: it isn't a black and white world out there.

#124 (Titania) I agree with almost everything you said, but have two questions. Does the Immigration Act that you mentioned really ban
communists from becoming citizens? And don't you think that automatic citizenship for those born here should only be for those whose mothers
were here legally? These 'anchor babies' are a loophole that many illegals use to get their whole families into the country, and it's ridiculous that it's still on the books.

35. US school district sued over homophobic 'witch hunt'

Comment #234676 by huzonfurst on August 21, 2008 at 10:03 pm

Ironically enough, all these throwbacks who also scoff at climate change will become some of its first victims when sea level rises enough so that the entire state of Florida disappears.

We had a hilarious lesbian comedian on a cruise ship years ago whose best bit was "I was in the Oklahoma City Airport one time wearing my Rainbow Flag t-shirt because I'm proud - and a jacket over it because I'm smart."

PS to m-man, comment #15: I myself would prefer to see this guy caught passed out naked on the altar with the local preacher Sunday morning - just before services begin - after an all-night screaming homosexual love-fest. And then torn apart by the angry mob of loving and forgiving Khristers, no church bus necessary.

36. Poll: Should the motto 'In God We Trust' be removed from U.S. currency?

Comment #230591 by huzonfurst on August 14, 2008 at 11:27 pm

It may seem trivial but it *all* matters. Symbols have power whether we want to admit it or not, and religious symbols on public and government property only give encouragement to the nutters.

I was just talking about San Diego's gigantic and grossly illegal concrete cross on top of Mt Soledad to someone who took only a couple of minutes to get *hopping mad* over an issue which she insisted "didn't matter" - so naturally I asked her if it didn't matter so much why were so many people getting so excited about keeping it up? If it "didn't matter" why wasn't it quietly taken down, as every single judge who ruled on it said it should be, instead of "America's Finest (Christian) City" spending *millions of dollars* appealing the decision?

The woman got even angrier at this and the conversation was ended. My only emotion was one of bemusement at the 24-carat absurdity of our conversation, mixed with some resignation at the depth of human stupidity.

By the way, the old rugged cross still stands since our republican mayor took it personally to GWB his own redneck self, who had the *City property* that it stood on *illegally transferred* to the federal government - where it is *still* illegal!

37. CBI wants more pupils in science

Comment #228714 by huzonfurst on August 12, 2008 at 12:45 pm

Hey Josh! Why is there still no search function here?!

I feel like a damn hippie always posting useless messages just to "find myself"!

And now it only finds the most recent post - which is empty. You're doin' a heckuva job...

38. Embracing goodness, without God

Comment #226592 by huzonfurst on August 8, 2008 at 11:35 am

D. Williams: I agree that cats are bad for indigenous fauna, which is one reason mine stay inside at all times (and seem to be fine with it, plus they never get fleas).

Pythagoras: Lots of things don't work or don't exist on this discussion board, a big one being the lack of a usable search function. One should be able to go straight to any user, find a word or phrase *anywhere* without having to specify where in the site it exists, and follow threads in either direction.

These are basic database functions which have existed since there were databases, and long before the Internet was even thought of. Maybe they do exist here but I haven't been able to find them (there certainly is no help function worthy of the name), and I consider this comment board to be extremely user-unfriendly as a result.

39. Call to teach biblical creation as science

Comment #226306 by huzonfurst on August 7, 2008 at 11:53 pm

What was that - the Baloney Free (no dash) Presbyterian Church? Had to be.

And what is this DUPe thing?

And *why* do these nutters continue to get away with "evolution is only a theory"?? It's like right-wing talk radio in the states: why is it even legal to allow these people to constantly *lie* to the public?

It's stories like this one that make me wish I liked to drink so they would go away for a while.

LeeC is exactly right - these slobbering religionists are always demanding equal time but never offering it the other way around, with real science being taught in the indoctrination (literally) centers they call Sunday school.

40. Richard Dawkins, the naive professor

Comment #226017 by huzonfurst on August 7, 2008 at 3:38 pm

Al-raw, your statement that "lawyers and political correctness are useless" doesn't go nearly far enough. They are both, in fact, actively harmful to free speech and therefore social progress, engaging in a form of terrorism that frightens people into censoring themselves lest there be consequences imposed by the self-appointed guardians of thought.

Welcome to the PC gulag!

By the way, Richard, every lawyer I've ever had the deep misfortune to be forced to deal with has been an insufferable snot more interested in "winning" cases through word play than in any sense of justice being done, and always by maximizing his or her billable hours. You and just about everyone here are far more intelligent and honest than the members of this so-called "profession," so don't be afraid to tell them to fuck off next time!

It turns out that the majority of members of Congress in the USA (and probably the UK) are lawyers. Could there be a connection between this fact and the quality of governing which we have?

41. Why Islam Is Unfunny for a Cartoonist

Comment #224602 by huzonfurst on August 5, 2008 at 7:58 am

Yes, Hirsi Ali lied on her immigration application - by using a false name to avoid being found out and killed!

Anyone who defends her expulsion from her adopted country because she didn't follow the letter of the law is an absolutely hopeless bureaucrat who worships regulations above all else, including life itself. These people have always made good little Nazis.

42. Embracing goodness, without God

Comment #224382 by huzonfurst on August 4, 2008 at 2:43 pm

Sarum, the place where all those phony humanists gathered was San Diego, just down the road from the Institute for Creation Research and home of several corrupt members of congress, one (Duke Cunningham) recently incarcerated for crimes even the Bush Administration couldn't ignore - and others who should be.

Of course we're also the home of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, where I had the great pleasure of being able to attend both Beyond Belief conferences so far, meeting *everyone* including Richard. Don't know if he'd remember me, but I was the one who congratulated him on his extemporaneous outburst against religion which he claimed to be "ashamed" of; why, I still don't know.

I presume your comment on becoming a religious humanist was tongue in cheek.

Someone else mentioned how atheists tend to be cat people. I plead guilty, having adopted three strays so far whom I wouldn't give up for all the farms in Cuba.

43. A cast-iron case for a secular society

Comment #224020 by huzonfurst on August 4, 2008 at 2:04 am

This is what happens when "humanists" get elected to public office.

44. Embracing goodness, without God

Comment #224013 by huzonfurst on August 4, 2008 at 1:49 am

My experience with "humanists" has been that a majority of them just like to sit around congratulating themselves on how liberal they are. Our local "humanist" groups have been nests of incredibly clueless yet extraordinarily pompous know-it-alls who express high-falutin' principles and then abandon them at the first sign of a possible cost, no matter how slight, of actually standing up for them.

I'd mention the breathtaking lack of social skills but you can guess at that for yourselves. Our "humanists" were at the end of the social sewer line and would accept *anybody* into their membership - those that no one else wanted. The result should have been predictable, however my idealism prevented me from realizing how broken these groups were for far too long.

In the last few years several of these flotsam have either committed suicide (not trying to sound harsh, just descriptive) and several others have been charged or convicted of serious crimes. I always suspected there were moles being paid to cause trouble, however they were hardly necessary considering what there was to begin with.

Of course some members tried to keep things afloat but these groups have all thankfully shrunk to a fraction of their former size, never very big in the first place. Give me an angry atheist over a polite "humanist" any day of the week!

45. Why Islam Is Unfunny for a Cartoonist

Comment #223496 by huzonfurst on August 2, 2008 at 2:41 pm

Xom:

I read "Infidel" and it's the story of how Hirsi Ali *became an atheist,* which she still is as far as I know. She said plenty against religion in that book, so your claim that she wouldn't criticize it makes no sense. What am I missing?

Hirsi Ali now works for the American Enterprise Institute, unfortunately a very conservative organization that is not above using Christianity to promote its various reactionary positions. Hirsi Ali is being manipulated by them because she is anti-Islam. However, she is in fact "conservative" in the sense that she is opposed to the way the Netherlands coddles their immigrants by giving them endless welfare and not enforcing assimilation.

46. Workers' Religious Freedom vs. Patients' Rights

Comment #223069 by huzonfurst on August 1, 2008 at 11:52 am

Whatever happened to "You can believe anything you want, but you can't *do* anything you want"? Sounds like a simple enough guideline to me - and the first job of implementing it should be to remove the special protections that some parents have for withholding medical care from their own children.

If these religious whiners won't do their jobs their names and offenses should be widely publicized, so that eventually enough people will boycott their employers to the point where they will have to start letting certain employees go.

47. Breeding for God

Comment #222993 by huzonfurst on August 1, 2008 at 7:54 am

This may sound rather drastic, but for the sake of secular culture - and the health of the biosphere - we should really be mounting another Manhattan Project, this time aimed at developing an undetectable sterilization drug that can be selectively administered to *any* group that over-reproduces.

China's one child per family policy was implemented out of a similar necessity, and as brutal as its application has been in many cases the alternative of unchecked population growth would be orders of magnitude worse.

Imagine a sustainable world with a maximum of one billion overwhelmingly secular people in it - it's easy if you try.

48. What's wrong with science as religion

Comment #222985 by huzonfurst on August 1, 2008 at 7:30 am

Both Giberson and Old Sarum are imploring us not to throw out the baby with the bathwater, blithely ignoring the fact that *there is no baby*!

49. Vicar supports Life of Brian ban

Comment #222723 by huzonfurst on July 31, 2008 at 7:32 pm

(Sorry, can't help this): Looks like another Felonious Monk at work...

When someone tells you that Jesus loves you, the response should be "But will he respect me in the morning?" (much better if lots of people are within earshot)

And then there's good old Ambrose Bierce:
The pig is taught through sermons and epistles
To think the god of swine hath snout and bristles.

50. Write to UCF

Comment #222359 by huzonfurst on July 31, 2008 at 9:17 am

I'd like to see a nationwide protest consisting of thousands of people going to communion and making off with their uneaten crackers.

But what are the chances here in Jesusland? Slim to nun, I'd say.