1. Hirsi Ali Returns to the Netherlands after Losing Body Guards

Comment #75883 by Dan P on October 4, 2007 at 12:16 am

I have to agree with the Dutch government here, I was actually surprised that she still received state funded personal protection in a foreign country!
What is ironic is that the US government will not provide much, even in the face of threats, and the think tank she is working for is radically opposed to this kind of government "welfare", and apparently she is not a valueable enough employee for them to pay for it.

2. I'm Sure God is Scared

Comment #44990 by Dan P on May 25, 2007 at 6:23 pm

Well apparently the author is bitching about we evil atheists republishing the article. Apparently IP is as important in providing moral guidance as religion...(I'm not kidding, also is IP not associated with patents and other sciency stuff?) Of course copyright does not protect you from public ridicule err I mean criticism :-).

3. Let us pray for the soul of Richard Dawkins

Comment #40439 by Dan P on May 14, 2007 at 9:49 am

"In this country, belief is a minority practice and believers a persecuted lot."
He is of course 100% percent right. Believers are being viciously oppressed from burning witches at the stake and randomly torturing people, how outrageous.

4. Kirk Cameron Proves That God Exists

Comment #39924 by Dan P on May 12, 2007 at 9:59 am

It came off very amateurish, isn't ABC a big news organization? Fumbling with microphones etc... Also read the byline of the slate article, which isn't included on rd.net: "Just Kidding". The headline is really sarcastic, but includes a byline for the sarcasm impaired.
I think the fairly inexperienced RRS was an appropriate response to these clowns, if a professional like Dawkins or Harris was there it would have devolved into a bloody massacre, literally a bulldozer over a frog.

5. Prophets of the new atheism

Comment #30555 by Dan P on April 8, 2007 at 3:42 pm

Interesting observation about religious indoctrination is how effective it is at disabling natural morals and reason. They are unable too understand things like reason, science, evidence, logic and the scientific morals. Reason is just the competition which is of course wrong and satanic. This article demonstrated this quite clearly.

6. Does God answer prayer? ASU research says 'yes'

Comment #25935 by Dan P on March 15, 2007 at 6:01 pm

Also hasn't most of the positive studies been exposed as unscientific and outright fraud? Those that was done professionally and scientific yielded the predictable result: no effect.

7. Send a Message to God: He has gone too far this time

Comment #17474 by Dan P on January 14, 2007 at 1:54 am

I agree with the hypocrisy, the Tsunami is Nature as well as every other "bad thing". Suddenly these deluded theists has become the biggest boosters of materialism and naturalism. But wait, when there is a horrible drought followed by rains, the drought is the result of cruel nature while the rain is the grace of god...What makes this utter hypocrisy even more hypocritical is that it isn't even seen as a flaw, it's a built-in feature not a bug.

8. Without God, Gall Is Permitted

Comment #16230 by Dan P on January 5, 2007 at 4:35 pm

This is probably the first article were the author is fairly acurate, but still on the dark side. I can understand the worry of the fantasists. The church has lost virtually all official rule and coercion in a mere 200 hundred years after millenia of unquestioned absolutism. This was through mere erosion, atheists did nothing but watch, while this strategy has been successfull, the gentle persuausion also didn't prevent these people from flying planes into buildings. So the current asault must be worying indeed! The kiddie gloves have come off, it is soon going too be quite embaressing too still believe in fairies and gods. Persuasion doesn't work against this immoral indoctrination, embarresment and social ridicule does though.

9. The Trouble with Atheism

Comment #15334 by Dan P on December 30, 2006 at 1:16 pm

Rod Liddle totally shot himself in the foot with this one. He seems to realize that religions reputation is in the gutter. So he tries to EQUATE atheism with religion, now this is totally absurd so he needs rationalizations. Origin of Species becomes the bible, Darwin the head prophet etc. but what is most revealing is the attack on science, technology and industry. These things that has totally transformed the world into the modern age has suddenly become the equivalent of supernatural fantasy.
The problem is that these things have enormous cachet.
He just doesn't come of as anti-elitist, but against Reason, the Enlightenment, Science, Modernity and backwards.

10. A Modest Proposal for a Truce on Religion

Comment #11142 by Dan P on December 3, 2006 at 9:49 am

The religious right has not retreated, they are losing though and any perception of "retreat" is the result of being beaten back, the problem is that they will never surrender, expect things too get nastier and nastier as they are driven into smaller corners (expect bombs and violence, oh yeah that has happened already). Nevertheless I think they have reached the peak of their "revival", I must say I was slightly perturbed as well as amused at their slight and very brief grasp of power they enjoyed and that was enough of an "over reach" to trigger a backlash.

Also remember that they also came too power (at least in America) as the result of an aliance with the corrupt aristrocrats whose only god is money and the politics of fear. There just was no way for this frankenstein monster too survive for long.

11. O Come All Ye Unfaithful

Comment #11137 by Dan P on December 3, 2006 at 9:23 am

This is quite a positive article, it doesn't hesitate too call out the god-botherers, it seems like the journalist was quite in his element, of course for "balance" he mentions that Dawkins is a little grumpy LOL.

12. Census called into question as new Ipsos MORI poll estimates 17 million Humanist Brits

Comment #9591 by Dan P on November 25, 2006 at 7:58 am

I have a quible with these questions they seem biased.

Scientific and other evidence provides the *best way* to understand the universe.* (62%)

Religious beliefs are needed for a *complete understanding* of the universe. (22%)
Neither of these (10%)
Don't know (6%)

I don't know why best is used in the science answer but complete in the religion one, maybe the authors actually took the attitudes of religion and science in consideration, religion claims absolute explanations while science only provides an developing explanation with the possibility (IMHO which is very good) of a complete explanation.

13. Praise the Lord - a bestseller!

Comment #9567 by Dan P on November 25, 2006 at 6:25 am

Yeah, it is humorous, the author seems too satarize the other sides, train of unthought.(up is down, black is white, evidence that disproves my believes, REALLY proves it etc.)