1. 'Intelligent' computers put to the test

Comment #262130 by alfonso on October 8, 2008 at 3:12 am

"What is the subject I wonder if I think?"

That sounds so bad, it reeks computer logic failing to understand a sentence that barely makes sense (What is the subject, do you think?).

2. The rival to the Bible

Comment #261547 by alfonso on October 7, 2008 at 3:04 am

"The fact this book has survived at all is a miracle."

Not really, we just don't know how many books didn't make it at all :)

3. Christian group calls for a Christian university in Britain

Comment #259847 by alfonso on October 4, 2008 at 2:57 am

Use selected pages of the bible for dart throwing practice. Great stuff for the pubs, gotta work for universities too.

4. YouTube Reinstates Pat Condell

Comment #259804 by alfonso on October 4, 2008 at 1:17 am

It burns me that the first reaction was the knee-jerk reaction to remove the video AND THEN review it.

I guess they have their procedures for this and they do what is most efficient for their business, but sounds like they are too quick to remove videos.

5. 'All Terrorists are Darwinists': An Interview with Harun Yahya

Comment #252731 by alfonso on September 23, 2008 at 2:43 pm

Category 5 fucktard

6. YouTube Removes Viral Video on Palin's Churches For Inappropriate Content

Comment #248380 by alfonso on September 16, 2008 at 6:17 am

What a bunch of deluded fucktards, I must say.

What scares me, deeply, is that these fucktards will become crazed suicidal soldiers for jeebus at the flick of a switch, and start their beloved armageddon.

And one of them could be the vice president of one of the most powerful nations in the world?

7. Teachers should tackle creationism, says science education expert

Comment #246236 by alfonso on September 12, 2008 at 2:32 am

Creationism and ID should be part of a history of science subject, where it is shown why they are not science.

I think history of science is such an ignored field!!!

8. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #241706 by alfonso on September 3, 2008 at 1:47 am

This creature (I believe she is a human being) is scary stuff. She deserves to be vicepresident for McCain

9. Do they really think the earth is flat?

Comment #224447 by alfonso on August 5, 2008 at 1:55 am

I had to look at the URL twice to be sure this wasn't another article from The Onion...

10. Lourdes fears priestly scandal will make profits dry up

Comment #210152 by alfonso on July 14, 2008 at 3:04 am

So, truth will make their profits dry up, yet all the lies were making profits soar?

What kind of business follows that model?

Fucktards!

11. Man Sues Church Over 'God Injury'

Comment #210129 by alfonso on July 14, 2008 at 1:26 am

This might have been said before...

fucktards!!!

12. Degrees of religion

Comment #206038 by alfonso on July 8, 2008 at 3:34 am

She says:

My name indicates that I, as a "Servant of Allah", have unwavering faith in Allah.

Not true. Servant of Allah means she is a slave to an imaginary being. And because she has faith, she will always be a slave, thus a servant. Not the other way around.

13. Churches' secret talks to stop gay surge

Comment #205381 by alfonso on July 7, 2008 at 7:58 am

"Now that the Anglicans plan to allow women bishops, there is a fear that clergy will defect to the Vatican and Rome"

Only with religion would people voluntarily choose to cut their own rights when freedoms are given.

In this case this is even worse, they'd risk their eternal souls (they believe they have them) to change religion just because their leaders finally realize/accept that women are actually equal and decide to act upon it.

They are just a bunch of despicable bigots, they should have no power, and certainly no funding from any democratic state.

14. Spanish parliament to extend rights to apes

Comment #200189 by alfonso on June 27, 2008 at 3:39 am

Any of you who thinks the spanish inquisition was the only one that existed, or the worst, please read some up to date history books on the matter.

Also read something up about the spanish black legend (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Legend).

15. Group wants Wi-Fi banned from public buildings

Comment #186244 by alfonso on May 30, 2008 at 2:34 am

Bonzai, you are an amazingly disgusting troll.

The point is obvious yet you keep ignoring it. Even though it has been spelled out several times already.

16. Bible Theme Park Faces Opposition in Tennessee

Comment #180879 by alfonso on May 16, 2008 at 2:35 am

These people think the Flanders family (from the Simpsons, that is) is a role model, ah the irony.

So somebody wants to do something big and religious and somehow there is dissent? Amazing, don't tell me they don't agree in their understanding of god!!!

This made my day :P

17. Group finds Starbucks logo too hot to handle

Comment #180877 by alfonso on May 16, 2008 at 2:32 am

Funny, if I believed in any of that bullshit I would have thought that sex is a gift from god to be enjoyed in every form that we consenting adults can think of. That would include sexual artistic expression, of course.

On the other hand, I see absolutely nothing sexual about the starbucks logo. And I am well known as a sick perv among friends and family!

3000 people nationwide? 3000???? That's fucking nothing.

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

Comment #176467 by alfonso on May 7, 2008 at 11:57 am

Diacanu, search for "Glenn Beck interviewing Ben Stein" in youtube, i found some results that work.

19. Is religion a threat to rationality and science?

Comment #166264 by alfonso on April 23, 2008 at 4:21 am

If, as a Jew, I decide to adhere to totally irrational dietary laws or bizarrely not travel on a bus on Saturday, does that make me an extremist? If I go further and wear a kippa on my head and build an eruv around the part of London in which I live, is that an unacceptable excess?

20. Richard Dawkins' secular army must be stopped. God is behind some of our greatest art

Comment #160371 by alfonso on April 14, 2008 at 2:08 am

I am tired of atheism being compared to a religion, or the respect towards Dawkins being considered worship.

Who says that Dawkins is worshiped? Revered? If he says something I disagree with, I'll speak out and let whoever cares to listen to me know about my position, much like with everyone else.

Believers do not understand this kind of relationship with other human beings and therefore, it must be worship? How naive of them. Again, that seems to be the way they learn to deal with others, when they are 'superiors' they are to be 'worshiped'.

21. German Church admits aiding Nazis

Comment #158174 by alfonso on April 10, 2008 at 7:09 am

Of course Hitler was a Christian, no matter what you find out later on. In the same logic that M. Theresa was not an atheist. Regardless of the fact that she did not believe god existed. She said she was a believer so she must have been!

Oh wait, does that make Hitler a what? And M. Theresa a huh?

Falcon, the moral, ethically correct position of the catholic church should have been to oppose what the government was doing. Regardless of personal consequences. That is what being ethical is all about, specially when one is religious it should be easier, with the afterlife and all.

Whether or not this would have stopped the war, saved any number of people in germany or otherwise improved the lives of anybody is totally irrelevant. If you are a committed member of the church, all of that amounts to nothing, for it is to be compared with infinite divine reward in the afterlife.

End of story.

But...

if you consider that all of that is a fairy tale maintained by smart power-hungry men who know how to manipulate others into false beliefs, then it all makes sense, the actions of the church make perfect sense... when you realize it is all man made make-believe.

Salud!

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

Comment #149775 by alfonso on March 26, 2008 at 8:14 am

"There is no abuse or signs of abuse that we can see"

If being dead is not sign enough, what is?

23. Religious groups want Russian cartoon channel shut down

Comment #146341 by alfonso on March 19, 2008 at 1:20 am

I love the reply:

"The atheists could have just as well written a letter to demand that all religious channels and programs be closed. We work respecting the constitution, we do not violate the law."

it is such a simple idea, isn't it, but the religious ones consistently fail to see it!!!

24. Religion 'linked to happy life'

Comment #145956 by alfonso on March 18, 2008 at 12:05 pm

That does not make it true.

25. Berlin gallery in Islam art row

Comment #136885 by alfonso on March 1, 2008 at 11:54 pm

It is also my right to be offended (and enlightened) by others which is at stake. Without this, there is no progress.

But of course, religions are all about stopping progress.

It is a stupid stone, worshipped by stupid followers of a stupid religion.

But because our society is poisoned by the deadly 'respect towards faith' we are going to let them crush our rights until it is too late.

26. Dispatches: Holy Offensive

Comment #135086 by alfonso on February 28, 2008 at 2:09 pm

Burning the satanic verses and protesting about it put a stop to what!? How absurdly ignorant can they be!?

27. Why do we believe in God? 2m study prays for answer

Comment #129484 by alfonso on February 19, 2008 at 7:41 am

The Templeton Foundation behind this? So they will start under the assumption of an existing god and proceed from there?

Then the answer will be obviously because god did it?

Easy, hand over the £1.9m!!!

28. Council pays psychic for exorcism

Comment #126679 by alfonso on February 13, 2008 at 11:43 pm

Nah, the council is acknowledging the existence of idiots that believe in psychics and exorcisms.


Like prescribing a placebo, we all pay for that too.

29. Earliest bats did not 'see' with sound

Comment #126676 by alfonso on February 13, 2008 at 11:24 pm

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed is king!

Don't you mean one-eared? ;-)

30. My Saudi Valentine

Comment #126614 by alfonso on February 13, 2008 at 4:31 pm

That's not longing for love, that's longing for sex. It is pretty sad, actually.

31. Earliest bats did not 'see' with sound

Comment #126455 by alfonso on February 13, 2008 at 9:28 am

Well, echolocation must have been such a decisive advantage that no doubt it quickly prevailed.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed is king!!

32. A Tyrannical Romance

Comment #126454 by alfonso on February 13, 2008 at 9:25 am

It is a great article, to be honest, with a very clear, concise and distinctive way of expressing maybe not very complex concepts, but still, concepts that are hard to grasp: how do we know certain things from fossils?

We might not have been there to see it happen, but there is so much we can tell with enormous certainty.

I find this much more beautiful and interesting than any biblical 'truths'.

Wouldn't mind to watch T.ReXXX, the Movie!

33. Sentenced to death: Afghan who dared to read about women's rights

Comment #118775 by alfonso on January 31, 2008 at 12:59 am

It has been said before, is 'democracy' an asset if the underlying/subscribing/voting population live under a very really anti-democratic theocracy?

34. MySpace: No place for Atheists?

Comment #118128 by alfonso on January 30, 2008 at 11:38 am

Well, I have cancelled my account and left a clear note about the reasons why. Not that I used that site that much anyway, really sucks in pretty much every sense, now on EVERY sense.

35. Huckabee Wants A 'Faith-based' Constitution

Comment #111898 by alfonso on January 16, 2008 at 1:11 am

No no, you don't understand, that god is the *REAL* one.

Is the whole of US so deluded or are there still places that can be considered havens against these tides of irrationality?

36. Russia prohibits denial of Santa

Comment #104261 by alfonso on December 28, 2007 at 8:32 am

It said that declaring that Father Frost did not exist implied that parents were not telling the truth, so undermining childrens' trust in them.

37. Jumbo shrimp, creationist astronomy

Comment #98732 by alfonso on December 14, 2007 at 6:59 am

Apparently so, thirdchimpanzee, for the glory of the lord our saviour or, in other words, a cosmical task of masturbation.

38. Voyager 2 probe reaches solar system boundary

Comment #98032 by alfonso on December 13, 2007 at 2:29 am

Awesome, makes one feel big and small at the same time. So much unlike religion, which makes people feel insignificant all the time.

39. Mitt Romney's Faith In America address (as prepared for delivery)

Comment #94918 by alfonso on December 7, 2007 at 2:02 am

I love the profound ceremony of the Catholic mass, the approachability of God in the prayers of the Evangelicals, the tenderness of spirit among the Pentecostals, the confident independence of the Lutherans, the ancient traditions of the Jews, unchanged through the ages, and the commitment to frequent prayer of the Muslims

40. Riding with Rocinante: 'It's me or the crucifix'

Comment #94874 by alfonso on December 6, 2007 at 11:41 pm

Agreed, treeman17, it is embarrassing to see ANYONE defend a myth just because others hold it dear, a myth is a myth, and as such should be known by everyone.

41. Rome playing politics

Comment #84752 by alfonso on November 3, 2007 at 12:37 pm

As a Spaniard living in Ireland, I've had the chance to see the effects of the roman catholic church and I can only say, I'm happy I voted for this man! Oh, and it was postal vote from Ireland, so no chance for my vote to be decided by the Madrid bombings.

42. Believe it or not, courtesy counts

Comment #83991 by alfonso on November 1, 2007 at 1:07 am

Sacred texts, argues Carlin Romano, deserve to be approached politely even by those who see no merit in claims about their divine origins

43. Nato accuses Taliban of using children in suicide missions

Comment #53383 by alfonso on July 1, 2007 at 6:44 am

Oh, xians do it too:

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/sep2001/ire-s05.shtml

Maybe they don't use them to blow themselves up, but make their lives miserable instead.

Religion is detritus of our society, and we must evacuate it.

44. The Stupidity of Fox News is Truly Beyond Belief

Comment #52183 by alfonso on June 26, 2007 at 12:38 pm

I have atheist friends! I very much doubt it!

45. Germany imposes ban on Tom Cruise

Comment #52086 by alfonso on June 26, 2007 at 5:57 am

"We believe the film will go a long way toward reminding the world that even within the ranks of the German military, there was real resistance to the Nazi regime," she added.

46. Italian TV urged to scrap BBC film accusing Pope of abuse cover-up

Comment #45116 by alfonso on May 26, 2007 at 12:21 pm

It has been removed from most sources, but isohunt and other torrent engines are seeding as usual ;)

47. Dental healer finds share of faithful believers

Comment #43984 by alfonso on May 23, 2007 at 6:05 am

From Wordnet:

The noun fraud has 3 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)

1. (5) fraud -- (intentional deception resulting in injury to another person)
2. (2) imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player -- (a person who makes deceitful pretenses)
3. (2) fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug, put-on -- (something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage)

And as far as I know, fraud is a crime. How come this people get away with it?

48. The root of all evil?

Comment #43689 by alfonso on May 22, 2007 at 9:49 am

This is not very shocking for anyone who has ACTUALLY READ the Old Testament. he outright admits that he is jealous. I can think of a scriptural basis for each of these adjectives right now without even consulting my bible.

49. The root of all evil?

Comment #43685 by alfonso on May 22, 2007 at 9:34 am

Religion, he says, is the root of all evil.

50. Would the World Be Safer Without Religion?

Comment #43363 by alfonso on May 21, 2007 at 7:23 am

So what this guy is saying:

There is a clear account of horrible historical facts of mass murdering, hatred, oppresion which is directly to blame to religion. But, I like religion, so it can't be religion. I am 'sure' this would happen all along without the word god (how do you know this?). It must be something else.

The usual white cheque to religion to be one of the greatest evils for this planet, and somehow get away with it.