1. Americans pray at the pump for cheaper petrol

Comment #179261 by Grandt on May 13, 2008 at 1:41 am

Only $4/gal ?? Those Americans have it easy!

Goldy, I'll take your $1.94/l and raise you to a staggering $2.39/l ( $9.07/gal ) here in Denmark.

It is insane!

I'm about ready to start begging the scientists to start thinking outside the box and come up with a _viable_ alternative to oil.

2. Ben Stein Vs. Sputtering Atheists

Comment #165160 by Grandt on April 21, 2008 at 6:33 am

Bozell:
...but also crush the careers of professors who dare to question the Darwinian hypothesis of evolution and natural selection.

3. Religion and Child Abuse

Comment #48223 by Grandt on June 7, 2007 at 5:41 am

Religious child abuse, you have to look no further than this heart wrenching clip, where a 3 year old is reciting indoctrinated hate. Words I seriously doubt (or hope) she understand the true meaning of:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhbHVEGnYD8

4. Man to die over insult

Comment #47068 by Grandt on June 3, 2007 at 12:36 am

4. Comment #47047 by Jolly Wally on June 2, 2007 at 11:36 pm
What a retarded country.

5. Atheism in America

Comment #40788 by Grandt on May 15, 2007 at 1:59 am

And someone even called her a satanist/Satan worshiper, that couldn't be further from the truth.
After all, we (the Atheists) aren't the ones who believe such an entity even exists...

6. Fortune-telling no longer in the cards in Philly

Comment #39082 by Grandt on May 10, 2007 at 12:29 am

#10. Comment #39031 by Howzat
Nice catch, I hadn't noticed that little gem :-)

7. The New Atheists loathe religion far too much to plausibly challenge it

Comment #38206 by Grandt on May 7, 2007 at 8:09 am

I've always found it hilarious when 'believers' claim that atheists don't know about religion, and as such shouldn't comment on it.

Fine.

If we are not to comment on religion, 'believers' should refrain from commenting on scientific topics.

Somehow I don't think that that is going to happen though.

8. Atheists go on the political offensive in God-fearing US

Comment #38137 by Grandt on May 7, 2007 at 5:11 am

31. Comment #38122 by Shuggy

Richard Dawkins can at come across as firm and a bit demanding at times (not a bad thing imho), some religious pundits claim that that style is dogmatic and fanatic.
But please tell me, when have religious pundits NOT been dogmatic and fanatical? :-)

If you want to fight fire in the religious world, you have to use big headlines, lest the people who really need the wake-up call, won't get it.

9. Those fanatical atheists

Comment #38106 by Grandt on May 7, 2007 at 1:48 am

"Private, quiet faith is one thing. But when the guy holding the launch codes believes the end of the world could come any day and that's a good thing, those who believe lives are limited to one per customer have a problem."

Perfect definition :-)

10. New Noah's Ark ready to sail

Comment #36063 by Grandt on April 30, 2007 at 5:02 am

Thank goodness for the religious nutters...for who were we to laugh at had they not been there ?

11. New Noah's Ark ready to sail

Comment #36024 by Grandt on April 30, 2007 at 1:02 am

51. Comment #35965

Thanks for that link, the images on that page were ... enlightening.

By all accounts, it's a barge with a funny looking house on top, that is all it is.

IF this bloke were interested in proving anything, he would have build the boat as being seaworthy, not just made up of a thin wooden shell.

12. Hey Mom, I'm an Atheist

Comment #31005 by Grandt on April 10, 2007 at 3:17 pm

16. Comment #30941 by Corylus

If I understood the background correctly (can't remember where it was covered) the swap was between this woman, apparently described as a devout Christian, and an Atheist family, not pagan.

But to nutballs this far gone, there are no difference between the two.

13. Hey Mom, I'm an Atheist

Comment #31001 by Grandt on April 10, 2007 at 3:01 pm

I can just hear the mothers next comment, after calming down sometime next year: "Have you tried /not/ being an atheist"

14. Dawkins vs Haggard: the Python Edition

Comment #29900 by Grandt on April 5, 2007 at 11:59 am

It's taken from the documantary "Root of all Evil ?", I'm almost certain that if you search YouTube you might find a longer clip.

15. An apology to Peter Kay

Comment #25062 by Grandt on March 10, 2007 at 1:13 am

#25060 by ketandev; Those "hired publicity machines" live and breathe for a singular goal, and rarely care for the truth, should it become a casualty.

Kudos to Richard for going public and explain this with an apology :-)

16. Merkel wants EU to be vocal about Christian roots

Comment #23644 by Grandt on March 1, 2007 at 11:37 pm

If there are one fight we must take this year, it is this one. The EU have previously killed off any notion of promoting any single religion, and I sincerely hope that they will do so again, but as this is a state head that is making these demands, I fear that the rest of the EU polititians may need a bit of gentle prodding in order to isolate and exterminate this 'idea'.

17. Faith

Comment #23084 by Grandt on February 26, 2007 at 7:17 am

#62:
25% are Catholic Atheists?...No wonder it was the French who invented Aspirin...

18. Faith

Comment #23075 by Grandt on February 26, 2007 at 6:00 am

#53:

And here I thought that April 1st was still about a month away...

Well, at any rate the fallout from these discoveries (lets just humor these people for a moment) could indeed be fun to watch, as it does seem to fly in the face of Dogmatic evangelicals, and the Bible.

19. Faith

Comment #23061 by Grandt on February 26, 2007 at 4:46 am

#43:

Interesting numbers, but I would have thought that the number would be lower, much lower.



I am naturally referring to "Religion's" score. After all, a lie ought to count as a negative :-)

20. Faith

Comment #23053 by Grandt on February 26, 2007 at 3:58 am

> "You have a triangle with fundamentalist
> secularists in one corner, fundamentalist faith
> people in another, and then the intelligent,
> thinking liberals of Anglicanism, Roman
> Catholicism, baptism, methodism, other faiths -
> and, indeed, thinking atheists - in the other
> corner. " says Slee.

ROFLMAO...

Sorry, but that one kinda stood out, among the rest of this bigoted and self righteous article.
Using "Thinking liberals" to describe various faith groups, and then adding "thinking Atheists" as an afterthought is just too much.

If anything, Atheists are more used to thinking than most religious people.
After all hardly any of us can say that we were raised and schooled in an exclusively secular way in this day and age.

Most of us must have thought about religion and it's role, to come the conclusion that there is no god!
Just as most people at some point think about other faerie tales and come to the conclusions that there are no Santa, it's just a fat guy in a red suit, and that tooth fairies and unicorns are equally incompatible with reality.

If it wasn't because these people have the media time and political attention that they do, I'd be able to laugh at them a lot more freely, and less hysterically.

21. Faith

Comment #23039 by Grandt on February 26, 2007 at 2:31 am

Strange to see that no one so far have noticed or commented the irony/humor in the article number in the URL :-)

22. Panel discussion on atheism where no atheists are included

Comment #21071 by Grandt on February 7, 2007 at 1:35 pm

CDG, Maybe you should replace black with jew in your next comparisons, after all if Karen uses the "I didn't choose to be black" angle, she will have some trouble with explaining the argument if it's the jewish people that is being used that way, after all being jewish IS (to an extend) a choice.

23. Panel discussion on atheism where no atheists are included

Comment #21070 by Grandt on February 7, 2007 at 1:31 pm

Wow

How someone can be that stupid and still be able to walk on two legs is beyond me.

Personally I think they left the evolutionary ladder quite a few steps ago.

24. The Chronicles of Kearnya, or, Principles of Evolution Observed in the Field at Kearny High School

Comment #20512 by Grandt on February 3, 2007 at 3:13 pm

This is a disgrace. When do people learn that sticking the head into the sand is the least effective solution to any problem ?

25. 'Friends of God' Documentary

Comment #19883 by Grandt on January 30, 2007 at 1:08 pm

Schools should start teaching the children in the basic scientific principles first and early on, teaching them what the terms really mean, how to use them, and to work with the ideas of how to prove and disprove hypothesis and theories. And how to recognize pseudo-science.
Then they can use those scientific principles to teach just why Evolution is a fact.

In my mind the primary problem with these people are that they are confusing true science with fiction.

26. Durham Council Votes To Continue Saying Lord's Prayer

Comment #19406 by Grandt on January 27, 2007 at 1:09 am

MarcHolt have a point :-)
While the christians say their prayers, the Atheists should bring out their guitar and start singing Imagine...

27. 12 Year Old Girl Prodigy Paints Pictures of God

Comment #18776 by Grandt on January 23, 2007 at 1:03 am

I wonder how she would paint Mohammed then... :-)

28. Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory

Comment #18055 by Grandt on January 18, 2007 at 4:51 am

I wouldn't say that isn't as much "Intelligent falling" as it is that things and people are being kept down by the great oppressor (or depressor) above :-)

29. Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory

Comment #18038 by Grandt on January 18, 2007 at 3:37 am

#18037 by shadower

"Sparks fly upward is due to the energy. what the heck is this person trying to say.

If this person govern the world, we're screwed."

I hope you are aware that the 'news' on The Onion are even more fake than the news on The Daily Show :-)

30. Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory

Comment #18028 by Grandt on January 18, 2007 at 2:38 am

#18026 by David A Robertson

Wow, it's didn't take a Christian "fundie" long to jump on an Atheist making a little mistake.

And FYI, considering what else Religious "fundies" come up with, this one isn't as much of a stretch as you might like to believe.

31. Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory

Comment #18027 by Grandt on January 18, 2007 at 2:35 am

#17998 by topherclay
"I really like the equation behind that guy."

Forgive me for asking this, but what about that equation ?
(it's been too long since I left school, perhaps I should find my old books again...)

32. Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory

Comment #18025 by Grandt on January 18, 2007 at 2:33 am

#17999 by Joadist
"Anyone remember the one about "Lightbulbs eat Darkness"?"

This one ? :-)
http://home.netcom.com/~rogermw/darksucker.html

33. America's Holy Warriors

Comment #15826 by Grandt on January 3, 2007 at 8:14 am

Reading this article almost made me wet myself. The prospect of having the US armed forces becoming an extension of the fundsamentalistic right wing christians policies is scary beyond belief. The notion that the Law enforcement is going the same way even more so. And unfortunately the trend is that where ever Bush and his cronies goes, Blair is sure to follow...