Comments by Tinky Winky

Comment #222885 by Tinky Winky on August 1, 2008 at 4:13 am

re. 85. Comment #222852 by lol mahmood

"...group tribalism, left wing politics, false prophetry, idolatry..."

Exactly. The irony of the furore surrounding the film is that the fun is being poked at all the things mentioned above. Jesus, I think, appears once at the start, delivering a sermon on a small hill. He's too far away to be heard, but he is most definitely not being played as a comedy or humorous character. The people at the back, who are comic characters, mishear what he is saying and twist it to their own opinions and beliefs. That is the essence of the film.

This vicar has never even seen the film (apart from a small clip) and would no doubt miss this irony completely if he did. What an arrogant twat.

2. A Letter From Hell

Comment #115910 by Tinky Winky on January 25, 2008 at 3:02 am

Hmmmm ..... why doesn't he just make a full bodysuit from the flame-retardant paper he's just written the letter on? At least then his only problems will be boredom and the sound of other people screaming.

3. 'Atheistic fundamentalism' fears

Comment #102292 by Tinky Winky on December 22, 2007 at 8:51 am

"God is not exclusive, he is on the side of the whole of humanity with all its variety"
Archbishop of Wales, Dr Barry Morgan

Does that include atheists?

4. You can't prove that you love someone, so don't expect proof of God

Comment #82359 by Tinky Winky on October 26, 2007 at 6:26 am

Most people who love (excluding religious believers) love someone who physically exists, or has existed. If you have a genuine love for God, Jesus, Allah or some other fictional deity, don't twist the biochemically induced emotion of love into justification for your beliefs or even an argument for their existence, just visit a doctor.

5. The God Delusion and Alister E McGrath

Comment #82355 by Tinky Winky on October 26, 2007 at 6:21 am

"Well Dawkins and I are both men of faith. We both believe certain things to be true, and we know we can't prove them. Dawkins I think has perhaps an exaggerated sense of what he can show, but certainly when you look at him rigorously, he is a man of faith who believes certain things, that cannot actually be demonstrably so."

What an idiot.

6. Ducking the God Question

Comment #60506 by Tinky Winky on August 2, 2007 at 5:20 am

Aw c'mon Jaf - everyone likes Duckbilled Platypuses.

Anyway - Creationism and Intelligent Design are the same thing - they both need God as a creator. No matter how granular scientific study gets, it currently offers no evidence for the existence of a 'creator' of any kind. What Creationism and Intelligent Design are not is science.

7. The hitch in Hitchens' thinking

Comment #60159 by Tinky Winky on August 1, 2007 at 7:17 am

Chris Hedges has written a load of pretentious crap. He has completely missed the point of the enquiries made by Dawkins, Hitchens etc. while at the same time subscribing to the same nebulous ideas about God and human existence that are so easily challenged by the author/s he is criticising.

8. Bush, the ethicist-in-chief

Comment #56078 by Tinky Winky on July 13, 2007 at 3:43 pm

Ditto the current Iraq conflict

9. Brainwashed children plead to die as martyrs in Red Mosque siege

Comment #54873 by Tinky Winky on July 9, 2007 at 7:53 am

"It seems odd to me that people term it as 'sacrificing themselves' to become martyrs. I fail to see where the 'sacrifice' part comes in. They are leaving the relatively awful earthly existence to go to paradise, where they spend eternity. Surely a 'sacrifice' would be to spend longer here, away from paradise?"

Welcome to the world of religious contradiction. Why would a loving God condemn honest disbelievers to Hell ?

10. My Road to Atheism, What Took Me So Long and The Aftermath

Comment #47943 by Tinky Winky on June 6, 2007 at 5:06 am

While the arguments of Dawkins and Harris were certainly useful in battling my seemingly never-ending stream of internal religious justification, their effect on me was not necessarily one of convincing, but one of encouragement

Me too, although I never had any religious faith to begin with. Nice article.

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

Comment #17762 by Tinky Winky on January 16, 2007 at 12:39 am

Post 7, Comment 17780 (Frosty)

"On something as simple as having a testimony that Jesus Christ has taken an active part in your life? You either have one or you don't. If you don't have it, you walk around in life an empty shell – often times you don't even know it! Once you are filled with HIM and the unconditional love that He is all about? You KNOW what it was...." ...blah blah blah...

I stopped reading at this point.

"you walk around in life an empty shell – often times you don't even know it"

Maybe because most people without religious faith don't feel like an empty shell, hence they don't 'know it'

I don't feel depressed, therefore I can deduce I am not depressed. I don't need a doctor to convince me to take a course of prozac because I 'don't know' I'm depressed.

12. Lil' Markie live, part 2

Comment #17603 by Tinky Winky on January 15, 2007 at 5:00 am

Imagine the venue is a Victorian Insane Asylum and the audience is made up of various doctors, specialists and medical students observing the behaviour of the patient for their studies.

Scary.

13. Halting progress

Comment #17145 by Tinky Winky on January 11, 2007 at 8:29 am

"if some church wants to exclude gays, that's the church's business, certainly none of yours" Comment 17037 andyinsdca

But they were protesting about the propsed law to protect homosexuals from discrimination and abuse in general, not about excluding them from the church (which I presume they have no difficulty in enforcing anyway)

14. Intelligent design is a science, not a faith

Comment #17006 by Tinky Winky on January 10, 2007 at 4:15 am

"ID is a logical inference, based on data gathered from the natural world"

Not logical - presumptuous

"It does not rely upon the Bible, the Qur'an, or any religious authority or tradition - only on scientific evidence"

Such as ?

15. Halting progress

Comment #16994 by Tinky Winky on January 10, 2007 at 2:57 am

"One of the points being made in the debate over the anti-discrimination regulations is that people who run cafes and B&Bs who do not wish to serve gay people ("because it makes them condone gay sex" contrary to the morality devised in the sixth century BC) will be forced to quit their jobs and do something else."

As an atheist, should I quit my job teaching FE students of various faiths (Muslim, Christian etc.) ?

Great article. I was sickened to see children holding banners in the protest outside Parliament on the news last night.

16. Secular fundamentalists are the new totalitarians

Comment #16693 by Tinky Winky on January 8, 2007 at 5:04 am

I got one parargraph into this and couldn't be bothered to waste time on the rest. Paranoid, ill-conceived, barely researched piece of writing.

"what they really want is the eradication of religion, and all believers, from the face of the earth"

What ?

17. Atheists challenge the religious right

Comment #16151 by Tinky Winky on January 5, 2007 at 3:20 am

"I have absolutely no problem with anyone believing differently than I believe, as long as they don't impose their religion on me or my government," says Ms. Brown, a former Nevada state senator.

That's just the problem though, isn't it?

18. Pat Robertson: God told me of 'mass killing' in 2007

Comment #16150 by Tinky Winky on January 5, 2007 at 3:15 am

re: Comment #16001 by Michael

Thank you for using the word "pillock"

19. Pat Robertson: God told me of 'mass killing' in 2007

Comment #15994 by Tinky Winky on January 4, 2007 at 5:39 am

New Years Day, 2008

Pat (on knees, praying):"God, what happened? Where was the attack you told me about?"

Voice in Pat's head:"I have a relatively good track record. Sometimes I miss."

20. Pat Robertson: God told me of 'mass killing' in 2007

Comment #15982 by Tinky Winky on January 4, 2007 at 4:43 am

"The Lord didn't say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something like that."

Is there anything like a nuclear attack that isn't actually a nuclear attack?

21. No religion and an end to war: how thinkers see the future

Comment #15980 by Tinky Winky on January 4, 2007 at 4:34 am

"within 25 years religion will command little of the awe it seems to instil today"

Thank God for that