1. The Problem with Atheism

Comment #76188 by Suffolk Blue on October 5, 2007 at 2:05 am

suffolkthinker (comment 16) ... looks like we're neighbours!

2. 1996 Richard Dimbleby Lecture

Comment #73979 by Suffolk Blue on September 27, 2007 at 1:48 am

Well, Ms. Bright, the duel certainly took an unexpected turn at the end there! ;-)

3. 1996 Richard Dimbleby Lecture

Comment #73822 by Suffolk Blue on September 26, 2007 at 9:20 am

Crikey, I think I'd better avert my eyes. This is too much for a young chap like me to take.

4. 1996 Richard Dimbleby Lecture

Comment #73810 by Suffolk Blue on September 26, 2007 at 8:48 am

Teratornis & Yorker - this is some of the funniest stuff I've seen on here in an age. Keep up the good work! :-)

5. 1996 Richard Dimbleby Lecture

Comment #73807 by Suffolk Blue on September 26, 2007 at 8:30 am

Well, this is a remarkably light-hearted thread. Often gets a bit too earnest for me in here.

And FWIW, I do believe in the existence of Northern Bright. Her posting on here is at least better evidence than that God chap has ever come up with.

6. 1996 Richard Dimbleby Lecture

Comment #73800 by Suffolk Blue on September 26, 2007 at 8:15 am

Well, I liked The X Files!

7. The Sacrifice of Reason

Comment #66973 by Suffolk Blue on September 1, 2007 at 6:22 am

Comment #66757 by Friend Giskard

LOL!

8. A Matter of Faith

Comment #64830 by Suffolk Blue on August 22, 2007 at 2:26 am

I think it's great that such a piece was aired on mainstream tv in the states. It may seem wishy-washy to us, but it could have opened the minds of some believers.

I just hope that "new atheism" (don't like the term myself) isn't a trendy media topic, fashionable at the moment, to be replaced by the next flavour of the month in due course. We must keep disbelief on the agenda.

9. Interview with Richard Dawkins

Comment #63398 by Suffolk Blue on August 14, 2007 at 4:34 am

coldby - re your comments above #63336 - check out this lyric from Frank Zappa from his song DUMB ALL OVER:

Hey, let's get serious...
God knows what he's doin'
He wrote this book here
And the book says:
He made us all to be just like him,
So...
If we're dumb...
Then God is dumb...
(and maybe even a little ugly on the side)

10. Interview with Richard Dawkins

Comment #63393 by Suffolk Blue on August 14, 2007 at 4:26 am

darwin2

Believers used to use the Boeing 747 as the example of something complex and obviously designed, now it's a space shuttle. Is this progress?

11. CNN Debate on Koran in Toilet

Comment #60498 by Suffolk Blue on August 2, 2007 at 4:49 am

Speaking of holy books & the toilet, here's Ricky Gervais on Desert Island Discs:

Kirsty Young: So, you get the complete works of Shakespeare, and the Bible ... you don't have to have the Bible if you don't want it.

Ricky Gervais: Nah, I'll take it. The paper will probably come in handy.

12. The Flea Circus Invites a Newcomer!

Comment #60476 by Suffolk Blue on August 2, 2007 at 3:02 am

"Thanks again. I presume you were not joking. You seriously think you know ALL the arguments from the religious side?! Thanks for providing me with more evidence of the fundamentalist nature and appalling arrogance and ignorance of the New Atheism."

OK, weeflea, give me ONE new argument. Go on, just one. That we've never heard before.

Has God spoken to you recently? Has he vouchsafed any more crucial tidbits to you?

The "good" book was written almost 2000 yrs ago. Don't you think it's had a pretty good airing already?

13. The Flea Circus Invites a Newcomer!

Comment #60474 by Suffolk Blue on August 2, 2007 at 2:57 am

"Whatever amuses you. Most people are not taught religious things from childhood – at least not in Europe."

WeeFlea, If you believe what you stated here, you are an idiot and even more deluded than I could have thought. Anyone that went to school in the UK got school assembly, prayers, all that bullsh#t, and a presumption from pretty much everyone in authority that it was all based on truth. That God exists.

Weeflea - there is no God. There is no afterlife. You are a troll. You are so far up your own arris that you cannot even begin to contemplate what it can mean not to have a faith in a skydaddy. Utterly pathetic.

14. CNN Debate on Koran in Toilet

Comment #60468 by Suffolk Blue on August 2, 2007 at 2:44 am

Comment #60326 by CJ22 - excellent point, I hadn't spotted that, but you're right!

15. The Flea Circus Invites a Newcomer!

Comment #60443 by Suffolk Blue on August 2, 2007 at 1:11 am

WeeFlea - most humans are fed religious bullsh#t from the time they are born. The god-botherers get enough airtime. But as soon as a few atheist books are written, the faith-heads get all hot under the (dog)collar. Makes me laugh.

We know ALL the arguments from the religious side - they have been in circulation for millennia - why on earth should we need to read more of this tripe?

16. The Out Campaign

Comment #59909 by Suffolk Blue on July 31, 2007 at 4:24 am

WeeFlea - every comment I have ever read from you demonstrates that you have no idea what it might mean not to have religious faith. YOU JUST DON'T GET IT.

I have better things to do with my time than argue with someone who is incapable of even understanding the opposing point of view.

17. OUT Campaign Launched, 'Scarlet Letter' Shirts Now Available!

Comment #59677 by Suffolk Blue on July 30, 2007 at 6:41 am

BillyS - "It certainly beats wearing a dead jewish blasphemer on a stick"

LOL! :-)

18. Richard Dawkins on Hardtalk

Comment #58532 by Suffolk Blue on July 25, 2007 at 6:13 am

Since when is atheism a "belief system"?

19. All the mistakes of the godly are merely metaphor

Comment #58064 by Suffolk Blue on July 23, 2007 at 8:22 am

Yes, J, so true! :-)

20. All the mistakes of the godly are merely metaphor

Comment #58061 by Suffolk Blue on July 23, 2007 at 8:14 am

Quetzalcoatl - oh, I've read them all, mate. I love their site & recommend it to anyone I can!

21. All the mistakes of the godly are merely metaphor

Comment #58058 by Suffolk Blue on July 23, 2007 at 7:59 am

As always, Jesus & Mo puts it very succinctly:

http://www.jesusandmo.net/

22. A force for good?

Comment #55409 by Suffolk Blue on July 11, 2007 at 3:28 am

To paraphrase Marlon Brando in The Wild Bunch:

Q: So what form of god is that you atheists don't believe in?

A: Whaddaya got?

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

Comment #38100 by Suffolk Blue on May 7, 2007 at 1:19 am

So shall we see a series of high-profile Atheists being "outed" by Atheist Groups, in the same way that gays were outed by gay activist groups?

Would be fantastic to see more openly atheist american politicians. I beleive that in the UK, it is considered the norm!

24. Against All Gods, by A C Grayling

Comment #36347 by Suffolk Blue on May 1, 2007 at 1:13 am

KaiserKriss - interesting suggestion. thanks.

25. Against All Gods, by A C Grayling

Comment #36127 by Suffolk Blue on April 30, 2007 at 8:44 am

Fishpeddlar & Damien - many thanks!

26. Against All Gods, by A C Grayling

Comment #36116 by Suffolk Blue on April 30, 2007 at 8:10 am

Peacebeuponme - you are probably right.

I have begun an email debate with one of my in-laws which is proving quite interesting. We are in the early stages right now, but I'll keep at it. :-)

27. Against All Gods, by A C Grayling

Comment #36110 by Suffolk Blue on April 30, 2007 at 7:59 am

Peacebeupme - I've also sat with a group of kenyan christians while they chuckled in a superior fashion about those africans who clung to their traditional "primitive" beliefs (animism, ancestor worship etc). I didn't know how to begin pointing out the irony.

28. Against All Gods, by A C Grayling

Comment #36108 by Suffolk Blue on April 30, 2007 at 7:54 am

Peacebeuponme - sadly, very similar to my experiences in kenya, mate.

29. Against All Gods, by A C Grayling

Comment #36107 by Suffolk Blue on April 30, 2007 at 7:53 am

Weefree - your offensive remark about Grayling smacks of desperation and is frankly not up to your usual standard of argument on here.

30. Against All Gods, by A C Grayling

Comment #36105 by Suffolk Blue on April 30, 2007 at 7:51 am

Feuerbach - nice one! Your own or is this a quotation from somewhere?

31. Against All Gods, by A C Grayling

Comment #36100 by Suffolk Blue on April 30, 2007 at 7:46 am

Further to my previous posting - my wife is a well-educated woman, but is a literal believer when it comes to the Bible ... believes in the letter of the garden of Eden tale, the Noah's ark tale, etc. Will not discuss her faith, thinks that people should respect each other's beliefs and so on. Tried to watch Dawkins TV Root of Evil series with her, but she walked out after 5 mins.

Now it is my 50th birthday later this year & she is bound to ask me what I want for a gift. I'm thinking of asking her to read an atheist text as her special present to me!

My question is therefore - which text? TGD? End of Faith? Letter to a C. Nation? Breaking the Spell? God isn't Great? Or another?

Any suggestions gratefully received!

32. Against All Gods, by A C Grayling

Comment #36099 by Suffolk Blue on April 30, 2007 at 7:38 am

I feel that religion is certainly on the retreat in the first world (excepting the USA of course), but I regret that it is alive and kicking in the third world. (I'm a British atheist married to a Kenyan Christian & I can tell you, religion is pretty rampant over there)

33. New Noah's Ark ready to sail

Comment #36033 by Suffolk Blue on April 30, 2007 at 2:40 am

Did he include compartments for a gazillion species of insects? Oh, and a refrigeration unit for the polar bears and penguins?

34. Mormonism: A Racket Becomes a Religion

Comment #36027 by Suffolk Blue on April 30, 2007 at 1:51 am

Simply put, the Arabs wanted their own religion so hijacked the old books and formed Islam. And the great American Nation, not wanting to be left out, leapt at the chance to form their own some 1100 years later. A bit embarrassing for the American Empire not to have its own religion(s) I expect.

35. Fighting Words: A wartime lexicon

Comment #35132 by Suffolk Blue on April 26, 2007 at 9:58 am

I don't know anything at all about Hitchens the man and don't really understand why people are making a fuss about whether he is a likeable bloke or not or what his stance on the Iraq War is.

If our desire is for all people to lose their religion / supersition and come to their senses (and that is certainly my desire) - then we have to accept there will be six billion atheists out there with all sorts of different political views.

36. Shout your doubt out loud, my fellow unbelievers

Comment #35128 by Suffolk Blue on April 26, 2007 at 9:44 am

weefree: "frightening" ?!? I thought you god "fearing" people enjoyed being frightened? LOL - you are funny sometimes.

Eradicating religion has nothing to do with eradicating god-botherers like yourself - as you well know - so stop posting such nonsense. It is to do with de-conversion through argument, logic, and ridicule. And your beliefs are ridiculous: I hope one day you'll realise that and come to your senses.

37. Fighting Words: A wartime lexicon

Comment #35022 by Suffolk Blue on April 26, 2007 at 1:49 am

"The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species."

Love it! :-)

38. Shout your doubt out loud, my fellow unbelievers

Comment #34780 by Suffolk Blue on April 25, 2007 at 8:25 am

Weefree:

Yes, religion is a virus and the world would be a better place if it were eradicated.

Yes, atheism is dangerous. But only to your belief in your sky-daddy.

Intolerant? Yes, why should your fairy tales be tolerated?

39. Shout your doubt out loud, my fellow unbelievers

Comment #34757 by Suffolk Blue on April 25, 2007 at 5:49 am

OK, weefree - I'm struggling here to work out what you find wrong with the Nietzsche quote "I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty – I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind…" Sounds reasonable enough to me.

40. The God disunion: there is a place for faith in science, insists Winston

Comment #34713 by Suffolk Blue on April 25, 2007 at 1:37 am

"...it is very patronising to call a serious book about other peoples' views of the universe and everything a delusion."

Surely this is what the Bible & religionists do at every opportunity. In fact, to disbelieve the Bible or Koran is punishable by death in the opinion of many of these fools.

41. Pope abolishes limbo

Comment #34077 by Suffolk Blue on April 23, 2007 at 6:28 am

Well, that's a relief! I presume the new rules will be applied retrospectively and all those unbaptised babies who went to limbo in the intervening millennia will now get their rightful place in heaven.

42. The Dawkins Confusion: Naturalism ad absurdum

Comment #23701 by Suffolk Blue on March 2, 2007 at 6:05 am

fonex_86 ... I assume you'd call the product "theagra"

43. If God is talking to you, too, Mr Cameron - don't listen

Comment #23660 by Suffolk Blue on March 2, 2007 at 1:34 am

Michael Portillo - who'd have thunk it!

Such an odious politician when in government and such a breath of fresh air nowadays.

44. Religion in Conflict: Are 'Evangelical Atheists' Too Outspoken?

Comment #23346 by Suffolk Blue on February 28, 2007 at 3:02 am

MIND_REBEL - I've often described myself as an Evangelical Atheist, merely meaning that I like to challenge people's religious beliefs and try to get them to start thinking. It's just a humorous term, turning religious language back on itself.

However "Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby" - LOL!

45. We all fund this torrent of Saudi bigotry

Comment #21232 by Suffolk Blue on February 8, 2007 at 6:13 am

NJS - you mean try the Koran & the Bible under the incitement to religious hatred laws?!? I love it! :-)

46. Interview with Alister McGrath, author of 'The Dawkins Delusion?'

Comment #21020 by Suffolk Blue on February 7, 2007 at 9:59 am

cheshirecat - I supect that one of the reasons Richard "makes such a fuss" is that he believes the continued existence of the human race depends largely on our dumping religion.

47. Homophobia, not injustice, is what really fires the faiths

Comment #17153 by Suffolk Blue on January 11, 2007 at 9:46 am

Russell Blackford - your comment 17092

Further to this, perhaps small businesses (for example B&Bs) which wish to discriminate on grounds of sexuality or whatever should apply for special status and be obliged to display a plaque at their premises "Member of the Association of Bigoted Businesses".

48. Let's Hope It's A Lasting Vogue

Comment #16183 by Suffolk Blue on January 5, 2007 at 10:01 am

Interesting stuff. I often use the Norse & Greek & Roman gods as an argument. Let's hope that in a few years' time the middle eastern monotheistic gods will seem as absurd to everyone as the Zeus & Thor & Mercury & Venus & the rest do now.