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Comments by astrosteed


1. Freethinking Ruins All Things

Comment #42260 by astrosteed on May 18, 2007 at 2:09 am

The typical freethinker believes that he is at home with uncertainty, and that it is the religious man who is in dire need of certainty, but the opposite is quite obviously true: the freethinker cannot really stand to have loose ends, puzzles or paradoxes. If this, then that is impossible, the freethinker says. The religious man not only assumes that paradox will occur, but he takes the paucity of reason to explain paradox as an indirect confirmation that there are realities that not even reason, as estimable and valuable as it is, can penetrate or comprehend.


I think he's used some fancy-speak to say that whenever something doesn't make sense, then God did it. Stunning! The whole article could have been boiled down to "Nuh-uh, cuz religion has been around a long time, so it's gotta be true. If you don't think so, then you're a closed minded biggot, so there :p"

2. Panel discussion on atheism where no atheists are included

Comment #20819 by astrosteed on February 6, 2007 at 5:31 pm

Wow - Rupert would be proud. This was the most feeble and unbalanced panel they could possibly come up with, probably to ensure that there wasn't any serious discussion of atheism. Seriously, it's pathetic: a discussion group about atheists being discriminated against in which there are no atheist present. It's like some twisted ironic tautology. What's next, a discussion group on feminism with Hugh Hefner, Larry Flynt, and Bill Maher to cover all the sides of the issue?