1. Richard Dawkins on The Big Questions

Comment #157201 by IceFreak2000 on April 8, 2008 at 4:44 pm

I have to admit that I watched this programme on Sunday with a growing sense of bewilderment; how the BBC managed to fill the studio with such an array of idiots is beyond me. And I have to let my kids be inflicted by this bullshit because the local 'faith' school has the best grades of any school in the area...

2. Dawkins warns of human extinction

Comment #155202 by IceFreak2000 on April 4, 2008 at 8:27 am

Did anyone else feel that the reporting in this article was horribly biased against Professor Dawkins; far more coverage was given to the loonies who opposed his lecture than to the content of the lecture itself - witness the space given over to "Kenny the Christian".

3. Female Muslim medics 'disobey hygiene rules'

Comment #121396 by IceFreak2000 on February 3, 2008 at 11:02 am

I can't quite believe that I'm reading this; Medical students are objecting to rolling their sleeves up?

Sack them. Simple as that, and let them try to bring a coherent argument to the House of Lords as to why they've been unfairly dismissed.

This lunacy needs to stop now.

4. God-Man and Human-Man Team Up

Comment #121258 by IceFreak2000 on February 3, 2008 at 6:13 am

I found another God-Man cartoon by Tom the Dancing Bug that also hits the proverbial nail on the head:

http://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2007/09/22/

5. God-Man and Human-Man Team Up

Comment #121167 by IceFreak2000 on February 3, 2008 at 3:51 am

That's gloriously funny - currently printing it off to put up in my cube at work.

6. 'Atheistic fundamentalism' fears

Comment #102368 by IceFreak2000 on December 22, 2007 at 1:37 pm

I know I've had far too much to drink this afternoon (well, it /is/ the Christmas season after all), but I just had to send the following email:

Dear Anna,

I was always brought up to believe that lying was something that was against the 'will of God' - which is why I was so surprised to read the Archbishop of Wales, for whom you act as Media Officer, lying through his teeth perpetuating the myth that Birmingham Council called Christmas "Winterval" simply to bolster his tenuous assertion that atheistic 'fundamentalism' is leading to an 'irrational attack' against Christianity. For the record, and there are many online sources that could be checked with as well as Birmingham City Council itself, "Winterval" was an unsuccessful attempt at promoting the entire Winter season – Christmas being separately and vigorously promoted in its own right.

But one again, the truth falls short of the short-term headlines that can be generated with the Daily Mail crowd.

I hope that you will have the courage to forward this email to the Archbishop – but I somehow suspect it will find its way to your local bit-bucket where it won't trouble your conscience too much.

Yours,

Ed Courtenay

7. Dawkins - what can't he be blamed for?

Comment #75192 by IceFreak2000 on October 2, 2007 at 2:35 am

I was listening to "Start The Week" on Radio 4 yesterday morning while I was stuck in traffic on the M3, fighting my way into work and heard Karen Armstrong's outrageous assertion that due to the attacks of Richard Dawkins and others (her words) Muslims are increasingly taking the Qu'ran literally and are becoming creationists.

I complained to the BBC as soon as I got into the office as Andrew Marr (an interviewer I normally have great respect for) allowed this inflammatory statement to pass with absolutely no challenge.

It is worth listening to the entire conversation as a classic example of wooly theological thinking (why is it that theological contains the word logical when it clearly isn't?)

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/stw/stw_20071001-1036.mp3

8. Talking Action Figure Jesus

Comment #73429 by IceFreak2000 on September 25, 2007 at 2:06 am

@commonhumanity

Love the poem - brilliant stuff.

9. God Talk on 'The View'

Comment #71692 by IceFreak2000 on September 19, 2007 at 1:24 pm

@sillysighbean #42

Whoopi is obviously a Jatravartid (I always thought her name wasn't particularly Terran):

The Jatravartid People of Viltvodle Six firmly believe that the entire universe was sneezed out of the nose of a being called The Great Green Arkleseizure. They live in perpetual fear of the time they call The Coming Of The Great White Handkerchief.

[http://hhgproject.org/entries/greatgreenarkleseizure.html]

10. The Republican War on Science Rages On

Comment #55937 by IceFreak2000 on July 13, 2007 at 1:18 am

"Socio-liberal" is an insult?

11. 'I have never been happier' says the man who won gold but lost God

Comment #52458 by IceFreak2000 on June 27, 2007 at 4:14 am

Great to see someone like Jonathan, whose faith was obviously an enormously important part of his previous life, have the intellectual honesty to see past his previous indoctrination.

There is hope...

12. Richard Dawkins and Alister McGrath

Comment #46342 by IceFreak2000 on May 31, 2007 at 1:46 am

I can't view the video either; my ISP is Nildram (Pipex) in the UK

13. God help us all - The No. 2 book on Amazon right now is a

Comment #44713 by IceFreak2000 on May 25, 2007 at 7:59 am

Just to pick up on the last bit of the article, the song lyric that comes to my mind more and more these days is from "Armageddon Days Are Here (Again)" by The The:

"If the real Jesus Christ were to stand up today
He'd be gunned down cold by the CIA
Oh, the lights that now burn brightest
Behind stained glass
Will cast the darkest shadows
Upon the human heart"

14. Coming out as atheist: Noel Gallagher & Gabriel Byrne

Comment #31738 by IceFreak2000 on April 14, 2007 at 3:55 am

Years ago I had the misfortune of being sent to a Benedictine Monk run Roman Catholic school in the West of England; I took great pleasure in winding my housemaster up (who was indeed a Monk) by playing Depeche Mode's Blasphemous Rumours and of course XTC's Dear God at full blast - his study was opposite my room.

15. 'The Evolution of Homer' Intro

Comment #28814 by IceFreak2000 on March 31, 2007 at 3:58 am

I loved both the Simpsons and the Family Guy evolution clips, but the clip that still has me howling with laughter every time I see it is the Guinness 'Evolution' advert.

16. Peanut Butter, The Atheist's Nightmare!

Comment #27832 by IceFreak2000 on March 27, 2007 at 2:22 am

Whereas the short segment on Peanut Butter is hysterical, the video it's clipped from is terrifying - Evolution must be wrong because the Bible has been proved to be 100% accurate? Whoa...

17. Peanut Butter, The Atheist's Nightmare!

Comment #27831 by IceFreak2000 on March 27, 2007 at 2:11 am

Damn, I nearly gave myself a Hiatus Hernia from laughing so much; this has to be a spoof - come on, noone could possibly be that dumb.

Could they?

Seriously?