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751. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #156053 by Diacanu on April 6, 2008 at 3:00 pm



sdbranum-
Though it depends upon the various sects, most recognize the Humanist Manifesto as authoritative...


Geraint
Never heard of it.


Ditto.

Oh, and going back to...


sdbranum-
Though it depends upon the various sects...


Funny how the religious mind can seemingly only break things down in it's own terms.

Atheism is merely lack of belief in gods.

One can be a humanist, a progressive, a libertarian, a nihilist, an anarchist, etc, etc, on top of that, but it doesn't make it a "sect", of atheism, any more than there are "sects", of a-leprechaunists, or "sects", of a-boogeymanists.

752. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #155982 by Diacanu on April 6, 2008 at 1:04 pm

sdbrandum-


Yes, he is the leader of YOUR religion, no matter how much you try to deny it.


1.) What are the tenets of my so-called religion?
Someone neglected to mail me the pamphlet.

2.) I have no leader, for I neither lead nor follow.
I merely make use of this message board, and enjoy some of the articles I read here.

753. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #155786 by Diacanu on April 5, 2008 at 7:57 pm

sdbranum-


So much vitriol and hate...


...in "Expelled"?

Well, yeah, I mean, it exploits the frigging holocaust in the name of spiteful bare knuckle politics, it doesn't get much nastier than that.

754. Beware the Believers

Comment #155499 by Diacanu on April 4, 2008 at 3:22 pm

Podaar-

Well, I'll be jiggered!

755. Beware the Believers

Comment #155493 by Diacanu on April 4, 2008 at 3:02 pm

So, haven't been paying attention, has Ka-Ka shovel shoveled anything non-ka-ka, or just the ka-ka per usual?

756. Beware the Believers

Comment #155375 by Diacanu on April 4, 2008 at 12:02 pm

Ugh, dammit, Ka-Ka Shovel is back?

I thought he vowed never to return.

757. Pastor attacks scientist's talk

Comment #154841 by Diacanu on April 3, 2008 at 7:52 pm

Ditto to everything Styrer said.

758. Anti-gay Okla. lawmaker attracts 1,000 backers

Comment #154716 by Diacanu on April 3, 2008 at 3:39 pm

Podaar-


Diacanu;

Sorry, OT, but I must say Vampire Hunter D is my second favorite anime, I want to watch it everytime I see your Avatar (Ghost in the Machine is #1 for me).

OT < off >


Lol, we have the same favorites!

The original VHD, or the sequel?

And didja know there's a third one coming?

759. Pastor attacks scientist's talk

Comment #154706 by Diacanu on April 3, 2008 at 3:26 pm

Philip1978-

*High five*

760. Pastor attacks scientist's talk

Comment #154699 by Diacanu on April 3, 2008 at 3:20 pm

Pattern Seeker-


What is it exactly about Prof. Dawkins that makes these people tremble with fear?


He's out to kill their imaginary friend!

Da-da-duuum!!

*Cut to RD holding a black cape over his face, and running out of frame*

761. Cult leader Pyotr Kuznetsov tries suicide after realising he was wrong about doomsday

Comment #154690 by Diacanu on April 3, 2008 at 3:10 pm


Cult leader Pyotr Kuznetsov tries suicide after realising he was wrong about doomsday


*Waves*
Bye, asshole.
Bubye.
Bye now.
Bye.

762. Pastor attacks scientist's talk

Comment #154684 by Diacanu on April 3, 2008 at 3:07 pm

(Sung to the tune of the Blackadder end theme)
Clearthinker, Clearthinker, you horrid leettle maaahhn!!!

763. Anti-gay Okla. lawmaker attracts 1,000 backers

Comment #154495 by Diacanu on April 3, 2008 at 11:08 am

Podaar-


Diacanu;

...Atheist don't know love and can't support it because they don't love Jesus.

*gag*


Doncha just love that shit?
No way they could get away with saying something that nasty about another race or nationality.
...well, they used to...wasn't too long ago either.

764. Anti-gay Okla. lawmaker attracts 1,000 backers

Comment #154494 by Diacanu on April 3, 2008 at 11:04 am

Am I the only one who looked at the headline too quickly, and thought it said "Anti-gay Okla. lawmaker attracts 1,000 hackers"?

I kinda relished the idea of a 1,000 righteous hackers reducing her computer to a puddle of sizzling slag.

765. CEAI Action Alert for Science Teachers

Comment #154491 by Diacanu on April 3, 2008 at 10:59 am

Go through that letter, and replace "evolution", with "gravity", and Darwin", with "Newton".

S'fun.

:)

766. Anti-gay Okla. lawmaker attracts 1,000 backers

Comment #154486 by Diacanu on April 3, 2008 at 10:50 am

Podaar-


My problem with these hypocrites is, they incessantly talk about 'love' yet they are in essence trying to legislate denial of love and happiness to other couples.


That's why I long for the day when everyone gets as sick of religion as us atheists, and just collectively snap out of it, like the cult members throwing their candles into the water at the end of Conan.

These ancient religions are obsolete, and no longer serve us.
They're based on fear, not love.
That simple.

767. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #154481 by Diacanu on April 3, 2008 at 10:44 am

n8mobiles-


Seriously, are you ten years old?


Typing your own self recriminating inner monologue were you?

768. I always aim to misbehave

Comment #151539 by Diacanu on March 29, 2008 at 12:28 am

Ahh, finally, a pick-me-up to mend an otherwise glum and boring day.

:D

769. 'We Make Our Own Heaven'

Comment #151538 by Diacanu on March 29, 2008 at 12:23 am

Bonzai-

Don't get me started.
My assesment of the educational system, and it's foundings, are even darker and bleaker than yours.

770. 'We Make Our Own Heaven'

Comment #151528 by Diacanu on March 29, 2008 at 12:08 am

Clearthinker-


Whatever happened to 'atheists have no central beliefs - we are just people who don't believe in God?".


Whatever happened to it?
Nothing last time I checked.
What, did you knock it under the couch when I went to get the dip?
Then that's your bad, go get it.

771. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #151483 by Diacanu on March 28, 2008 at 8:21 pm

Kagehi-

Or, in summary, social darwinism breeds homogeniety, and homogeniety is anathema to true Darwinian naturual selection.

Therefore, social darwinism is neither social, nor Darwinist.

772. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #151481 by Diacanu on March 28, 2008 at 8:13 pm

Craigyk-


I'd like to ask that atheists not be evangelical about their beliefs,


No.

A lie is a lie, and I despise lies.

I could almost let it go, if all religion did was give blue haired old grannies a nice little fairy tale to look foreward to while they croak.

But that's not all it does.

And all those other things it does besides the afterlife okey-doke, insult human dignity, and attack us at our deepest integrity.

And that's before you even factor in the exploitation by other human beings.

It's an alien face hugger that latches onto our loved ones, and you would have me fold my hands and just mutely watch this?

773. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #151475 by Diacanu on March 28, 2008 at 8:04 pm

Craigyk-


If I was asking that people examine their motives for being atheists, it was only to make them realize that there isn't a strong moral, or arguably provable, basis for pushing this choice on others.


How about the truth?

How is it moral to let people live under a delusion?

Why not let adults believe in Santa then?
Makes children behave during the christmas season.
Might work on adults if we start conditioning them properly.
Then, we can expand christmas to a year round thing.
Hey, why not?

774. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #151454 by Diacanu on March 28, 2008 at 6:18 pm

Craigyk


Diacanu: I agree with Dawkins that natural selection is not a good model for society.


As do I.

775. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #151408 by Diacanu on March 28, 2008 at 4:36 pm

nshowalter-


But of course natural selection is not a good object lesson on how to organize a complex society.


Can you supply a positive argument for why it should be?

I've yet to see one that doesn't involve the person's own arbitrary predjudices getting tangled up in their thought process.

776. Fleabytes

Comment #150828 by Diacanu on March 27, 2008 at 1:01 pm

As for the beer discussion, I'm a teatotaller, so, laters.
Lemme know when the topic gravitates towards cakes and pies.

777. Fleabytes

Comment #150822 by Diacanu on March 27, 2008 at 12:56 pm

al-rawandi-


You missed the place where he proved the existence of God.


We are JW's now. Sorry you missed the boat.


Aw, shit! Really?
And you bastids left me behind to be taken by the lake of fire?
Son of a bitch.
And I wanted to accept Jesus as my lord and savior with y'all.
I mean, I still could, but I wanted Clearthinker to convert me.
Where am I gonna get my fix now?
A Jack Chick comic strip?
As if!!

778. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #150809 by Diacanu on March 27, 2008 at 12:43 pm

I hope my post 406 didn't come off as smelling of anti-semitism.

I'm just saying, if Stein has swigged the dark elixer of neo-conism in any concentration, then he, like Strauss, is/was a Jew in heritage and name only, and is really secular, and shovels the religion shit for cold pragmatic ends.

779. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #150797 by Diacanu on March 27, 2008 at 12:32 pm

al-rawandi-


It is weird because Stein is Jewish.


So was Leo Strauss, and he was the cancerous fuck who came up with such neo-con gems like "noble lies, and deadly truths".

And one of those "noble lies", was that society needs religion, and any religion will do.

Given that these neo-cons bubbled up from the septic tank in the 70's, and Stein worked for Nixon at that time, well, there you go...

780. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #150783 by Diacanu on March 27, 2008 at 12:19 pm

Hmm, I wonder how the villains in Michael Moore's movies were treated.
Never heard of them being thrown out.
Plus he didn't lie and say they were doing some other movie in favor of corporations.
Wouldn't help him if he did, of course, you kinda know what you're getting with Michael Moore.
His reputation proceeds him.
But, no one knew until now that Ben Stein was a creationist wackaloon.
What was my point? I had one when I set out...
Oh yeah, Al's point about enemies being in each other's films.
Even so, going by precident, Mathis's handling of things is quite unique.
Why it's, well, unprecidented.

Mercy, do I miss Firefox spellcheck on my laptop, I just know this thing is littered with typos my eye won't grab.

781. Fleabytes

Comment #150775 by Diacanu on March 27, 2008 at 12:08 pm

Holy shit! I can't keep up with this thread!
Last time I was here, it was in the five thousands somewhere.

Has Clearthinker finished his idiotic rebuttal yet, or is he just so damned busy and important?

782. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #150767 by Diacanu on March 27, 2008 at 12:04 pm

Richad Dawkins-

I can't see any leaks in your reasoning.
Yeah, I think ya nailed it.

783. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #150762 by Diacanu on March 27, 2008 at 11:58 am

Richard Dawkins-

I'd just like to add that I am your blind unquestioning fanboy, and that I worship thee.

(Heh, not really, I'm just trying to irritate Bonzai. Long story, but it's a funny gag, trust me. ;) )

784. Expelled from Expelled: PZ story goes global

Comment #150490 by Diacanu on March 27, 2008 at 2:05 am

Finally, another optimist!!
The sour-pussery was getting to me!

785. Expelled from Expelled: PZ story goes global

Comment #150488 by Diacanu on March 27, 2008 at 1:59 am

*Sigh* herding cats indeed...

786. Expelled from Expelled: PZ story goes global

Comment #150486 by Diacanu on March 27, 2008 at 1:57 am

Richard Morgan-


I know that realism and pessimism often look similar, but you're right in your interpretation of blog behaviours.


What's the alternative?

A better tactic?

Or, silence?

787. Expelled from Expelled: PZ story goes global

Comment #150484 by Diacanu on March 27, 2008 at 1:54 am

Bonzai-

Well, maybe it is a bit blown up for getting kicked out of a movie.

It's just that the movie happens to be a pack of harmful creationist lies.

And that one of those lies is the po-faced sniffle-pussed victimhood of ID proponants.

And them tossing out someone who happened to be in the film (under false pretenses) toots a big horn for the whopper-tude of their lie.

Yeah, it has to be pointed out with big neon arrows, and banging on a pan with a spoon.

It's irritating, I'm sure, but it has to be done.

788. Expelled from Expelled: PZ story goes global

Comment #150476 by Diacanu on March 27, 2008 at 1:26 am

Logicel-


but for goodness sakes, don't expect miracles.


No, but we can find America looking for the northwest passage, and we can get cellphones and internet by aiming for the U.S.S. Enterprise.
;)

789. Expelled from Expelled: PZ story goes global

Comment #150472 by Diacanu on March 27, 2008 at 1:14 am

njwong-


as continuously harping on this will simply give free publicity to this movie which it doesn't deserve.


Well, that may just be unavoidable.

Oh well.

Everyone saw the rumble in the jungle, and what do people remember?
That Muhammed Ali fuckin' won.

They wanna make this a public tussle?
Let's fuckin' win.
No bad publicity my ass.

They lie, and lie, and lie, we call 'em on every single one.
It's what you gotta do.
It's what this site is about.

790. Expelled from Expelled: PZ story goes global

Comment #150471 by Diacanu on March 27, 2008 at 1:02 am

njwong-


Rationalist sites should move on from this topic,


Then where the fuck does it stop?

When does the head hanging, and tails between the legs routine stop?

What's going to be the criteria?

When does the stand ever get taken?

Why not just shut the fucking site down, and burn our copies of TGD, and be good little closet atheists again?

Won't that be lovely?
Hand the religiots everything?
Oh, let's!
Can we?

Yeah, let's just let them spray their propaganda everywhere, and not say anything, let's let them puke their lies all over the fucking planet, and let it all slide, let's just not rock any boats.

Let's ust be good little boys and girls while these deluded wackaloons ruin everything, and smear their shit on everyone's brain unanswered.

Or, maybe you can give me a list of things you've arbitrarily chosen for us to focus on.

Sorry for the hostility, it's not personal, but I hate quitter-talk.

791. Expelled from Expelled: PZ story goes global

Comment #150462 by Diacanu on March 27, 2008 at 12:34 am

Steve/Dlitt-

There used to be a big choir for slavery.
Took awhile, but it fell down.

Truth wins out, bullshit implodes, progress isn't a myth, we're right, they're wrong.
I wouldn't be here if I thought otherwise.

792. Expelled from Expelled: PZ story goes global

Comment #150458 by Diacanu on March 27, 2008 at 12:27 am

Steve Zara-


if anyone has a more cheerful attitude to this, I would love to hear it!


In the end, no matter how long it takes, we simply HAVE to win, because we have a stronger motivatiing force.

The truth.

Liars only have greed.
Sure, that can pull you along like a rope tied to a horse, but it can't pump you up like Rocky.

No one ever adrenaline lifted a giant tree off a little girl's leg due to profit motive and thirst for power.

And no one ever hurled every speck of their heart and will and metabolic strength energy into a knockout punch to stop an assailant in the name of a lie.

They're liars, they know they're liars, they already lose.

Maybe that's still naive, but life experience and history bear me out.

Bad guys win for awhile, but ultimately they self destruct.

Their motivators suck.
They have to lose.
Surely as apples fall down.

793. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #150455 by Diacanu on March 27, 2008 at 12:15 am

stevestan-

Ahhh, go blow it out your ass!

794. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #150392 by Diacanu on March 26, 2008 at 8:23 pm

JAL-


I mean where else would he get the idea that some humans are inferior to others.


Religion.

Even before the big 3 Abrahamic faiths, virtually every little tribe claimed a petty vengeful creator God for themselves who arbitrarily and randomly favored their tribe, so naturally, the outsiders of that tribe were inferior, and thus needed to be whacked with bones for their stuff.

It's an idea that goes way, way, back, and takes many forms.

The Nazis just corrupted science to justify their petty human bullshit.

But, you didn't want a serious answer, did you?

795. Happy Birthday, Richard Dawkins!

Comment #150171 by Diacanu on March 26, 2008 at 2:19 pm

Happy cake post to you!
Happy cake post to you!

Yadda yadda, something, something, let's all have some cake!!

And you smell like one too!

796. Two More Fleas

Comment #149530 by Diacanu on March 25, 2008 at 8:51 pm

I see Clearmind's spasmotic colon is finally done spraying the walls for now.

Time to get out the sponge mops, and clean up for next time....

797. Two More Fleas

Comment #149456 by Diacanu on March 25, 2008 at 4:08 pm

Push, clearmind, push!! Get all those chili dookies out of your rumbling colon!! You can doo eeet!!

798. Expelled Overview

Comment #149452 by Diacanu on March 25, 2008 at 4:05 pm

The far right seems not only to use fear and hate, they seem to ONLY be able to use fear and hate.

It's in their religion, it's in their politics, it's in their fucking corporate owned media they pump people up with fear with, it's just this relentless lava flow of fucking fear.

Make the religious fear us, make us fear the religious, fear, fear, fear, fear.

It's like a video game with one button.

It'd be funny if it weren't so disturbing and have such spooky RL consequences.

My solution, laugh off as much as I can until they get violent.
Then turn that on them when they do, because then they lose.

And y'know it'll happen.
You pump the ignorant full of fear 24/7/4/12, one of 'em is gonna lose his tiny little mind, and hurt someone.

799. Two More Fleas

Comment #149448 by Diacanu on March 25, 2008 at 3:58 pm

You done making poopies yet, or did you save it up for 3 days?

800. Two More Fleas

Comment #149441 by Diacanu on March 25, 2008 at 3:53 pm

*Yawn* *sigh*
You're an empty little man, wooter.

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