51. New atheists or new anti-dogmatists?

Comment #117042 by JemyM on January 28, 2008 at 6:26 am

Great article, and I expanded my criticism against all dogma awhile ago. Bertrand Russel's article (also in the Portable Atheist) is a great read on this subject: http://www.solstice.us/russell/intellectual_rubbish.html

52. US scientists close to creating artificial life: study

Comment #115812 by JemyM on January 24, 2008 at 8:50 pm

I find the comment about being "God" or not interesting. A few cults have said themselves to be Gods for at least 5000 years and that's the whole point with the Holy Spirit. Having belief in the human capacity is a really bad thing within Christianity as it diminishes their status as the "saved" and "clean".

53. Three Little Pigs 'too offensive'

Comment #115433 by JemyM on January 24, 2008 at 7:38 am

why do most articles from Britain sound like the Brits are nutters these days? They are the forefathers of liberalism and now they are killing it off on daily basis.

54. Gay Jesus play blasted by bishop

Comment #114046 by JemyM on January 21, 2008 at 9:16 am

Homophobes who call themselves christians should just bend over. If Jesus have a problem with this, let him speak, the rest can just shut up.

55. Violence fear over Islam film

Comment #113651 by JemyM on January 20, 2008 at 9:46 am

"It is difficult to anticipate the content of the film, but freedom of expression doesn't mean the right to offend"
Yes, it does actually. Even more so when what's attacked is nothing more than opinions.

I would personally adress the problem with religion as a whole instead of beginning with the Quaran though. The releationship between a moderate muslim and the Quaran is no different from the relationship between a moderate christian an the Bible. The content is just the same and the only reason there's more fundamentalists within Islam is due to several theocracies who serves as a reminder what Religion can do to a nation.

56. Britain cannot put its faith in religiously divided schools

Comment #113541 by JemyM on January 20, 2008 at 12:59 am

Same people, different books, learning to be tolerant to eachother. Something tells me it's the book that is the problem, not the people. Whenever you label a person based on their thoughts, you do a terrible mistake. We have culturally condemned the idea of class, race, gender and the correct sexuality. Now lets abolish the idea of groups based on "nationality", "culture" and "religion" as well. Stop dividing people with illusionary walls. There is only one type of human.

57. Ethical storm as scientist becomes first man to clone HIMSELF

Comment #113539 by JemyM on January 20, 2008 at 12:52 am

People are always mistaken in what it is about a life, human or person that we value. We do not value life. We do not value humans. Not even people within religion do this. No, we have values that are way more complex than that.

58. Six Reasons to be an Atheist

Comment #108126 by JemyM on January 6, 2008 at 4:38 am

My greatest reason for believing the Bible is written by men in the bronze age is that the concerns and values within are very similiar to what I would assume was great concerns and values of people in the bronze age. Concerns for the seventh day on the week, what direction you need to pray to, how you should have sex and who you should give your gold to is obviously not the concerns and values of an omnipotent, everlasting creator. When I read the Quran, Tripitaka and Mahabharata and compare them with social psychology and political philosophy they do not appear divine at all. In fact, it's core values that actually have any moral standing theese days, are the same values that our greatest philosophers came up with before those holy books were written.

However... THIS IS NOT AN ARGUMENT FOR ATHEISM. My greatest point, is that if there is a creator, a God, or something more out there, not a single one of our world religions have anything in them that are more valuable than whatever else we humans can come up with.

59. Stop House Resolution 888

Comment #107812 by JemyM on January 5, 2008 at 12:12 pm

Once Christianity erased history. That time it recovered because it was kept safe in the middle-east. If that had not happened, the world as we know it today would not exist.

60. A War On Science

Comment #105387 by JemyM on December 31, 2007 at 12:09 pm

In the western world, christians fight science and science simply defend themselves with evidence. But when people start to say that the truth is optional and you can choose to ignore direct evidence it is important to fight back. We need to disarm the core foundation that teaches the controversy, and that's the bible. It is a book that makes specific claims over the history of Israel, itself and the world. But it is a physical object, not a supernatural one and it can and should be approached by science once for all.
From what we can tell by historical and archeaological evidence, the biblical timeline is not more true than any of the ancient myths and it is not even consistent with itself. The real history of Israel should be taught to people. After that point the theory of "intelligent design" is not interesting anymore.

61. Russia prohibits denial of Santa

Comment #103934 by JemyM on December 27, 2007 at 11:07 am

A similar law in the US would send many Christians to jail.

62. Huckabee Stands by Christmas Campaign Ad

Comment #102638 by JemyM on December 23, 2007 at 10:47 am

Christians should stop trying to steal Jul. It does not belong to them.

63. 'Christian God is not to blame'

Comment #102636 by JemyM on December 23, 2007 at 10:44 am

Jesus say that children that curses their parents should be put to death.
Jesus also say that the world will end soon.
Jesus also said that the sick are infected by demons because they have sinned.
Jesus was also an angry person who condemned alot of people.
Jesus was also a racist who called a sick child and her begging mother as "dogs begging at the masters table" because they were not jews.

Christianity is a sect that seeks world domination. Christians ARE the christian God and they are to blame for spreading the Christian ideology and lying about what's right and what's wrong. Any morally sane person who read the bible can see that Jesus is not a good role model for ethic behavior and good morals.

64. 'Atheistic fundamentalism' fears

Comment #102392 by JemyM on December 22, 2007 at 3:16 pm

You cannot be fundamental to something which have no foundation.

65. Jesus ad angers church groups

Comment #100576 by JemyM on December 18, 2007 at 11:51 pm

The word "offensive" seem to mean something else in Christianity.

66. Jail for creationist row killer

Comment #98579 by JemyM on December 13, 2007 at 10:10 pm

"Minimum 3 years" after killing someone by stabbing them in the chest with a knife?

67. U.S. Congress Recognizing the importance of Christmas and the Christian faith

Comment #97969 by JemyM on December 12, 2007 at 10:56 pm

I know fascism when I see it.

I recommend watching the old cult classic "The Wave", http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cults+the+wave+part&search=Search

68. The empty myths peddled by evangelists of unbelief

Comment #97084 by JemyM on December 11, 2007 at 11:28 am

"Let's keep this bad ideology because other bad ideologies which we have already abolished were just as bad".

69. Biologist fired for beliefs, suit says

Comment #96999 by JemyM on December 11, 2007 at 8:31 am

If you can actually get money for being an ignorant teacher who fails to do their job, then the country is deeply corrupted indeed. I guess that's no news really.

70. 'Boycott Worked': Compass Flops - Opening Weekend $26 Million; Narnia $63 Million

Comment #96998 by JemyM on December 11, 2007 at 8:29 am

[quote]Donohue concluded: "Let this be a lesson to militant atheists like Pullman: keep your hollow beliefs to yourself. And ease up on demonizing Catholicism-no other religion has done more to promote human rights, science and goodwill."[/quote]

Uhm... uhm... uhm? Who's demonizing catholicism, Pullman or catholics? It's an organization based on an old book with dirty old men who gets power out of making people retarded.

71. Daniel Dennett Debates Dinesh D'Souza

Comment #95168 by JemyM on December 7, 2007 at 1:41 pm

First time I heard the "bad things done by atheism" argument for awhile. The perspective is that every person who are not a member of a group is a member of a group. This is traditional polarization that would not be allowed in a discussion between people who know the functions of group psychology but whoever uses that rhetoric should be confronted about that.

Also, there's no reason to debate science against Christianity. Science is the practice of researching the universe, Christianity is a book. Whoever wish to debate the bible as a replacement for science need to be confronted about the book itself. There is no need to walk into a logic argument about the existence of God, that question have no value. The important question is if the Bible is a valid replacement for everything else and whoever wish to take that position will need to defend it with good reasons why.

72. Daniel Dennett Debates Dinesh D'Souza

Comment #95148 by JemyM on December 7, 2007 at 12:54 pm

In Sweden we do have "Knowledge about Religion" in our compulsory curriculum. The class consists of all five world religions, their history, their belief, their symbols etc.

73. Islam's Silent Moderates

Comment #95145 by JemyM on December 7, 2007 at 12:42 pm

Friendly people who call themselves muslims do exist. It all depends on what kind of society you assimilated into. If you live up in a society controlled by a radical ideology, chances are that you will be loyal to those ideas, so loyal that you are willing to go very far to keep them up. If you bring the same ideas into a place ruled by a liberal government, free speech and secularism, you will interpret them very differently. Islam, like christianity differs plenty depending on region.

74. Ask The God Delusion author Richard Dawkins

Comment #94738 by JemyM on December 6, 2007 at 11:34 am

"Man needs OUR AUTHORITY, otherwise he remains without OUR CONTROL".

75. Dutch lawmaker planning film criticizing the Quran

Comment #91541 by JemyM on November 28, 2007 at 2:19 pm

When comparing the Bible and the Quran, the Bible is far worse. Consider me sceptic against them who aggressively attacks the Quran but not dare to take on the Bible as well.

76. This Friday: Debate between Dan Dennett and Dinesh D'Souza

Comment #91536 by JemyM on November 28, 2007 at 2:13 pm

Dennett do not stand a chance, because he is sane. That's a huge disadvantage against Dinesh D'Souza.

77. Turkey probes atheist's 'God' book

Comment #91380 by JemyM on November 28, 2007 at 7:36 am

""incites religious hatred" and insults religious values" = Threatens the power of the sect

78. Taking Science on Faith

Comment #90427 by JemyM on November 25, 2007 at 5:35 am

Whenever someone tells you that you should not trust verified science, the scientific way to verify claims, your own senses, or that you should avoid to read about/analyse/examine the validity of their claims, you are more than likely dealing with someone who are trying to fool you and have something to win by distorting the truth. When they want your money or tell you that you have to follow certain rules or certain authorities you have even more reason to avoid them.

79. The good that comes from belief

Comment #86730 by JemyM on November 10, 2007 at 3:14 am

Deontological ethics are for children and young adults, but modern books for children makes a better job to explain proper behavior than the bible. Jesus do not even begin to explain what a modern child need to know, including not talking to strangers, not play in traffic and not taking drugs. Deontological ethics can be used as a guideline as an adult but yet again the bible do not offer the kind of ethics that an adult need to know, such as social etiquette and how to interract with other cultures.

The ability to distinguish right from wrong as an adult comes from experience and knowledge. Wisdom becomes your moral compass, which is why someone who gives up personal wisdom to favor religious ethics are less moral. They simply do not know how to behave.

The claim that religion is a "moral compass" is the defense of a sect that use the most absurd arguments to remain in power. Theese sects do not have monopoly on anything. Not morals. Not the story on where we came from. Not even spirituality. Theese sects should be exposed for the immoral frauds that they are. At best they exploit good people for their own sinister agendas.

80. Losing faith in Quebec

Comment #86416 by JemyM on November 9, 2007 at 7:17 am

In Sweden we have had classes like this for a long time.

81. Believe it or not, courtesy counts

Comment #83982 by JemyM on November 1, 2007 at 12:39 am

The suggestions made by this article do not work in a liberal democracy. Within a such society everything have the right to be questioned, analysed and critizised, harshly if neccessary. If you cannot do that, you can as well drop the democracy. You do not get respect based on your beliefs, you get respect based on your respect, better get used to it.

82. Don't write off religion - it can be the key to a stable family

Comment #82730 by JemyM on October 27, 2007 at 11:35 am

A study of certain tribes have shown that in a culture when sex is not taboo, things like child abuse, rebelling teenagers and wifebeating simply goes away. Christianity is unnatural and the children pays for it.

83. Sam Harris at AAI 07

Comment #82481 by JemyM on October 26, 2007 at 12:34 pm

I am critical towards the five world-religions. That does not mean that I have a label. The abrahamic religions call me atheist. Racists call me nigger-lover but I wont adress myself as that either. If anything, I am a humanist, because that to me means something.

84. AAI 07 DVDs by RDFRS are Now Available!

Comment #82265 by JemyM on October 26, 2007 at 1:06 am

Eeek, I have waited on the Sam Harris. *sobs*

85. FFRF 07 Conference Footage

Comment #81798 by JemyM on October 25, 2007 at 7:43 am

I am convinced that we cannot beat Islam and keep Christianity. Our universal respect for religion must be abolished for us to even begin to deal with the worlds remaining theocracies. Islam is founded on the Old Testament and Abraham. As long as the western world supports the existence of Abraham, we support the foundation for their beliefs.

86. FFRF 07 Conference Footage

Comment #81107 by JemyM on October 24, 2007 at 6:01 am

Well, I got it running by dragging/dropping the URL into mediaplayer, but the links are annoying. It would have been much better if you could download the files.

87. Downward, Christian soldier

Comment #80615 by JemyM on October 22, 2007 at 10:36 am

Whenever I hear this stuff I cannot resist to get an image of the vikings. Battle with all your might and we will meet in valhalla afterwards. Christianity within an army is exactly the same. If I was a soldier I would never put my life beneath someone who believe in an afterlife.

88. God's honest truth?

Comment #79874 by JemyM on October 18, 2007 at 10:10 pm

School is one of the few things I consider right to force people into. Without schools, democracy do not work. I consider it a right to be "indoctrinated" by the school curricilum, because it's content is strongly protected against falsehoods as well as political and religious influence.

89. God's honest truth?

Comment #79873 by JemyM on October 18, 2007 at 9:55 pm

The actual background that ran this baby home was that an extremist christian sect known as the Plymouth Breathren was allowed to start a school earlier this year, after which the the Swedish humanist organisation begun an active agenda to increase awareness on this issue and it did not take long for the majority of the parties to react. The Christian Democrats, mentioned in the article, were actually the last to change their minds. The Christian Democrats just fell under 4% of the voters according to polls, meaning that if they wont get more, the christian party will loose their last seats in the government next election (you need at least 4% to get seats). If that happens, christianity have no more government influence.

90. Help Counter the New Atheist Crusade to 'Evangelize' America!

Comment #79503 by JemyM on October 17, 2007 at 1:14 pm

The only way to silence truth is violence and oppression.

91. Muslims tell Christians: 'Make peace with us or survival of world is at stake'

Comment #78141 by JemyM on October 12, 2007 at 1:50 am

I do not mind if they come together to discuss similarities. When people feels safe, atheism rise.

92. In honour of Dan Dennett

Comment #76762 by JemyM on October 7, 2007 at 6:47 am

Dan is a deeply inspiring individual.

93. Religion advances despite science (and thanks to Dawkins)

Comment #73037 by JemyM on September 23, 2007 at 11:38 pm

[quote]Dawkins et al lay down a spiritual version of the gauntlet from DC Comics: "Are you with us or against us"[/quote]

Jesus spoke thoose words 2000 years before DC Comics.

God Delusion spoke to the fence-sitters, not the deeply religious. It's by convincing the fence-sitters that we zap the fundamentalists fuel source. In the age of communication technology, truth has the habit to win, they know it, we know it and the only option they have is to attack free speech and everytime religion resort to radical attacks on freedom and science, they reveal their true nature to the fence-sitters.

94. Critical Analysis of Case for a Creator

Comment #72125 by JemyM on September 20, 2007 at 11:52 am

If Lee Strobel is critical he should read the history of the bible.

95. Against the grain: There are questions that science cannot answer

Comment #71912 by JemyM on September 19, 2007 at 11:57 pm

There are questions that science cannot answer.
Religion answer no questions at all, instead it teaches the value of not asking questions.

96. VOTE on the 'Faith smackdown': Richard Dawkins vs Francis Collins

Comment #71683 by JemyM on September 19, 2007 at 12:59 pm

As far as I concern, science is enough to disprove the existence of Adam, Abraham and Exodus. So what god are we talking about?

97. Catholic school board in Halton may ban HPV vaccination

Comment #71323 by JemyM on September 18, 2007 at 12:47 pm

If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, "Let us go and worship god", do not yield to him or listen to him. Run! Run for your life!!!

98. The Nonbelievers

Comment #71183 by JemyM on September 18, 2007 at 2:04 am

I think there is a need for this and I have been considering to start something just like it in Sweden. While we do not need supernatural sciencedebunking philosophies or inhuman/intolerant laws, many of us still need an place where we can express our emotions in a respectful environment. Not all atheists need this but some of us do.

99. The Dawkins debate

Comment #70417 by JemyM on September 15, 2007 at 11:48 am

Spending some time actually reading up on the issues and background to the bible would help several of theese posters.

100. Open letter to YouTube video

Comment #70384 by JemyM on September 15, 2007 at 7:54 am

Atheist rap!