51. Richard Dawkins at AAI 07

Comment #85412 by maton100 on November 5, 2007 at 6:55 pm

Bravo!

52. Response to Theodore Dalrymple

Comment #85373 by maton100 on November 5, 2007 at 3:37 pm

Doll-rimple must mean the "existential difficulties." There appears to be no metaphysical difficulty at all...

53. I didn't know the FLEA CIRCUS was back in town!

Comment #84984 by maton100 on November 4, 2007 at 12:19 pm

Yeah, there's nothing worse than a "twilight of reason." I'm ready for the sunset of ignorance.

54. Religion is not incompatible with Science: 'Non-Overlapping Magisteria'

Comment #81467 by maton100 on October 24, 2007 at 7:15 pm

Dawkins has the best line concerning this one: Why not ask the gardner or the chef what he thinks?

55. Arguments Against Evolution

Comment #81465 by maton100 on October 24, 2007 at 7:12 pm

Just ask them to look at an old yearbook picture.

56. A Rational Universe Implies a Creator, Science points towards Theism

Comment #81464 by maton100 on October 24, 2007 at 7:10 pm

What's so rational about the 2nd law of thermodynamics?

57. You can't be moral without God!

Comment #81463 by maton100 on October 24, 2007 at 7:09 pm

Folks have been doing it for over 200,000 years.

58. Arguments From Design, First Cause, Something Rather Than Nothing, Fundamental Constants

Comment #81454 by maton100 on October 24, 2007 at 6:57 pm

Carrot Top was the first cause, and you can't prove that he wasn't.

59. Atheism is a religion and you're as bad as the fundamentalists

Comment #81429 by maton100 on October 24, 2007 at 5:55 pm

You're fundamentally conflating the two, moron.

60. You can't prove that you love someone, so don't expect proof of God

Comment #81428 by maton100 on October 24, 2007 at 5:50 pm

You can't prove that you hate someone either.

61. That's not MY God or Religion you're criticising

Comment #81426 by maton100 on October 24, 2007 at 5:48 pm

Autophenomenological solipsism won't get you laid.

62. If you don't accept the supernatural, you obviously think life is depressing, meaningless and cold

Comment #81425 by maton100 on October 24, 2007 at 5:46 pm

Life *is* depressing, meaningless and cold. As if that wasn't bad enough, now you want to add angels, demons and shit.

63. The Transcendental Argument for God

Comment #81421 by maton100 on October 24, 2007 at 5:38 pm

Let's not forget the transcendental argument for Charlton Heston either.

64. Science can answer how questions but only religion can answer why questions

Comment #81418 by maton100 on October 24, 2007 at 5:32 pm

Teleological ad nauseam. Read some Camus and get over it.

65. I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist

Comment #81416 by maton100 on October 24, 2007 at 5:24 pm

The less faith the better. You're almost there.

66. Pascal's Wager

Comment #81415 by maton100 on October 24, 2007 at 5:19 pm

How in the hell are you going to redeem that without a voucher?

67. Science and Religion BOTH make faith claims

Comment #81413 by maton100 on October 24, 2007 at 5:13 pm

Bullshit! Science does not make claims without corroborating evidence (there is no faith). Religion needs faith because nothing in reality supports it.

68. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, etc. were atheists, and they were terrible! Answer that!

Comment #81397 by maton100 on October 24, 2007 at 4:57 pm

The problem is with the human capacity for worship. No one should be worshipped...including the Pope, Bush, Jay Z or Kim Jong-il.

69. Debate between Christopher Hitchens and Dinesh D'Souza

Comment #81182 by maton100 on October 24, 2007 at 11:09 am

Oh please, D'Souza is a twerp of the lowest order.

70. War in Heaven: Hitchens Meets D'Souza on Home Turf

Comment #81108 by maton100 on October 24, 2007 at 6:13 am

Shit, if I were debating Dinesh...I'd get drunk too. D'Dumbass ain't worth the time.

71. Debate between Christopher Hitchens and Alister McGrath

Comment #79158 by maton100 on October 16, 2007 at 10:47 am

Ha! McGrath is in da house. This will be fun.

72. Ayaan Hirsi Ali: abandoned to fanatics

Comment #77538 by maton100 on October 9, 2007 at 3:07 pm

Let her pack heat and provide her with Al Gore's bodyguards. That should hold off Muhammad for a few months until they can get this figured out.

73. Debate between Richard Dawkins and John Lennox

Comment #76069 by maton100 on October 4, 2007 at 3:19 pm

Ha, listen closely to the dialogue of the broadcasters after the debate. The moron brigade is in the house. Part 3.

74. Debate between Richard Dawkins and John Lennox

Comment #76032 by maton100 on October 4, 2007 at 12:56 pm

What tripe from Lennox. My god is the correct god, blah, blah. Not one detail worth notice.

75. The Problem with Atheism

Comment #75608 by maton100 on October 3, 2007 at 6:08 am

Like I mentioned before, the term "atheist" does carry cultural and historical baggage. Nonetheless, our actions should speak so loudly that the perception will be altered. What's the point of "shifting the zeitgeist?" We should continue educating and be aware of the prejudice. If the term is changed to "whatever", people will still say "oh he's an atheist." Someone is going to find a derogatory term for non-belief no matter what.

76. Logical Path from Religious Beliefs to Evil Deeds

Comment #75278 by maton100 on October 2, 2007 at 8:19 am

The problem is that the term "atheism" comes with cultural baggage. A stigma born of ignorance and limited education. Keep in mind, it is only a word. The philosophy should be ethical materialism. By setting an example, atheism will come to represent "the person you can count on not to bullshit you in time of need." Morality must come from reason, not the whimsy of autophenomenological emotion. I'd trust Weinberg over Haggard any day.

77. Letters: Theology has no place in a university

Comment #75070 by maton100 on October 1, 2007 at 3:42 pm

What we need now are theopologists!

78. AAI Convention webcam

Comment #74108 by maton100 on September 27, 2007 at 8:47 am

They even have their own fleas. The Righteous Responders. What stunning originality!

79. MORE GOOD NEWS for US taxpayers

Comment #72112 by maton100 on September 20, 2007 at 11:19 am

Helping to "build up that wall" on a Federal level. Yippee!

80. Taking exception to Jake

Comment #71779 by maton100 on September 19, 2007 at 4:08 pm

Rather, the moron brigade and Sheri Shepherd ARE one.

http://thestubborncurmudgeon.blogspot.com

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

Comment #71738 by maton100 on September 19, 2007 at 2:53 pm

HA!!@!

82. Do you have to read up on leprechology before disbelieving in them?

Comment #70902 by maton100 on September 17, 2007 at 7:56 am

It did, however, take several boxes of Lucky Charms to convince me.

http://thestubborncurmudgeon.blogspot.com

83. Good News: Both our Foundations are now Officially Recognized as Charities

Comment #70430 by maton100 on September 15, 2007 at 12:39 pm

This status is better suited for well-intended professors than the likes of L. Ron Hubbard. Finally, reason gets a break.

84. Review of Richard Dawkins' new book 'The Fascism Delusion'

Comment #69153 by maton100 on September 9, 2007 at 7:49 pm

Keep up the good work. Humor is the only ammunition we really need against willful ignorance.

http://thestubborncurmudgeon.blogspot.com

85. The Fleas Are Multiplying!

Comment #68798 by maton100 on September 8, 2007 at 4:32 pm

Well, the church is a big business. They needed to produce some tepid counter-arguments to keep the last remaining members in the rotten pews. I'm sure theoretical physicists are trembling in the wake of Vox Day. GMA fuckin' break.

http://thestubborncurmudgeon.blogspot.com

86. The Sacrifice of Reason

Comment #66684 by maton100 on August 31, 2007 at 12:40 am

Mother Teresa wanted to be a vigilante and needed to affiliate with something. Too bad Human Right's Watch didn't get to her first. She would have looked better without that stupid nun garb.

87. I'm gonna be a MOVIE STAR

Comment #65253 by maton100 on August 23, 2007 at 10:52 am

We took care of Mr. Stein yesterday:

http://thestubborncurmudgeon.blogspot.com

88. CNN Request for 'I-Reports' on religion

Comment #65044 by maton100 on August 22, 2007 at 5:54 pm

I was hoping they would have a Likert Scale for faith insignificance. Yawn...

89. Scientists should unite against threat from religion

Comment #65041 by maton100 on August 22, 2007 at 5:48 pm

Collins is an emotionally giddy goon.

http://thestubborncurmudgeon.blogspot.com

90. God's Still Dead

Comment #64693 by maton100 on August 21, 2007 at 11:09 am

Reminds me of process reality. We are not nature's objective. In other words, as Chuck Palahniuk would say, you are not your khakis.
Well put.

91. Interview with Richard Dawkins about 'The Enemies of Reason'

Comment #62988 by maton100 on August 12, 2007 at 7:28 pm

The interviewers *were* the enemies of reason.

92. Unreasonably superstitious

Comment #62841 by maton100 on August 11, 2007 at 7:51 pm

No more fennel burning with sounds good to me.

http://thestubborncurmudgeon.blogspot.com

93. Richard Dawkins and the New Age fakers

Comment #62759 by maton100 on August 11, 2007 at 8:52 am

Hey, where's my Wicca candle?

94. Arrogance, dogma and why science - not faith - is the new enemy of reason

Comment #61948 by maton100 on August 7, 2007 at 2:26 pm

Bravo Mrs. Phillips! You have convinced me to buy tickets to see John Edward talk to my dead grandmother while he rubs crystals on the crotches of various audience members. Thanks a lot. Keep up the good work...

95. Electrons to Enlightenment 4: Debating Darwin

Comment #61530 by maton100 on August 5, 2007 at 3:25 pm

The pleasure came from hearing Behe's Mount Rushmore analogy and the sappy new-age music backing up the Discovery Institute goon.

96. New age therapies cause 'retreat from reason'

Comment #61495 by maton100 on August 5, 2007 at 11:12 am

Look closely at the picture of the woman. She is insane.

97. The Gullible Age: Review of 'The Enemies of Reason'

Comment #61484 by maton100 on August 5, 2007 at 10:44 am

Wait a minute. Horoscopes aren't real? C'mon...

98. They let anybody onto the faculty at Oxford nowadays

Comment #60769 by maton100 on August 2, 2007 at 8:03 pm

We got 'em! Thanks PZ...

http://thestubborncurmudgeon.blogspot.com

99. Interview with Richard Dawkins on 'The Selfish Gene'

Comment #60627 by maton100 on August 2, 2007 at 1:48 pm

Click the "reposted from" link.

100. The Flea Circus Invites a Newcomer!

Comment #60292 by maton100 on August 1, 2007 at 1:41 pm

I feel a pee needs to be taken on the Wee Flea. What kind of pee you may ask? A Christian pee of course. A pee with lots of glee on the Wee Flea's rotten head. Not an Islamic pee or a Buddhist pee, but a pee in connection with the holy trinity...you see.