51. Interview with Neil Shubin, author of 'Your Inner Fish'

Comment #113000 by tieInterceptor on January 18, 2008 at 12:24 pm

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/01/17/colbert-nails-dinesh-dsouza/

that was amazing, d'Souza had that coming big time

52. Did mozzies, not a meteor, do for the dinosaurs?

Comment #108998 by tieInterceptor on January 8, 2008 at 6:09 am

I'm disappointed. When I read the title I thought this was going to be about prehistoric muslims.

mmm, I thought along the same lines ... I must be obsessing too much lately

53. Al Qaeda: We're open to questions

Comment #101308 by tieInterceptor on December 20, 2007 at 8:01 am

dicanau is good that USA_limey quoted you , because it was funny.


al-rawandi... when a certified doctor burns himself to death when trying to blow up his car, and has to be manhandled to the floor by the police to extinguish his flaming body, while shouting "Alahu akbar" without stopping to breath in...

then, I think you can safely say that he was working hard on his 72 virgins in paradise.

54. Jesus ad angers church groups

Comment #100611 by tieInterceptor on December 19, 2007 at 1:48 am

line of thought: ...the Muslims can get upset due to a teddy, god must think we are pansies, we MUST be hysterical too!

prints t-shirt: thin skinned 4 Jesus,

55. Do the laws of God trump those of man?

Comment #99563 by tieInterceptor on December 17, 2007 at 4:16 am

hey wooter, I just visited your "Other Comments by wooter" and I believe you are either a troll, or just a lazy ID aficionado.

your claim that "how come there is a glass in my hand without a glass maker" a nice variation on the Kirk Cameron painting painter, an "evolution" on the watch/watchmaker analogy,

sounds like you reeeealllllly need to watch this video.

the origin of life made easy, link


after visit this link , a play list of all the other videos of the "science made easy" collection you MUST watch before talking more nonsense.


Science made easy PLAY LIST link

once you watched the 7 of them, you can ask any unanswered questions here ;)

until then... please spare us the tired old bull

56. Laugh at Sudan

Comment #97008 by tieInterceptor on December 11, 2007 at 9:06 am

found this line on the comments section under the video, :)

I bought a Teddy Bear today for a tenner. I named it Mohammed, then sold it for twenty quid.
My question is "Have I made a prophet?"

57. Laugh at Sudan

Comment #96848 by tieInterceptor on December 11, 2007 at 2:23 am

Pat rules, as usual.

58. The Pagan Christ

Comment #94924 by tieInterceptor on December 7, 2007 at 2:27 am

Christianity is a rehash of astrology/Egyptian myths... sounds very much like the first 1/3 of "Zeitgeist the movie"

interesting... link to the Zeitgeist film if anyone wants to check it out.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5547481422995115331


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59. Interview with Christopher Hitchens

Comment #93896 by tieInterceptor on December 4, 2007 at 12:22 pm

Nice interview, very nice indeed, they should all be like this. Polite but definitely clear.

Hitchens owns as usual.

60. Daniel Dennett Debates Dinesh D'Souza

Comment #93082 by tieInterceptor on December 2, 2007 at 6:40 am

Lagomort on December 1, OK, Dennet sucked.

I am sick of people that think they do not need to take the time to consider the arguments before time and work out quick responses for the debate. Dennet's "ums" and, "That is just that ol' argument" type of responses just made him look like an ass...

I agree somehow, Denet is nice, but the lack of short and clear responses to some of the most retarded statements that D'Souza was shouting, bothered me. I was longing for some of the old Hitchens quick answers... and personally I know by now lots short answers just by watching and reading articles in this site.

to an audience who does not know as much as most of us do here, it would seem that Denet was rambling, and lots of mmmh and ahhhs, ...

Denet is great when he does a presentation, but not so much when answering on the fly.

kinda missed a bit the chance there.

61. Interview with Richard Dawkins

Comment #92888 by tieInterceptor on December 1, 2007 at 4:53 pm

good interview,

I would have added, on the question of morality and the bible, the answer from Hitchens. That obviously before the 10 commandments, the world already knew well enough that killing and stealing was bad. the Greeks for example.

That answer to me is more satisfying.

62. Sudan demo over jailed UK teacher

Comment #92434 by tieInterceptor on November 30, 2007 at 1:43 pm

When I just read the headline, " Sudan demo over jailed UK teacher", I thought that it was good. Some Sudanese realize how insane her imprisonment is and are demonstrating. Then I read the first line... "

the exact same thing happened to me, I just read the title before leaving work, and until now I did not get it. The level of nuttery of Islamic people still manages to surprise me from time to time.

63. 'Teddy' teacher jailed in Sudan

Comment #91943 by tieInterceptor on November 29, 2007 at 3:31 pm

yup, they totally lost it.

64. Why debate dogma?

Comment #91940 by tieInterceptor on November 29, 2007 at 3:27 pm

Pat for president! :)

maybe we should burn Sudans embassy in London for the scandal of the teddy bear 15 days prison sentence.

just kidding,

but I wonder what they would say in the middle east if we torched it.

65. In the name of God: the Saudi rape victim's tale

Comment #91700 by tieInterceptor on November 29, 2007 at 2:10 am

lost for words, If this is what theocracy and Islam has to offer then...

In my opinion those who says that Saudi Arabia is not "really" proper Islam, I would tell them that by extension then Russia and Cuba are not "really" communist since they do not follow the letter of the manifesto, but IN THE REAL WORLD, what reads on the book is meaningless, what's important is how it turns out when put into practice.

not that what reads in the Quran is not barbaric anyway.

66. Dutch lawmaker planning film criticizing the Quran

Comment #91681 by tieInterceptor on November 29, 2007 at 1:11 am

we need more movies like this, about time politicians got some guts.

67. Turkey probes atheist's 'God' book

Comment #91446 by tieInterceptor on November 28, 2007 at 10:28 am

this is just going to be free publicity for the book, and also will highlight some problems still remaining for Turkey, before they can seriously be considered to join the EU.

68. Islam and the modern world don't mix

Comment #91404 by tieInterceptor on November 28, 2007 at 8:38 am

Islam's rule has always been far, far stronger, and more terrible than that of Christianity. It took a thousand years to extricate ourselves from a religion founded by a pacifist - what is it going to be like trying to extricate ourselves from a religion founded by a tyrant and warlord?

totally agree,

69. Islam and the modern world don't mix

Comment #91296 by tieInterceptor on November 28, 2007 at 2:02 am

excelent article, I totally agree.

70. 'Muhammad' teddy teacher arrested

Comment #91128 by tieInterceptor on November 27, 2007 at 10:22 am

Vinelectric, Are you telling me that in a Muslim country under Sharia Law a Christian can be in the government? Is that it?

because is Sharia is not the law of the land, then it is not a Muslim country. Unless what is commanded in the Quran as a prerequisite to be a Muslim land is unimportant to you.

71. 'Muhammad' teddy teacher arrested

Comment #91080 by tieInterceptor on November 27, 2007 at 7:00 am

Vinelectric, I particulary like this way of collecting the jizya or tax as you say.

As recommended by many Muslim scholars, jizya was to be collected in a humiliating procedure:
The collector remains seated and the infidel remains standing…, his head bowed and his back bent. The infidel must place money on the scales, while the collector holds him by his beard and strikes him on both cheeks.(Al-Nawawi)

...

Various restrictions and legal disabilities were placed on Dhimmis, such as prohibitions against bearing arms or giving testimony in courts in cases involving Muslims,the limitations on the rights of dhimmis made them vulnerable to the whims of rulers and the violence of mobs.

and in no way I see how your examples of Sudan Lebanon or Iraq have anything to do with what Islam asks, and nothing that you said makes the CHOICE of Islam on the population a real OPTION.
Dhimmi laws are a straightforward no bullshit way to suppress, and guarantees a diminishing population of infidels in your lands.

If you're atheist you can't hold position of power in the US

yes you can, people may choose not to vote for you. But the constitution is above all secular. 1st amendment anyone?

but in Islam? It is law, and the fact that is medieval? the point of unchangeable laws from god, is that, they do not change... I don't see how that makes Islam any better, you won't see any Mullah saying that the Dhimmi status is out of date... and the laws only apply to the middle ages.

My point stands.

72. 'Muhammad' teddy teacher arrested

Comment #91021 by tieInterceptor on November 27, 2007 at 2:00 am

Haste: I was brought up in a Muslim country and was taught the religion. I was never forced to join them in any way.

I've seen that so many times, and it fails to impress every single time I read it.

Hard to imagine freedom of choice when the entire Islamic system demands dhimmis to be publicly humiliated when paying the Kuffar tax, forbid from holding positions of power, not allowed to build new churches or repair them on Muslim land, and in a very real, systematic and practical way making sure they are forced into decline and to disappear in a few generations.

Apostasy punish by death, criticism punish by prison, women not allowed to marry interfaith, and man only allowed if the wife changes religion to Islam.

Is that freedom of choice??? Then I want to see the definition changed on the dictionary.

Maybe your personal experience of Islam is moderate, and your Muslim friend are very agreeable, but please keep some perspective, and don't give me the "I feel like I must defend my religion, because my friends are nice" line, that's a platitude.

Sorry, but just this week a teacher will be tortured for allowing the naming of a teddybear on a 7 year old classroom game, and in SaudiArabia a gang rape victim will be tortured with 200 lashes (that alone can kill you) and then imprisoned 6 months for the crime of ... who knows?

Just picture if all this happened in 1922 Germany and I was defending the Nazi REGIME on the grounds that some of my Nazi friends are nice, and no one "forced" me to join the Hitler youth.

And if your friend are nice, then maybe they should not call themselves Muslim, there is clear guidelines to what constitute a Muslim, and as far as I know, is not a badge to feel part of a group, it is a totalitarian political system and a religion combined into a way of life.

Half cooked "moderate" thinking Muslims, are just kidding themselves. If freedom and niceties is your life stile, then call yourself by the name of your country, If you have the need to feel part of a group, but definitely not by the religion.

rant over.

73. 'Muhammad' teddy teacher arrested

Comment #90821 by tieInterceptor on November 26, 2007 at 1:04 pm

I mean, are people committing heresy when they call their sons Mohammed and take pictures of them???

you are right, they should round up all the idolaters that use that name and destroy them with tnt and rocket propelled grenades, just like they did to the giant Buddha statues.

74. The absurd world of Martin Amis

Comment #90786 by tieInterceptor on November 26, 2007 at 10:47 am

what I'm suggesting?

I'm suggesting that the teachings of Muhammed in al-taqyya albeit practical they are not moral.
And also they where used on a mission to assassinate not in a battle of 2 armies lord of the rings style.

Call it whatever you like, but giving permission to your followers to call your religion false and the profet a pig so you can gain their trust to stab them in the back, is practical... yes, but does not have the "feeling" of someone who knows that the real god is on their side.

If you know your god exists, then let the lions eat you, you're going to heaven anyway.

Muhammed teachings go well with a general on wartime, not with a moral teacher.

am I repeating myself?, in what way this is not clear as water?

75. The absurd world of Martin Amis

Comment #90732 by tieInterceptor on November 26, 2007 at 8:18 am

look, sorry to repeat myself, but I haven't found any so called muslim who UNCONDITIONALLY says something againts the scriptures.

If the best we can expect from moderates is to point out that in a PERFECT implementation of Islam, ONLY HARDCORE thieves would get their hands and feet chopped off, and only adulterers that somehow where shagging in a crowded room, with 4+ witnesses will get stoned to death, then I have a problem with the definition of the word moderate,

If by "moderate" we mean, Muslims who will do their best to drown their religion in 7 layers of bureaucracy to keep the killing and misogyny down to acceptable levels, then... WHATEVER.

76. The absurd world of Martin Amis

Comment #90728 by tieInterceptor on November 26, 2007 at 8:06 am

some of the comments on that webpage,

"hi...one of the biggest reason ppl dont understand muslims is because of thier lack of knowlegde about Islam. Islam always backs up what it says. ppl have created a sterotype abt the Sharia...its all abt chopping hands off and stonning to death "etc...there is more to the Sharia laws...for example, drink water while sitting, respect your parents etc. as for the punishment that i mentioned above, (chopping of hands) is not that easily done...first you have to concider some things before that process is done...for example, if the 'object' was stolen by a child, hungry person, mentally challenge person etc then the punishment is not done. All the punishment have hard core info backing them up...all u need to do is check it out... "
...
mean i agree with the protests but not the angry mobs they showed on TV because that is not what Islam is abt...Islam is about peace.
Muslims are not perfect...BUT ISLAM IS "

seriously, is this supposed to make me feel better?

77. The absurd world of Martin Amis

Comment #90686 by tieInterceptor on November 26, 2007 at 6:05 am

By the way how could it escape your logic that the hadith on War is deception rfers to open war when the thing has been proclaimed publicly.

funny that you say, since its not for open warfare, the case of al-taqiyya was a warrant by Muhammed to one of his assassins to lie about his religion, and insult the prophet openly, so he could gain trust of his enemy and Murder him.

? but only for war is it, seriously, since when assassination is open warfare?

what about the poets that Muhammed had executed for the capital crime of taking the piss of Muhammed and his "on-demand" revelations?

as Harris says, not all religions teach the same, I'm an anti theist, but at least I see something in the fact that Christians would get themselves eaten by lions before renouncing Christ.

seriously Vinelectric, justify assassination by deception in "open warfare"? that does not make any sense, supposedly its life example coming from the CREATOR of the universe and his chosen pupil on earth... remember?

The morals of Mohammed can't be justified because "he was a general in a war" that does not cut it as an excuse, because he is apparently the finest MORAL EXAMPLE OF ALL 1.6bilion Muslims.

78. The absurd world of Martin Amis

Comment #90655 by tieInterceptor on November 26, 2007 at 3:33 am

by SumerSale: I hate it, I hate people who defend it, and I hate people who go around claiming that people like me are the irrational ones. You don't fight extremist ideologies with love and flowers. You fight it with another gun and another set of harsh words, because it is the enemy. It is my enemy, it hates me, and I hate it back and I like that it hates me. I revel in the fact that it hates me. I thrive in its hatred. And hopefully, one day, I will see it just as dead as it wants me.

Anyone who disagrees can "fuck off".

my thoughts exactly.

It makes my head hurt when I read on forums women defending Saudi Arabia's right to be "different" and "have their own understanding of what's right" on the comment section in an article about gang rape victims being whipped 200 times and jailed for 6 months for the crime of being raped, and talking back to the judge.

Seriously, the world has lost its mind when being Muslim on the eyes of the west gives you a 007 license to be barbaric.

"we can't claim our values are better, that would make us hypocrites"

I hear that so many times... my answer?

f*ck that! of course we can claim our values are better! spineless sheep.

79. Saudi gang-rape victim is jailed

Comment #90109 by tieInterceptor on November 23, 2007 at 2:44 am

this story is amazing, it reminds me why there is good reasons to be "bitter" about all the politically correct minded people in the west who have no problem saying that this particular case is horrible, but can't bring themselves to denounce the ideology and social system that culminated in a law and ruling that sentenced a rape victim to prison and leashing and ended the career of a lawyer for doing his job.
But the politically correct say "it would be hypocrite of us to pass judgement on their way of thinking".

bleah,

80. Study: Babies can tell helpful, hurtful playmates

Comment #90026 by tieInterceptor on November 22, 2007 at 12:35 pm

lol, the one that picked the BAD toy must be checked for the mark of the beast :)

oops forgot to take my christian fundi hat off.

81. Ofcom backs Channel 4 over mosque probe

Comment #89197 by tieInterceptor on November 20, 2007 at 1:59 am

Great news!

I was so upset about the police investigation, when I learned about it my eyes rolled back so much I nearly went blind.

I had the feeling that the world was going mad. It really, really pissed me off.

Great to see that not all is lost, there is some sense left in the world.

The sad thing is that some damage is done already, in youtube forums you can see Muslims already using the accusation to discredit the documentary, and they are not going to stop now, they are not interested in the truth.

And Ofcom had only 300 complaints? you would think that the mosques would organise a better boycott, 300 people is like a pick nick, Muslims have a special talent to riot and get offended... maybe they only like it when is on the streets, calling on the phone to do a formal request is too civilised and does not have the mob-of-angry-people-adrenaline-rush-effect to it.

who knows.

82. Fox News Discussion on 'The Golden Compass'

Comment #85751 by tieInterceptor on November 7, 2007 at 2:33 am

Hitchens seems to be the only one who can argue its case on this fox news types of interviews, and come out "feeling" like the victor to the average viewer. It's all about repeating the starting phrase until the moderator shuts up and lets you talk.

A deep voice and quick mind helps too.

83. Jesus Camp: A scary movie that should frighten us all

Comment #85593 by tieInterceptor on November 6, 2007 at 10:28 am

what I found disturbing is the amount of comments on the original article that defend the jesus camp, and accuse the article of narrow mindness..

?? seriously

84. Mother dies after refusing blood

Comment #85199 by tieInterceptor on November 5, 2007 at 9:28 am

this would make it to the darwin awards, if it wasn't so damned common.

Sad.

http://darwinawards.com/

85. Rome playing politics

Comment #84741 by tieInterceptor on November 3, 2007 at 12:10 pm

"by law Catholicism is still taught in Spain's schools"

?? I'm was born the same year General Franco died, and never had any Catholicism thought in school, and none of my friends had either.

I'm not sure where they get this info from.

86. The Year of Living Biblically

Comment #84740 by tieInterceptor on November 3, 2007 at 11:58 am

I think he misses the point, throwing some peables to the face of the 70 year old adulterer "eye for an eye" did not invalidate the other commandment to stone him... TO DEATH,

I don't get how he can claim the bible is so full of gratefulnesses and wisdom and it's enriching, when there is stoning to death as part of it...

In youtube I ran by mistake into a video of a prisoner being decapitated with a rather small knife by the Taliban... that was VERY shocking and somehow traumatizing, I also seen the pictures of the woman half buried about to be stoned to death... those images remind me that words like "stoned to death" do have a horrible translation to acts in the real world, like shouting fire on a crowded theatre, they are not just words.

I think is not funny to gloss over stoning to death. Like it balances itself out because there is other good bits on the book.

for me it's not about balance, its a strike and out point.

If it's part of the holy text, then that is it! bin the book, find a better one, and stop making excuses.

87. A House Divided: Hitch at Georgetown

Comment #84735 by tieInterceptor on November 3, 2007 at 11:35 am

I'm sure I saw this video a while a go, posted here I think.


Nice speech by Hitchesn, and Mc Grath was as soporiferous and foggy as usual.

88. Are the 'New Atheists' avoiding the 'real arguments'?

Comment #84104 by tieInterceptor on November 1, 2007 at 7:12 am

excelent article,

clear thinking and logic at it's best.

89. Lessons in hate found at leading mosques

Comment #83773 by tieInterceptor on October 31, 2007 at 7:54 am

Ever collection of incompetent tosspots has always had it in for the jews. Dunno why. It's just the way things seem to turn out.

I think at the time Jews where in a position of power and had the religion,

To make a new chapter on the story (easier than making a brand new cult) and to make sure of demonising the original sect... sounds like the kind of stuff I would do If I was a manipulative conqueror.

Worked for Hitler, nothing rallies more the people than a common enemy, having on-demand-divine-revelations it's just a plus, and gives you lots of gravitas.

The fact that Mohammed had 2 poets assassinated just for making fun of him also lines up with the insecure megalomaniac CSI-stile profiling.

ps:... and Jews do not mix with other people, that is quite snobbish ;)

90. AAI 07

Comment #82652 by tieInterceptor on October 27, 2007 at 5:22 am

awesome speech, this guy rocks.


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91. What's Good About Religion?

Comment #82528 by tieInterceptor on October 26, 2007 at 2:53 pm

Pat is really good, I'm subscribed to his youtube account too.

my other favourites,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI5WoXpmPiM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR9LVf_KMO0

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92. Egypt's fight against female circumcision clashes with tradition

Comment #80511 by tieInterceptor on October 22, 2007 at 3:08 am

disgusting, I would like to see human right groups get up in arms about this and pulling no punches.

entire nations of unsatisified sexual partners,

maybe there is a relationship somewhere to be found with Islamic fundamentalism... lets take the fun out of life, and make sure womankind is traumatized.

unhealthy minds.

93. Atheists aren't a bad lot

Comment #80510 by tieInterceptor on October 22, 2007 at 3:01 am

I'm happy the article turn around the fake 'statistical morality' from the faithful... basically they pathologically lie when asked about morals. Religion is very good at making people feel better about themselves and talk 'moral', but not making them better people in practise, on a 'tick the box answer sheet' they will put their Christian hat on, and answer everything as morally important, and gayness and stem cell research as terrible and an abomination.

Sheepole...

thank goodness Sweden is hard-fact-in-your-face-reality, the number one democracy of the world with 85% atheist/agnostic trumps a "Christians are nicer" poll any day.

94. Does fundamentalist religion cause the rejection of evolution? or is it the other way around?

Comment #80288 by tieInterceptor on October 21, 2007 at 6:32 am

I've heard a few times about how counter-intuitive evolution is supposed to be, but I'm just not seeing it.
I heard about it when I was a little kid of about 5 or 6 or so. Made perfect sense to me.

same here, I learned it at 5th or 6th grade in (in spain that is for kids 9 to 11 years old I think) ... and the lesson of evolution and natural selection came with the example of how giraffes grow their neck longer due to their advantage to reach higher on the trees, that example automatically made sense to me ... and that is one of the few things I remember from that lesson when I was young... I learned much more later, but really that light-bulb-turn-on-moment of "ok, that makes sense" is probably the most important thing.

that is why indoctrination is so dangerous, it does the inverse effect, like that kid in Jesus Camp, with his mom telling him that "-remember scientists never prove anything", now that kids is going to be suspicious of science for the rest of his days...
Education is the key basically.

95. God's honest truth?

Comment #80009 by tieInterceptor on October 19, 2007 at 2:10 pm

a bit late on this article ,

but news like this makes me have a glimpse of hope for humanity,

go Sweden go!

96. Debate between Christopher Hitchens and Alister McGrath

Comment #79370 by tieInterceptor on October 17, 2007 at 4:57 am

Excellent stuff Hitchens at full force as usual.

McGrath has a true skill for making me doubt... not my atheism... but my intelligence,

then I check the comments and I realise I'm not stupid, he is just a master of the red herring and the murky debate.

I have to say that after dozens of speeches by Hitchens, Dawkins and Harrys I'm much more adept in seeing trough the smoke and mirrors McGrath uses... but it's tiresome, I had to restrain myself from fast forwarding to Hitchens every time he talked.


someone should put this in youtube, so I can add it to my favourites.

97. If Muslim doctors are intolerant, let them go

Comment #77483 by tieInterceptor on October 9, 2007 at 12:09 pm

hear hear, totally agree.

somehow related to this, check the latest Pat Condel youtube video, good stuff as usual,

More demands from Islam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHh0NdR5Jh0

98. Shalom Auslander, Voicing a Comic 'Lament'

Comment #77330 by tieInterceptor on October 9, 2007 at 4:32 am

I don't get it, why he says yes at the end? seems contradictory to me, the baby all in tubes, and he does not want to mess him up more, so he says, yes? wt?

or he meant, that if he is not cut the baby it will be messed up in the eyes of god or something, risking him more??

poor guy, indoctrination really does screw with your head... life is complicated enough, I can't imagine living with all that extra baggage on top of everything.

99. Christianity's Image Problem

Comment #76202 by tieInterceptor on October 5, 2007 at 3:38 am

Bonzai on October 4, 2007 at 9:30 pm
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SmRqDMUA4P0

thanks for that link, odd stuff, specially the lady at the end wearing full burka and saying at the same time that if Islam becomes predominant in the USA it would be a good thing...

by the way,

I read time and time again by Muslims on websites and youtube comments that since 9/11 twenty thousand Americans converted to Islam, and that Islam growing amazingly,

what they always fail to mention, is that on the same time period, a one million six hundred thousand people 'converted' to atheist/agnostic on the polls,

So... do not get fooled by the constant hammering on the internet that everyone is becoming Muslim... its just the usual al-Taqiyya routine.

more likely they are reproducing amazingly fast, anyway.

100. We Few, We Happy Few, We Band of Brothers

Comment #76136 by tieInterceptor on October 4, 2007 at 8:04 pm

Amazing !



keep me awake up to 4:04 am!

thanks for uploading, favourite already