51. Believing the Unbelievable: The Clash Between Faith and Reason in the Modern World

Comment #56154 by coretemprising on July 14, 2007 at 5:31 am

Martha wrote:

"If I were an American, living in America, I'd be much more concerned about what was in my food, than the religious opinions of my fellow Americans."

If that's true, then you need an avatar with someone throwing, oh, I don't know, a Big Mac, into the trash, rather than a bible, eh?

What's in my son's school lunch is much less problematic than what will be his lot there when he feels the desire to let on to his atheism in this faith-infested area.

As to Sam Harris, when any of you dissing bozos can get up in front of an audience and make the points he makes with such certainty, then you might be entitled to boo hooing about his (needed) repetitions. Idiots.

52. A force for evil?

Comment #55441 by coretemprising on July 11, 2007 at 5:27 am

Any of you criticizing Grayling for any reason really really need to listen to the faith head who followed him, one Prof. Ramadan, to hear in action the difference between clarity and mud. What a bunch of convoluted nonsense from this supposedly educated individual. JesusMary&Joseph save us!
"Religion is the means to educate yourself." Gack!

53. Lecture on Sex Ratio Theory and Sexual Selection

Comment #53232 by coretemprising on June 30, 2007 at 7:43 am

I gave up fertility (gladly) in my early 50s. Had a child at 42--he's perfect, btw, although neither planned for or against, if you know what I mean. I don't recommend it, though. Dealing with adolescence in one's 50s is a serious drag...

54. Christopher Hitchens at Politics and Prose

Comment #45965 by coretemprising on May 29, 2007 at 8:41 pm

popes: "maladjusted elderly virgins"
Priceless!

55. I Don't Believe in Atheists

Comment #44379 by coretemprising on May 24, 2007 at 12:58 pm

Also, I'm with Duff about Abrahamic religions freeing mankind to be individuals. Huh? Ridiculous!

56. I Don't Believe in Atheists

Comment #44374 by coretemprising on May 24, 2007 at 12:54 pm

Hedges said: "...It is why Freud avoided writing about the phenomenon of love."
Well, I don't know if Freud avoided writing about love, or for that reason, but we weren't exactly talking about love here, and Freud had a bit to say about the god question in a little volume called The Future of an ILLUSION (my emphasis).
Illusion/delusion. Close enough.
Also, I have to join the group who can't get all the way through something like this. Once you've determined it's a bunch of bs, why waste any more time with it? Downright depressing garbage.

57. Hitchens on Falwell, Part 2

Comment #43787 by coretemprising on May 22, 2007 at 4:27 pm

I like what Hitchens has to say, and even how he says it, but it doesn't advance the cause when he often presents as a drunk lounge lizard. Dr. Dawkins and Sam Harris make a much better presentation. On the other hand, maybe it helps him to be slightly altered when having to deal with agressive idiots.

58. Pick of the Week: The God Delusion

Comment #43201 by coretemprising on May 20, 2007 at 7:38 pm

Crimeny, that was supposed to be directed to, you know, the troll.
Sigh. Oh well.

59. Pick of the Week: The God Delusion

Comment #43200 by coretemprising on May 20, 2007 at 7:37 pm

I'm concerned that you're off your meds.
Other than that everything's good so you have my permission to carry on, and
"Good luck with that."

60. Pale Blue Dot

Comment #40872 by coretemprising on May 15, 2007 at 6:13 am

said Seero:
I wonder if Cosmos is available to purchase on DVD? I'd love to own it.

But of course! Amazon, among other places:
http://www.amazon.com/Cosmos-Carl-Sagan-Jarom%C3%ADr-Hanzl%C3%ADk/dp/B000055ZOB/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-1838519-5331853?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1179234429&sr=1-1

DVD Features:
Available Subtitles: English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Chinese
Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Complete Landmark TV Series - 13 One Hour Episodes
Digitally Remastered, Restored and Enhanced
Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan Updates
Subtitle Science Updates
New Footage
Bonus 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound Music and Effects Track

61. Jesus 'Love-Bombs' You

Comment #35064 by coretemprising on April 26, 2007 at 5:46 am

to briancoughlanworldcitizen:

re the lawsuit, have you seen this:

http://www.luigicascioli.it/home_eng.php

62. Doctors Opposing Circumcision: An Appeal for Misha

Comment #32644 by coretemprising on April 17, 2007 at 9:07 pm

Shuggy, did you have to post that? Did you have to?

Well, maybe it's best that no one can claim ignorance any longer.

But what I want to know is, what is wrong with these doctors?????!!!! Hello, why not a little local anesthetic you heartless idiots?? Will someone PLEASE explain to me how humans can do this to other humans, ON PURPOSE! And oh, just soooo nonchalant! I feel sick.

63. Doctors Opposing Circumcision: An Appeal for Misha

Comment #32643 by coretemprising on April 17, 2007 at 8:59 pm

Intact IS better (speaking as one having been on the receiving end--so to speak).

And circumcision certainly is child abuse. I didn't read all the posts, but am I the only one here present who has actually been at a non-medical circumcision? By this I mean where the butchery is "performed" by a largely untrained, but religious individual? Well I have. I was in a cult at the time, and present when my son, eight days old, was (against MY wishes) strapped tight, hands and feet, to a "circumstraint" and his foreskin cut into, with a surgical knife, WITH NO ANESTHETIC WHATSOEVER.............. good GRIEF, how can anyone imagine that wouldn't be the most exquisite agony? Have any of you heard the horrific screaming and wailing that come from an infant so treated? Worse, were you the mother of that child who had to be held back from trying to prevent the continuation? Let me tell anyone ignorant of the facts that the pain they suffer is so great that the babies PASS OUT for several minutes only to regain consiousness and to experience it more and more and more....... It was one of the worst emotional agonies I've ever been through, and I think I still hate myself that I didn't have the courage to take him and flee when I knew it was going to happen and I couldn't convince his father otherwise.

Biology is kind with this sort of thing, though. The wounds heal, and the pain and terror are forgotten. At least, so it seems.

Having escaped that hell seven years ago now, my son is being raised as an atheist, and his father is still in the cult, worshiping Yahweh. Isn't that sad? No, me and my house, we most certainly do NOT serve the bloody "Lord." Geezus!

Circumcision--one more achievement of barbaric religious belief.