101. Better God-fearing than sneering

Comment #38690 by rokort on May 9, 2007 at 12:54 am

Another whiner that does what so many people do when confronted with something they don't understand or can't comprehend (or feel they do but are afraid to acknowledge): attack the messenger. Anything to avoid the real message.

"too often, it is only the churches which bother to comfort the lonely and the dying"

...and there's only lonely and dying people in countries with churches available on every corner, right? Or does she mean that after successfully destroying yet another culture by infesting their brains with a random God-idea like the one from Christians only then the leftovers of a victimized tribe can truly enjoy the comfort of religion? Try selling such message again to the thousands and thousands of abused altar boys I'd say. What a BS.

102. The New Atheists loathe religion far too much to plausibly challenge it

Comment #38215 by rokort on May 7, 2007 at 8:41 am

This is just another attempt to throw dust into the debate only to diverge the attention from what it's really about: that there's no higher power whatsoever and religion is dangerous and brutal.

Calling TGD a hysterical way of pushing a political agenda is -for me- proof that this lady doesn't want to talk about facts using deep reasoning. Probably because she doesn't know how or what Dawkins et al. put forward is too hard to swallow for her. Angst paralyses and makes one go into denial. O how she must have been hysterical when finding out Santa doesn't really exist..........poor ignorant soul. Dangerously ignorant though.

103. Richard Dawkins in the Time 100

Comment #37317 by rokort on May 4, 2007 at 4:35 am

From Behe's piece on the pro-intelligent-design blog site: Uncommon Descent, final paragraph (thanks to un_ko):
"The God Delusion, which deals more with philosophy than science, has been panned as amateurish by academic reviewers."

These kind of things always truly p**s me off. For example, this one seems just a freaking lie! Who are these "academics" then?
It's like saying "there are scientists that believe in ID too, you know", or "my grandfather lived to become 90 while smoking 2 packs a day, so who says smoking kills?"

It's posing a "general and accepted" view based on exceptions, something coming close to a false statement. This only to divide of course. Very un-intellectual. But, unfortunately, too many times they get away with this kind of reasoning because the scientific method: reasoning and deduction, (let alone mere facts) are unknown to too many people. Then you get this kind of hollow retorics, something religious folks are well trained experts in....

*sigh*

104. New Noah's Ark ready to sail

Comment #36057 by rokort on April 30, 2007 at 4:29 am

As some of the Dutch folks above i too feel ashamed and deeply embarrassed for the behaviour of my ignorant fellow citizen. I saw this guy in the news here in Holland some time ago, and in that perticular item he was portrayed as a curiosum, which he is of course. There's as much truth in the Ark of Noah story as in Little Red Cap's grandmother getting eaten by a wolf that then takes over grandma's role. Not to mention the other fairytailes you can substract from that "Truth for Dummies" book called The Bible.

Unfortunately curiosa keep attracting attention from people that think that something different is always special as well. Hence the CNN story. Don't forget roughly half the US thinks earth is just 6000 years old...

And in response to "Comment #35972 by k1mgy on April 29, 2007 at 3:47 pm";
I suppose you'll agree with me that "the rest" cannot be held responsible for the behaviour of one looney. Which means i'm ashamed, but because of the democratic system my freedom is his freedom too.