101. Christian Founders 3D Adventure Computer Game

Comment #153197 by Prankster on April 1, 2008 at 7:36 am

oh sweet mercy...when's it getting "converted" to Xbox360 or PS3?

Tripe....utter tripe

102. My quest to get de-baptised

Comment #152676 by Prankster on March 31, 2008 at 10:30 am

Are leaving the catholic faith, non attendance at church services and not taking holy communion grounds for instant ex-communication or is the process more formalized than that......?


Oh hell!!!!

So I might still "be" a catholic then?-say it ain't so Brothers and Sisters!

103. My quest to get de-baptised

Comment #152590 by Prankster on March 31, 2008 at 8:41 am

I'd side with Bonzai (posting no 49)on this 'un

"De-Baptising", if there is such an expression, may not be a formal rite or ceremony-simply stop attending as the faith needs you more than you need it and tell people you are an atheist-easy!

Complaining to the Church Hierachy seems to be doing you no good so do what I did-leave.

Tallywhackers?

Oh...! The expression was used in the "Porky's Film wasn't it?

104. 'We Make Our Own Heaven'

Comment #151365 by Prankster on March 28, 2008 at 2:53 pm

Happy-clappy humanist/atheists......life just gets stranger don't it folks?

Scary thought is the way it's reported it's almost making it sound like a cult.

105. Iowa county board gives initial OK for ghost hunters to investigate asylum

Comment #151360 by Prankster on March 28, 2008 at 2:48 pm

Just tell them to be careful with the proton packs and not to cross the streams......

106. Police: Girl Dies After Parents Pray for Healing Instead of Seeking Medical Help

Comment #151248 by Prankster on March 28, 2008 at 10:12 am

Just read the postings by epeeist and the links contained within

Verily are these deluded people or what?

Makes me heave it really does and has me wondering if this type of abuse is just the tip of a very very big iceberg....

When the end of days comes and the rapture happens *yawn* do you think that these are the type of people who god (who doesn't really exist)would want bothering him for all eternity?

Fuck that I'd be heading for hell just for some peace and quiet

107. Religion is Hard

Comment #151236 by Prankster on March 28, 2008 at 9:47 am

Brilliant-just brilliant-lets applaud Marcus for this and wonder what would the world be like with out religion to mess things up-the last 2000 years would be peaceful (largely) and mankind/humankind could have achieved so much more....

108. Police: Girl Dies After Parents Pray for Healing Instead of Seeking Medical Help

Comment #150715 by Prankster on March 27, 2008 at 9:53 am

These parents need shaking-preferably by the throat and screamed at that in no uncertain terms that THEY not god or religion allowed their daughter to die

These people!

*bangs head against wall in frustration*

109. Police: Girl Dies After Parents Pray for Healing Instead of Seeking Medical Help

Comment #150709 by Prankster on March 27, 2008 at 9:39 am

Double Bass Atheist

Glad you're ok-sorry for the delay in replying-know what you mean about extra BS at work-this story and others like it are the icing on the shitty cake of life...

Stories like this give me a hankering to punch some fucker's lights out they really do

Incidentally my out of warranty XBOX360 has died-you don't think a quick prayer might sort it out......?

No probably not

110. Police: Girl Dies After Parents Pray for Healing Instead of Seeking Medical Help

Comment #150142 by Prankster on March 26, 2008 at 1:45 pm

Steveroot

Thanks for that-

Prankster

111. Police: Girl Dies After Parents Pray for Healing Instead of Seeking Medical Help

Comment #150123 by Prankster on March 26, 2008 at 1:20 pm

Truly depressing night on this thread-anyone heard from Double Bass Atheist-I know he was pissed off over this?

Hope he/she is ok?

112. Gay scientists isolate Christian gene

Comment #150121 by Prankster on March 26, 2008 at 1:17 pm

Brilliant!

Anyone catch the snippets underneath?
"Alcoholic queues up for seconds at holy communion"

Reminds me of the old BBC2 series "The Day Today"

113. Saudi Arabia Leader Calls for Interfaith Dialogue

Comment #150107 by Prankster on March 26, 2008 at 1:07 pm

Comment 150084 by b0ltzm0n

Not sure what that means or how it sounds however no offense intended *gulp*

114. Police: Girl Dies After Parents Pray for Healing Instead of Seeking Medical Help

Comment #150094 by Prankster on March 26, 2008 at 12:58 pm

phil rimmer

*wipes tears of mirth from eyes* an enlightened church might be a good idea but if they can't recruit or indoctrinate they eventually go to the wall surely?

Might be a good thing actually-I'd plump for the legal framework to be put in place to stop religious indoctrination from a young age and combine it with children making an informed choice prior to leaving school-anything to prevent religious indoctrination and hopefully preventing future fuck-ups like this from happening

Sorry for intemperate language but sometimes swearing is the only option

115. Saudi Arabia Leader Calls for Interfaith Dialogue

Comment #150077 by Prankster on March 26, 2008 at 12:44 pm

Hey!

Leave the Trekkies alone-they are harmless (well mostly-apart from the ones who have learned to speak Klingon-they're are the real nutters)

116. Police: Girl Dies After Parents Pray for Healing Instead of Seeking Medical Help

Comment #150067 by Prankster on March 26, 2008 at 12:29 pm

phil rimmer

The trouble is children will be allowed in churches (and mosques and temples)so that vampire preists and vicars can get em while they are young and impressionable-I stopped going after my catholic confirmation (around 11 yrs old-boy that was hoot) and never went back until my late mothers funeral some 6 years ago-also as an aside I thought Sunday schools provided the sort of service you mention in your posting-I may be wrong but I never went....

I'd still give children religious schooling but from the age of say 14 onwards ask them to make an informed choice regarding religion and whether they wish to carry on in whatever faith they've been schooled or discard it altogether

117. Police: Girl Dies After Parents Pray for Healing Instead of Seeking Medical Help

Comment #150023 by Prankster on March 26, 2008 at 12:03 pm

Have to agree with phil rimmer on his last point but can't see any Muslim groups agreeing to legislation such as this let alone any branch or offshoot of the Xtian faith-they'd be screaming about human rights abuses just putting the idea to them surely?

118. Police: Girl Dies After Parents Pray for Healing Instead of Seeking Medical Help

Comment #150012 by Prankster on March 26, 2008 at 11:53 am

Sad as it is Double Bass Atheist I wouldn't let it bum you out- the parents will go through life knowing full well the lack of action fully contributed to the daughters death not some misguided perceived lack of faith on their part-just rewards I think and punishment enough-for now or until they are proescuted-fuck 'em anyway.....

119. Police: Girl Dies After Parents Pray for Healing Instead of Seeking Medical Help

Comment #149943 by Prankster on March 26, 2008 at 10:50 am

bastards......

120. Police: Girl Dies After Parents Pray for Healing Instead of Seeking Medical Help

Comment #149924 by Prankster on March 26, 2008 at 10:36 am

Double Bass Athiest

Thanks for the links-truly sickening aren't they?

All those lives wasted because of "faith in the lord" and religious poisoning

Can't be a god cause he/she/it wouldn't allow this level of suffering surely?-just proves god is a bastard after all

121. Police: Girl Dies After Parents Pray for Healing Instead of Seeking Medical Help

Comment #149917 by Prankster on March 26, 2008 at 10:29 am

Sorry 7Fred7 but the fact they prayed for the child to live while actually watching the poor kid waste and die says neglect to me, faith or lack of it notwithstanding.

Saying religion is the guilty party is wrong. I feel the parents are still to blame and to that end should be charged.

Maybe they'll take comfort from the fact their daughter may be resurrected some time soon-but I ain't holding my breath

122. Police: Girl Dies After Parents Pray for Healing Instead of Seeking Medical Help

Comment #149890 by Prankster on March 26, 2008 at 10:17 am

I was intending to stop coming to this site but skimming the discussions and seeing stuff such as this makes my blood fucking freeze-surely the "parents" have to be charged with manslaughter, if not then negligence?

The power of prayer eh? Partway into the 21st century and people die cause of religion and superstition-fucking tragic......

123. Does God answer prayer? ASU research says 'yes'

Comment #148441 by Prankster on March 23, 2008 at 4:55 am

Sorry to interrupt, but does anyone know how to delete themselves from this forum?

Time and personal circumstances mean I can't participate as much as I want to, and any access in the near future may be non-existent-any help would be appreciated, instead of my thrashing around in the control panel settings

TTFN

Prankster

124. Fleabytes

Comment #148174 by Prankster on March 22, 2008 at 8:39 am

Pathfinder
A misnomer if ever there was (you are clearly lost)are you saying that H-Bombs and Lesbianism/Homosexuality and Communism is down to atheism? WTF eh?

So what's your point?

I assume you do have one because if not you're a pretty poor specimen of what religion does to people-by the way (and I may be off beam here) but I thought being gay was down to a genetic determination at conception?-one doesn't become gay simply because of atheism you idiot

Your spoiling my easter egg munching session-please go away

125. Fleabytes

Comment #147745 by Prankster on March 21, 2008 at 7:25 am

Amazing.......you go away for a fortnight and come back online to find this thread seems to have taken on a life of it's own-truly this is evolution at work-wonderful, just wonderful......

126. The Salamander's Tale

Comment #139235 by Prankster on March 5, 2008 at 10:57 am

SRWB

January 1st is so obviously out as he'd be recovering from New Years Eve 4005 BC surely?
Or does the duck billed platypus disprove this-he must have been blind drunk when he created it or was it deliberately done to fuck with our heads?

127. The Salamander's Tale

Comment #139230 by Prankster on March 5, 2008 at 10:42 am

Maybe he was getting in a early start as he wanted to create everything on Thursday the 25th?

That way he gets a long weekend until he tells pesky humankind to keep Sunday as a day of rest-also the clocks go back then around the end of October so he could go out on Halloween when it was dark enough for trick or treating?

128. The Salamander's Tale

Comment #139226 by Prankster on March 5, 2008 at 10:36 am

Taxi for Wooter?

129. The Salamander's Tale

Comment #139222 by Prankster on March 5, 2008 at 10:28 am

Reverend....remind me not to drink or eat whilst looking at your postings. Computer keyboards and frothy cold beer tend not to mix very well-hilarious as ever-speaking of "ladyparts" has Wooter replied at all? No? oh well.....

130. The Salamander's Tale

Comment #139215 by Prankster on March 5, 2008 at 10:15 am

Mitchell

Are you referring to the dates in comment 284 By Tyler?

Why worry we know they are not the slightest bit correct-mind you if Wooter has disappeared to check his calendar and disappears for the next few hours then that's a blessing surely?

131. The Salamander's Tale

Comment #139208 by Prankster on March 5, 2008 at 10:00 am

That's why the date I mentioned was so vivid in my mind! of course some theologian added the begats and lifespans of all the characters in the Bibble.

Very obviously the work of someone with far too much time on their hands.....

Of course "goddidit" seems to be the magical panacea/placebo for Wooter and the Ker-azy wacky world he inhabits.

132. The Salamander's Tale

Comment #139194 by Prankster on March 5, 2008 at 9:26 am

Wooter for the love of whatever Deity you may profess to worship and know the mind of just ANSWER THE BASTARD QUESTION!

When did he/she/it create the world and everything on and in it?

Sorry to be blunt but it's my Scouse nature

133. The Salamander's Tale

Comment #139187 by Prankster on March 5, 2008 at 9:13 am

Oh boy...10 hours to go before my holiday, I log back on to check progress on the threads and posts and Lo! wooter doth return....

Wasn't the earth created back around 4004 bc according to an eminent 18th or 19th scientist/scholar fundamentalist religious nut?

I couldn't give you a firm date sorry but I'm assuming EVERYTHING ELSE was created around then?

That's a crock of shit obviously but this is wooter remember?

134. What's the Point of the Archbishop of Canterbury?

Comment #139041 by Prankster on March 5, 2008 at 4:13 am

Off changing my avatar-now realised it's scaring the fuck out of me and probably a few others....

Back on topic-the whole question of what is the point of the bish is? simple-money, religious power and acting as some committee appointed middleman telling you his version of what he thinks "GOD" is saying to us via his book of fairy-stories-like I said previously no need for this position of authority or power in this day and age

Someone posted a cracking quote on this forum ages ago along the lines of "when the last king is strangled by the entrails of the last priest, only then will man be free"-simply put the day religion dies will be the happiest day ever for mankind

135. What's the Point of the Archbishop of Canterbury?

Comment #139016 by Prankster on March 5, 2008 at 3:11 am

The point?

A single man holding on to a fast-fading outmoded form of dog-worship which has no place in modern 21st Britain-that's his function

It's a position and privilege that's no longer required

136. US Treaty with Tripoli

Comment #138439 by Prankster on March 4, 2008 at 10:17 am

I can see where the confusion lies-I would say "well regulated militia" is the qualification-

Hhowever would I be right in thinking that in times of crises or war militias (not a regular professional army)would be raised composed of people having weapons, therefore "their right to keep and bear arms would not be infringed" for the security of the state and this is the crux of the argument?

137. US Treaty with Tripoli

Comment #138431 by Prankster on March 4, 2008 at 10:05 am

I'm still wading through the constitution-other more mundane tasks permitting.My interpretation (and I may be wrong so please don't anyone tear me a new one) is that the only people who should be able to bear arms should be the militia (national guard, whatever, call it what you want)and no one else would be permitted-that was my interpretation......be back after I've read some more

138. US Treaty with Tripoli

Comment #138409 by Prankster on March 4, 2008 at 9:20 am

Maybe not aggression maybe you are frustrated with people not reading the US constitution,but previous posts by your good self with large black heavy typeface seem a little, shall we say, hectoring in tone?

That said I'll go back and read the damn thing

139. US Treaty with Tripoli

Comment #138398 by Prankster on March 4, 2008 at 9:05 am

For the sake of one word o.k I'll go and re-read it but I still stand by my original posting and it's content and context and you can reply as you see fit-I don't get your need to be overly assertive or aggressive over it

140. Hebrew University researcher: Moses was tripping at Mount Sinai

Comment #138391 by Prankster on March 4, 2008 at 9:02 am

So Moses was off his tits on hallucinogenics......always said religion was drug induced

Just picturing him now at a rave with his glowsticks in hand smashed on E's ha ha ha

141. US Treaty with Tripoli

Comment #138372 by Prankster on March 4, 2008 at 8:44 am

Just looking at the second amendment, surely it's one sentence? One sentence that essentially says "in order to maintain a free state a well ordered militia (the national guard,say) is necessary and to that end according to the grammar of the sentence)the only people who should have the right should be the national guard"

The argument can be further clarified by simply reversing the amendment to read the following "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, in order to maintain a well regulated militia"

This doesn't mean any Burl Cletus or Floyd has the right to carry a gun. It doesn't say every psycopathic nut-job in the States should be allowed to carry a weapon

Sorry to be picky but that's how I read it....

142. Church exhumes Padre Pio

Comment #138352 by Prankster on March 4, 2008 at 8:18 am

So his stigmata vanished before death,leaving no scarring-no evidence how convenient?

Wrestling with the Devil? How cool is that? Did he win by a submission or 3 falls and why wasn't it televised?

Faith head religious money spinning and money grabbing idolatorous garbage-put the poor fucker back in his tomb and leave him there, instead of pimping his corpse....

What a ghoulish fucked up religion catholicism is-so glad I don't follow it any more

143. Fleabytes

Comment #137884 by Prankster on March 3, 2008 at 2:43 pm

Bugger! someone got there before me....

144. Fleabytes

Comment #137867 by Prankster on March 3, 2008 at 2:37 pm

Quetz....good one

I was fearful of a nightout with Mr Robertson and the massed choirs of the FCOS being the main prize....*shudder*

145. US Treaty with Tripoli

Comment #137858 by Prankster on March 3, 2008 at 2:33 pm

Peacebeuponme

that was a bit off old chap-one would never address gentlemen that way.......La

146. Fleabytes

Comment #137849 by Prankster on March 3, 2008 at 2:28 pm

19 to go..what happens when we reach 3000 posts does the person posting get a prize?

It's so exciting...

147. US Treaty with Tripoli

Comment #137826 by Prankster on March 3, 2008 at 2:13 pm

Annabanana

Teased for saying "Y'all"?

Over here in the UK depending on your location and indeed even your dialect you could end up saying "you's" or "yez"

I wouldn't let it bother me...

148. Fleabytes

Comment #137815 by Prankster on March 3, 2008 at 1:54 pm

There is nothing limp about Prankster thank you!

Dividing my time between this thread waiting for hello or god to make an appearance (my money's on god by the way) as it's gone quiet on the theist front and watching a tv programme about Stephen Hawking.

Besides sometimes coming on here makes me feel like an intellectual midget in some respects so I tend to sit back and skim the threads more than anything

149. Fleabytes

Comment #137765 by Prankster on March 3, 2008 at 1:03 pm

Curious......not been here for a few days nearly 3000 posts on the one thread??? Incredible.....what's even more astounding to me at any rate is that god has still not turned up-any one been furnished with any proof or evidence yet?

Still waiting........*yawns and scratches his nuts in a bored fashion*

150. Turkey in radical revision of Islamic texts

Comment #136101 by Prankster on February 29, 2008 at 1:12 pm

Won't this cause in-fighting between the more moderate elements of Islam and the hardline hardcore fundamentalists?

Or will it actually work