151. Rep. Davis: The Worst Person in the World

Comment #157281 by dragonfirematrix on April 8, 2008 at 8:21 pm

Mr. George W. Bush will probably want to award Rep. Davis with a metal of honors for her hate speech. Bush may even want her on the Supreme Court.

152. Richard Dawkins on The Big Questions

Comment #157272 by dragonfirematrix on April 8, 2008 at 8:00 pm

Considering all of the "my side is best" religious views from the debating audience, I say we have a very, very long way to go to achieving peace and mutual respect for differences on this planet. In fact, I will go so far as to say there never will be respect for differences, or peace.

As usual, Richard's point about proving with factual evidence remains an oasis of clarity, honesty, and thoughtful reasoning. However, I would venture to say that few in the debating audience would accept clear and factual evidence over their superstitions. Intolerance was evident as they showed considerable sensitivity responding to questions and comments about which I will only mention a couple (E.g. Islamic extremism and the Holocaust).

The Holocaust is fact, The Law of Evolution is fact, God is Imaginary is fact.

There were a couple of the debaters in the audience who were rather objective with their thoughts, but only a couple. I guess we all need to remember to be sensitive to the religious, else they might persecute us, burn us to death, cut our heads off, strap us to a dunking stool, mutilate certain body parts, or fly planes into our house. Yes indeed, I do agree with the right to insult.

Richard deserves a great deal of credit sitting calmly while the superstitious persons in the audience pretended to discuss humanity from their religious belief point of view.

Did I miss something, or was most of the debating audience made up of the typical bickering authoritarian classes of Abrahamics religionists. I do not recall hearing from the Wicca, Buddhists, or Hindu. I think the fire spewing Baptists were mentioned a couple of times. Please help me out here :)

Like I said… Planet Earth has a very, very long way to go.

153. Richard Dawkins: 'Growth in creationist beliefs a problem for schools'

Comment #156552 by dragonfirematrix on April 7, 2008 at 8:06 pm

I live in America. In fact, I am about six miles from Liberty University, pretending to be an institution of higher learning that teaches the planet is only 6000 years old.

In my opinion, we have a grave problem in the United States. We have religionists trying to push their beliefs into everything being taught to young people.

America is loosing its edge in everything. The GOP is controlled by the religious nuts, and the Democratic Party appears obligated to acknowledge religion. Both, of course, are wrong.

Religion will be America's undoing.

154. Get out of here, atheists!

Comment #156544 by dragonfirematrix on April 7, 2008 at 7:35 pm

What a lunatic!

Rep. Monique Davis (D-Chicago),

Your feeble minded, archaic thoughts probably have some difficultly climbing out of the cesspool of religion, but I will play your game for a moment, but only for a moment.

From this article is a quote of madness, which is: "What you have to spew and spread is extremely dangerous . . . it's dangerous for our children to even know that your philosophy exists!"

Your comment was aimed at Atheists, but I suggest you should be pointing your verbal gun at religionists.

Rep. Monique Davis (D-Chicago). I am playing with your god right now. Maybe you should evaluate the evil your great and (so called) wonderful god has imposed on the masses of this Earth. Maybe now would be a good time to list a few of the terrible things your god has caused (if, of course, you believe in god):

1) Decease
2) Discrimination
3) War
4) Starvation
5) Oppression
6) Neglect
7) Natural disasters
8) All kinds of suffering
9) Murder

The above are a few of the things your god does to children.

Rep. Monique Davis (D-Chicago), maybe you would like to explain to all of us why your god does such evil things to children. Explain.

Rep. Monique Davis (D-Chicago). Atheists do have a right to speak to government, and from all appearances, I think the Atheists have a more positive messages than your god.

Rep. Monique Davis (D-Chicago). I am not near Chicago, but I support Democratic Party ideals. I question your democratic credentials. I believe you to be a ranting and raving religious lunatic. I suspect your job is in jeopardy with the next election. I hope you end-up in a line at a soup kitchen.

155. Biologists Take Evolution Beyond Darwin Way Beyond

Comment #156116 by dragonfirematrix on April 6, 2008 at 8:25 pm

The last sentences of the quote have special meaning. To quote that text:

""I think Darwin would be happy as a lark to come back and see what's going on," said Peter Bowler, co-author of Charles Darwin: The Man and His Influence. "He'd say, 'This is quite exciting!'""

I think Darwin would be proud and delighted with the achievements of science. Unlike religion, which stagnates, does not evolve, does not learn, and does not accept new knowledge, science continues to reach out to grasp and understand the deeper meanings of everything.

If it were not for science, we would not have cures for deceases, we would not have home/life comforts, we would not have safe food and drink, and on, and on, and on.

I tell challenging religious persons that science cured the scourge of child destroying polio. Then playing their game, I question their faith and I ask them to explain (and justify) why their god would create deceases to destroy the lives of so many innocent children? LONG PAUSE… I get a lot of dogma, but no intelligent answers.

Science rocks! As for evolution... well, it also rocks, and it is call The Law of Evolution.

I think Darwin would be delighted with the achievements of science.

156. Protests no concern for outspoken atheist

Comment #155789 by dragonfirematrix on April 5, 2008 at 8:16 pm

I think today is a good day to recite Psalm 23 (well at least my version of it).


PLASM 23 FOR THE NON-RELIGIOUS
__________________________________


Reason is my corner stone; I shall not yield.

Reason makes me learn to understand.

Reason leads me through the muck of religious waters.

Reason restores my mind.

Reason leads me down the path of honesty for reason's sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the Abrahamic religions of death, I will fear no evil, for truth and reason art with me.

Reason, education, and free thought protect me.

Reason on the table before me will defeat my enemies.

Reason organizes my mind with clear thought; my humanity will forever blossom.

Surely, reason and science shall enhance me for all the days of my life, and I will live peacefully (and comfortably) without religion forever.

157. Dawkins warns of human extinction

Comment #155558 by dragonfirematrix on April 4, 2008 at 8:54 pm

It is just my opinion, but...

As I watch the results of religion around the world, I cannot help but agree that religion is the problem and not part of the solution.

158. Cult leader Pyotr Kuznetsov tries suicide after realising he was wrong about doomsday

Comment #154851 by dragonfirematrix on April 3, 2008 at 8:10 pm

Pyotr Kuznetsov, I hate to disillusion you further, but the planet will not end at the hands of any god.

However, those people of fanatical religions, like the Abrahamic religions, are working overtime everyday trying to make your dream come true. Please be patient. Your wish may yet come true.

159. Anti-gay Okla. lawmaker attracts 1,000 backers

Comment #154840 by dragonfirematrix on April 3, 2008 at 7:50 pm

Oh! Another bible thumping radical from the GOP. Nothing new for the radicalized GOP conservatives.

I wonder if Sally would personally execute those who do not conform to her bible's nonsense.

Sally, the people who were killed on 911 were not killed by gays or terrorists. They were killed by religion.

Maybe Pat Condell will one day address the lunatic fringe (religious right) of America.

160. Pastor attacks scientist's talk

Comment #154834 by dragonfirematrix on April 3, 2008 at 7:28 pm

So... Robertson thinks things unbalanced, huh.

Quote from article: "Author and pastor David Robertson said he was concerned the event, hosted by the UHI Millennium Institution (UHI) in Inverness, would not be balanced."

Personally, I am concerned that religion is never balanced. With religion, there is always only one right side of the debate, which is their side.

I say all churches be required to (every Sunday) have speakers who do not believe in gods, so we can balance the sermons (propaganda) fed to mind-numbed believers.

Churches should be required (every Sunday) to balance their rhetoric by having Atheists, Secular Humanists, real scientists, and a host of other non-believers to speak at church services.

I suspect if my will was implmented, Robertson not argue about balance again?

161. BBC 'too scared to allow jokes about Islam'

Comment #154179 by dragonfirematrix on April 2, 2008 at 7:57 pm

If the main stream media fails, Pat Condell will correct the problem.

162. Thy will be done

Comment #154173 by dragonfirematrix on April 2, 2008 at 7:44 pm

To me, this is one of those senseless debates like the "one nation under god" debate in the pledge of allegiance.

We do not have to pray. We do not have to bow our heads. We do not have to close our eyes. We do not have to say Amen. We do not have to claim belief in a god. If our opposition does not like it, they will just have to get over it.

Oh, by the way… when I say the pledge of allegiance, I loudly replace "one nation under god" with "one nation of many different people."

163. BBC 'too scared to allow jokes about Islam'

Comment #154162 by dragonfirematrix on April 2, 2008 at 7:25 pm

FightingFalcon,

I like your comment quoted below:

"Comment #154132 by FightingFalcon on April 2, 2008 at 6:23 pm
There's definitely something to be said about being too religiously tolerant. We're so desperate to be tolerant of everyone that we're now slowly allowing the death of free expression."

If I may add an old phrase, which I think applies here: "if you give them an inch, they will take a mile."

If we cave in to being sensitive to the religious, they will run us down.

164. CEAI Action Alert for Science Teachers

Comment #154145 by dragonfirematrix on April 2, 2008 at 6:52 pm

Whenever I hear arguments a community is trying the push their various religous agendas against the teaching of evolution, I think of radical religious fundamentalists like those in the Middle East.

I am not a teacher or student, but I see no problem gathering as much empirical evidence as necessary for presentation in official proceedings.

Gather the documentation. It can only help further the cause of science and The Law of Evolution.

We need to fight the spread of Kansas.

Hail to the FSM.

165. Sean Carroll on the Today Program

Comment #154131 by dragonfirematrix on April 2, 2008 at 6:22 pm

I love the phrase "a leap of reason."

A lot of people on this planet need "a leap of reason."

166. Faith healing church parents charged over toddler's death

Comment #153702 by dragonfirematrix on April 1, 2008 at 9:28 pm

"The Followers of Christ has its origins in the Pentecostal movement of the late 19th century."

I aspire to be a very tolerant person, however... I will not tolerate hurting children.

Neanderthals (Islamic or Christians) have no free place in a thinking society. Neanderthals should be dealt with as one would deal with dangerous animals in a zoo.

167. Supreme Court to consider Ten Commandments vs. 'Seven Aphorisms'

Comment #153697 by dragonfirematrix on April 1, 2008 at 9:05 pm

Ah... as religion blossoms beautifully into a toxic plant...

We have Christians in America, who want government to enforce their religious symbols in public places, and push their beliefs in public arenas (E.g. - courts, schools, work, etc.)

I have been longing for the confrontation with this dilemma to begin, which, if left unchecked, will only increase and complicate the problem over time. This toxic plant will grow and regress the free world into a bunch of bickering, violent denominations (sects) of Neanderthals (please see Islam for examples). No matter which road the 2008 American court takes, the reality is probably going to be: "Huston, we have problem." My special thanks go to Mr. George W. Bush for all he has contributed to this GD problem.

Other religions want the same treatment from the government enabling them to display their religious symbols in public arenas. I want the Secular Humanist message displayed along side of government approved Christian monuments. I am sure Humanists would also like recognition, as would the Wicca, the Atheists, the Zeusists, the Neptunists, and (ooooh) the Venusists, and others. If America really believes in the "freedom of religion," why are not the beliefs of others that differ from Christianity given equal time?

Okay, U.S. Supreme (whatever) court, it is your turn to chatter.

So…

Only now, when it is possibly too late to change course, might the religious fanatics of America understand the reason for the Separation of Church and State. Then again, it is not likely they will ever understand.

I offer my condolences to the pushy religious of America for starting this problem in our free (for now) country.

The law should require religion to be a private family matter.

168. Vote on freedom of expression marks the end of Universal Human Rights

Comment #153010 by dragonfirematrix on March 31, 2008 at 9:00 pm

I believe in being tolerant. I believe most people who mean well are tolerant. However, my tolerance ends when it comes to being tolerant of the religious, any of the religious.

If the planet does not adopt a policy of intolerance towards religion, the religious will destroy absolutely everything and they will kill every non-believer man, women, and child in the name of their god.

Why are freethinking nations letting the horrors implemented by the religious become a reality?

169. Vatican: Islam surpasses Roman Catholicism as world's largest religion

Comment #152988 by dragonfirematrix on March 31, 2008 at 7:58 pm

To quote a segment from the article: "It is true that while Muslim families, as is well known, continue to make a lot of children,"

Just a few of rambling ideas about this topic...

1) Making more babies has to be the ONLY way Islam will grow. They have to bear and indoctrinate their own babies just to increase their membership. Otherwise, why would any person in their right mind voluntarily want to become Islamic?

2) With all the hate and violence that Islam commits upon its own people (even children), they still have to replenish their population to replace the population they are killing.

3) The more babies they have, the more people their religion gets to oppress, and the more women their religion gets to mutilate.

170. My quest to get de-baptised

Comment #152983 by dragonfirematrix on March 31, 2008 at 7:41 pm

I would think that being de-baptised would only require that we decide to change our stand publically on everything. For example: moving from the republican party to the democratic party; going from a born-again idiot to realizing that we are only born once; from tithing into a loosing plate to putting our money in the growing 401k; simple stuff.

A simple public change of views is all it should take to be de-baptised.

171. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #152350 by dragonfirematrix on March 30, 2008 at 7:16 pm

I just viewed the video "Fitna" by Geert Wilders on Google. I think we all agree the Islamic people are violently against humanity, and that the Islamic are beyond recovery.

I know we should aspire to being tolerant, to learning, to mingling, and to accepting differences, but a line must be drawn somewhere. Democracies will never peacefully co-exist with theocracies, and there is no greater affront to democracy than religion, particularly Islam.

The very idea that our president (for seven years) thinks that these Islamic heathens will convert to a peaceful democracy is the biggest pipedream in human history. Mr. Bush, are you familiar with the phrase "when pigs fly?" Please let me know the first moment you see a pig soaring over your head.

There is no separation of church and state in any part of Islamic life. These religious heathens breathe, eat, work, school, and live their god fantasy (delusion) every waking second of their lives. Reality is not an option. The Islamic are beyond recovery.

Strange thing is: We have Christians in our own country (America) with hateful attitudes toward freedom, democracy, civil liberties, civil rights, human rights, etc. We even have Christians thinking their child died because they (the parents) did not have enough faith, when the problem was identified a routinely, by science and medicine, curable decease. Again, reality is not an option. The Christians are also beyond recovery.

So…

What do we poor liberals, atheists, secularists, humanists, agnostics, and just plain freethinking people of reason do to save humanity? I mean, all we want to do is get thru Monday, make it to Friday, so we can have a fun filled weekend with our significant others. Do we just put on a condom and hope for protection from the god (pick one) fearing heathens while the fanatic faithful burn, bludgeon, torture, mutilate, behead, and drown us to death because we do not share their version of religion?

If we allow religions to continue to exist, we are proposing a plan for our own demise, and the demise of everyone else. We need a new plan, which is less tolerant of the Neanderthals of humanity. We need a plan soon because…

…Before it is over, the religious will be responsible for WWIII.

Last thing…

I hope Pat Condell does video on this. There is no one more qualified and more eloquently capable of hammering the affects of religious atrocities home.

172. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #152328 by dragonfirematrix on March 30, 2008 at 5:37 pm

If news and truth is pulled from the airways (or the Internet) every time a group becomes threatening, those very groups will trample all our freedoms.

We should not give in.

173. In His Name We Pray, Ramen

Comment #151972 by dragonfirematrix on March 29, 2008 at 7:55 pm

Please put the following quote from the Henderson article on a billboard near Liberty University. I suggest the high traffic area at the mall on Chandlers Mountain Road near the entrance to 460 East and 460 West.

"I think we can all look forward to the time when these three theories are given equal time in our science classrooms across the country, and eventually the world; One third time for Intelligent Design, one third time for Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, and one third time for logical conjecture based on overwhelming observable evidence."

I live in Forest, VA, about six miles from Liberty University. Kansas is not the only place where Neanderthals reside, however, some of us living here can still think.

174. I always aim to misbehave

Comment #151964 by dragonfirematrix on March 29, 2008 at 7:11 pm

PZ, you exposed the lies of the idiots in a most beautiful way. I venture to say I might not have been so cool about the whole thing.

In fact, if I may be so bold to less eloquently describe my way...

You gave those producers, who corner with the religious reich, a well deserved (and very professionally delivered, I might add) bitch-slapping.

Nice job!

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

Comment #151486 by dragonfirematrix on March 28, 2008 at 8:25 pm

Wait a minute! Wait a minute!

I have repeatedly heard that from the religious in the Forest/Lynchburg, VA, area that God does not make junk.

So...

What is the following quote from the article saying: "The remaining wing was built in 1855 and housed mentally ill patients who were deemed insane."

The quote is saying that the Christian god is proven to make junk. That makes this god incompentent and not worthy of being followed.

Personally, I want a god who knows what he/she/it is doing :) Since science comes closer to the facts and truth than any god, I choose science.

176. 'We Make Our Own Heaven'

Comment #151480 by dragonfirematrix on March 28, 2008 at 8:09 pm

In response to: 57. Comment #151477 by Frankus1122 on March 28, 2008 at 8:04 pm

Your point is very well taken. Right now, sites like the RD network is where I find friends with whom to exchange ideas and beliefs.

You are right. I have a group to chat with, even if we do not get to meet.

Thanks,

Wayne

177. 'We Make Our Own Heaven'

Comment #151473 by dragonfirematrix on March 28, 2008 at 7:58 pm

Well, I don't think meeting on Sundays has any special meaning, but as a Secular Humanist who lives in Forest, VA, it sure would be nice to gather with like minded free-thinking people (any day of the week), enjoy the groups company, maybe enjoy food and drink together, and engage in intelligent conversations.

Like I said, I live in Forest, VA, which is about six miles from Jerry Falwell's University of Neanderthals, where truth and reality are rejected.

It sure would be nice (for a change) to meet some people who have an IQ.

178. Fossil find could be Europe's first humans

Comment #150954 by dragonfirematrix on March 27, 2008 at 7:12 pm

Very interesting article...

Science is working very hard to bring the truth of our existence to humanity.

Religion is working very hard to propagate lies about our existence to humanity.

WHY DO WE TOLERATE THE RELIGIOUS?

I also read a post from a fellow member (quoted below), and I followed a link to a video the member provided. In my mind, the school children in the video are being brainwashed by the church and their parents, and our government is permitting this to happen. It sent a chilling feeling up my spine.

"------------------------------------------------
11. Comment #150676 by esuther on March 27, 2008 at 8:45 am

This video was posted on Alternet today. It shows Creationist teachers taking school kids to the Denver Museum for a debunking tour of the "theory" of evolution. Frightening, really.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/#80595
------------------------------------------------"

THIS BRAINWASHING OF CHILDREN BY THE RELIGIOUS IN AMERICA IS INDEED "frightening."

179. Expelled from Expelled: PZ story goes global

Comment #150434 by dragonfirematrix on March 26, 2008 at 10:38 pm

I think it is past time for we non-religious to start thumping our views all over the Earth.

We have a message that is good. We have a message that is correct. We have a message that is honest. We have a message that is backed by scientific proof.

WE ARE A POSITIVE FORCE FOR HUMANITY, WE ARE NOT RELIGIOUS.

180. Saudi Arabia Leader Calls for Interfaith Dialogue

Comment #150429 by dragonfirematrix on March 26, 2008 at 10:26 pm

I do not care what the faithful of any religion says...

...there will be no peace until religion is dead and is purged from the minds of humankind.

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

Comment #150426 by dragonfirematrix on March 26, 2008 at 10:10 pm

The parents of this child should be arrested, put on trial, and given death sentences for what they did to their child.

Religion is sick.

The mind of the religious is a sick state of being, but this sickness should not be excused as an insanity defense. The parents should be made to pay the ultimate price for their stupidity.

Why is the BS happening in the 21st century? Why is it being tolerated?

182. Happy Birthday, Richard Dawkins!

Comment #150423 by dragonfirematrix on March 26, 2008 at 9:59 pm

Happy B-Day Richard. Enjoy!

May you have many many more!

Wayne (Forest, VA)

183. Sue Blackmore debates Alister McGrath

Comment #149531 by dragonfirematrix on March 25, 2008 at 9:00 pm

I never heard Susan Blackmore speak before, but she is already now one of my Favorites.

Wayne (Forest, VA)

184. The death-of-god debate

Comment #148984 by dragonfirematrix on March 24, 2008 at 8:37 pm

Right out the gate…there is no Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, Tooth Fairy, god, or devil.

If today I ran around saying that I saw a dead man, (lets say Ronald Reagan to stir the vengeance of the religious right), come to life, but all I had was my word and no empirical evidence, what kind of reception would I get?

1) Area 51 is hiding something.
2) Faith Healers have cured all human deceases.
3) The Earth was created in five days, not six.
4) I saw George Bush walking on water today.
5) Jesus has just fed all the staring children in Africa. There is no more hunger.
6) We should pray for the war that ends the Earth. The Christian god will save us.
7) Give me $1,000 dollars and the Christian god will cure your amputation.

I think we know what kind of reception I would get, if I told drunken stories like these. Even the religious would call me a loon.

That said...

Just like there is no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny, "He is risen" is just more mind degenerating BS for the unsuspecting children of America (and elsewhere).

Why do we, as a claimed intelligent educated nation, permit the religious to commit such blatant acts of fraud and out-right dishonesty against society without putting them away to punishment?

185. Discussion on PZ Myers being expelled from Expelled

Comment #148966 by dragonfirematrix on March 24, 2008 at 7:26 pm

This was a great discussion between Richard and PZ. The incident all goes to prove how quickly a country professing democracy could degenerate into a cauldron of hate.

We non-religious should be getting at least as much mainstream media time as the American religious nut-balls, who peddle their fraudulent propaganda upon us daily in the US. We need people like PZ, the fabulous-four, and others like them on prime-time television.

America needs enlightenment. Indeed, the planet needs enlightenment.

Wayne (Forest, VA)

186. Discussion on PZ Myers being expelled from Expelled

Comment #148393 by dragonfirematrix on March 22, 2008 at 9:18 pm

Great discussion!

I think the names of those who violated the rights of the non-religious should be posted on the Internet for all to see.

It is also past time for we non-believers to flood the media and government with the truth. There has to be a way for we non-believers to get the intelligence of people like PZ, Sam, Richard, and others out to the people in the daily main-stream media. THERE HAS TO BE A WAY.

187. Biology prof expelled from screening of 'Expelled'

Comment #147990 by dragonfirematrix on March 21, 2008 at 6:10 pm

I wonder how embarrassed the movie management will be when they find this spreading all over the internet :) Maybe even some of it with audio/video taken by hidden camcorders...who knows...could be...

We need to start a whole new Internet world for the religious, and lets call it U-Bube.

188. EXPELLED!

Comment #147982 by dragonfirematrix on March 21, 2008 at 5:52 pm

This is very funny.

I cannot wait to hear what Richard has to say.

189. God's cure for gays lost in sin

Comment #147131 by dragonfirematrix on March 19, 2008 at 9:55 pm

Religion is sick.

190. Jesus saves

Comment #147125 by dragonfirematrix on March 19, 2008 at 9:40 pm

So, from what does Jesus (and other gods) save us?

I guess history is replete with the horrors of religious beliefs carried out against the innocent who did not believe in the approved gods of the times. "Acts against god," which resulted in beheadings, or being burned to death alive.

Jesus does not save. There are no gods saving anyone. We must save ourselves from ourselves and from our obviously unforgiving natural environment.

I get agitated every time some goon says… JESUS SAVES!

We have natural disasters killing everyone regardless of their religious and non-religious beliefs, we have decease killing everyone regardless their religious and non-religious beliefs, we have wars killing people regardless their religious and non-religious beliefs, we have unfortunate accidents killing people regardless their religious and non-religious beliefs. NOW, if the religious believe their god created everything and if the religious believe their god controls everything then the religious must approve of their god's actions against even the most innocent (including innocent children) of humanity.

MY OPINION: Science has done more, in its relatively short history, to save and help people than all the religions combined have ever done. Science has done wonders to cure childhood deceases like polio, and more.

God(s) do not save anyone from anything because gods do not exist. That said: Why do the intelligent of humanity continue to allow the psychology of religious beliefs to rule the Earth?

191. Atheists claim censorship by billboard company

Comment #146259 by dragonfirematrix on March 18, 2008 at 8:46 pm

This is the age of technology, or at least so we think now.

We need to create our own signs, magnetics for vehicles, bumper stickers, etc.

We should not wait for the authorities to recognize we non-believers. We should go around these religious authorities and create our own displays.

192. First 'Rule' Of Evolution Suggests That Life Is Destined To Become More Complex

Comment #146253 by dragonfirematrix on March 18, 2008 at 8:26 pm

To quote the title of this article…

"First 'Rule' Of Evolution Suggests That Life Is Destined To Become More Complex"

Well…

I think this is going to be the hardest thing with which the religious have to deal, especially since they have not evolved for quite some time.

Again, quoting the article…

"Sooner or later, however, you reach a level of complexity where it's possible to go backwards and become simpler again."

I think the religious are already regressing, and they are trying to require the rest of us to do the same.

As for me, I am sixty, which means I am on my way to being extinct anyway, but I will not first regress.

193. Religious groups want Russian cartoon channel shut down

Comment #146227 by dragonfirematrix on March 18, 2008 at 7:46 pm

I think this whole religion thing is a mess.

One article (presumably supported by the religious) claiming the religious are happier people than the non-religious people, and this article demonstrating how unhappy and complaining the religious are about... even CARTOONS!

If I remember correctly, the Christians in America complained up to the eyeballs about Sponge Bob. I believe there was also much fanatic discontent over "Harry Potter," "The Compass," "South Park," and I am sure more. I kinda vaguely remember some fuss over the Smurfs, whom I dearly love. OMG, I almost forgot the flap over "The Little Mermaid."

I offer the following television standard lesson plan written expressly for the religious:

LESSON ONE (3 credit hours): "The Channel Changer Made Simple"

LESSON TWO (3 credit hours): "The Power-Off Button And How It Really Works"

Remedial classes are also available. Tutoring will cost more. Evening labs are also offered.

194. Religion 'linked to happy life'

Comment #146207 by dragonfirematrix on March 18, 2008 at 6:59 pm

A guess the religious are saying a theocracy would make us all be so bubbly happy we would not be able to contain our expressions of joy.

Then again...

I wonder just how happy people, oppressed by religion, really are? Not only this, but if the religious are so happy, why do they hate so much stuff and why do they fuss so much about what other people privately do?

Happiness is no religion at all.

195. New Atheists Are Not Great

Comment #145623 by dragonfirematrix on March 17, 2008 at 8:07 pm

Below a quote to which I have a response.

"He describes how Christian principles of free choice and human dignity laid the groundwork for democratic political systems built on inalienable human rights. They inspired free markets in economics and intellectual pursuit."

Please do not be offended by the "all-caps" text below. It is not intended to be yelling text but, it is "all-caps" to distinguish my response. :)

IF THE CHRISTIANS ARE SO INTERESTED IN FREE CHOICE, WHY DO NOT THEY SUPPORT FREE CHOICE (EQUAL RIGHTS) FOR GAYS, LESBIANS, WOMEN, LIBERALS, ETC?

THE CHRISTIANS ONLY GIVE LIP SERVICE TO FREE CHOICE. CHRISTIANS LIE WHEN THEY SAY THEY SUPPORT FREE CHOICE.

I do not feel that it is necessary for me to justify further. I am certain all thinkers understand.

196. They prayed to cast Satan from my body

Comment #145617 by dragonfirematrix on March 17, 2008 at 7:44 pm

I see The Dark Age Neanderthalistic mentality of religion still breeds. For the sake of all humanity, we must find a cure for religion.

197. Full house captivated by atheist Dawkins' take on religion

Comment #143991 by dragonfirematrix on March 14, 2008 at 8:02 pm

Thanks Richard.

You are doing the Earth a great service by bringing the truth about science and god(s) to humanity.

Now, if we can only get humanity to accept the truth and realize that god(s) are a creation of humankind.

198. Bishop accuses gays of 'conspiracy' against the Catholic Church

Comment #143270 by dragonfirematrix on March 13, 2008 at 8:02 pm

A pattern (of the religious) formed a long time ago.

The religious almost constantly complain about a conspiracy against them all the while persecuting others for one thing or another.

Maybe if the religious would just stop trying to send everyone they hate to hell, we could all live together in peace and harmony.

199. Ban anti-Catholic books in schools, says bishop

Comment #143266 by dragonfirematrix on March 13, 2008 at 7:40 pm

Oh, the purity of the judgmentally of the religious...

The religious answer to nearly everything seems to be...

Ban this, ban that, ban everything.

So, if we ban everything, the planet will be a better place??? ...right?

200. Deadly Sins 101

Comment #143246 by dragonfirematrix on March 13, 2008 at 6:31 pm

This is a sin, that is a sin, everything is a sin...

The only thing evolving in religion is the list of things the religious hate, and the list of people the religious want to persecute.

I wonder how many people throughout history have been severely punished, or put to death, by religion for failing to follow the little black books of mandates.

Let us start calling religion a sin.