Comments by irate_atheist

2251. The Transcendental Argument for God

Comment #89201 by irate_atheist on November 20, 2007 at 2:14 am

I loathe Barbie, as does my wife. Thankfully our son was born a boy.

Personally, I've never seen the fascination with playing with a leggy blonde with big fake plastic tits. Oh, hang on, let me think about that image for a minute...or two...or perhaps a bit longer.

2252. AAI 07 DVDs by RDFRS are Now Available!

Comment #88959 by irate_atheist on November 19, 2007 at 9:18 am

17. Comment #88953 by krisking -

Yes. It is called learning and science. May I read between the lines and deduce that you regard only theology as a valid subject?

Perhaps we should start appending our highest level of qualifications to our postings. Somehow I don't think you'd win that particular pissing contest on this particular thread.

Troll somewhere else.

2253. The Transcendental Argument for God

Comment #88914 by irate_atheist on November 19, 2007 at 6:55 am

458. Comment #88905 by Dianelos Georgoudis -

Good grief man! Did you accidentally plug yourself into the mains as a child?

Please, go and lie down in a dark room for an hour or two. You'll feel much better for it, trust me.

2254. The Transcendental Argument for God

Comment #88913 by irate_atheist on November 19, 2007 at 6:55 am

2255. The Transcendental Argument for God

Comment #88901 by irate_atheist on November 19, 2007 at 6:35 am

454. Comment #88892 by Dianelos Georgoudis-

...let me know if you'd like me to elaborate.

Don't, please don't. Seriously, I mean it.

2256. Malaysia firm's 'Muslim car' plan

Comment #88888 by irate_atheist on November 19, 2007 at 5:59 am

61. Comment #88298 by notbadfora human -

Some of us call, '...a dedicated space to keep a...headscarf', a head.

2257. The Transcendental Argument for God

Comment #88883 by irate_atheist on November 19, 2007 at 5:53 am

446. Comment #88879 by epeeist -

Latest odds for 'Loon of the year award':

6-4F Wea Flea
7-2 Dianelos Georgoudis
5-1 Shergar

Other contenders 20-1 bar

2258. The Transcendental Argument for God

Comment #88873 by irate_atheist on November 19, 2007 at 5:28 am

Latest scores on richarddawkins.net :

BillySands 3 - 0 Wea Flea

Veronique 2 - 0 CHeard

Richard Morgan 1 - 1 Everyone Else

Epeeist vs Dianelos Georgoudis cannot be stopped.

2259. The Transcendental Argument for God

Comment #88796 by irate_atheist on November 19, 2007 at 2:21 am

414. Comment #88777 by Dianelos Georgoudis -

Just give up. Really, give up. We all have access to your previous posts that are contradictory and full of incoherent blatherings. Give up.

Some of us actually have serious qualifications in the subjects you witter on about (or perhaps you don't regard Master's Degrees' in Engineering Sciences from Cambridge etc. as 'serious qualifications' in your ontological worldview?).

Give up.

Go and do something useful with your time and stop making a fool of yourself on these threads.

2260. Religious scholars mull Flying Spaghetti Monster

Comment #88793 by irate_atheist on November 19, 2007 at 2:12 am

Perhaps it's a good thing that nutjobs like these have theological colleges to go to. Think just how dangerous they could be if let out into the real world to do a real job.

I mean, imagine a country led by people who believe the shit that they do.

Oh, er...

2261. Saudi gang-rape victim is jailed

Comment #88790 by irate_atheist on November 19, 2007 at 2:07 am

Scum.

2262. Georgia gets rain, but it may not help

Comment #88788 by irate_atheist on November 19, 2007 at 2:04 am

If it weren't so sad it would be funny.

Perhaps these dunderheads will realise that the old myth of Noah's Ark is not such a nice story.

2263. The joining of church and state

Comment #88784 by irate_atheist on November 19, 2007 at 2:01 am

11. Comment #88737 by steveroot-

That's not Rudy's "hand" in his pocket...

2264. Georgia plans service to pray for rain

Comment #87823 by irate_atheist on November 13, 2007 at 9:09 am

Bell-end.

2265. Church row evolves over fossil boy

Comment #87813 by irate_atheist on November 13, 2007 at 8:12 am

Dear Bish -

I'll see your Garden of Eden and raise you one Atlantis and a Camelot.

What cards are you holding, Bish?

Sorry - my Minotaur beats your Grim Reaper. My round. Cards, dealer, please.

Kindest regards,

Irate Atheist

2266. The Transcendental Argument for God

Comment #87811 by irate_atheist on November 13, 2007 at 8:02 am

If a thousand monkeys with a thousand typewriters typed for a thousand years, they still couldn't create as much drivel as DG.

2267. Dr Bari: Government stoking Muslim tension

Comment #87808 by irate_atheist on November 13, 2007 at 7:53 am

May I just add that the first time I saw this article I misread it as 'Government stroking Muslim tension'.

I thought this was going a bit too far in pandering to the religious...

2268. Malaysia firm's 'Muslim car' plan

Comment #87807 by irate_atheist on November 13, 2007 at 7:45 am

Right. That's it. I am never, ever, buying a Proton. (Not that I would anyway, you understand?)

Companies that pamper to this sort of bronze age fuckwittery are not deserving of our custom.

2269. Georgia plans service to pray for rain

Comment #87804 by irate_atheist on November 13, 2007 at 7:41 am

Twat.

2270. A third of adults believe God watches over them

Comment #87745 by irate_atheist on November 13, 2007 at 2:48 am

Another poll showed that 5 out of 10 adults were below average intelligence...

2271. The Transcendental Argument for God

Comment #87484 by irate_atheist on November 12, 2007 at 8:51 am

197. Comment #87476 by Dianelos Georgoudis -

You have still not offered your evidence that the moon (or even simpler: the Statue of Liberty) objectively exists.

OK, we'll stand by and watch as you jump off the top of the statue. Objectively speaking, it's reasonable to assume that we'll walk away, once again having witnessed the effects of gravity in action, and you won't walk away at all.

Would that be objective enough proof for you? It would certainly satisfy me.

2272. The good that comes from belief

Comment #87390 by irate_atheist on November 12, 2007 at 2:39 am

Dear Mr Singleton,

I'll see your burning bush and divided seas, and raise you one Loch Ness monster and two Yeti. Now, what cards are you left holding?

Yours sincerely,

Irate Atheist

P.S. My 'Roswell Incident' trumps your 'Global Flood' due to the number of surviving witnesses.

2273. The Cancer From Within

Comment #87387 by irate_atheist on November 12, 2007 at 2:34 am

Dear Major Watties,

Institutionalised cruelty is one thing, but the twisted brain-wrong of a one-off man-mental is quite another.

Yours sincerely,

Irate Atheist

2274. Holy communion

Comment #87385 by irate_atheist on November 12, 2007 at 2:28 am

Dear Mr. Norman,

Bullshit is bullshit. Don't defend it.

Yours sincerely,

Irate Atheist

P.S May I strongly recommend that you don't take the piss out of Dawkins, Hitchens et al. They are part of the thin red line defending humanity from collective insanity. Not to mention the homophobic undertones in that indefensible cartoon.

2275. The Psychology Behind Cults/Religion

Comment #87380 by irate_atheist on November 12, 2007 at 2:12 am

10. Comment #87314 by octopus -

How many followers a cult needs to be called a religion?

Excellent question! When does collective insanity become respected?

2276. Dr Bari: Government stoking Muslim tension

Comment #87376 by irate_atheist on November 12, 2007 at 2:05 am

Dear Dr Bari,

Gnaaaar!!!!!!!!

Yours sincerely,

Irate Atheist

2277. Sir David Attenborough on God

Comment #87373 by irate_atheist on November 12, 2007 at 2:00 am

Praise the Lord for Sir David!!!

2278. Exorcism death shocks archdeacon

Comment #87372 by irate_atheist on November 12, 2007 at 2:00 am

"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
- Denis Diderot

Quick - has anyone got a king handy?

2279. Excerpt from 'The Portable Atheist'

Comment #87369 by irate_atheist on November 12, 2007 at 1:47 am

Boy, just how much do I want to buy the Hitch a beer.

2280. Those fanatical atheists

Comment #86457 by irate_atheist on November 9, 2007 at 9:33 am

132. Comment #86435 by Will in Aus -

Spot on. The numpties have all come out to play today. Please feel free to join me in saying a great big

fuck off

to them.

2281. Mother dies after refusing blood

Comment #86364 by irate_atheist on November 9, 2007 at 4:34 am

71. Comment #86077 by Philip1978 -

Well, OK, I don't go out of my way to condone it either.

2282. Losing faith in Quebec

Comment #86362 by irate_atheist on November 9, 2007 at 4:30 am

19. Comment #86361 by monoape

...and what was the reason?

That would be an ecumenical question.

2283. Richard Dawkins at AAI 07

Comment #86359 by irate_atheist on November 9, 2007 at 4:13 am

ADH -

You may still be curious to know why you cannot make us believe what you claim to be true. It's very simple:

Assertion in place of evidence, opinion in place of facts and imagination in place of reality.

We've heard it all before and we recognise it for what it is.

Have a good weekend, fellow primate.

2284. The Transcendental Argument for God

Comment #86348 by irate_atheist on November 9, 2007 at 3:04 am

103. Comment #86341 by epeeist -

Hey! Stop wasting good beer!

2285. Losing faith in Quebec

Comment #86313 by irate_atheist on November 9, 2007 at 1:32 am

Hey!

Preacher!

Leave them kids alone!!!!

2286. On Being Not Muslim Enough

Comment #86312 by irate_atheist on November 9, 2007 at 1:29 am

WTF?

2287. Richard Dawkins at AAI 07

Comment #86054 by irate_atheist on November 8, 2007 at 2:34 am

122. Comment #86034 by ADH -

I'm perfectly happy with natural selection as the means whereby God's intentions for each species were actualised...

In which case you clearly don't understand how natural selection works.

2288. Suffering, Evil and the Existence of God

Comment #85825 by irate_atheist on November 7, 2007 at 9:27 am

Words words words words words.

Not a shred of evidence.

Move along please, nothing to see here...

2289. Same Flea, Different Name?

Comment #85818 by irate_atheist on November 7, 2007 at 9:13 am

I haven't read the book so therefore feel well placed to comment on it.

1. Thomas Crean sets up a series of straw man arguments.

2. Argues that 'my God's not like that'

3. Says 'not all religion is the same'

4. Completely redefines religion to mean something different anyway.

5. Fails to put up a single supporting fact for what he asserts in his book.

6. Misquotes and misrepresents the 'opposition'.

Can I have my reviewer's fee please?

2290. Richard Dawkins at AAI 07

Comment #85744 by irate_atheist on November 7, 2007 at 1:38 am

42. Comment #85623 by ADH -

Hey! Preacher!

Leave them kids alone!

2291. The New Atheism rocks

Comment #85742 by irate_atheist on November 7, 2007 at 1:26 am

Hear hear!

2292. Mother dies after refusing blood

Comment #85583 by irate_atheist on November 6, 2007 at 9:16 am

52. Comment #85538 by Philip1978 -

Come on, Philip, don't hold back. Tell us what you really think.

2293. Rome playing politics

Comment #85191 by irate_atheist on November 5, 2007 at 9:04 am

And from another bunch of crackpots -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7078673.stm

This is nothing but the plain murder of a young girl. Only religion can get away with atrocities like this.

And then they wonder why we fight them every step of the way.

2294. I didn't know the FLEA CIRCUS was back in town!

Comment #85175 by irate_atheist on November 5, 2007 at 8:31 am

107. Comment #85173 by BAEOZ -

Looks like he's been resurrected with a different name, lol!

More shit than a sewage farm...

2295. The truth in religion

Comment #85119 by irate_atheist on November 5, 2007 at 3:07 am

Dear Reverand Polkinghorne,

After careful reading and consideration of your article, weighing all things up and taking a balanced view, I would like to say that; I don't wish to be rude, but we've heard it all before, and you can fuck off.

Yours sincerely,

A. N. Atheist

2296. Believe it or not, courtesy counts

Comment #84030 by irate_atheist on November 1, 2007 at 3:20 am

Courtesy counts but the truth hurts?

2297. Jury Awards Father $11M in Funeral Case

Comment #84029 by irate_atheist on November 1, 2007 at 3:18 am

It's a pity they can't be prosecuted under the remit of the California Clean Air Act.

Hey ho.

2298. Italy's Padre Pio 'faked his stigmata with acid'

Comment #83790 by irate_atheist on October 31, 2007 at 9:40 am

38. Comment #83776 by brother john -

If I, an interested observer, may interject from the sidelines.

So the question pops up: What is it, or what combination of factors is it, that explains this power of endurance to the satisfaction of two reasonably intelligent, rational, evidence and experienced based individuals like you and me?

To paraphrase Shakespeare, 'that is the question'.

We, or at least I, simply can't understand it. I guess I would need to be inside someone else's head to do that.

To wit, I was brought up, in many respects, to be religious - attending Sunday school and all that - but I quite clearly don't believe it. In many respects having to spend some time as a child doing this may well fuel my ire. All those lost days, weeks and months in total! But I digress.

Possibly in the way that some individuals are more linguistically inclined and others more mathematically able etc, perhaps some are more religiously inclined and vice versa. Mayhap, we will never know.

I suspect in my case it's a tendency towards the skeptical rationalist end of the spectrum.

You may ask what would it require for me to believe in a god or gods. If I were honest, I would say 'a lobotomy'. For I would have to lose so much knowledge to do so. Perhaps that marks me down as a dogmatist. Well, if so, so be it. But an interesting question for me to ask is, what would it require for you not to believe? Perhaps it's an impossible question to answer.

May I just add that it's a pleasure to have you here. I, and hopefully you, have noticed that your posts on various topics are being treated with at least some degree of respect.

2299. Pope's 'morning after pill' speech criticized

Comment #83768 by irate_atheist on October 31, 2007 at 7:26 am

Comment #83766 by Philip1978-

Fides, apologies if I got that wrong, if I am going to insult someone's religion I would hate to get it wrong!) :)

Sorry mate, but the god he worships isn't the one you don't believe in, and he knows it.

2300. Pope's 'morning after pill' speech criticized

Comment #83750 by irate_atheist on October 31, 2007 at 6:12 am

30. Comment #83744 by epeeist -

Well, OK, you tenacious stickler. I'll admit I did remove the other possible options. Now, you wouldn't ever see any theists doing that sort of framing in their arguments, would you?