201. Hatred (of Gays) Unites Jerusalem's Feuding Faiths

Comment #5412 by John Phillips on November 9, 2006 at 10:27 am

It is interesting is it not that three religions that constantly claim to be about peace and love only appear to come together in commmon cause out of mutual hatred for a person's sexuality. Makes one womder how they define peace and love as it appears that their stance on such issues implies the very antithesis of peace and love, at least as I understand what the words mean. But then I am an aethist so I am obviously missing some sublety in the meaning of the words not apparent to those without blind faith.

And they expect us to respect their beliefs in and about their particular choice of capricious faery godfather. Somehow, the two don't quite equate so I'll skip the respect until they wake up, grow up and show everybody the same level of respect they demand of us.

202. Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching

Comment #3626 by John Phillips on October 30, 2006 at 9:46 pm

@147 Comment #2602 by island

"from Lawrence Krauss, who "sees no purpose in nature".


Course, he's also the same guy that said this, so I have to wonder what it takes if creationists don't carry the torch that prevents extremists from destroying empirically supported science:

"But when you look at CMB map, you also see that the structure that is observed, is in fact, in a weird way, correlated with the plane of the earth around the sun. Is this Copernicus coming back to haunt us? That's crazy. We're looking out at the whole universe. There's no way there should be a correlation of structure with our motion of the earth around the sun — the plane of the earth around the sun — the ecliptic. That would say we are truly the center of the universe."

This only goes to show that he neither understands what the CMB map actually represents nor it's significance.

203. Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching

Comment #3621 by John Phillips on October 30, 2006 at 7:12 pm

"Dawkins considers that no religious belief, anytime or anywhere, is worthy of any respect whatsoever. This, one might note, is the opinion of a man deeply averse to dogmatism."

While I accept that people are free to believe whatever they like, however irrational, when has the irrational ever deserved respect. Fear perhaps, or at the very least a healthy wariness, but respect, no.