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Comment on palin mccain (2010-09-07 11:35:55)
Holy cow on a bun, you're a Birther? I guess you're getting what you probably want, I'm not even going to bother responding to you anymore because apparently logic doesn't get through your tin foil hat.
Comment on palin mccain (2010-09-07 11:32:28)
"Hah You’re ma fag!" There aren't too many ways to interpret that, and most of them involve gay sex.
Comment on The Truth! (2010-09-06 10:17:38)
I know personal experience is a poor argument, but in talking with people in public about religion I have never been struck by a Muslim, Jew, Buddhist, et cetera. You know who I've been struck by? Christians. Twice. When you talk about putting up posters and insulting Islam in public, are you talking about doing it in the United States? Because Muslims in the US generally don't take to the streets and threaten people here, they tend to hide indoors and cower in fear. Maybe you should go outside and observe the situation yourself instead of getting all of your facts from the TV or internet.
Comment on The Truth! (2010-09-06 10:13:51)
I have a shirt with just the guy on the right on it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maome.jpg), Muhammed. I wear it in public and like to get into discussions with irate Muslims (I'm always surprised how many people recognize the image) about why they think their religion extends to me, too. Sure, it's a bit belligerent, but I'm not verbally rude or anything. Cool and trendy to dis Christianity? I haven't been cool since middle school. Waiting for a few brave atheists to dis Islam? Read/watch Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens, because they've been doing it for decades.
Comment on The Truth! (2010-09-06 10:06:44)
Then: Crusades, Inquisitions, Reformation. Now: Hate speech, domestic terrorism, religious expansion as foreign policy. Least damaging? Take a look at the Shakers.
Comment on meanwhile in Africa.. (2010-09-06 09:55:21)
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Comment on Marriage; Cali Style (2010-09-06 09:51:07)
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Comment on palin mccain (2010-09-06 09:48:28)
Oh, because getting shot down and then getting bayoneted and beaten into unconsciousness because he couldn't escape (both arms and one leg were broken when he ejected, and he was in a lake--nowhere to go) is because McCain was dumb. :/ I think the man's a belligerent idiot when it comes to politics, but thanks for impugning his military record without knowing it, too.
Comment on RACIST! (2010-09-06 09:37:39)
The USA doesn't seem to care, but they should. Adhering to treaties involving national sovereignty, diplomatic immunity, and human rights keeps US citizens safe when they're abroad.
Comment on tree house (2010-09-06 09:32:01)
WANT
Comment on The Truth! (2010-09-05 08:48:45)
Nah, the only way someone could argue with this is by using personal experience, which isn't a good way to combat a sweeping generalization.
Comment on Music piracy before computers (2010-09-04 20:25:29)
Totally epic! My parents have a bunch of solid blue and yellow vinyls. I wonder if they were made like the red one in the picture.
Comment on let your children develop their own damn opinions (2010-09-04 11:14:53)
Thanks :) Culture fascinates me, especially religion. I'm past my religious fan club phase, but I still like to learn, even if I don't practice. I don't like the controlling nature of organized religions, especially the prolific Abrahamic ones. I have trouble wrapping my head around some aspects of faith, specifically how people can accept scriptural literalism and hand-me-down doctrine while decrying perpetrators of genocide rather than divorcing themselves from the passages that inspired the acts. Why do Christians educated in the history of the Church continue to accept the booklist Constantine chose rather than also reading rediscovered texts like the Gospel of Judas, the Gospel of Thomas, or even the Infancy Gospels? None of that confusion and dislike of what religion can be used for (arguably what organized religion is for) prevents me from appreciating the beauty of religious texts, though, or even from appreciating how those of faith approach their lives. For example, I find the prose of the Qu'ran to be beautiful, specifically the how multiple meanings can be found within a single passage. Churches have a special place in my heart; they are open, lovingly (and ably) constructed structures filled with light and music. I find the way Odinists completely disregard mortality and free will in favor of a lackadaisical, "it is what it is," approach to how shitty life can be very refreshing. I'm ignostic, really. I don't think anyone has sufficient evidence for the existence of divinity, even personal divinity, and if the qualities of divine beings are to be used as experimental parameters I find the question, "Is there a God, or Gods?" to be untestable on our end, anyway. But I don't understand my fellow atheists (and even anti-theists) dislike of religious people, though. I don't understand the theistic, and I think people do stupid (and often dangerous) things because of faith, but that doesn't mean I dislike the religious, it means I dislike religion and what some religious people do (indoctrinating children, for an on-topic example; there's a reason the majority of the theistic profess the same beliefs as their parents). Actually, I find my parents to be much more interesting than I am. They didn't fight dictators, but they fought "the Man" in the sixties and seventies, even though they now dress like upper middle class suburbanites. They worked in the poetry collection at the University at Buffalo at the time, and had to deal with tear gas, salt shot, and batons on their way to, and at, work. Oh, the stories they tell.
Comment on let your children develop their own damn opinions (2010-09-03 21:52:42)
"All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God." - Baron d'Holbach, 1772.
Comment on let your children develop their own damn opinions (2010-09-03 21:43:41)
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