Comments on: That Ol’ Dan Rivers http://www.qwertysqoncepts.com/2006/08/18/that-ol-dan-rivers/ thoughts so deep they're written in a diving bell Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:53:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: TomPaine http://www.qwertysqoncepts.com/2006/08/18/that-ol-dan-rivers/#comment-39 TomPaine Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:25:00 +0000 http://www.raisemyrank.com/qq/that-ol-dan-rivers/#comment-39 What I hate most about religion in the news is how they talk abou Islamo-fascists who supposedly hate us because of our freedoms. But they say nothing of the Christo-fascists who hate us for the same reason and are working very dilligently to take those freedoms away one by one. Each act of censorship and everytime MAGIC is taught in place of SCIENCE the Christo-fascists win and the enemy within destroys America a little more. Radical religion is a mental disease, a sociopathy, that needs a cure. What I hate most about religion in the news is how they talk abou Islamo-fascists who supposedly hate us because of our freedoms. But they say nothing of the Christo-fascists who hate us for the same reason and are working very dilligently to take those freedoms away one by one. Each act of censorship and everytime MAGIC is taught in place of SCIENCE the Christo-fascists win and the enemy within destroys America a little more. Radical religion is a mental disease, a sociopathy, that needs a cure.

]]> By: qwerty http://www.qwertysqoncepts.com/2006/08/18/that-ol-dan-rivers/#comment-38 qwerty Wed, 23 Aug 2006 02:07:00 +0000 http://www.raisemyrank.com/qq/that-ol-dan-rivers/#comment-38 Nobody's mentioned the "no atheists in a fox hole" crap either... at least not here. Colbert brought it up last night, suggesting there ought to be more atheists in fox holes so the nice christian boys can all come home. Nobody’s mentioned the “no atheists in a fox hole” crap either… at least not here. Colbert brought it up last night, suggesting there ought to be more atheists in fox holes so the nice christian boys can all come home.

]]> By: Steve in CO http://www.qwertysqoncepts.com/2006/08/18/that-ol-dan-rivers/#comment-37 Steve in CO Tue, 22 Aug 2006 23:07:00 +0000 http://www.raisemyrank.com/qq/that-ol-dan-rivers/#comment-37 "Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color." - Author Unknown. I'm really surprised I've not seen some fundie claiming such an inane thing. Guess this isn't quite a Yahoo! message board. ;-P Peace “Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.” - Author Unknown.

I’m really surprised I’ve not seen some fundie claiming such an inane thing. Guess this isn’t quite a Yahoo! message board. ;-P

Peace

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.qwertysqoncepts.com/2006/08/18/that-ol-dan-rivers/#comment-36 Anonymous Tue, 22 Aug 2006 18:11:00 +0000 http://www.raisemyrank.com/qq/that-ol-dan-rivers/#comment-36 I totally agree with you. Well said. Bravo! I totally agree with you. Well said. Bravo!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.qwertysqoncepts.com/2006/08/18/that-ol-dan-rivers/#comment-35 Anonymous Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:18:00 +0000 http://www.raisemyrank.com/qq/that-ol-dan-rivers/#comment-35 Faith is believing in something that you know isn't true..... Faith is believing in something that you know isn’t true…..

]]> By: 800 pound gorilla http://www.qwertysqoncepts.com/2006/08/18/that-ol-dan-rivers/#comment-34 800 pound gorilla Tue, 22 Aug 2006 02:29:00 +0000 http://www.raisemyrank.com/qq/that-ol-dan-rivers/#comment-34 Judge not lest you be judged. Theists tend to have "official" scriptures that tend to be very specific. Atheists tend to rely on good common sense and the golden rule. It's logical to be moral. It's just illogical to give control over your life to scriptural authority. It's insane to cede control to someone or group who selectively chooses which scriptures to follow - and then second guesses everyone who chooses differently. Judge not lest you be judged. Theists tend to have “official” scriptures that tend to be very specific. Atheists tend to rely on good common sense and the golden rule. It’s logical to be moral. It’s just illogical to give control over your life to scriptural authority. It’s insane to cede control to someone or group who selectively chooses which scriptures to follow - and then second guesses everyone who chooses differently.

]]> By: kelley b. http://www.qwertysqoncepts.com/2006/08/18/that-ol-dan-rivers/#comment-33 kelley b. Tue, 22 Aug 2006 01:45:00 +0000 http://www.raisemyrank.com/qq/that-ol-dan-rivers/#comment-33 Theists are convinced that they can manipulate God by belief. You don't see much religion devoted to a distant impersonal Deity who frankly doesn't give a damn. There's no comfort and no percentage in it, all evidence to the contrary. What's a God that can't or won't lay down some of that Holy MoJo? Possibly one that fits existing data. Theists are convinced that they can manipulate God by belief.

You don’t see much religion devoted to a distant impersonal Deity who frankly doesn’t give a damn.

There’s no comfort and no percentage in it, all evidence to the contrary.

What’s a God that can’t or won’t lay down some of that Holy MoJo? Possibly one that fits existing data.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.qwertysqoncepts.com/2006/08/18/that-ol-dan-rivers/#comment-32 Anonymous Tue, 22 Aug 2006 01:41:00 +0000 http://www.raisemyrank.com/qq/that-ol-dan-rivers/#comment-32 You guys are paranoid. As has been pointed out, neither comment literally implies anything about atheists. You're taking a negative implication that doesn't exist and certainly wasn't intended and making as ass of yourself. I used to think that religion dulled the mind and made people angry; then I started running across bloggers and their fans like you. I can't believe crooks and liars linked to this shit... You guys are paranoid.

As has been pointed out, neither comment literally implies anything about atheists. You’re taking a negative implication that doesn’t exist and certainly wasn’t intended and making as ass of yourself.

I used to think that religion dulled the mind and made people angry; then I started running across bloggers and their fans like you.

I can’t believe crooks and liars linked to this shit…

]]> By: qwerty http://www.qwertysqoncepts.com/2006/08/18/that-ol-dan-rivers/#comment-31 qwerty Tue, 22 Aug 2006 01:34:00 +0000 http://www.raisemyrank.com/qq/that-ol-dan-rivers/#comment-31 <i>What do you expect? We're still fighting Darwinism. It's like the second half of the 19th century and all of 20th century philosophical thought never happened here.</i> I don't know. Maybe it's just because I was raised in the Northeast, but it always seemed to me that the US got into the 20th century just fine. Evolution was completely accepted by everyone but the most loony of the loons when I was a kid. It wasn't until the rise of the Moral Majority around the late 70s that I started to notice people denying what I'd always considered to be fact. Was your experience different? What do you expect? We’re still fighting Darwinism. It’s like the second half of the 19th century and all of 20th century philosophical thought never happened here.

I don’t know. Maybe it’s just because I was raised in the Northeast, but it always seemed to me that the US got into the 20th century just fine. Evolution was completely accepted by everyone but the most loony of the loons when I was a kid.

It wasn’t until the rise of the Moral Majority around the late 70s that I started to notice people denying what I’d always considered to be fact. Was your experience different?

]]> By: smchris http://www.qwertysqoncepts.com/2006/08/18/that-ol-dan-rivers/#comment-30 smchris Tue, 22 Aug 2006 01:15:00 +0000 http://www.raisemyrank.com/qq/that-ol-dan-rivers/#comment-30 What do you expect? We're still fighting Darwinism. It's like the second half of the 19th century and all of 20th century philosophical thought never happened here. Culturally, the average American is like a native with a bone through his nose. "And the white man dancing" as Leonard Cohen sings. Even his Idol is American. Yes, I have heard a commentator on the local NPR affiliate muse, "Is it possible for an atheist to have a morality?" And on another occasion a guest state that the president of North Korea is an atheist "and that is reason enough to hate him right there." The different commentator on that program carried on like he had said nothing unusual. Religion has always been tribal and the Neocons feed them a new group to hate every week so that religion in America has metastasized into something hideously cancerous. Which I'm sure causes them to project the ugliness from themselves onto others even more venomously. What do you expect? We’re still fighting Darwinism. It’s like the second half of the 19th century and all of 20th century philosophical thought never happened here. Culturally, the average American is like a native with a bone through his nose. “And the white man dancing” as Leonard Cohen sings. Even his Idol is American.

Yes, I have heard a commentator on the local NPR affiliate muse, “Is it possible for an atheist to have a morality?” And on another occasion a guest state that the president of North Korea is an atheist “and that is reason enough to hate him right there.” The different commentator on that program carried on like he had said nothing unusual.

Religion has always been tribal and the Neocons feed them a new group to hate every week so that religion in America has metastasized into something hideously cancerous. Which I’m sure causes them to project the ugliness from themselves onto others even more venomously.

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