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Comment on Critics of Cecil Bothwell cite N.C. bar to atheists | citizen-times.com | Asheville Citizen-Times by curiousdwk

curiousdwk — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:00:59 +0000

It’s hard to imagine this happening even here in the US at this day and age. It’s embarassing, really.

Comment on Billboard promoting atheism will be removed by Contrarian

Contrarian — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:21:31 +0000

I should have read the whole story….

Comment on Billboard promoting atheism will be removed by Contrarian

Contrarian — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:04:31 +0000

Surely not in Canada, especially not in Ontario!!!!!!!!!!

Comment on Joey Nelson: Atheists Have No One to Thank on Thanksgiving by curiousdwk

curiousdwk — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:04:01 +0000

In rhetoric and logic, this approach of Christians describing atheists erroneously is called creating straw men that are easily attacked and defeated.

Comment on Believing in Transformation | Psychology Today by curiousdwk

curiousdwk — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:01:41 +0000

Perhaps the author redeems himself/herself later in the article, but in the first section there were so many glaring generalities that I didn’t agree with that I couldn’t go on. “Human beings can’t imagine our own absence.” Can I imagine my non-existence before I was born? Then I can after my death. Can I imagine the non-existence of my pet cat? Then I can of myself.

“Few can maintain any kind of personal philosophy” [when facing death]. Where is this person coming from to make a statement like this?

“When one is forced, to acknowledge that one’s own life is imminently disappearing, it is truly terrifying.” To whom? Perhaps to the author, and perhaps to some people, but definitely not to everyone. I have met people, religious and non-religious, who could face death calmly. It is possible and I would say natural except for the hype that many people give it.

“In the face of death, one seems all alone. No one is immune from this.” Again, where is this author coming from to make a statement like this?

“Here [Jesus in the Garden of Gethemane] the anguished scream of human desolation reached out for divine consolation. And from the severe silence of the heavens, no sheltering echo returned. This is what dying is: the bleak, empty place where no certainty can ever settle.” This author is a joke.

I couldn’t go on after this intro.

(P.S. And the editors of Psychology Today wonder why they aren’t taken more seriously as being scientific in their approach.)

Comment on Stoning victim ‘begged for mercy’ by Contrarian

Contrarian — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:39:43 +0000

You don’t need any more than this to convince you of the negative side of religion. But blaming religion entirely may be too easy. Nor can you blame it entirely on ignorance. More and more we are realizing that the human brain behaves much like an elabourate computer, and as such reacts according to its programming. Fighting this sort of behaviour with guns and bombs is just going to make it worse. Education,better living conditions, etc., are the only tools that will, in the end, succeed in putting this sort of thing in our past.

Comment on Priest: Playboy cover resembling Mary ‘desperate,’ ‘blasphemous’ by Contrarian

Contrarian — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:29:58 +0000

Well, I have little sympathy for the Catholic church or its fan club, but at least they are not trying to kill the publisher.

Comment on Christian Right Lobbies To Overturn Second Law Of Thermodynamics by Contrarian

Contrarian — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:22:13 +0000

Great Idea, someone should get right on that. Think of the money we’d save just in property maintenance.

Comment on Activists Protest Church of Christian Science by leora

leora — Sat, 30 May 2009 02:09:37 +0000

When a parent is afraid for their child’s life and/or health don’t they usually do what they’re most comfortable with and doesn’t just having the parents calm usually comfort the child? Is it right to force a parent to be in conflict with what is most comfortable for them when the child responds to the parents’ emotions?

Comment on Activists Protest Church of Christian Science by luiluiely

luiluiely — Sat, 23 May 2009 16:22:27 +0000

Only 300 children since 1970, 39 years, have died using spiritual healing? And just how many hundreds of thousands of children have died in the last 39 years from botched or misdiagnosed medical attention, surgeries, or procedures? Please poll all hospitals and clinics, worldwide, and tell us just exactly how many children have died while under medical care in the last 39 years. Please include all children getting medical attention in underprivileged countries, and the ones who die from various vaccinations. Enquiring minds want to know.

I eagerly await your reply.