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Comment on The Texas State Board of Education Never Makes Sense To Me by Buffy

Buffy — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:12:32 +0000

Facepalm.

Comment on Bill O’Reilly Defends Us(?); Catholic Church Still Sucks by Tom

Tom — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:56:21 +0000

I’ve never before watched Bill-O without getting angry at him. But I was cheering him on this time. Funny to see his points were the first things I thought too: divorced heteros are fine?

Comment on Bill O’Reilly Defends Us(?); Catholic Church Still Sucks by Sacey

Sacey — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:51:28 +0000

This actually made me tear up a little. Thank you for sharing.

Comment on Consortium Responds to Virginia AG About University Non-Discrimination Policies by Sam

Sam — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:43:06 +0000

I heard about this a few days ago and was supremely disgusted by my new home-state. The worst part is that the AG already removed the protections from everything else in the state, and the Governor, who apparently helped initiate the inclusion of the language in the first place, is now on the AG’s side on the matter. This is a sure-fire way to make sure many of the best and brightest take their talents to Maryland where they are protected against this type of discrimination. I don’t know how to listen to this kind of news and not be totally disgusted by some of the people who ‘represent’ the public.

Comment on Why Is It “Disrespectful” and “Offensive” To Challenge Religious Beliefs? by ZackFord

ZackFord — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:06:43 +0000

I’m sorry, Shannon, but that’s absolute bullocks.

I don’t believe in time. I understand that time passes and I understand that we use human-made clocks to measure time based on the rate that the Earth rotates, which obviously reflects how humans most easily observe time (day<->night).

It’s much the same as the way that man created religion to try to answer questions that are unanswerable and to use those “answers” to control people and amass power.

Comment on Why Is It “Disrespectful” and “Offensive” To Challenge Religious Beliefs? by Shannon

Shannon — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:38:13 +0000

The study to which you are referring is merely a meta-analysis, which is a synthesis of research or a literature review. The authors of this meta-analysis did no statistical calculations of their own but used data points from other research studies to support their hypothesis. If you really want to be heard by the people you oppose you cannot simply deny their reality. I use the term reality loosely as I understand that you do not see the world in the way those with religious beliefs do. Start from a common ground. In what ways does your thinking border on belief? You believe in time, yet it does not exist. When you see the clock and it reads three, do you not believe it’s three o’clock. It’s only a man made phenomenon to control the environment.

Comment on Hometown Newspaper: Proud of Me, Not Proud I’m Gay by Oh please

Oh please — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:16:55 +0000

I have to agree with everyone who disagrees with you. While your company may have thought it would be nice to include information on you, the newspaper’s agenda was obviously not the same. Jumping to the conclusion that it was obviously because you are gay is pretty narrow minded, I must say. The newspaper cut it down to the bare minmum, gave the facts, and left it at that. You don’t know their space requirements. You keep harping on about the size of the picture, but what it comes down to is that they just wanted to give the FACTS and didn’t care about your life story – that was the tone the newspaper was going for. If you don’t like it, start your own newspaper.

Comment on Why Is It “Disrespectful” and “Offensive” To Challenge Religious Beliefs? by ZackFord

ZackFord — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:20:01 +0000

Well, drunkenness can be explained. My point isn’t that people don’t experience altered consciousness for various reasons in various ways, just that when they do, there is nothing to substantiate anything “spiritual,” other-worldly, or of a higher power about that experience.

Comment on Why Is It “Disrespectful” and “Offensive” To Challenge Religious Beliefs? by John Bisset

John Bisset — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:05:33 +0000

Just to clarify your comment Zack - that altered consciousness exists is an unfounded assumption and that the context of a particular altered state of consciousness should not be considered as having anything to do with it? For example, that the altered consciousness called drunkenness was not necessarily caused by the alcohol you just drank?

Comment on Religion Motivates Racism: The Supporting Research by Alan E.

Alan E. — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:48:17 +0000

I find that a lot of religiously “open-minded” people like to say that their god is a “She.” I have felt that this is the same where mentioned above that “religious figures are constructed in believers’ own images“. Feminist-oriented religious types like to try and say that god could be a she, but they assert just as strongly that they are right with the female model as those with the male model. It is rare that you find the argument that it doesn’t matter because: 1) your god doesn’t procreate, he just created 2)where is the proof that your god is either male or female and 3) it doesn’t matter anyways because there isn’t a god (ok this one is a common argument).