Is it smart to believe in God?

anglophone comments on May 27, 2022:

Francis S. Collins is a world class geneticist who also believes in God. He is a classic case of cognitive dissonance. He is quite capable of applying the Scientific Method when it comes to answering questions in genetics, but he is totally incapable of applying the Scientific Method to answering questions about God. I agree with @MojoDave's view about being programmed very early.

Bet they won't hesitate to be hypocrites

anglophone comments on May 27, 2022:

What? Are you trying to force every Rethuglican to use his or her brain? How could you be so cruel to them?

Arizona lawmaker Rick Gray: Atheism caused the shooting in Uvalde

anglophone comments on May 27, 2022:

Rick Gray is dangerously mentally defective.

[castanet.

anglophone comments on May 27, 2022:

It's not going to happen. The wankers in Austin are too fucking arrogant and too fucking ignorant and too fucking self-absorbed to think outside their own tiny venal boxes.

[aol.

anglophone comments on May 27, 2022:

I hope he lives long enough to have his own evil rammed down his fucking throat, and I hope he fucking chokes on it!

The Texas elementary mass shooting was the 212th mass shooting in the U.

anglophone comments on May 27, 2022:

Agreed, it is a start, albeit a small start. The cynic within me tells that it will do little to ameliorate the corruption that is endemic to Congress on this matter.

It’s with great sadness that I have to mention the loss of a few further local businesses around ...

anglophone comments on May 27, 2022:

And the keg manufacturer has tanked, and Mr Cooper is out of a job.

([dailykos.

anglophone comments on May 27, 2022:

Psalm 137:9 (For those you who like me don't this stuff by heart: https://biblia.com/bible/esv/psalm/137/9 )

I guess changing things is not an option....priorities.......

anglophone comments on May 27, 2022:

... and who also laid their lives to protect the profits of the gun manufacturers. ... and who also laid down their lives to further enrich billionaire Congressmen.

Coward Cops REFUSED To Save School Children's Lives During Texas Shooting - YouTube

anglophone comments on May 27, 2022:

I wonder how much the NRA was paying them to stand around doing nothing while children were being killed.

THE GOP LAWMAKERS WHO GET THE MOST CASH FROM GUN RIGHTS GROUPS [axios.com]

anglophone comments on May 26, 2022:

Ted Cruz has sold his soul to the NRA, and it shows.

Gun stores should start having back to school sales.

anglophone comments on May 26, 2022:

"Sale! The first 200 customers get an additional 1,000 rounds of ammunition absolutely free!"

CANCUN-CRUZ BOILING OVER Sen.

anglophone comments on May 26, 2022:

"Because [America is] the freest, most prosperous, safest country on Earth." Ted Cruz is a deluded and dangerous liar.

Christian logic

anglophone comments on May 26, 2022:

Go to America. Be killed by a madman badman with a gun, and all brought to you by the courtesy of a Criminally Crazed Congress.

CANCUN-CRUZ BOILING OVER Sen.

anglophone comments on May 26, 2022:

This is what happens when people are confronted with their own unreason and their own insanity. They cannot face the consequences of thinking through their own personal values.

..............

anglophone comments on May 26, 2022:

"May God bless the flag that forever waves, and the country for which is stands." https://www.facebook.com/JoeManchinIII/photos/may-god-bless-the-flag-that-forever-waves-and-the-country-for-which-is-stands-th/10156900829100161/

The Brown Bess was the standard fire arm during writing of the second amendment.

anglophone comments on May 26, 2022:

Please don't point out relevant facts such as this to your local Rethuglican: it hurts their ugly little brains and they might turn nasty on you.

It is so evident, Beto and most Americans are furious over the killing of people, while the the ...

anglophone comments on May 26, 2022:

"I love my money and my guns more than your children's right to life, and I am in power, so fuck the whole goddamn lot of you!"

Would it be at all possible to persuade ALL or ANY of those who simply want PROTECTION to train to ...

anglophone comments on May 26, 2022:

Tazers have a limited range of up to 45 feet depending on the model. I am unsure of how much protection that would provide.

Here are the gun bills stalled in Congress | The Hill

anglophone comments on May 26, 2022:

No gun bills will ever get through Congress while those who support the killing of innocent people retain a stranglehold on Congress.

The side of Peter Duhhhtton that he wants us to believe is REALLY him from now on.

anglophone comments on May 26, 2022:

No chance. His arrogance and contempt for others is even worse than ScoMo's.

Sickening and apropos

anglophone comments on May 26, 2022:

Yes, that just about sums it up.

Reasons for Many of Our National Gun Crises, Part I I am livid, deeply ...

anglophone comments on May 25, 2022:

Which begs this question: "Why has the Legislature failed to ensure that the Constitution is rewritten every 19 years?".

Prayer without works, and all that shit.

anglophone comments on May 25, 2022:

I have no time for the mental defectives who prefer prayer over action.

19 Children

anglophone comments on May 25, 2022:

Those pictures should be plastered on the wall of every Congressman and Congresswoman who refuses to ban guns.

In light of recent events I have decided to take a stand strongly in support of the Second ...

anglophone comments on May 25, 2022:

Yes, even this old fart in far off Australia knows that the Second Amendment includes the words "well regulated". It's a murderous shame that none of the gun nuts in the United $tates of Absurdity are cognisant of that. The failure of the legislatures in the U$A to honour their duties under that Amendment demonstrates lawlessness at the highest level.

Seeking some feedback on a recent interaction with my best friend of 20 years who is also lives in ...

anglophone comments on May 25, 2022:

It's your body, your morals and your choice. Her attempt to foist her values onto anybody else is an immoral and outrageous act. She should keep her sexual inhibitions to herself - she has no right to dictate to you.

Saying what needs to be said that will unfortunately be ignored again. [youtu.be]

anglophone comments on May 25, 2022:

For as long as Congress persists in its blatant refusal to properly enforce the Second Amendment this insanity, mayhem and murder will continue.

Didn't take them long, did it?

anglophone comments on May 25, 2022:

Link?

Gunman kills 19 children, 2 teachers at Texas elementary school | Reuters

anglophone comments on May 25, 2022:

And what does Congress do? It wrings it fucking hands in prayer and does fuck all about solving the problem. Bullets before brains! :(

Sorry about the dick pics.

anglophone comments on May 25, 2022:

I am normally quite comfortable with pornography. I have no issue with naked bodies. However, naked greed, egomania, megalomania and psychopathy crosses the line.

Maybe the US people should stop having children & just shoot at each other.

anglophone comments on May 24, 2022:

Congratulations! You have just become as cynical as I am.

I was a member of this church when he was pastor and some of the things he said in church turned me ...

anglophone comments on May 24, 2022:

Welcome to the evil of God's Own People.

This is so sad! As I cry for the latest victims of a school shooting, I can't stop thinking of the ...

anglophone comments on May 24, 2022:

Every society has its mental and emotional defectives. The USA is no different in that regard. What is different about the USA is that it allows guns into the hands of those defectives. For those gun nuts in Congress their own egomania far outweighs what is to them the cheapness of other people's lives.

Do you think the age for legal firearm purchases should be raised? To what age?

anglophone comments on May 24, 2022:

The minimum age should be 130 years old. (And I don't care if I am coming across as an utterly cynical wretch, because that is exactly the way that I am feeling about all the gun nuts and their idiot supporters in Congress!)

I'm sick and tired of these two!

anglophone comments on May 24, 2022:

"My right to have guns far outweighs your children's right to life."

More kids murdered with guns in Texas. Cuz that's what NRAmerica does.

anglophone comments on May 24, 2022:

Welcome to the New Normal for the New World.

This has been shared a lot but it speaks the truth.

anglophone comments on May 24, 2022:

"I don't need to figure shit out. The Buy Bull gives me all the answers I need."

I never knew angels could die but if that’s true there must be a shit ton of them

anglophone comments on May 24, 2022:

A wank a day keeps the angels away.

This world is terrifying.

anglophone comments on May 24, 2022:

It has reached the point where mental defectives with guns going around and killing people is no longer news. Welcome to the New Normal in the United $tates of Absurdity, the United $tates of Atrocities.

It just never fucking stops.

anglophone comments on May 24, 2022:

The mentally defective legislatures of the United $tates of Absurdity keep allowing mentally defective people to own guns. It's not going to change unless and until the U$A grows the fuck up.

Oh really so you say of course.

anglophone comments on May 24, 2022:

The stupidity of the idiot brigade is boundless.

Typical that the Church would embrace the perpetrator and not his victim! [onlysky.media]

anglophone comments on May 24, 2022:

The rottenness of all the rotten churches in the world are supported by all the rottenness of all the rotten legislatures of the world. Until all the rotten legislatures are strangled with the entrails of all the rotten clerics of this world such evil will persist (with all due apologies to Denis Diderot).

It ain't no Toyota but, O what feeling, No mo ScumMo.

anglophone comments on May 24, 2022:

Might there be something similar for Peter Potatohead one day?

About an hour ago decided to take a break from splitting, carrying and stacking firewood and sit on ...

anglophone comments on May 24, 2022:

That is fucking hilarious! On a more sober note, his sense of arrogance, his sense of entitlement and his refusal to do anything to help himself is really rather sad. The psychological pressure is mounting, and I guess you are best placed to both predict and observe any mental breakdown.

Zero evidence to back Clive Palmer’s claim of staff taking ballots home, AEC says | Australia news...

anglophone comments on May 24, 2022:

Clive Palmer is offensive to every decent honest Aussie value.

Violent Airline Worker Gets KO'D After Slapping Black Man - YouTube

anglophone comments on May 23, 2022:

Put anybody in any position of power and there is always the risk of the abuse of that power. Security officers, police officers, priests, nuns and other clerics, financial advisers and presidents. Unless and until society learns to better control that abuse this sort of thing will keep on happening.

Southern Baptist Convention leaders mishandled sexual abuse allegations, report says - CNN

anglophone comments on May 23, 2022:

Welcome to the evil of the unspeakably vile bastards.

Asking the Important Questions

anglophone comments on May 23, 2022:

Were Trump's parents born of the same mother and father? (Asking for a friend.)

Nothing makes sense anymore.

anglophone comments on May 23, 2022:

Welcome to the vile and dangerous insanity of the evangelical Christian.

Yesterday, the Southern Baptist Convention released an exhaustive report on the epidemic of abuse ...

anglophone comments on May 23, 2022:

This sort of thing has been going on to my certain knowledge for the last 60 years, and from what I can make out from history it has almost certainly been going on for the last 200 years, and probably as far back as the First Council of Nicaea in 325 CE, nearly 1,700 years ago. It is called people believing that they can do whatever they want in the name of their particular sky fairy, and they will be forgiven by confessing their sins on Sunday or Saturday depending on their particular religion. Such people are psychopaths and society seems to be at the moment largely powerless to control them. Unless and until society chooses to address the issue of its psychopaths this issue will continue into the foreseeable future.

Oh joy, oh what fun.

anglophone comments on May 23, 2022:

With a bit more effort, he could cause a major leak in the fuel line and let it drip into a hot engine.

17 Sex Tricks Men Learn From Porn That Women Wish We Could Wipe From Your Brain

anglophone comments on May 22, 2022:

May I ask you the following dumb question, please? What motivated you to make this post?

Nowadays it is fashionable to constantly pillory white people and to put Western culture in the ...

anglophone comments on May 22, 2022:

You may wish to critically examine your claims before posting.

Fellow Members and Friends.

anglophone comments on May 22, 2022:

I'll get out my vuvuzela and blow it hard. ScoMo has been given a very well deserved thrashing.

You can't make this sh!t up? [youtu.be]

anglophone comments on May 22, 2022:

Pastor Greg Locke "You cannot be a Christian and vote Democrat in this nation": I see that man as being insane.

Poll Reveals American Church Membership Is At An All-Time Low

anglophone comments on May 21, 2022:

Shades of what has been happening in Scotland for decades: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-39613631

17 Sex Tricks Men Learn From Porn That Women Wish We Could Wipe From Your Brain

anglophone comments on May 21, 2022:

Why would anybody with any common sense regard pornography as being any sort of guide? Why should both parties not ask the simple question "What works well for you?"?

Would it not be the icing on the cake if Pauline "pantsdown" Hansen, as of course she will most ...

anglophone comments on May 21, 2022:

No such luck. This country is sufficiently infested with mental defectives that there will be some votes cast for her.

So those lying, cheating dishonourable Liberals are out on their arses.

anglophone comments on May 21, 2022:

They have had it coming to them ever since their prize climate denier brought a lump of coal into Parliament saying it was nothing to be afraid of. That was a kick in the guts of all those who have suffered ill health and financial hardship as a result of global warming.

STOP RAPING US! Brave mostly naked women stormed the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival, ...

anglophone comments on May 21, 2022:

The most dangerous person in the world is somebody who has nothing left to lose. She was obviously very close to that point. Putin the Putrid needs to be tried for the war crimes committed by his army.

Can't win... Judgemental people don't understand nuances.

anglophone comments on May 21, 2022:

I have no time for anybody who says anything like that; they are beyond help.

I’ve been a little disappointed that my fellow Agnostics at agnostic.

anglophone comments on May 21, 2022:

I find nothing of interest in your blog. I find what you write to be light weight. This site encourages conversation between its members. Your blog does not. See also @Julie808's comment.

Now what?

anglophone comments on May 21, 2022:

This is the sort of thing that happens when you have a rabble of half-wits being goaded by the Idiot in Chief who delights in telling lies about a "stolen election".

Trump-Endorsed Candidate Backs Banning Birth Control Amanda Terkel, HuffPost Fri, May 20, ...

anglophone comments on May 20, 2022:

Jacky Eubanks is emblematic of much that is wrong with the United $tates of Absurdity. She is a bully, a Christian Supremacist, and a nasty arrogant little bitch.

I can't believe I am arguing with a fb friend that COVID is real.

anglophone comments on May 20, 2022:

I never waste my time arguing with an idiot. I have found that all idiots are impervious to facts, including the idiots on this site.

Baby formula industry was primed for disaster long before key factory closed down | Nebraska ...

anglophone comments on May 20, 2022:

Welcome to capitalism. It is just one of the ways in which the wealthy increase the wealth gap and the health gap. "Workers and consumers are expendable as long as it means I get even more obscenely rich."

Tucker Carlson "facing fresh scrutiny" after shooting in Buffalo.

anglophone comments on May 20, 2022:

Tucker Carlson is a gross insult to human decency.

I just thought of something.

anglophone comments on May 20, 2022:

They are not pro-life. They are pro-birth. They are shameless liars, and they delight in making life difficult for everybody who deviates in the slightest from their own deviant views and values.

Tomorrow is the DAY, will you think of ALL Australians and kick this mob of wasters and Dead-beats ...

anglophone comments on May 20, 2022:

I have "views" about the (alleged ex-) devotee of Hillsong and his highly active support for global warming.

Aw so sad, too bad, I'm extremely glad, Pauline, "pantsdown" Hanson has been diagnosed with COVID.

anglophone comments on May 20, 2022:

She is the victim her own willful ignorance and her own willful stupidity. I have neither time nor sympathy for the woman.

Another quick phone call from Jessica, long suffering mother of Evangeloon.

anglophone comments on May 20, 2022:

Wow! Just wow!

Just had or should I say TRIED to have to have, a phone conversation with Henry's Mum, Naomi.

anglophone comments on May 20, 2022:

That is absolutely delicious! The substitute teacher is in the wrong job. She lacks the knowledge, the personal authority and the brains to teach anybody.

Republican-leaning areas continue to face more COVID deaths : NPR

anglophone comments on May 19, 2022:

Bugger. I am beginning to run out of Darwin Awards - there are far too many idiots in this world permanently removing themselves from the gene pool. Hmm, on second thoughts ...

The original poster is right

anglophone comments on May 19, 2022:

"Religious imperialism" - I am **so** going to steal that phrase!

A Village That Forbids The Presence Of Men

anglophone comments on May 19, 2022:

It is a sad comment on the society that forced the creation of that village, and I commend the bravery and the foresight of its residents.

Witness Tells Congress That Aborted Fetuses Are ‘Burned to Power the Lights’ of D.

anglophone comments on May 19, 2022:

Catherine Glenn Foster is emblematic of everything that is wrong with the USA.

I actually don't know where this is or if it is staged. I'm hoping it is real and Australia?

anglophone comments on May 19, 2022:

Those are sulphur crested cockatoos, found in Australia, New Guinea and parts of Indonesia. Having seen their flocking behaviour, that picture need not have been staged. Note also the pigeons and the shop in the background.

Homework Compares Obama To Monkeys At Pricey Private School - YouTube

anglophone comments on May 19, 2022:

Welcome to the Evil of RepubliKKKan agenda.

That's why I'm proud to be a Wiccan

anglophone comments on May 19, 2022:

The glorification of God :- The enslavement of women The oppression of people of colour The slaughter of unbelievers Genocide To mis-quote Bertrand Russell "[That is] why I am not a Christian".

Judge halts Christian-only prayer at Parkersburg (WV) City Council meetings

anglophone comments on May 19, 2022:

That particular bunch of Christian supremacists get their ass handed to them on a plate. That needs to happen more and more often in the United $tates of Absurdity.

WTAF is going on in this country?

anglophone comments on May 19, 2022:

The United $tates of Absurdity yet again shows that the empowerment of racism and bigotry is alive and well despite the actions of those who wish for a better society.

You can't begin to imagine...

anglophone comments on May 19, 2022:

It takes a prize idiot to claim "It's hard to be an atheist when you're looking at the Grand canyon". Jeffrey Kluger clearly had his non-existent brain given to him by his non-existent god. https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2013/12/06/time-magazine-says-there-are-no-atheists-at-the-grand-canyon-claims-that-awe-equals-religion/

Uh oh. Somebody's in trouble.

anglophone comments on May 19, 2022:

Was this being sold in Bang-kok?

How do you deal with Door-knockers?

anglophone comments on May 19, 2022:

"Why would anybody want to worship a blood god in this day and age?"

Stuart Firestein: The pursuit of ignorance

anglophone comments on May 19, 2022:

He is quite correct. We undervalue ignorance, we undervalue learning, we undervalue the asking of questions. Teachers don't help, and as a former teacher I am (was?) as guilty of this as anyone. One of my specialist areas was teaching mathematics. I once asked a year 11 student if he thought all the answers in mathematics were known. He answered "yes", and that confirmed my worst fear about teaching the subject. It is trivial to understand why he answered "yes": it is because teachers only ever give their students problems to which the answers are already known or findable using a very limited range of methods. In Stuart Firestein's model, these are mere facts, and the existence of the number of university departments of mathematics shows that research into mathematics is still very much a major human activity.

Okay, let's REALLY get to know each other.

anglophone comments on May 19, 2022:

I would not do it for the very simple reason that it is not my money, and I would be impacting negatively on other people.

Say you have ten billion dollars you can do anything with, how would you cure hunger for the world, ...

anglophone comments on May 18, 2022:

I would use that $10BN to find ways of ending hunger in the world.

Covid vaccination possibility is influenced by party affiliation. [theconversation.com]

anglophone comments on May 18, 2022:

That does not surprise me in the slightest.

Kind of wondering what the emotions, etc, etc, were that Evangeloon experience yesterday evening as ...

anglophone comments on May 18, 2022:

The best way to get rid of temptation is to give in to it.

Elon Musk Tweets He’ll Vote Republican—And Slams Democrats As ‘Party Of Division & Hate’

anglophone comments on May 18, 2022:

"Elon Musk" is a funny way to spell "asshole".

WV school district finally settles case involving Bible indoctrination classes

anglophone comments on May 18, 2022:

So the Christian supremacists get their wrists slapped? You can bet that they have learned nothing.

You can get out': Lyft driver stands up against passengers' racist comments.

anglophone comments on May 18, 2022:

That was awesome!

Was out in the gardens in the front yard about an hour ago when an unwanted voice comes from near my...

anglophone comments on May 18, 2022:

Did you display your middle finger?

A school board member justified bigotry with Jesus. This mom wasn't having it.

anglophone comments on May 18, 2022:

D’Avola is a Christian supremacist. She has no place in education or in any form of government.

I wrote "Don't blame women for men's bad behavior." Got blocked.

anglophone comments on May 17, 2022:

The person that blocked you has numerous defects of personality.

Ffs, it's only just 7.

anglophone comments on May 17, 2022:

You might want to edit your post: "I will **not** [my emphasis] be tolerating". It's about time he was taught some manners and civility, though whether he can learn such manners and civility is extremely doubtful.

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves,...

anglophone comments on May 17, 2022:

You might prefer this version "The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt" published in 1933 in his essay "The Triumph of Stupidity”: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/03/04/self-doubt/

Just a comment this time.

anglophone comments on May 17, 2022:

Welcome to the incogency of the willfully ignorant and the willfully stupid.

Oh the things you see when you haven't got a video camera.

anglophone comments on May 17, 2022:

You are probably in a better position to comment on this than I am, but it seems to me that the Evangeloon is coming under increasing amounts of psychological pressure, and I wonder what will happen when (and if) it totally overwhelms him.