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1BrentMichael comments on Mar 28, 2021:

Not very pleasant hills!

anglophone replies on Mar 28, 2021:

They deserve a piping hot baguette shoved right up their fundamental orifice.

Atheists and believers have different moral compasses | Live Science

anglophone comments on Mar 25, 2021:

That there are more analytical thinkers among atheists than among believers does not surprise me in the slightest.

anglophone replies on Mar 26, 2021:

@Canndue Your observation to @LenHazell53 and @Healthydoc70 that they assume being an analytical thinker means that correct decisions are being made is irrational. Your observation fails to consider critical thinking, cogent thinking, dispassionate thinking and personal preferences, and is itself a failure of analytical thinking.

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Theresa_N comments on Mar 26, 2021:

Theists are so irrational and while they're in the minority in GB they still cause a lot of grief. I say this as an outsider who may be speaking out of my rear.

anglophone replies on Mar 26, 2021:

Speaking as a Brit, you are *not* speaking out of your rear. There is a group of terrorists in the UK who have embedded themselves in the UK Muslim community with the principle purpose of overthrowing secularism.

Atheists and believers have different moral compasses | Live Science

think-beyond comments on Mar 25, 2021:

Atheists and believers are all believers. Believers BELIEVE there is a God. Atheists BELIEVE there is no God. I am a proud Agnostic. I recognize the vastness of our universe and say it impossible to know about ... what ever there is. So Atheists are very different from Agnostics.

anglophone replies on Mar 25, 2021:

@think-beyond I have never asked for proof in anything except mathematics, liquor and numismatics. I agree with your point about the know-it-all religious people.

Atheists and believers have different moral compasses | Live Science

think-beyond comments on Mar 25, 2021:

Atheists and believers are all believers. Believers BELIEVE there is a God. Atheists BELIEVE there is no God. I am a proud Agnostic. I recognize the vastness of our universe and say it impossible to know about ... what ever there is. So Atheists are very different from Agnostics.

anglophone replies on Mar 25, 2021:

@think-beyond Belief, a position claimed without supporting evidence, has nothing to do with knowledge.

Atheists and believers have different moral compasses | Live Science

think-beyond comments on Mar 25, 2021:

Atheists and believers are all believers. Believers BELIEVE there is a God. Atheists BELIEVE there is no God. I am a proud Agnostic. I recognize the vastness of our universe and say it impossible to know about ... what ever there is. So Atheists are very different from Agnostics.

anglophone replies on Mar 25, 2021:

@think-beyond There is a difference between the agnostic position and the knowledge that there is no evidence, the former being "I am uncertain as to whether or not a god (usually the God of the Bible) exists" and the latter being an evidence based position.

Atheists and believers have different moral compasses | Live Science

think-beyond comments on Mar 25, 2021:

Atheists and believers are all believers. Believers BELIEVE there is a God. Atheists BELIEVE there is no God. I am a proud Agnostic. I recognize the vastness of our universe and say it impossible to know about ... what ever there is. So Atheists are very different from Agnostics.

anglophone replies on Mar 25, 2021:

I disagree. I do not believe that there is no god. I know that nobody has ever produced any falsifiable evidence to support the existence claim of any god, and belief is irrelevant in that context.

Atheists and believers have different moral compasses | Live Science

anglophone comments on Mar 25, 2021:

That there are more analytical thinkers among atheists than among believers does not surprise me in the slightest.

anglophone replies on Mar 25, 2021:

@Canndue I refer you to the original article.

Article on Religous trauma [newrepublic.com]

anglophone comments on Mar 23, 2021:

That article does not surprise me. Moreover, it defines one of the reasons why I am so hostile to every God Mobster on the planet.

anglophone replies on Mar 24, 2021:

@bbyrd009 I may be misunderstanding your question. My own understanding is that it is children being indoctrinated by their elders and so called betters that is the cause of the trauma described in the article.

FFRF cheers appeals court decision against praying Wash. coach - Freedom From Religion Foundation

Leelu comments on Mar 22, 2021:

Good! If his child was in a school where a Muslim forced them to pray to Allah he would have shit fits. Fuck him!

anglophone replies on Mar 22, 2021:

That simple observation is beyond the capability of such mentally handicapped people.

Can anyone help me escape religious groups.

CuddyCruiser comments on Mar 22, 2021:

To begin, what state you live in? Do you live in a Rural, Suburban or Urban setting?

anglophone replies on Mar 22, 2021:

@CuddyCruiser Thanks. Living outside the United States of Absurdity, I have no idea of how the mentally retarded people are spread across that country.

Can anyone help me escape religious groups.

CuddyCruiser comments on Mar 22, 2021:

To begin, what state you live in? Do you live in a Rural, Suburban or Urban setting?

anglophone replies on Mar 22, 2021:

Profile mentions Eagleville, Tennessee, if that is of any help. I wonder if he is in a cult involuntarily.

Can anyone help me escape religious groups.

KKGator comments on Mar 22, 2021:

Welcome to the asylum. Enjoy your stay. Who are "they", specifically?

anglophone replies on Mar 22, 2021:

You beat me to that one. Nicely done. :)

Pretty much, and too much money.

BirdMan1 comments on Mar 21, 2021:

Dunning-Kruger Effect!

anglophone replies on Mar 21, 2021:

Yep!

Pretty much, and too much money.

anglophone comments on Mar 21, 2021:

He echoes Bertrand Russell's "The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.".

anglophone replies on Mar 21, 2021:

@phxbillcee I would not be in the slightest bit surprised if one of the Ancient Roman philosophers said much the same thing.

In alphabetic order, there is a religious method and a scientific method to acquire knowledge.

LiterateHiker comments on Mar 21, 2021:

Your question doesn't make sense. Try again.

anglophone replies on Mar 21, 2021:

The "clarification" still does not make any sense.

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CuddyCruiser comments on Mar 21, 2021:

Give him the rest of his life behind bars, no special privileges, no nothing.

anglophone replies on Mar 21, 2021:

Perhaps he should be preached to every day by the prison's imam?

In alphabetic order, there is a religious method and a scientific method to acquire knowledge.

LiterateHiker comments on Mar 21, 2021:

Your question doesn't make sense. Try again.

anglophone replies on Mar 21, 2021:

Agreed.

Is the evangelical view of sex at the root of our sex scandals?

Marcie1974 comments on Mar 21, 2021:

Plenty of non-evangelicals commit sexual atrocities. Religion in general certainly doesn’t help. Nor does a patriarchal society that treats women as objects for men to take what they want

anglophone replies on Mar 21, 2021:

Hear! Hear!

Evangelical hypocrisy. [salon.com]

KKGator comments on Mar 20, 2021:

It doesn't matter which brand of religion one cares to use as an example, they're all rooted in lies and hypocrisy.

anglophone replies on Mar 21, 2021:

@KKGator Agreed. Humanism does not cite any god.

How would you change this sign? All I need is black paint. Ideas?

anglophone comments on Mar 18, 2021:

"What? Only **1** god?"

anglophone replies on Mar 18, 2021:

@CuddyCruiser Ah yes, the logical fallacy of special pleading. :)

ME: I remember being 6 years old, and my father would give us beer in little bathroom Dixie cups.

Cast1es comments on Mar 17, 2021:

I really don't think starting six year olds on whiskey , is a very good thing . Too many alcoholics already . It is common knowledge that alcoholic husbands are typically also spouse and/or children abusers . Teaching small children that alcohol is a sign of maturity is exceedingly stupid .

anglophone replies on Mar 18, 2021:

I was in nappies when my parents took me to a sherry party and the guests put their glasses on the floor. Funnily enough, a lot of sherry disappeared from those glasses without the guests noticing. ... Mother took me in a panic to the local doctor who said "He'll be fine, just let him sleep it off". As an aside, I never thought of alcohol as being a sign of maturity, just as one of life's pleasures. I recently decided that I did not like its effects, so I have cut right back (much to my own doctor's delight).

How would you change this sign? All I need is black paint. Ideas?

dermot235 comments on Mar 17, 2021:

Only Waiting for Godot

anglophone replies on Mar 17, 2021:

Samuel Beckett would be pleased!

Jorge Riley bragged about breaching House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office on January 6 in an ...

LucyLoohoo comments on Mar 15, 2021:

$#$#@#

anglophone replies on Mar 16, 2021:

@BirdMan1 The NRA, among others.

Religious people tend to begin with their conclusions, then work backwards looking for arguments ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 15, 2021:

Of all the spheres of human thought, religion is the only one which does not require any justification of ideas, evidence, logic, or even majority opinion. So it is the only one, which will support anything however silly. I think that is why it is so popular.

anglophone replies on Mar 15, 2021:

Christian, Hindu or Muslim? Catholic or Protestant? Shia or Sunni? Church of England, Baptist or Mor(m)on? Voodoo or Pastafarian?

Jorge Riley bragged about breaching House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office on January 6 in an ...

LucyLoohoo comments on Mar 15, 2021:

$#$#@#

anglophone replies on Mar 15, 2021:

@LucyLoohoo Any sufficiently motivated group of self-seeking assholes will always look for ways of hijacking existing organisations as a means of furthering their own vile ways.

Religious people tend to begin with their conclusions, then work backwards looking for arguments ...

Triphid comments on Mar 15, 2021:

Oh yeah, Ken Ham and his idea that humans lived with Dinosaurs, what a frigging joke. Imagine Ogg the Neanderthal man armed with primitive stone ax taking on something with the armour like plates of a Steg or the speed and sharp claws of Raptor or a very hungry T-Rex ? Poor old Ogg would've shit ...

anglophone replies on Mar 15, 2021:

Did God put Ken Ham on this earth for the amusement of atheists?

Religious people tend to begin with their conclusions, then work backwards looking for arguments ...

KKGator comments on Mar 15, 2021:

Well, they're delusional, so...

anglophone replies on Mar 15, 2021:

Yup!

Is science undermining religion ?

AnonySchmoose comments on Mar 14, 2021:

I'll be damned if I ever try AGAIN to talk to a fundamentalist Catholic about the virgin birth.

anglophone replies on Mar 14, 2021:

Atheist: "Where's your evidence for this Virgin Birth thing?" Catholic: "It says so in the Bible." Atheist: "I said **evidence**, not unsubstantiated claim, you blithering idiot!"

This tribe is older than every major religion! This is the Jarawa Tribe.

Theresa_N comments on Mar 14, 2021:

It's good when beliefs of Hinduism are countered by evidence, as it is for all religions.

anglophone replies on Mar 14, 2021:

I find it sad that all God Mobsters are quite incapable of understanding the nature of evidence.

Doubt it will work On religious types

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 14, 2021:

This is why I changed my language, if I feel the need to hazard a guess I say, "I have a hypothesis" never invoking a "Theory" unless it's an actual theory and when someone says they have a "Theory" I always say "You mean a hypothesis because you're at best making an informed guess, so it hardly ...

anglophone replies on Mar 14, 2021:

I have never had any success in getting your target audience to think about language in that way. Even the observation that the word "believe" has at least four different meanings seems to be beyond their ability to understand.

Will social pressure and perks work to get folks vaccinated?

anglophone comments on Mar 13, 2021:

I do not admit to my circle of friends anybody that fails to pass a basic sanity test. As a result, I do not deal with anti-vaxxers, QAnon members, incels, racists, sexists, right-wing nut jobs, sociopaths, misanthropes (which many of your "friends" appear to be), conspiracy theorists or God ...

anglophone replies on Mar 13, 2021:

@Jolanta They are acquaintances, not friends. (Sorry for my pedantic use of language.) As a dear friend once said to me "Those that matter don't mind, and those that mind don't matter.".

Will social pressure and perks work to get folks vaccinated?

xenoview comments on Mar 13, 2021:

Faithfool leaders may tell their faithfool followers to not get the vaccine. I plan on getting the vaccine when my GF can get it, she's 5 years younger than me.

anglophone replies on Mar 13, 2021:

@Canndue You call a 5 year difference a cradle robber? How about 35 years as I once did?

Will social pressure and perks work to get folks vaccinated?

KKGator comments on Mar 13, 2021:

I have no problem not associating with people who have no regard for the health and safety of others. If they claim they are my friends, they should care about my health and well-being. I care about theirs, whether they're my friends or not. I've already excised several people from my life for ...

anglophone replies on Mar 13, 2021:

Hear! Hear!

Well none of the ladies on this site who I've messaged have replied back.

LiterateHiker comments on Mar 13, 2021:

Stop whining.

anglophone replies on Mar 13, 2021:

Might he be incel material?

Man, who saw that coming???

JackPedigo comments on Mar 12, 2021:

Anyone with an ounce of sense. All republican administrations have increased the deficit. Apparently, a 'smaller government comes with a big price.