Floridians reject masks as work of the devil

anglophone comments on Jun 25, 2020:

Floridians are panhandlers. Enough said.

If the bible is fictional, and some laws were derived from the bible, it goes to follow that the ...

anglophone comments on Jun 23, 2020:

What a magnificent stream of non sequiturs! Thanks for the laughter. :)

GOP Senator Laughably Claims Evangelical Christians Have “Shut Up” for Too Long | Beth ...

anglophone comments on Jun 21, 2020:

What he really means that evangelical Christians have *failed* for far too long to impose their odious ideology on everybody else.

Does anyone else feel that their ability to deal with dumb asses is waning?

anglophone comments on Jun 21, 2020:

Not in my case. I am building a larger arsenal of quips and put-downs for against such mental defectives.

Ever so cute. Yes, indeed. America must do better as a united nation.

anglophone comments on Jun 21, 2020:

I see America, or more properly the United States of America, as united by the states that have agreed to be united. However, I see it as catastrophically divided (translation: *dis*united) when it comes to the principle of treating all its citizens equally. I see this situation continuing for as long as it pleases those who are in positions of economic and political power to continue to enrich themselves financially at the expense of "the common man" (to borrow a phrase from England).

Elijah McClain was a kind and gentle 23 year old who worked as a massage therapist in Aurora, CO.

anglophone comments on Jun 21, 2020:

As a watcher of the American scene, it saddens me that such petitions rarely if ever get anywhere. Action is taken by the decision makers *only* when there is insurrection. Those decision makers need to be put in fear of their own lives before they become willing to act.

Mornin' everybody, Sunday here and it's colder than nudist on an iceberg.

anglophone comments on Jun 20, 2020:

Still the same old same old. After all, God put theists on this planet for the amusement of atheists - nothing new there then.

What does this pic suggest? Your interpretation is highly valued.

anglophone comments on Jun 20, 2020:

"Why did we abandon God? Without God, we are doomed. Time, perhaps, to put religion back into its rightful place, back into the legislature of every State in this great nation of ours. Likewise the White House. Only then will we have hope."

What lead you to agnosticism?

anglophone comments on Jun 20, 2020:

I went into agnosticism because I doubted what I was told by religious cretins. I went out of agnosticism and into atheism when I realised the value of the Scientific Method.

Have you ever been offended by being an agnostic or atheist?

anglophone comments on Jun 19, 2020:

No, but I have been hilariously entertained by assorted cretinous God Mobsters as a result of my atheism.

I have been treated like a pariah Because I don’t believe the same as everybody else.

anglophone comments on Jun 17, 2020:

I do not allow any such dimwit to exercise power over me.

The revelations from Bolton's book are truly stunning.

anglophone comments on Jun 17, 2020:

You assume that the Republicans in Congress are willing and capable of using their brains, but they are manifestly unwilling and incapable of doing so.

Of the formerly religious people, at what age did you abandon your faith?

anglophone comments on Jun 16, 2020:

It was a long slow process, started at age 20, finished at age 30.

What Are The Odds?

anglophone comments on Jun 14, 2020:

About 3.7 billion people are suffering from disastrous cognitive failure. That does not surprise me.

Texas Anti-Abortion Group Sued for Defamation for Calling Opponents “Criminals” | Hemant Mehta |...

anglophone comments on Jun 14, 2020:

Such vile dipshits are not over-endowed with brains.

Christian Conspiracist: Black Lives Matter and Antifa Leaders Must Be Executed | Beth Stoneburner | ...

anglophone comments on Jun 14, 2020:

Will somebody please give that man a jelly baby to eat? His brain is clearly short of blood glucose for him to issue that sort of excreta from his mouth.

New COVID Hospitalizations in U.

anglophone comments on Jun 13, 2020:

Is God wreaking His vengeance on those who are stupid enough to believe claims of His existence? (Yes, I know I have a very warped sense of humour.)

I wonder a lot. Could this really be a reason?

anglophone comments on Jun 13, 2020:

I can understand it before the Age of Enlightenment dawned, and @LenHazell53 has given a very good backgrounder as to what was happening in that part of the world at that time. Whet gets me is that in this day and age there are people who accept as "true" the manifestly absurd claims of the Bible (and the Torah and the Quran while we are about it). The ability to think seems to be beyond them.

The longest journey you will make in your life is from your head to your heart.

anglophone comments on Jun 13, 2020:

And I wonder just many people make that journey.

Big news out of Buffalo, New York.

anglophone comments on Jun 12, 2020:

At least it is a start. Whether the cities in the Deep South will follow suit is entirely a different question.

Religious Schools Promoting Gay Conversion Torture Are Getting Taxpayer Dollars | Hemant Mehta | ...

anglophone comments on Jun 12, 2020:

Homophobia is alive and well in "The Land of the Free" (the Land of the Free to be Vile Little Shits).

Evangelist Franklin Graham: Rainbow Flags Are “Offensive to Christians” | Beth Stoneburner | ...

anglophone comments on Jun 11, 2020:

He should take his attitude and shove somewhere the sun doesn't shine.

I've heard a lot over the years about how religious moderates aren't hurting anyone and that they ...

anglophone comments on Jun 11, 2020:

Yes, religious moderates give succour, however unwittingly, to religious crazies.

Atheists Prefer Cats [google.com]

anglophone comments on Jun 11, 2020:

It's easier to have a personal relationship with a cat than with a god.

Pastor: Go to Church, As It’s “a Foretaste of Heaven” and We’ll Convert Atheists | Terry ...

anglophone comments on Jun 10, 2020:

It is a sad comment on the human species that there are mature adults who blindly accept that sort of hogwash.

A day without coffee is like ... Just kidding, have no idea .

anglophone comments on Jun 9, 2020:

I get my coffee and nobody gets hurt.

Klu Klux Klan Leader Ran Over Black Lives Matter Protesters in Richmond, Virginia

anglophone comments on Jun 8, 2020:

People like him need to undergo re-education about too many things to list here. Moreover, he should be held in secure accommodation until he is no longer a threat to other people.

Conservative Charlie Kirk Mocks Protesters: Racism “Doesn’t Exist” | Hemant Mehta | Friendly ...

anglophone comments on Jun 7, 2020:

He is so mentally defective that he is highly dangerous.

Maybe this time real and lasting change will take place.

anglophone comments on Jun 7, 2020:

WOW!

My encounter meeting a racist, transphobic, chatterbox, conversation hog

anglophone comments on Jun 7, 2020:

I have no time for such immature and emotionally insecure people: they have the potential to be dangerously violent.

A guy on here told me "The modern western woman is useless to society as a whole" & said that my ...

anglophone comments on Jun 7, 2020:

Perhaps he prefers modern eastern women?

If you had a Trump supporter walk through your door, with a MAGA hat on what would you do?

anglophone comments on Jun 7, 2020:

I would behave obnoxiously. My level of obnoxiousness would depend on my mood at that moment.

Gate trump built around white christened baby gate

anglophone comments on Jun 7, 2020:

But will be effective in keeping him confined to (White House) quarters?

According to my physics teacher, people who become atheists will be punished by God.

anglophone comments on Jun 6, 2020:

He may be good at teaching physics, but he is demonstrating catastrophic cognitive failure elsewhere. It is trivial to infer the following: - He has no understanding of the Scientific Method - He has no comprehension of the nature of falsifiable evidence - He is committing the logical fallacy of special pleading his own Allah - He is demonstrating compartmentalised thinking (Francis S. Collins, a world class geneticist, also demonstrates compartmentalised thinking) - He is making unfounded assumptions about the both the nature of time and the nature of causality. As @twill observes, many smart people are stupid. An example of that is Einstein's claim that "God does not play dice" when in the context that Einstein was using He clearly does. Putting that quote into context, Einstein was rejecting the notion of quantum mechanics (QM), and QM has subsequently shown itself to be a very good model of that part of the natural world to which it refers. "So put that in your pipe, Mr Physics Teacher, and *smoke it!*" Edit: as you may have gathered from the tone of my comment, I have no time for galloping great fools.

Let's give religion a break just for a moment.

anglophone comments on Jun 6, 2020:

I *never* got anything useful out of religion.

What would it be like if the whole world became an atheist?

anglophone comments on Jun 6, 2020:

I doubt that it would be significantly better. The mentally deranged would find some other excuse or excuses to try to impose their own "cultural norms" on other sections of society.

How many of you found the christian straight jacket view of sex turned you off and enticed you away ...

anglophone comments on Jun 6, 2020:

I have never allowed any religious nitwit tell me what I may and may not do with my willy.

Texas GOP Leader: George Floyd’s Murder Was “Staged” to Create “Racial Tensions” | Hemant...

anglophone comments on Jun 5, 2020:

Such people are not overburdened with brains.

This year really has me questioning the validity of life.

anglophone comments on Jun 5, 2020:

You *may* be suffering from clinical depression. (I have been there, done that.) As others have suggested, it may be in your own best interests to seek professional help.

From Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy ([rep.

anglophone comments on Jun 1, 2020:

As others have indicated here, this is a topic that keeps recurring here. For what it is worth, I see the article that you have posted as being very poorly thought out. I see it having a false dichotomy, and an ignorance of the Scientific Method, and the logical fallacy of special pleading. Whoever wrote it probably failed Philosophy 101.

Angry Young Preacher: The Bible Says Gay People Should Be Executed (Humanely) | Hemant Mehta | ...

anglophone comments on May 29, 2020:

Perhaps the state should execute those who are irredeemably stupid? (But of course, they should be executed *humanely*.) Yep, his non-existent brain was given to him by his non-existent God!

George Floyd was accused of trying to pass a fake $20.

anglophone comments on May 28, 2020:

Such institutionalised racism flows from the institutionalised stupidity that is now endemic across much of the United States of America, including the White House.

I read in my local newspaper some Atheists are being blamed for burning down a church in ...

anglophone comments on May 24, 2020:

It's one of the oldest tricks in the book of Dictatorship 101. Find a group and make a scapegoat of it. Remember Hitler and the Jews.

I love this rare clip from Christopher Hitchens. It's amusing, raw and honest.

anglophone comments on May 24, 2020:

I would not drive religion out of this world, because it would result in me being exceedingly bored: I would have nothing left with which to demean the cretins who rejoice in attacking me for merely being what I am.

I was thinking about my deconversion from Christianity 3 years ago and how I could make an argument ...

anglophone comments on May 24, 2020:

You acquired the use of your (not given to you by God) brain. You overcame your childhood conditioning. There is no reason to feel ashamed. Those who brainwashed you rely on fear as a weapon of control to control the masses. I am delighted that they failed in your case. Thank you for sharing your own personal insight.

[huffpost.com] Preacher who said you can cure COVID19 with faith has died from the virus

anglophone comments on May 24, 2020:

That pastor has earned his Darwin award.

Too many atheists are hostile to the religious.

anglophone comments on May 24, 2020:

I disagree. As an atheist I am supportive the religious under some conditions. I am also hostile under other conditions. I make a sharp distinction between those who seek to understand and improve their own lives, and those who try to ram their own opinions down my throat. The latter group traumatised me, and I see no good reason why they should be allowed to traumatise other people.

What is the relationship between culture and religion?

anglophone comments on May 24, 2020:

The latter is a subset of the former.

Does anyone else get annoyed at lack of explanations that are hidden in the following phrases.

anglophone comments on May 24, 2020:

I see all the examples that you cite as being magnificent examples of cognitive failure.

Biased media, confirmation bias, conspiracy theories, the pandemic of misinformation - this stuff ...

anglophone comments on May 23, 2020:

My skepticism has been growing all my life. It helps me to spot misinformation from a mile away.

A very serious question here.

anglophone comments on May 23, 2020:

Leave him alone. He may be a cognitive disaster area, but he is nevertheless the master of his own destiny.

COVID-19 pandemic myths are spreading faster than the virus. But Why?

anglophone comments on May 22, 2020:

The mentally infirm will believe any sort of nonsense that is told to them.

Christian TV Host Rick Wiles: “We Are Going to Impose Christian Rule in this Country”

anglophone comments on May 22, 2020:

Welcome to the bigotry of the clinically insane.

Has Evangelical Christianity Become Sociopathic? [huffpost.com]

anglophone comments on May 22, 2020:

Evangelical Christianity was already sociopathic at the time of the Spanish Inquisitions. The United States of America has taken on the mantle of Isabella and Ferdinand 500 years afterwards.

Is it still a lie if you don't know it isn't true?

anglophone comments on May 18, 2020:

Different people can have different truths. From the point of view of a committed theist, if I was to tell him that his particular god cannot exist, then he is perfectly entitled to call me mistaken as to fact, but he is *not* entitled to call me a liar.

Young people attended a :coronavirus party in Kentucky, governor says.

anglophone comments on May 18, 2020:

Stupid is as stupid does.

Your grossly incompetent president called Obama's presidency "grossly incompetent"...

anglophone comments on May 17, 2020:

What else could you possibly expect from a grossly and culpably incompetent president?

We do not have the benefit of a time machine, or the ability to see into the distant past, but if ...

anglophone comments on May 17, 2020:

Thanks heaps! :)

Do you think that religion has played overall good or bad role for human during this Covid pandemic?

anglophone comments on May 16, 2020:

The simple answer to your question is "no in my opinion". A longer answer goes like this: "Religion is merely a system of belief. It is religious people that do good and bad things. Those who claim that Covid-19 is an Act of God are doing a bad thing. Believers can also do good things: the good of humanitarianism has nothing to do with the evils of theism.".

"I have a dream, where our president isn't a imbecile.

anglophone comments on May 16, 2020:

Martin Luther King was right. However, Trumpsters are blind to the content of Trumpty Dumpty's character.

Is that so important to choose your partner who has similar thoughts on religion? Why or why not?

anglophone comments on May 15, 2020:

I could not live with anybody who has sufficient intellectual dishonesty to claim that their own god exists while all other gods are false.

I am agnostic because I want to have an open mind! Really?

anglophone comments on May 15, 2020:

My own mind is always open to falsifiable evidence. However, my mind is always closed to the psychopaths, mental defectives, bullies, narcissists and charlatans who try to ram their particular god down my throat.

I got this letter after a death in the family. Not happy at all with the Jehovah's Witnesses

anglophone comments on May 14, 2020:

Having the added pressure of dealing with mental midgets at a time like this is something that you could well do without.

I attempt to be stoic about most things.

anglophone comments on May 14, 2020:

Trump's failure to recognise the critical importance of managing Covid-19 is plain for the whole world to see. He is blind to his own folly.

White Supremacists Built a Website to Doxx Interracial Couples — and It's Going to Be Hard to Take...

anglophone comments on May 14, 2020:

What would it take to get an army of Big Black Mommas to give each and every one of those white supremacists a beating that they will never forget and from which they will never recover?

What are your thoughts about the "God of Gaps"?

anglophone comments on May 13, 2020:

The God of the Gaps is a nonsense beloved of the cognitively deficient.

What would you have done differently had you been god?

anglophone comments on May 13, 2020:

God? Fuck God! Perhaps I would fuck myself into non-existence after having fucked my own mother before I existed so that I could come into existence. But who the fuck knows anyway?

Pardon me in advance, but WTF is up with all the santa claus for grown ups/ god posts on an agnostic...

anglophone comments on May 12, 2020:

Policemen talk about crime. Criminals talk about punishment. God Mobsters talk about atheists. Atheists talk about the mental deficiencies of theists. Please feel free to feel offended; you have every right so to do.

After a 30 year stint as a Christian, I am celebrating 3 year of deprogramming .

anglophone comments on May 12, 2020:

I can go with that. The vile shit that was the headmaster of my primary school 57 years ago has a lot to answer for. "May he rot in Hell!"

How would you react if your SO (man/woman) was "outed" (previously a porn 'star' ) ?

anglophone comments on May 12, 2020:

My reaction would be "So what?". My SO was him/herself before we met, and s/he still has the right to be an independent person. Anybody who tries to belittle their SO because of what they did in the past has major flaws in their own character.

You give a differing opinion on someones post, they hit the like on your comment and then block ...

anglophone comments on May 11, 2020:

Such people fail to use what little brains they have.

Believers advise me that if I require evidence for God, I must first trust in God by accepting his ...

anglophone comments on May 11, 2020:

Ah, the good old logical fallacy of circular reasoning! Such people are enamoured of logical fallacies.

Social media group supports men who shot and killed unarmed jogger

anglophone comments on May 9, 2020:

It seems the right-wing Christian nutjobs in the USA are now supporting "the right to murder".

Is it possible for a subjective concept of God (if everyone agrees with it) be a positive force for ...

anglophone comments on May 9, 2020:

No.

Religion its real good or bad ?

anglophone comments on May 9, 2020:

Religion is neither good nor bad. It is what people do with it that can be good or bad.

I just saw this as I checked my feeds and email for the first time today.

anglophone comments on May 9, 2020:

He is obvious hoping for a Darwin award.

Lying Christian Pastor: It’s “Scientifically Impossible to Be an Atheist” | Hemant Mehta | ...

anglophone comments on May 9, 2020:

I find his tragic ignorance of science to be quite hilarious! :) :) :)

Thoughts?

anglophone comments on May 8, 2020:

Sigh. That is yet another example of extremely sloppy thinking in the "Does God exist" debate.

During the CBS Evening News this evening one commercial was that of an evangelical giving a camp ...

anglophone comments on May 8, 2020:

The Delinquent Delilahs keep dishing out the dollars to divert others into delusion.

Brazil is letting the coronavirus run wild with little intervention, and the results are strikingly ...

anglophone comments on May 7, 2020:

It is God's will that the God Swill that is Jair Bolsonaro send the citizens of his country to their early deaths and thence to Heaven to sing everlasting praises to the genocidal maniac that is the Biblical God! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jair_Bolsonaro#Christianity_and_secularism

Safety versus freedom. Make of that what you will. Any thoughts?

anglophone comments on May 6, 2020:

Safety *and* freedom.

Can we declare 'war' on social media postings proclaiming that the only solution to the Corona virus...

anglophone comments on May 6, 2020:

Why declare war on those who flaunt their own cognitive failures and delight the rest of us with their magnificent absurdities?

Opening America now is ludicrous.

anglophone comments on May 5, 2020:

"A fool and his money are soon parted" applies to everybody who risks the lives of other people for their own financial gain.

My religious wife watches Christian movies and I hate it.

anglophone comments on May 5, 2020:

It does not happen to me. My wife is a sane person, and so rejects the God claim. You could ways suggest that she watches Jewish movies and Muslim movies.

"In a certain sense, postmodernism seems to be the last step of secularization.

anglophone comments on May 5, 2020:

Imho, God in this context is the God of the Bible. To assert that we have given him a series of new names such as Nature, Humanity, Reason etc is to make a nonsense of the English language.and to abandon rationality. I regard metaphysics, as opposed to the philosophy of science, as an absurdity. I regard theology as a time-wasting activity engaged in by the cognitively challenged. Do I sound like an ass-hole of a bitch? Yes, I do. I have no time for such sloppy thinking. See also my bio.

Ok so I'm not sure how many parts of the country are getting it but the My Pillow guy is hawking ...

anglophone comments on May 5, 2020:

Anybody who claims to be able to prove anything in science, including the existence claim of any god, is merely flaunting their own ignorance.

Rant on sexism.

anglophone comments on May 5, 2020:

Sex sells, and it's not just women's bodies used in that. The Chippendales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chippendales were once used to sell a certain brand of beer. I would suggest that the advertising industry has just as much of a part to play in the objectification of women's bodies as the wolf whistles from those with builders' cleavage. Those of us who treat women as people first tend not to make a noise about it. As with any person, I am of course aware of their apparent gender (they could be trans for all I know or care), their apparent age, their apparent health, and such parts of their personality (in the widest possible meaning of that word) as they care to make known to me. Your edit has set me off in another direction. Nobody has any business making remarks about somebody's body or apparel (or lack thereof) unless it is made clear from context that said person is happy to receive such remarks.

Are you in favor of "Right to Repair" ?

anglophone comments on May 5, 2020:

I support the right to repair. I avoid Apple products whenever possible.

My mom doesn't like that I don't believe in god.

anglophone comments on May 4, 2020:

She needs her god. "Let it be."

Male odors. The difficulty of describing "essence of man.”

anglophone comments on May 4, 2020:

I cannot bring myself to kiss anybody who smokes.

Nearly half of Americans believe the Bible should influence US laws - The Christian Post

anglophone comments on May 4, 2020:

Translation: nearly half of Americans are ignorant of the Constitution.

I just came across a dating profile that reads: “A 6’3” warrior for Christ.

anglophone comments on May 4, 2020:

So, being a warrior for Christ, his commanding officer is a 2,000 year old Jewish zombie? Well, well, well!

The intransigence of the EU will likely trigger a WTO (no deal) Brexit. [globalvisionuk.com]

anglophone comments on May 4, 2020:

I see the whole Brexit thing as a slow motion train wreck that will be run for a decade.

Understanding why people believe differently and whether it's even possible to make a change in ...

anglophone comments on May 3, 2020:

I have concluded that my prefrontal cortex has some influence over my amygdala. The backfire effect is a nice explanation of why God Mobsters redouble their absurdities when confronted with evidence that their god is a fiction (at best) or non-existent (at worst). Having a strong prefrontal cortex is not necessarily a good thing. Mine is currently destroying my understanding of both myself and the world.

Were you 'infected' with the Love Bug virus ?

anglophone comments on May 3, 2020:

Thanks for the link. I was not infected, luckily.

Atheistic Chaplain-is their denial an example of religious discrimination? [navytimes.com]

anglophone comments on May 3, 2020:

It is not religious discrimination. It is discrimination. It is a way of sidelining naval personnel who do not subscribe to religious bullshit. It is a form of apartheid, social apartheid. To "honour" such discrimination with the word "religious" is to mask the efforts of the God Mob to impose their vile views on everybody else.

Think back to when you were religious.

anglophone comments on May 3, 2020:

I became an unbeliever before social media came into existence. The peddlers of bullshit will use every means at their disposal to keep peddling.

Has anyone else noticed a change in your dream pattern since the start of the pandemic?

anglophone comments on May 3, 2020:

The pattern of my dreams has not changed to any noticeable degree. My moderate levels of clinical stress have been ongoing for much longer than the current Covid-19 pandemic.

Revisiting a little theoretical physics: what does the double slit experiment tell us?

anglophone comments on May 3, 2020:

What the double-slit experiment and Schrödinger's cat tell me is that "intuitive" models of the natural world built around particles and waves are really *really* poor models, and we need better models.

What are the most effective ways adults are recruited to religion and how do we stop them?

anglophone comments on May 3, 2020:

Adults are recruited into religion by means of indoctrination from babyhood. It would take an extremely brave legislature to forbid parents from indoctrinating their own children into the religion and sect chosen by said parents.