This came up on another post.

anglophone comments on Sep 20, 2020:

All truths are personal, this despite what any God Mobster or scientist might tell you.

Anti-Abortion Christians Celebrate Death Of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Cite ‘Unborn Babies’ | Michael ...

anglophone comments on Sep 19, 2020:

Anybody who speaks of "unborn babies" is suffering from a disastrous failure of cognition. Those who celebrate the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg are suffering from a disastrous failure of humanity.

What Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s Death Means for America [theatlantic.]

anglophone comments on Sep 19, 2020:

I cannot see Donald Trump resisting the temptation to cause the USA to again lurch towards being a Christian theocracy.

Ok...i havent been around for a while, but WTF happened on here?

anglophone comments on Sep 19, 2020:

You sound as though you are in want of a good tirade against the God Mob.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies At 87 : NPR

anglophone comments on Sep 19, 2020:

She was mortal, just like the rest of us. Yes, I am sad at her passing, but my main concern is that SCOTUS will now be taken by Donald Trump in another lurch towards a right-wing theocracy.

What make one decide whether there is s God or not?

anglophone comments on Sep 19, 2020:

It is trivial to show that both the God of the Bible and the God of the Torah cannot exist. Nobody has ever produced any falsifiable evidence to support the existence claims of any other god or gods. As such, all those other gods remain fictional. Too easy! :)

Have you been ostracized because of your lack of belief?

anglophone comments on Sep 18, 2020:

No, but I do not move in such dimwitted circles.

Unconscious learning underlies belief in God, study suggests. What do you think about this study?

anglophone comments on Sep 17, 2020:

It shows that religious dimwits are nonetheless still dimwits

Billions of devices vulnerable to new 'BLESA' Bluetooth security flaw New BLESA attack goes after...

anglophone comments on Sep 17, 2020:

Thanks for the heads up on that one.

Just a little adjunct to the Evangeloon business from last weekend.

anglophone comments on Sep 16, 2020:

Thanks for the update.

Atheist religion

anglophone comments on Sep 16, 2020:

I have come across that assertion in a handful articles written by Christians.

All I would have to post is I need an Inhofe and a Trump sign for my yard. Can anyone help?

anglophone comments on Sep 16, 2020:

I just found God. I await His Rapture.

Florida’s new justice belongs to Christian group using law to ‘spread the Gospel’

anglophone comments on Sep 15, 2020:

Using the justice system to promote one religion over another religion amounts to an egregious abuse of power.

Why Can't We See God - A scientific explanation Frank Lee Easter, 2005 Physicists have ...

anglophone comments on Sep 15, 2020:

The God of the Bible cannot exist. The phrase "the Kingdom of God" is a nonsense thereby. To call that piece "a scientific explanation" is absurd. It is at best a wild and unsupported conjecture.

Is the end of the world happening this week?

anglophone comments on Sep 15, 2020:

If coincidences never happened then a lot of statisticians would be out of work. My own world will end when I die. Are you telling me something about my own death that I don't know about?

Just when you think that the lunacy can't get any worse: missing mass over Covid 19 is a "grave ...

anglophone comments on Sep 14, 2020:

The Stupidity Virus rots the brain something terrible.

Suddenly finding this lunacy appearing in my neighbourhood.

anglophone comments on Sep 13, 2020:

Link failure.

So, there I was sitting on my front veranda, drinking a well earned coffee, minding my own business.

anglophone comments on Sep 12, 2020:

You denied him his Darwin Award. How could you do such a thing? ;) :) :)

17 Bible Verses to Remind You of God's Constant Protection

anglophone comments on Sep 11, 2020:

Wall to wall bullshit, and the streets are paved with faeces.

As to why so many of the rightist thugs in our day, both with and without executive power, both the ...

anglophone comments on Sep 11, 2020:

Too many people never even start to think, let alone surceasing thought.

A long read but worth the time.

anglophone comments on Sep 10, 2020:

I have no time for anybody who tries to pass off faith as being in any way reasonable.

What the hell is this?? 🤣

anglophone comments on Sep 10, 2020:

To answer your question, it is an attempt by the cognitively challenged to commit moral blackmail against those who can and do use their brains.

I thought I would share the following explanation of the difference between atheist and ant-theist ...

anglophone comments on Sep 10, 2020:

I have no beliefs. It is trivial to show that both the God of the Bible and the God of the Torah cannot exist. Nobody has ever produced any falsifiable evidence of the existence of any other gods, so I regard them as fictional. The same goes leprechauns and fairies. BTW: The word "belief" has at least four different meanings which depend on context. P.S. My world view is evidence-based. No belief (in the religious sense) is required.

Been deprogrammed from religion for about 3 1/2 years.

anglophone comments on Sep 9, 2020:

You learned to harness the power of your own mind. Well done you! :)

A case for nudity?

anglophone comments on Sep 9, 2020:

No, I am not prepared to go nude. I'll get too fricking cold in winter! (And I'd get sunburned in summer.)

Could the Big Bang be wrong?

anglophone comments on Sep 9, 2020:

Um, I feel quite comfortable with the notion of the Big Bang. I am also quite comfortable with the notion that the concept of time before Big Bang is a mirage and that the concept of time before the Big Bang is also a nonsense. The question of "Why did the Big Bang happen?" begs all sorts of questions about the nature of time and the nature of causality which question (as I understand it) has yet to be satisfactorily addressed by cosmologists.

I need some help. Is anyone here an astrophysicist or an astrobiologist?

anglophone comments on Sep 9, 2020:

Probably, but I do not fit either requirement. (And at a specialty-reveal party, I reveal to you Fermat's Little Theorem.)

One of quantum physics’ greatest paradoxes may have lost its leading explanation ...

anglophone comments on Sep 9, 2020:

FTA: "the juice isn’t worth the squeeze". Yep.

A Not Easy Critical Thinking Exercise: If Einstein had said there are no black swans, he would ...

anglophone comments on Sep 9, 2020:

230(km/s)****60(sec/min)****8.3(min)=114,540km (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_year) Can I offer you this pink-eyed purple swan eater?

Does the evidence for reincarnation prove (at least some kind of) 'god' exists?

anglophone comments on Sep 8, 2020:

There is no such thing as proof in science.

Church Leader Who Blamed Coronavirus on Gay Marriage Contracts COVID-19 [newsweek.

anglophone comments on Sep 8, 2020:

Idiot is as idiot does.

It really really saddens me knowing that many children were raised in a household where religion was...

anglophone comments on Sep 8, 2020:

God mobsters use every opportunity to teach children *what* to think, not *how* to think. It is the only way that they are able to maintain their stranglehold on society.

Dave Daubenmire: Refusing to Serve Me Because I Won’t Wear a Mask is Like Racism | Beth ...

anglophone comments on Sep 7, 2020:

Arrogant, conceited, ignorant, irrational, self-serving, dangerous, stupid, prick.

An Easy Critical Thinking Exercise: In the laboratory, neutrons decay in just under 15 minutes.

anglophone comments on Sep 7, 2020:

Do proton stars exist? (Ducks for cover while @yvilletom throws an original of Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica at my head.)

I like to read logic, science, history, linguistics. Site looks nice!

anglophone comments on Sep 6, 2020:

Welcome to this site. :)

Is religious belief fueled in part by class prejudice and snobbery ?

anglophone comments on Sep 6, 2020:

Translation: "Why the fuck weren't you in the congregation?"

Default to Atheism - The Catholic Thing

anglophone comments on Sep 6, 2020:

I find that author's prejudices and ignorance to be writ large in his piece.

Why isn't there a better word for "miracle" that doesn't have religious connotations?

anglophone comments on Sep 6, 2020:

Try "unexplained event".

A PA District is Letting Christians Preach to Kids at a Remote Learning Site | Hemant Mehta | ...

anglophone comments on Sep 6, 2020:

Would the Church of Pasta get a tax break for doing the same thing?

I constantly watch/listen to this at least once a week.

anglophone comments on Sep 5, 2020:

Anybody who tells me that I am worthless because "[I am] without God" is flaunting not only their own defects of cognition but also their own defects of personality. I do not allow such cretins to make me feel shamed, for they merely shame themselves: I do not need their valueless approval to justify my own existence.

Catholic Man Sues to Overturn No-Fault Divorce Law After Wife Requests Divorce | Hemant Mehta | ...

anglophone comments on Sep 5, 2020:

Ladies and Gentlemen, there before you is the very reason that she wants to divorce him, and he is blind to that reason.

Michigan Christian School Rejects Science, Warns Mask Mandate Means ‘Satan Wins’ | Michael Stone

anglophone comments on Sep 4, 2020:

Should he be sued by everybody in the school who gets Covid-19?

Report: Trump Called U.S. WWI Veterans “Suckers’ And ‘Losers’

anglophone comments on Sep 4, 2020:

I see Donald Trump as a symptom of what might be termed "the American Problem".

Hello all.

anglophone comments on Sep 4, 2020:

For starters, I have no beliefs. This is because my world view is entirely evidence-based, and renders belief superfluous. Nobody has ever demonstrated the existence of ghosts and spirits, the latter with the exception of spirits that come out of bottles of cognac, whisky, whiskey, gin and armagnac (etc). Aliens may well exist or have existed. The current explorations of Mars may provide an answer in the next decade or so. Intelligent aliens would have more nous than to make contact with the warlike microcephalic goons (a.k.a. homo sapiens) that currently infest the planet Earth (a.k.a Sol III).

God's loophole

anglophone comments on Sep 3, 2020:

Goat's rectum

Can an atheist be a proud Secular Christian?

anglophone comments on Sep 3, 2020:

A Christian is atheist about the other 4,999 or so gods that are floating around.

Christian Host: Avoid Smart Women Since You Have to Consider Their Sexual Needs | Hemant Mehta | ...

anglophone comments on Sep 2, 2020:

It takes a dumb fuck to want dumb fucks.

New quantum paradox throws the foundations of observed reality into question

anglophone comments on Sep 2, 2020:

Karl Popper would be amused.

Well, that is a pretty wild hypothesis . . . [rt.com]

anglophone comments on Sep 2, 2020:

From what I understand about the natural world, "if it can happen it will happen". I certainly would not dismiss it out of hand, but I would like to see more development of the hypothesis along with some supporting observations.

A good dose of the Philosophy pf Religion is enough to make anyone an atheist.

anglophone comments on Sep 2, 2020:

Welcome to the failure of the average Dumb Joe to use his (god-given!) brain.

Christian Group Seeks Removal Of Dinosaur From Tucson McDonald's | Tucson, AZ Patch

anglophone comments on Sep 1, 2020:

23,000 monster raving lunatics cannot be wrong!

Christian Booted from Alaska Walmart After Screaming About Satanic Face Masks | Hemant Mehta | ...

anglophone comments on Aug 31, 2020:

That man has severe anger management issues, and he is in urgent need of professional psychiatric help.

What determines whether a person is a Christian or not?

anglophone comments on Aug 31, 2020:

Best spoken with Midlothian accent: "The No True Scotsman fallacy!" ;)

Chew on this for a while, then tell us what you think. [patheos.com]

anglophone comments on Aug 30, 2020:

Gawd help America! On second thoughts, God doesn't exist, and America is beyond help.

Here’s a question.

anglophone comments on Aug 30, 2020:

Here's an answer. As an atheist, I do not "do dogma", nor do I have any "beliefs". One solution to "the meaninglessness of life" is to your own meaning to your own life. The nearest thing you will get to a "core philosophy" is the asking of the question "Where is your falsifiable evidence to support your existence claim of your particular god?", and not all atheists subscribe to that view. I regard *all* dogma as dangerous. "Belief" is an ambiguous word, which ambiguity is exploited by Bible thumpers. My world view is entirely evidence-based. Groucho Marx: "I wouldn't be a member of any club that would have me."

This from my fundie sister .

anglophone comments on Aug 28, 2020:

Her thinking processes are a cognitive disaster area. She fails to think analytically. She fails to think critically. She fails to think rationally. She fails to think dispassionately. I would see no point in trying to engage her power of cognition, as she "cannot think straight".

Why do Atheist like to talk about God so much?

anglophone comments on Aug 28, 2020:

Perhaps for exactly the same reason that God Mobsters try to convert atheists, Muslims, Jews, Pastafarians, Shinto, Confucians, Dreamtimers, Hindus and Mayans to their own particular flavour of Christianity.

Why do Atheist like to talk about God so much?

anglophone comments on Aug 27, 2020:

I don't talk much about god. (Which god, by the way?) However, I talk a lot about the cognitive deficiencies of Bible thumpers.

I recently watched Alex O'Connor's debate with two Muslims and as expected they used the usual ...

anglophone comments on Aug 27, 2020:

Such Muslims are no different to Christians who use the same arguments: they demonstrate cognitive failure. More specifically, they do not engage in thinking which is critical, analytical, rational and dispassionate.

Why I don't do casual sex.

anglophone comments on Aug 27, 2020:

Thank you so much for sharing all that.

A man changed member's replies to support his post. I objected.

anglophone comments on Aug 27, 2020:

One of the causes of such intellectual dishonesty is major, or perhaps even catastrophic, personal insecurity. Such people are to be pitied.

How many of you former xtians when leaving the church after listening to a sermon, shook the ...

anglophone comments on Aug 26, 2020:

I have a severe allergy to bullshit: the only church service I ever went to was once on board a ship.

Non God Believer

anglophone comments on Aug 25, 2020:

"There is no God but evil"? Yes, I can go with that as Evil seems to be the God of this World. (Sorry for messing with your words.)

Deconstruction Experience Question

anglophone comments on Aug 24, 2020:

"God will cast you into Hell if you even question His existence." I learned to think for myself, and I realised that my tormentor was a vile shit. It has also made me a vocal anti-theist.

Since God gives life, he can take life.

anglophone comments on Aug 24, 2020:

"Since God gives life, he can take life". By exactly the same reasoning, parents give life, so they are justified in murdering their own children. I have no time for anybody engages in such lunatic double-think.

21 Things Only Women With Thick Hair Understand

anglophone comments on Aug 22, 2020:

I sympathise. My own hair, when I allowed it to grow to its fullest, matched that of Charles II of England, and it was relatively easy to look after.

The antagonism to science, as it's ever increasing in our country, is taking us on a path to ...

anglophone comments on Aug 20, 2020:

Your post points up the issues of the willfully ignorant and of those who have been brain-damaged by their brain-damaged parents.

Why is modern religion so intoxicating for some people—the most fervent?

anglophone comments on Aug 16, 2020:

Modern religion is so intoxicating for some people because the rich and powerful of said religions have figured out how to manipulate the Idiot Brigade into handing over their hard-earned dollars.

Someone on Twitter said something snarky about Dolly Parton's recent admission that she thinks black...

anglophone comments on Aug 16, 2020:

I have tried in the past to get such people to use what few grey cells they possess, and I was permanently banned from Twitter as a result.

When is Jesus coming back? The question on the lips of almost every believer.

anglophone comments on Aug 15, 2020:

My brother's name is Jesus. He never left, so he cannot come back. God bless these imbeciles.

This is the explosive change of perspective that has happened for me, personally, after I became an ...

anglophone comments on Aug 14, 2020:

Welcome to your self-liberation. One minor point: your post is correct in every particular when it comes to the Abrahamic religions, but diverges from the Nordic religion, the Australian Dreamtime, and (as far as I can tell) the pre-invasion religions of South America.

Do you believe in what you don't see?

anglophone comments on Aug 12, 2020:

I have no beliefs. There are numerous things that I cannot see but of whose existence I know.

Okay, so how's about we have a little harmless fun here.

anglophone comments on Aug 11, 2020:

Glory, glory hallelujah, Teacher hit me a ruler I knocked her on the bean with a rotten manderine, And her teeth came marching out!

Thanks to Everyone that responded to my last post about red flags.

anglophone comments on Aug 11, 2020:

I commend @Tinocca's comment to you. And thanks for keep all of us informed.

This - from yet another social media discussion on Covid.

anglophone comments on Aug 11, 2020:

Such people are merely flaunting their irrationality. I have no time for them.

Someone shared this on my Facebook: 🙏🙏🙏Truth!!! While at Walmart this morning I was ...

anglophone comments on Aug 11, 2020:

Such whackos cannot think. Their non-existent brains were given to them by their non-existent god, you see. ;)

Hi Everyone, I am working on trying to identify red flags.

anglophone comments on Aug 11, 2020:

I am about to declare one of my own "prejudices": I would not touch him with a barge pole. By way of explanation, I would say that if any woman said such things to me I would drop her instantly. A word to the wise: nobody remembers trivial details *precisely because* they are trivial. For what it is worth, (and here I am making a conscious effort to boost your self-esteem), I value your honesty and openness, and if circumstances were different I would invite you out for a coffee.

I am such a new member; it brings tears to my eyes to write this.

anglophone comments on Aug 10, 2020:

G'Day, G'Day from the Land of the Convict.

If I asked you "Who are you"? Would you know what to say?

anglophone comments on Aug 10, 2020:

Yes: "I am me. And who are you?".

. . . what sets a man on his road to Damascus?

anglophone comments on Aug 10, 2020:

It was the realisation that I had been systematically lied to by my elders and so-called betters about their favourite fictional gods.

Romantic relationship with a strongly religious person?

anglophone comments on Aug 10, 2020:

There is no way that I could have a romantic relationship with anybody who is sufficiently mentally defective to be a strongly religious person.

Is Belief in God Necessary for Good Values?

anglophone comments on Aug 9, 2020:

It is perhaps telling that this research appears to focus solely on the God of the Bible. Can I interest anybody in Guandi https://www.britannica.com/topic/Guandi ?

I get the idea that people usually call themselves Agnostic out of fear that using the name Atheist ...

anglophone comments on Aug 9, 2020:

I have no issue with being obnoxious towards God Mobsters who are first obnoxious towards me.

Honest Question

anglophone comments on Aug 9, 2020:

I am atheist about both the God of the Bible and the God of the Torah because it is trivial to show that neither god can exist. In the strictest sense of the word, I am agnostic about all other gods because nobody has ever produced any falsifiable evidence to support the existence claims thereof.

While on a long drive recently, I was listening to a show on NPR about immortality and time.

anglophone comments on Aug 9, 2020:

The idea of living long enough for our Sun to grow into a red giant and swallow the Earth really does not appeal.

My three worst internet dates

anglophone comments on Aug 9, 2020:

Thank you for sharing. I totally fail to understand the mentality of those three men. Your tale begs an obvious question: What is the best Internet date that you had?

Scientists Disagree on the Universe’s Age, So Creationists Are Claiming Victory | Hemant Mehta | ...

anglophone comments on Aug 8, 2020:

Aw, bless their little Bible god given brains!

Florida pastor who prayed with trump " if you take vaccine you will die in a few years "

anglophone comments on Aug 6, 2020:

He is a dangerous lying wretch.

Why do his followers believe Trump's lies even when he's been caught red-handed?

anglophone comments on Aug 6, 2020:

Trump supporters have one thing in common with religious fundamentalists: an incapacity, for whatever reason, to use their brains.

The fuel stop from hell.

anglophone comments on Aug 6, 2020:

Link forbidden.

Why would a lifelong atheist suddenly decide to become baptized into Mormonism and be going on a ...

anglophone comments on Aug 5, 2020:

The cynic within me tells me that his gonads have overpowered his pre-frontal cortex. (Translation: he is now thinking with his balls rather than his brains.)

Who & What - U R - Not - U R - Not - just a - sentient - Individual - mammal - U R - Not - ...

anglophone comments on Aug 5, 2020:

You denial of the Flying Spaghetti Monster as being the Supreme Being speaks for itself. May His Noodliness have mercy upon your immortal pasta sauce.

Fox's Jeanine Pirro: “I don't want a vaccine” for coronavirus | Media Matters for America

anglophone comments on Aug 4, 2020:

Her suicide is her choice, and her death will raise the IQ of the human race.

What do you think are the reasons why some people believe in supernatural beings, some others don't,...

anglophone comments on Aug 4, 2020:

Some people are capable of thinking rationally. Some people are incapable of thinking at all. Yet others lie somewhere between these two extremes.

The perils and pitfalls of “doing your own research” about COVID-19 (or any other science) ...

anglophone comments on Aug 3, 2020:

It can get even harder in some cases. In my own case, I have the symptoms of idiopathic reactive hypoglycemia, which symptoms have been verified by no less than four independent doctors. The issue comes with the current state of medical research, in that there is as yet no common agreement between researchers about the time delays between food consumption and any subsequent hypoglycemia, and the levels of blood glucose to be used as a definition of hypoglycemia. Even two trained endocrinologists scratched their heads at what my body is doing. Essentially, I am on my own with this condition, and I need to train all relevant medical and ancillary staff that I encounter in any hospital.

NetWalker ransomware gang has made $25 million since March 2020 [zdnet.]

anglophone comments on Aug 3, 2020:

Such perpetrators need to be held in conditions of total sensory deprivation for the rest of their lives.

Did Jesus, the man, exist?

anglophone comments on Aug 3, 2020:

Jesus was a very common name in that place at that time. You must first define which Jesus you are talking about. If you mean any Jesus that was resurrected, then my answer to you is "no". By way of subverting your final question, my response is "I am not stupid enough to have beliefs. My world view is evidence-based, you see.".

Test your critical thinking.

anglophone comments on Aug 3, 2020:

He puts me in mind of Lord Kelvin's seemingly preferred hypothesis for the surface temperature of the sun: https://zapatopi.net/kelvin/papers/on_the_age_of_the_suns_heat.html Nuclear reactions were not known in 1862.

I had TV on earlier, and just for the hellovit , I didn't change the channel when a holy-roller ...

anglophone comments on Aug 2, 2020:

The ravings of such pea-brained individuals make me smile.

Why is it that when something like a pandemic hits.

anglophone comments on Aug 1, 2020:

Such people are incapable of rational thought.