Life in the Bible belt is always curious. And yes this was a serious post on FB

anglophone comments on Mar 21, 2020:

Is that toilet paper reusable?

This could prove an interesting test case. [cnn.com] [ffrf.org]

anglophone comments on Mar 21, 2020:

The sickness in the heads of those religious fools causing them to spread sickness in their parishioners make me sick!

Anyone else find pantheism (sexed up atheism) interesting?

anglophone comments on Mar 21, 2020:

Pantheism is not sexed-up atheism. To define God as "everything" is an abuse of the English language. Einstein was fully entitled to his own world view. I define everything as the observable universe.

"God don't like ugly!" So my coworker told me a story about how she was laid off from her previous ...

anglophone comments on Mar 20, 2020:

It would be wrong to accuse her of using her brains.

Does God Have A Grudge Against Online Streaming?

anglophone comments on Mar 20, 2020:

Nah, God never holds grudges against anybody or anything. ;)

Has any one else noticed, you get MORE religion SHOVED down your throat here, than if you were say a...

anglophone comments on Mar 20, 2020:

Religion and religious people are certainly actively discussed on this site, but I do not see that as religion being shoved down anybody's throat. From what I can see, religious people have a half-life of less than two days here.

Religious friends and Coronavirus.

anglophone comments on Mar 20, 2020:

I have very few religious friends, and those friends are only weakly religious. None of them are stupid enough to believe that prayer can be effective against Covid-19.

Breaking News! National Day Of Prayer Fails, Coronavirus Crisis Continues trump and billy graham ...

anglophone comments on Mar 20, 2020:

Well, the Chief Buffoon had to do *something* to shore up his support base!

This is not the end of the world, according to Christians who study the end of the world

anglophone comments on Mar 20, 2020:

I do not, and cannot, understand the mentality of people who take that sort of stuff seriously.

You cannot "boost" your immune system (and you really wouldn't want to anyhow) - Beware of scams -...

anglophone comments on Mar 20, 2020:

You are quite right. Also ... my own immune system is naturally significantly stronger than much of the population, and any such "boosting" is potentially dangerous for me. There is one upside to my immune system being as it is: my recovery times are shorter.

This is actually valid. I have confirmed this is actually the correct address of the WBC.

anglophone comments on Mar 20, 2020:

Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. Shits to shits.

lol all these idiots praying for god to save them from the virus. wasn't it gods idea?

anglophone comments on Mar 19, 2020:

As @resserts says, fear is a powerful emotion. Moreover, it can swamp the rational thinking processes of even the most hard-headed and rational people. Now imagine what fear can do to people who are not habitually reasoned in their thinking.

The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine ...

anglophone comments on Mar 19, 2020:

Yes, the ability and habit of staring both life and death in the face is very liberating.

Many people are pushing fake virus cures and are being called out for it.

anglophone comments on Mar 19, 2020:

Self-education is highly recommended under these circumstances. As you say, try hospitals (if you need one) and science (de rigueur).

I'm feeling emotional pain.

anglophone comments on Mar 18, 2020:

Your own health is both your concern and your responsibility. Efficacious medical practices are based on sound scientific research. The recovery of health based on Biblical claims is merely fortuitous. Medical practices based on the Buy Bull can also be lethal. Conservative Christians are infamous for both their bigotry and their inability to think rationally. Such people are thinking primarily of themselves and treating you with contempt. Their attempts to ram their non-existent god down your throat amounts to a violation of your human rights. Please know that you are an important human being. ((Hugs))

Rules of egg collecting: 1.

anglophone comments on Mar 18, 2020:

Eggsactly!

When I was a teenager and in a bad place, I believed that there was a God.

anglophone comments on Mar 17, 2020:

Nobody has produced any falsifiable evidence to support the existence claims of any gods in the last 5,000 years. As such, all those gods are fictional. (Unicorns and balrogs are also fictional.) Moreover, it is trivial to show that both the God of the Bible and the God of the Torah cannot exist. See also @BestWithoutGods' comment "All the literature provided by religions are based on nothing but blind faith". I much prefer the vision afforded by the Scientific Method rather than the blindness of myth-claimed-as-fact.

Do you think the Corono-virus will hurt or help religion?

anglophone comments on Mar 17, 2020:

Covid-19 will neither help nor hinder religion, this for the simple reason that religious nutters are immune to facts.

Thank You, you Aussie geniuses.

anglophone comments on Mar 16, 2020:

"Poo ticket" "Steal bog roll from your mates" I *love* it. Thanks for posting.

Hi, I'm a new member.

anglophone comments on Mar 16, 2020:

Welcome to the asylum. I look forward to hearing what you have to say. :)

So tired of politicians abdicating their responsibilities to god.

anglophone comments on Mar 16, 2020:

Not "The Stupid, it burns", but "The Stupid, it is extremely dangerous".

This is a post I posted onto my Facebook.

anglophone comments on Mar 16, 2020:

I cannot get over these shit-for-brains lunatics who keep peddling the lie that their god even exists.

Why do the nonreligious let that go unchallenged?

anglophone comments on Mar 16, 2020:

Christian can claim the moral high ground, and other people can and do point out the absurdity of that claim. From the Land of the Convict, it seems that a lot of the news outlets in the (dis)United States of America are in the pockets of those religious fundamentalists.

Look what I shared: Pastor says only “sissies” & “pansies” wash their hands to prevent ...

anglophone comments on Mar 16, 2020:

Said paster is lacking both sanity and compassion.

I joined a Christian Chat Group just to see what was going on with them.

anglophone comments on Mar 15, 2020:

I soon tire of the cognitively challenged making fools of themselves.

Blind Faith In Religion Destroys Our Ability To Critically Think For Ourselves

anglophone comments on Mar 15, 2020:

The ability to think critically (among other cognitive skills) is one of the foundations of my world view.

N.J. bill to remove religion as reason to avoid vaccinating kids enrages parents at hearing - nj.com

anglophone comments on Mar 15, 2020:

Using religion as an excuse to promote the spread of disease is a vile act. I have no time for the dangerous people who object to that bill.

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Coronavirus Crisis Requires Science, Not Magical Thinking.

anglophone comments on Mar 15, 2020:

Common sense is a *remarkably* uncommon commodity.

As an African American I am at awe with the internet and information and .

anglophone comments on Mar 15, 2020:

Not just some sects of Christianity. Look at some sects of Islam.

National day of pray?

anglophone comments on Mar 15, 2020:

There is a flaw in your post. You assume that such people think.

What are your personal pet peeves about religous people?

anglophone comments on Mar 15, 2020:

Arrogance. Willful ignorance. Willful stupidity. Bullying. Lies and deceit. Malevolence. Murderous intolerance. But taking a lead from @LiterateHiker's comment, there are religious people who have none of the above attributes.

The face I make when someone babbles on about how wonderful the story of Noah's Ark is...

anglophone comments on Mar 15, 2020:

Has anybody ever told you the story of Ark's Noah? ;) Once upon a time, there a lonely ship. The ship's name was "Ark". Ark decided to do something about his loneliness, so he created Woman. Woman was confused, so Ark said unto Woman "Give birth, Woman!". So Woman gave birth unto Noah, and Woman said unto Noah "Let us live in the Ark", and they did so, and lived happily ever after. And Ark was well pleased.

Is it irresponsible to travel now for non critical uses? Isn't that spreading the virus?

anglophone comments on Mar 15, 2020:

It depends on how that travel is done. Travel of itself covers all journeys ranging from visiting a neighbour next door to visiting friends on the other side of the world. I would be far more concerned about the number of people contacted in any Covid-19 hot spot than anything else. I am at the moment living in what appears to be a Covid-19 clear zone.

I won't attack everyone with a religious or "spiritual" view.

anglophone comments on Mar 15, 2020:

I am an atheist. If some mentally defective person tries to ram his particular god down my throat I become a rabid militant atheist towards that person. If a theist is polite towards me, I am equally polite in return.

Tub Time.

anglophone comments on Mar 15, 2020:

Muscovy ducklings! Ours look so funny when they run.

I am not a conspiracy type person, never have been.

anglophone comments on Mar 14, 2020:

Human ignorance and stupidity will manifest themselves at every available opportunity.

Imagine that this was hundreds of years ago with bubonic plague and we didn't know the cause.

anglophone comments on Mar 14, 2020:

Yes, that would have been very scary. But most people now have a very much better understanding than hundreds of years ago. We are now in a position to manage the Covid-19 pandemic.

You're watching a YouTube video about atheism and an ad from a religious organization pops,this is ...

anglophone comments on Mar 14, 2020:

If I am watching a video about atheism and a religious advertisement pops up, I find it to be hilarious. It reminds me, if I ever needed to be reminded, of the cretinism those idiots.

Paula White Featured Speaker At Event Promising ‘Supernatural Protection’ From Coronavirus | ...

anglophone comments on Mar 14, 2020:

The Second Hand Brain shop is currently running a sale. Paula White's brain is a bargain at a mere $5,000,000! Why the high price you might ask. The answer is that it has never been used.

I never knew how annoying Christians could be during serious events like the Coronavirus events.

anglophone comments on Mar 14, 2020:

In my arrogant opinion, such Christians are setting themselves up to be mocked by the Sane People.

Found a good one; Religulous claims through recent history;

anglophone comments on Mar 14, 2020:

Ah yes, the "Stupid Parade", LOL!

Funny Stuff Alert; Today while shopping I noticed two young girls in masks buying shopping carts ...

anglophone comments on Mar 13, 2020:

"Yes, Jesus is my son. I gave birth to him 2,020 years ago. And yes, those three wise men really did appear at my son's manger. Thank you for asking. :) "

Many in the science communities believe the Coronavirus is a mutation (it evolved).

anglophone comments on Mar 13, 2020:

What God awful questions you ask! ;)

New Jersey Catholic church lambasted for denying autistic boy, 8, First Communion 'because his ...

anglophone comments on Mar 12, 2020:

Any excuse to oppress "everybody who is not like us". That is beyond disgusting.

CFI has it right.

anglophone comments on Mar 12, 2020:

"Critical thinking skills? What nonsense is that? You will bow down in fear and terror before almighty God!"

Christian Leader: Not Accepting Jesus is “a Sickness Far Worse Than Coronavirus” | Hemant Mehta ...

anglophone comments on Mar 12, 2020:

Perhaps the poor fellow has overdosed on his stupidity pills.

I'm tired of the assumption that I just want to sin and not be accountable to a god.

anglophone comments on Mar 12, 2020:

"Sin requires the existence of a god. And your falsifiable evidence to support your existence claim of your particular god is what exactly?" soon gets them riled.

Dont worry about the virus anymore! : the catholic church says that they will develop a corona virus...

anglophone comments on Mar 12, 2020:

People of severely limited intellect will believe anything that they are told. I was also like that as a child.

I’m feeling sad, I can’t seem to break contact with this JW boyfriend.

anglophone comments on Mar 12, 2020:

He needs to live his own life, just as much as you need to live *your* own life. My guess is that he cannot abandon his own *ir*rationality any more than you can abandon your own rationality. He may be too driven by his own fears to question what he has been told by his theology teachers. It seems that religious trauma, such as he may have experienced, results in catastrophic damage to the pre-frontal cortex of the human brain, so the irrationality of "My god is the real god, all other gods are false gods" would not be apparent to him. Care for yourself. Know that there are others out there. Be kind to yourself, and be patient.

This Christian man is known to me and I am protecting his identity and only exposing his outrageous...

anglophone comments on Mar 11, 2020:

That Christian man's irrationality has left me breathless.

Surprises, yay or nay?

anglophone comments on Mar 11, 2020:

Some surprises can be good, many surprises can be bad. Being paid a compliment is an example of the former, getting engine oil in the radiator coolant is an example of the latter. P.S. I like your style here.

Apparently they don't have much faith in their faith healing abilities.

anglophone comments on Mar 11, 2020:

Sigh.

Ancient Shell Has Revealed Exactly How Much Shorter Days Were 70 Million Years Ago

anglophone comments on Mar 11, 2020:

Nice work! :)

Okay, I was talking with a friend yesterday.

anglophone comments on Mar 10, 2020:

I would recommend any source that debunks those crazy claims. Try the following: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2015/09/03/what-archaeologists-really-think-about-ancient-aliens-lost-colonies-and-fingerprints-of-the-gods/#d094fdd7ab0c https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-idiocy-fabrications-and-lies-of-ancient-aliens-86294030/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_astronauts I hope this helps.

After Invocation Snub, Satanists Hold “Infernal Ritual” Outside WA Capitol | Hemant Mehta | ...

anglophone comments on Mar 10, 2020:

The bigotry, it hurts.

Greek Orthodox Church: Coronavirus Not Transmitted Via Holy Communion | Michael Stone

anglophone comments on Mar 10, 2020:

Ignorant dimwits!

Okay, so there is always the Atheist vs.

anglophone comments on Mar 10, 2020:

It strikes me that equating agnosticism with a fence is a false position, as opinions can range 100% certainty that the God of the Bible exists to 100% certainty that the God of the Bible cannot exist.

Wondering if this situation occures often when visiting with religious freinds and in the ...

anglophone comments on Mar 10, 2020:

I would be unable to give a polite com back. The best I could do would be "uh-huh". In reality, none of my friends are sufficiently religious to make such an observation.

Religious figures blame LGBT+ people for coronavirus

anglophone comments on Mar 10, 2020:

Such religious figures are (in)famous for their culpable stupidity.

Catholic Churches Are Removing Holy Water Out of Fear of Spreading Coronavirus | David Gee | ...

anglophone comments on Mar 9, 2020:

Oh, the irony!

Orthodox Israeli Rabbi Claims Coronavirus is God’s Revenge for Gay Pride Parades | Beth ...

anglophone comments on Mar 9, 2020:

That rabbi was given his non-existent brain by his non-existent god.

You were right. Mr. Email My Friend was a scammer.

anglophone comments on Mar 9, 2020:

Thanks for letting us know. :)

Orthodox Israeli Rabbi Claims Coronavirus is God’s Revenge for Gay Pride Parades | Beth ...

anglophone comments on Mar 9, 2020:

Said rabbi is an idiot.

How are these god pumping people dealing with the current virus?

anglophone comments on Mar 9, 2020:

Such people cannot properly be said to think.

Atheist/Agnostic

anglophone comments on Mar 9, 2020:

My exit from belief in the Sky Fairy started 10 years after being psychologically abused by a religious fundamentalist, and took a decade to complete. It takes a lot of skill and effort to construct polls that work properly.

Bars near Florida university give women a secret way to alert bartenders if they feel unsafe on a ...

anglophone comments on Mar 9, 2020:

I would like to see that in other parts of the world as well.

Back on here after a long time.

anglophone comments on Mar 9, 2020:

If you are agreeable to it, this community will be part of your support network. Ask us anything. And thank you for sharing your post with us.

I'll settle for acknowledging my delusions, not sure they're avoidable, they just get replaced by ...

anglophone comments on Mar 9, 2020:

If an idea, or a set of ideas, has more explanatory power than another idea or ideas, I would not call it delusional. I would call it a better understanding (presumably of the world about you) or a more useful model of reality (whatever that is). Yes, I am a pedant when it comes to English usage, and being a pedant has both its advantages and its disadvantages. I am also blessed and cursed by having an analytical habit of mind, which is why I make a distinction between delusions and (better) understanding.

Right-Wing Pastor: God Sent Us Coronavirus Because of Homosexuality | Beth Stoneburner | Friendly ...

anglophone comments on Mar 8, 2020:

I feel sorry for the people who believe the ravings of such lunatics.

The bible god/Yahweh/Jesus is the greatest abortionist.

anglophone comments on Mar 8, 2020:

And then there are the dimwits that worship said psychopath.

Pastor Puts Anti-Gay Sign on Lawn After Realizing His Neighbors Are Lesbians | Hemant Mehta | ...

anglophone comments on Mar 8, 2020:

It was people like him that caused me my childhood trauma. He is in urgent need of professional psychiatric help.

He asked me to email his friend, sight unseen. A scam?

anglophone comments on Mar 8, 2020:

I see nothing but red flags there.

Christian Film “20 Minutes” Falsely Suggests Atheists Find God When Facing Death | Hemant ...

anglophone comments on Mar 7, 2020:

That is absurd as the trope that there are no atheists in foxholes. The willful ignorance of the people that keep peddling that line both amuses and saddens me. (Edited for a missing word.)

Yesterday i had a transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE).

anglophone comments on Mar 6, 2020:

"No, I only drink Carlsberg Lite." TEE, as in TEE-HEE? ;)

I found this on VOX its kinda like a feel at points.

anglophone comments on Mar 6, 2020:

Anybody who in all seriousness asks "What is the meaning of life?" has failed to realise that the question is nonsense.

I try to find humor in almost everything.

anglophone comments on Mar 6, 2020:

Hateful and racist rhetoric is used by deeply damaged people who are in denial about their own damage.

Apparently there is a connection between being gay and possessing some sort of artistic talent.

anglophone comments on Mar 6, 2020:

I find your post to be extremely well constructed and extremely well written. Not many people can do that. Kudos to you. (btw, I write a regular column for my local newspaper.)

Someone recently argued that greater educational attainment in first nations is the driver behind a ...

anglophone comments on Mar 5, 2020:

I am not sure that I can agree with your "*instinctual* attribution of the unknown to supernatural forces" (emphasis added), though I agree with everything else you say.

‪This 'gay, atheist, leftist' is taking on Poland's right-wing government — by running for ...

anglophone comments on Mar 5, 2020:

It is high time that the International School of Lies lost its stranglehold on Poland.

I have to be honest.

anglophone comments on Mar 5, 2020:

Well done you for recognising the myriad of logical fallacies that are used by the God Squad when they attempt to demonstrate the existence of their particular God. You might want to look into the history of the Bible (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible ), the two Councils of Nicaea ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea ), a comparison between the Bible and the Torah, and the mythology of virgin births ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miraculous_births ). It is worthwhile pointing out that it is trivial to show that the God of the Bible cannot exist: the claimed seven days of Creation does not match the observed 13.8 billion years, which immediately invalidates the rest of the Bible. Get out there, and *enjoy the rest of your life!*

Some Atheists can be just as self righteous and judgmental as Christians/religious people.

anglophone comments on Mar 4, 2020:

Yes, I am totally ruthless when it comes to demanding of theists that they produce falsifiable evidence to support their existence claims of their gods.

New Zealand Pastor Blames Coronavirus on Airborne Demons Controlled by Satan | Beth Stoneburner | ...

anglophone comments on Mar 4, 2020:

It saddens me that there are people who are sufficiently mentally deficient to believe those sorts of dangerous idiocies.

A Catholic apologist attempted to defend the story of the Exodus... And failed. [youtu.be]

anglophone comments on Mar 2, 2020:

Why would any sane person want Catholic answers or even Protestant answers when evidence-based answers are available?

Once.

anglophone comments on Mar 1, 2020:

You picked up that line about teachers from George Bernard Shaw. Unlike your bystander, Shaw had forgotten that he was taught by a teacher.

Speaker on Society for the Teaching of Psychology (STP) argues that therapists should not feel ...

anglophone comments on Mar 1, 2020:

I had not realised that the God Mob had managed to infect the teaching of psychotherapy with their mind poison.

Greetings.

anglophone comments on Mar 1, 2020:

Welcome to the asylum. :)

Here’s a Picture of Mike Pence’s Team Attempting to Pray Away Coronavirus | Hemant Mehta | ...

anglophone comments on Mar 1, 2020:

It takes a world class idiot to imagine that prayer will remove Coronavirus from the world.

Important message for the Christians; It is approaching Armegedon.

anglophone comments on Mar 1, 2020:

Everybody all say together: "Harold Camping!" https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Harold_Camping . See also https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_of_the_end_of_the_world#21st_century .

‘It’s not just AI, this is a change in the entire computing industry,’ says SambaNova CEO ...

anglophone comments on Mar 1, 2020:

I like the shift in paradigm.

School policy forbids kids from saying 'no' when asked to dance

anglophone comments on Mar 1, 2020:

That is a sure-fire way to shame any kid that has clumsy child syndrome. That is typical of f^cking Utah!

What do you suppose gives rise to and supports belief in God?

anglophone comments on Mar 1, 2020:

Deities seem to have been the best explanation that early Man was able to come up with to explain the world around him. Examples include ancient Egypt, with its subsequent translations into the Greek and then the Roman gods, the Mayans, and the First Australians. As far as I know, the first monotheist was Akhenaten (died around 1335 BCE), and then there was Zoroaster (a.k.a Zarathustra) about 800 years afterwards. That theism still seems to be embedded in some cultures may be due to tribalism (the need to belong to a band of humans for survival purposes) being stronger than rationalism. (edited for typo)

Is forgiveness required? Is it hypocritical to judge others? I see hypocrisy all the time.

anglophone comments on Feb 29, 2020:

I judge, and I can never forgive, the Bible Thumper that put fear of his God into me at age 10.

One of the most problematic concepts I have found is the idea of permanence.

anglophone comments on Feb 29, 2020:

My identity is real for the simple reason that it exists. The assertion that identity is an illusion is thereby invalidated. Please check both your assumptions and your reasoning. Thank you very much.

When I started reading this post, I thought it was going to be full of judgement but it was to my ...

anglophone comments on Feb 29, 2020:

This is what can happen when people confront their own fears and their own prejudices.

Is the Coronavirus a message from God or a tool of the Illuminati that the new world order is taking...

anglophone comments on Feb 29, 2020:

Oh, you silly SILLY boy. It is *both* a message from God *and* a tool of the Illuminati!

If I were a religious person, I would say that the Lord has sent us a test (the corona-virus) which ...

anglophone comments on Feb 29, 2020:

Nice idea, but that would require the said evangelicals to use their brains, and they are not renowned for doing that. It's almost as if their brains were given to them by their non-existent God.

Christian Writer Claims Her PMS is One of the “Effects of Sin” | Beth Stoneburner | Friendly ...

anglophone comments on Feb 28, 2020:

It would be wrong to accuse her of using her brain.

We all believe in evidence-based science, and that's why we're agnostic/atheist, right?

anglophone comments on Feb 28, 2020:

No, I do not believe in evidence-based science. I find the models of the natural world that science provides to be the most useful models available. The issue of replication is just a part of a wider debate between scientists.

A question: There is a bill circulating in the Utah legislator to legalize polygamy.

anglophone comments on Feb 28, 2020:

In the interests of equality, if one husband with many wives becomes legal then one wife with many husbands should also become legal. The link https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51562737 might answer your questions.

There is a coronavirus whistleblower from HHS claiming A lex Azar of HHS exposed the whistleblower ...

anglophone comments on Feb 27, 2020:

Trump wants to fire everybody who does not subscribe to his highly warped view of reality.