en-us http://www.intensedebate.com/users/567682 Comments by TeleprompterPP http://www.atheistrev.com/2009/09/real-americans-vs-academics.html#IDComment33577508 Even football and NASCAR teams walk by sight, not by faith. Mon, 7 Sep 2009 20:48:10 +0000 http://www.atheistrev.com/2009/09/real-americans-vs-academics.html#IDComment33577508 http://mojoey.blogspot.com/2009/08/great-gray-funk.html#IDComment31991548 Mojoey, my thoughts are with you as you make this difficult journey. You're not alone. Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:36:40 +0000 http://mojoey.blogspot.com/2009/08/great-gray-funk.html#IDComment31991548 http://mojoey.blogspot.com/2009/08/great-gray-funk.html#IDComment31991397 I'll keep thinking for all the slaves to dogma. It's funny that you say you need no one to think for you, because I need no one to pray for me. Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:34:20 +0000 http://mojoey.blogspot.com/2009/08/great-gray-funk.html#IDComment31991397 http://mojoey.blogspot.com/2009/08/great-gray-funk.html#IDComment31991248 I will think for you. Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:32:08 +0000 http://mojoey.blogspot.com/2009/08/great-gray-funk.html#IDComment31991248 http://www.atheistrev.com/2009/08/catholic-lobbying-group-opposes-child.html#IDComment30395770 This is absolutely unacceptable. I hope word spreads quickly and widely. Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:59:57 +0000 http://www.atheistrev.com/2009/08/catholic-lobbying-group-opposes-child.html#IDComment30395770 http://www.atheistrev.com/2009/07/indiana-atheists-prevail-bus-ads-coming.html#IDComment28745931 This is very good news. The Indiana Atheist Bus Campaign is still raising money, and hopefully they can place ads in other cities in my state. Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:06:48 +0000 http://www.atheistrev.com/2009/07/indiana-atheists-prevail-bus-ads-coming.html#IDComment28745931 http://www.atheistrev.com/2009/07/is-cheese-ever-morally-justified.html#IDComment28627519 Blessed are the cheesemakers! (It's not meant to be taken literally; it refers to the makers of any dairy product.) Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:49:30 +0000 http://www.atheistrev.com/2009/07/is-cheese-ever-morally-justified.html#IDComment28627519 http://atheistblogger.com/2009/07/04/ray-comfort-is-still-a-coward/#IDComment26843406 When Ray Comfort accepts evidences of evolution, I may have to convert to religion - because that'll be a sign of an apocalypse. Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:59:19 +0000 http://atheistblogger.com/2009/07/04/ray-comfort-is-still-a-coward/#IDComment26843406 http://www.atheistrev.com/2009/07/my-first-abortion.html#IDComment26407238 Thank you for sharing your account, vjack. I realize that this may be painful for you to share publically. I have always been reticent about abortion, but it is stories like this which explain why I am still pro-choice. Abstinence education is fraud. It should be evaluated like any other form of birth control. If you compared the number of times teenagers pledged to be abstinent and had sex anyway and got pregnant to the number of failures for other forms of birth control, abstinence education proponents could see what a joke their preferred method really is. However, like most religious concepts, it's impossible for abstinence to fail you - you can only fail abstinence. How ridiculous - teenagers have all of these hormones in their bodies and yet the religious say that sex is a disgrace and shameful. So how did the sexual urges get there, people? Either God disagrees with you...or God had nothing to do with it. Sun, 5 Jul 2009 19:25:07 +0000 http://www.atheistrev.com/2009/07/my-first-abortion.html#IDComment26407238 http://www.atheistrev.com/2009/07/can-atheists-participate-in-interfaith.html#IDComment26183646 100,000? Do you 100,000 documents (not from the Bible) attesting to the fact that Jesus existed and did all the things proclaimed that he did in the Bible? If not, then I guess we really can't have a conversation about Christianity, can we? Fri, 3 Jul 2009 02:03:46 +0000 http://www.atheistrev.com/2009/07/can-atheists-participate-in-interfaith.html#IDComment26183646 http://www.atheistrev.com/2009/07/can-atheists-participate-in-interfaith.html#IDComment26183576 Do you have any idea how many times Hitler actually mentions God in Mein Kampf? Fri, 3 Jul 2009 02:01:58 +0000 http://www.atheistrev.com/2009/07/can-atheists-participate-in-interfaith.html#IDComment26183576 http://www.atheistrev.com/2009/07/can-atheists-participate-in-interfaith.html#IDComment26183502 Does it escape you that the death tolls from the Crusades to the era of Stalin and Mao increased only because there was a greater population of people on the planet during the 20th century than during the Middle Ages? And why are there so many more people on the planet now? Science! Plus, Hitler was not really an atheist. Please do some research before you make aimless, poorly-considered statements. Fri, 3 Jul 2009 02:00:52 +0000 http://www.atheistrev.com/2009/07/can-atheists-participate-in-interfaith.html#IDComment26183502 http://www.atheistrev.com/2009/07/can-atheists-participate-in-interfaith.html#IDComment26183305 Again, what? Presenting alternative beliefs and demonstrating error is not speaking to people's anger. Please allow me to ask you this: does demonstrating the error in prejudice only speak to people's anger? And are there just some things in life that you should be angry about? It would be nice if we could all gather 'round in a circle singing "kumbaya", but there are a lot of misconceptions that have to be corrected first. Don't think of me as arousing anger - rather, I am reaching out to theists by letting them know that I exist, that I want to be recognized as a caring and moral person. When suffering will not relent, winning hearts should be secondary to establishing justice, though I agree that some measure of sympathy and empathy are critical in such efforts. However, this does not mean that it is the skeptic who should be a doormat - but rather both theists and atheists should work together to reach understanding. And if this requires anger to reach that realization? Fine - anger can be healthy. You have a misplaced animus against anger - it is a step toward the "winning of hearts" that you seek. Fri, 3 Jul 2009 01:56:57 +0000 http://www.atheistrev.com/2009/07/can-atheists-participate-in-interfaith.html#IDComment26183305 http://www.atheistrev.com/2009/07/can-atheists-participate-in-interfaith.html#IDComment26153630 None of those are negative things, imissbubby. Encouraging, presenting, and attempting are all present tense action-oriented words. They're positive - they're trying to do something. These are the things that a lot of us believe in. Rational thought? Why yes, I believe that is beneficial and important. Alternatives to belief in the supernatural? Yes, for many struggling with the inconsistencies of certain religious belief systems, this can be extremely helpful. Demonstrating the error of atheist stereotypes? This is a great positive thing: we are here, we're not going away, and we have to coexist. Shouldn't we find a way to do that? None of these things on vjack's list are negative. You just don't like them very much, which is really too bad. Thu, 2 Jul 2009 18:45:15 +0000 http://www.atheistrev.com/2009/07/can-atheists-participate-in-interfaith.html#IDComment26153630 http://atheistblogger.com/2009/06/29/creationism-caption-competition-1/#IDComment25794404 Oh my god, it's a FOSSIL!!!!!! Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:14:39 +0000 http://atheistblogger.com/2009/06/29/creationism-caption-competition-1/#IDComment25794404 http://www.atheistrev.com/2009/06/did-jesus-abolish-old-testament.html#IDComment24868975 Considering that Jesus predicted that he would return within the lifetimes of his disciples (and that he didn't), I see no reason to take his words seriously, even if he did exist...he failed as an apocalyptic prophet. Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:01:35 +0000 http://www.atheistrev.com/2009/06/did-jesus-abolish-old-testament.html#IDComment24868975 http://www.atheistrev.com/2009/06/why-you-should-have-intense-debate.html#IDComment24157782 True. I have decided to get an account after all. Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:27:38 +0000 http://www.atheistrev.com/2009/06/why-you-should-have-intense-debate.html#IDComment24157782