I thought they tasted a little funny.

With Newt, I don't think he "believes" this as much as he "believes it sells well." Newt has historically twisted with the wind when it comes to politics.

I have called myself an apatheist in response to people trying to lay the "Pascal's Wager" thingy on my. If god does exist, then I don't see it's relevance to my life.

I am a very active atheist, but I get really bored with people trying to prove to me why I should believe in god; and don't participate in those sorts of arguments with people. I would rather talk about the effects of religion when it comes up.

I cannot fathom why there are no such enquiries in the United States. Perhaps it is because the Congress is too busy trying to make sure that Obama is not re-elected in 2012.

Yeah! Vjack! And, and concerts and festivals where you actually get to meet musicians are fucking bullshit, man, when you can just stay at home and watch videos and not get all dirty by pushing up against people, Filthy fuckers.

No, I would never want to meet anyone in person who shares my attitudes and values and are entertaining speakers, because that would be like bowing down to them.

I think that the main difference between the Book of Mormon and the Bible is that the Bible has had more and better editing for style. I mean, how many times did Smith have to write "And it came to pass?" And so many "And the angel said, 'look at what I show to you and you will see the things that I am showing you. And I looked at what the angel showed to me and I saw the things he wanted me to see...."

Christ, or Moroni, on a crapstick, it is the worst scripture I have ever read.

Asking someone to your room for coffee is not creepy. Asking someone who has not engaged in any sort of flirtatious behavior prior to getting into a confined space at 4 am when there are few people likely to hear her call for help if you do go and commit sexual violence is something that can really cause a woman to feel uncomfortable whatever your intentions should be.

I am surprised at the number of people who are willing to give the guy the "benefit of the doubt" by signalling to Watson that she was wrong to feel creeped out.

No, wait, I am not. Sometimes decent behavior is a matter of common sense surprisingly lacking.

I didn't watch it until just recently, and I did enjoy it. There have been better films in its genre, and it lacked depth of course because as we all know, depth can be boring.

What i have been doing is reading Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," and the things that he has to say about religion in that book tell a great deal about why we need to shed religion in order to progress. Religion is in opposition to progress for the large part.

Twain is damning of slavery in this book, and the social castes. But even here, in this book Twain claims that there must be some religion at least, and The Boss plans to introduce Protestantism in order to dilute the power of the Roman Catholic Church.

What "Personnel" attacks? Just curious. Did you not write what he excerpted? Real Americans want to know.

I think that we are talking about separate definitions of morality and immorality. For atheists, morality and immorality are modes of behavior and ethical decisions that affect us and our fellow beings on this planet. We are more concerned about the morals that affect the here and now, or the real world. It doesn't matter if we do good things or bad things for their effects here, for those concerned about the fact that sins are not transgressions against people or animals. We can't help but sin, and Christians say that they can't help it either because of the nature of Man. Adam and Eve made sure of that.

Our good isn't "good" because it doesn't glorify the Artificer and so we can't be moral even if we give 96 pints at the Memorial Blood Center over the course of a few years, if we don't do it out of faithful love for God's children. If we just do it for the children, we are immoral. We are immoral no matter what.

Abusing clergy may be sinners here on Earth, but they have an out in the Sacraments. They can confess what they have done, and "poof" they are worthy after penance and confession. Because the sin wasn't against their victims, it was against the children and the other victims of their crimes.

Morality to them is what gets you to Heaven (and what gays do with their privacy.