Comments for Atheist QOTD http://atheistweb.org Daily quotations to interest, inspire or amuse atheists and agnostics Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:05:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 Comment on 19th August 2008 by Terence Meaden http://atheistweb.org/qotd/352#comment-2033 Terence Meaden Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:42:57 +0000 http://atheistweb.org/qotd/352#comment-2033 It is about time that we began repelling these attacks with zest, facts, realism. They will not listen to scientific truths and haughtily dismiss pure logic, so might it be better to resort to offering condolences and pity as I do with Jehovah’s Witnesses at the door? Faced with JWs I assume an attitude of pity while avoiding sarcasm and loathing: “You poor things, groveling to a god who isn’t there … … submitting to a fiction for which there is no evidence It’s all in the mind ... … for God exists nowhere except in your heads … fictions for the brainless. You should be embarrassed … when displaying the base depths of uneducated brains ... You cannot talk about the age of the Earth unless you UNDERSTAND the evidence of those who know—instead of speaking to each other about mythical stories of a so-called 6000-year old past … Go to courses on cosmology at colleges and universities. Hear and understand the real evidence ... Millions of scientists over two centuries have conducted hundreds of millions of experiments that confirm the facts of cosmology and evolution. The scientific facts of the real world have produced the modern technological, scientific world as proof of their truths … But for these advances---the result of applying the scientifically-proven laws---you would remain in the mindset and backward world of Medieval peoples Instead, you choose to believe stories fabricated by illiterate desert tribes of a Bronze Age, camel-herding past … And so on …” It is about time that we began repelling these attacks with zest, facts, realism.
They will not listen to scientific truths and haughtily dismiss pure logic, so might it be better to resort to offering condolences and pity as I do with Jehovah’s Witnesses at the door?

Faced with JWs I assume an attitude of pity while avoiding sarcasm and loathing:

“You poor things, groveling to a god who isn’t there …
… submitting to a fiction for which there is no evidence
It’s all in the mind …
… for God exists nowhere except in your heads … fictions for the brainless.
You should be embarrassed … when displaying the base depths of uneducated brains …
You cannot talk about the age of the Earth unless you UNDERSTAND the evidence of those who know—instead of speaking to each other about mythical stories of a so-called 6000-year old past …
Go to courses on cosmology at colleges and universities. Hear and understand the real evidence …
Millions of scientists over two centuries have conducted hundreds of millions of experiments that confirm the facts of cosmology and evolution.
The scientific facts of the real world have produced the modern technological, scientific world as proof of their truths … But for these advances—the result of applying the scientifically-proven laws—you would remain in the mindset and backward world of Medieval peoples
Instead, you choose to believe stories fabricated by illiterate desert tribes of a Bronze Age, camel-herding past …
And so on …”

]]> Comment on 20th August 2008 by Terence Meaden http://atheistweb.org/qotd/353#comment-2032 Terence Meaden Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:20:29 +0000 http://atheistweb.org/qotd/353#comment-2032 Never are men more dangerous than when bully types attain positions of power and become tyrannical. Typical have been kings, dictators, sultans, popes, bishops, preachers. The religious should know better but are the worst. Deluded since childhood about fictional gods, they declare they are absolutely right---when instead they are absolutely wrong. Never are men more dangerous than when bully types attain positions of power and become tyrannical.

Typical have been kings, dictators, sultans, popes, bishops, preachers.

The religious should know better but are the worst. Deluded since childhood about fictional gods, they declare they are absolutely right—when instead they are absolutely wrong.

]]> Comment on 18th August 2008 by Hypatia http://atheistweb.org/qotd/351#comment-2025 Hypatia Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:07:58 +0000 http://atheistweb.org/qotd/351#comment-2025 Scary stuff Nefari - you're giving me nightmares! Scary stuff Nefari - you’re giving me nightmares!

]]> Comment on 18th August 2008 by Nefari http://atheistweb.org/qotd/351#comment-2012 Nefari Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:36:40 +0000 http://atheistweb.org/qotd/351#comment-2012 It's pretty quiet so I'll throw this in for on-topic reading enjoyment: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/20278737/jesus_made_me_puke It’s pretty quiet so I’ll throw this in for on-topic reading enjoyment:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/20278737/jesus_made_me_puke

]]> Comment on 17th August 2008 by Terence Meaden http://atheistweb.org/qotd/350#comment-2000 Terence Meaden Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:34:47 +0000 http://atheistweb.org/qotd/350#comment-2000 To Admin Please give my email address to John Sutton because I would like to correspond with him. Thank you very much. To Admin
Please give my email address to John Sutton because I would like to correspond with him. Thank you very much.

]]> Comment on 17th August 2008 by Terence Meaden http://atheistweb.org/qotd/350#comment-1998 Terence Meaden Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:59:18 +0000 http://atheistweb.org/qotd/350#comment-1998 That's true John; and not only is it obvious that Gordon Brown has no stomach to deal with this either, I have yet to spot any sign from David Cameron that a future conservative government will seek to improve matters any time soon. That’s true John; and not only is it obvious that Gordon Brown has no stomach to deal with this either, I have yet to spot any sign from David Cameron that a future conservative government will seek to improve matters any time soon.

]]> Comment on 16th August 2008 by Hypatia http://atheistweb.org/qotd/349#comment-1997 Hypatia Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:05:49 +0000 http://atheistweb.org/qotd/349#comment-1997 And as the demographics work through, the decline in religious observance can only accelerate... I'm hoping the greatest impact will be in the US :-) And as the demographics work through, the decline in religious observance can only accelerate…

I’m hoping the greatest impact will be in the US :-)

]]> Comment on 17th August 2008 by John Sutton http://atheistweb.org/qotd/350#comment-1996 John Sutton Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:01:42 +0000 http://atheistweb.org/qotd/350#comment-1996 Terence is right and will take many years and a great deal of unrest to reverse the disastrous education policies we inherit from that religious idiot Blair. Terence is right and will take many years and a great deal of unrest to reverse the disastrous education policies we inherit from that religious idiot Blair.

]]> Comment on 17th August 2008 by Terence Meaden http://atheistweb.org/qotd/350#comment-1995 Terence Meaden Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:19:10 +0000 http://atheistweb.org/qotd/350#comment-1995 Muslims in Britain should be given far better opportunities throughout their school years to hear British views on fairness, theism and atheism. Instead, the government of the last 10 years has been increasingly sheltering Muslims from learning about Britain’s long-held values of honour, justice and liberty by giving Muslim communities more and more of their religious-based schools. Muslims in Britain should be given far better opportunities throughout their school years to hear British views on fairness, theism and atheism. Instead, the government of the last 10 years has been increasingly sheltering Muslims from learning about Britain’s long-held values of honour, justice and liberty by giving Muslim communities more and more of their religious-based schools.

]]> Comment on 16th August 2008 by John Sutton http://atheistweb.org/qotd/349#comment-1993 John Sutton Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:05:29 +0000 http://atheistweb.org/qotd/349#comment-1993 Good. Good.

]]>