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When Yahoo executives grilled by US Congress over giving up private info of email accounts to China, which was linked to two guys jailed for "leaking state secrets." May be twitter can use that as a defense?

No, you don't understand. *China*, that evil, godless Communist state demanded the info. Now, the Freedom-Loving(TM), God-Fearing(TM) United States of America(TM - held by MAFIAA) wants the info, so everything is a-okay.

Right now your voice is being drowned-out by a minority with money.

I don't know, I don't think the godless, gay, black Asian pacifist community is very politically active to begin with.

"Look! That proves it!!! Human progress is impossible without Religion!!"

I think if you replaced Newton's headstone with a magnet and wrapped his coffin in wire, you'd produce a measurable current every time you did say that.

The "overwhelming majority of human progress" is in the past, due to the fact that the present is still happening and we can't see into the future. Society is becoming more secular. Many countries still have blasphemy laws. Some countries will stone you to death if you criticise a man who's supposedly an emissary of a prophet of a god. How many people were hanged/stoned/shot to death because of their godlessness who might have come up with calculus, or the "law of gravity" or the bagless vacuum cleaner or any one of a number of Really Great Things? How many were excluded from schools/universities because of accidents of birth, or because of their religious beliefs (which is pretty much the same thing).

How many scientists paid lip service to God and religion because it was an established social convention. How many scientists paid lip service to God because the church was giving them money? If you were studying at one of the earliest 12th-14th century(I think) church-run universities would you come out with a heretical theory that suggested that God might not exist? No. No you wouldn't.

>>that is exactly what happened, and what has been discussed in slashdot, fool. just the godless whore phrase was not used.

If you think "discussed on Slashdot" means "actually happened", then yeah, you're a moron.

You should probably actually try to read the primary sources on the issue, not the retarded commentary on here.

that is exactly what happened, and what has been discussed in slashdot, fool. just the godless whore phrase was not used.

yes, that should be the first thing to cut money from indeed ! because, then, texas education board can claim that jefferson was a godless whore, and instead put the name of an obscure preacher in front of him as a founding father. of course, right after approving school curriculum books that say 'world has been created in 6 days' is a valid theory ...

Yes, because that's exactly what happened.

Moron.

yes, that should be the first thing to cut money from indeed ! because, then, texas education board can claim that jefferson was a godless whore, and instead put the name of an obscure preacher in front of him as a founding father. of course, right after approving school curriculum books that say 'world has been created in 6 days' is a valid theory ...

kudos americans. you have succeeded in giving a second chance to the morons who have awarded the world with a neverending war on terror, a turmoil in middle east, violation of all constitutional and modern civil rights, kidnappings, torture, wall street DEregulation (and corresponding scam), and body scanners and many, many more !

heaven knows what they will do to you (and the world, if they can) with this second chance. maybe the first thing they will mandate will be mandatory cavity searches in airports.

The United States is by far the best country in the world in which to live and raise a family, on all accounts. In spite of Congress, the President, Liberal left-wing godless nut jobs, religious right-wing nut jobs, any everyone else that bad mouths this country in every which way...

OMG! Titties! Fellow Americans, please avert your eyes off this European Godless smut!

And use the benefits of being a part of the workforce group, instead of taking on the corporation with what they have in their pockets.
The downside is everyone would have to learn to speak Russian, USA would have to be renamed to USSA, communists would finally win and everyone joining the union would forever burn in hell along with his/her entire family, godless heathens they all are.

Or whatever it was that was programmed into the minds of Americans during the last century as being the reason why communism, socialism, unions, worker's rights etc. are inherently bad things.

For some it is. Just look at the chunk of the USA right wing that I like to call the Cult Of Psychopathy. The kind for whom everything is measured in money, is only motivated by money, justified by money (at least judging by the "but it makes money for the investors!!!" argument as trumping any other moral consideration and verily being the line that separates good from evil), etc. And for whom any kind of social arrangement that isn't defined by even sending each other a bill for calling the cops when you see the neighbour's home being broken in, is either some kind of oppressive statism, some godless nazi-communist-fascist threat (don't ask them to actually know what "nazi", "communism" or "fascism" actually are,) or both.

I'll bet that for some the thought of people doing _anything_ without sending someone a bill, is surprising as heck, scary as heck, or both.

Good point! There is a Huge difference between Oceana, Eastasia, and Eurpa. What was I thinking. Now I just need to remember if the Mujahudeen are the good guys fighting against Godless Russians or if they are the bad guys fighting against feedom, and it is Russians that are cooperating with us to great a Global partnership for peace and prosperity. I get the sides mixed up sometimes. Sorry.

Thank The FSM

That reminds me. There's a few wags at my institution who like to send examples to a certain mailing list of kookie religious people being kookie. Someone posted a discussion on a Christian web site of some fundamentalist "physicists" talking about how the reason regular physicists had to invent dark matter is because they weren't taking into account the mass of Heaven and Hell.

I am not making this up. When I get time I'll try to find the link and I'll post it to a journal here. Some of you godless heathens might get a kick out of it.

666. Apple I computer. Bankcard (only available in Australia, so go figure). Bar codes. New millennium. And on it goes.

FFS, I'm old enough to remember when Mikhail Gorbachev was the beast. Because, y'know, he has that port wine birthmark on his head which was just like it said in the bible (something about the beast being stabbed but still living, and the birthmark looks like blood), and because he was a godless Russkie. This shit got serious traction amongst the fundamentalists of the day.

Anything, any-fukken-thing, can be held out to be the beast of Revelations, from the Pope down to Justin Bieber.

Just let it go before your head explodes.

Two things:

1. Atheism is the lack of a belief. You don't really "believe in it", in the sense that there's no dogma, holy book, prophet or anything of the sort. Atheists can argue on things like what is the highest calling and where morality comes from precisely because none of that is defined anywhere.

2. It is not necessary at all to think the highest purpose is reproduction. IMO there really isn't any. There's no godless version of the mandate "be fruitful and multiply", it's just that reproducing is how species survive in this world. An individual within any species is perfectly free to disagree, though. In fact there's the theory of that homosexuality helps species survive by freeing individuals from having to deal with their own progeny, and allowing them to take a support role.

Also, less allegory would have been had about the torture of faceless, godless enemies, and the realization that they're just the same as us, etc. etc.

It would have been a totally different show, and for the millions who enjoyed the show thoroughly (especially when discounting the ending), it would therefore have been worse.

You get +1 troll.

Captain Kirk: "Well, there's no accounting for taste."

I personally did not care for the show, and from my perspective, if it were different there's a possibility I would have watched it. If that makes me a troll in your mind, well, it's a good thing you aren't moderating because you obviously equate Troll with Disagree.

Also, less allegory would have been had about the torture of faceless, godless enemies, and the realization that they're just the same as us, etc. etc.

It would have been a totally different show, and for the millions who enjoyed the show thoroughly (especially when discounting the ending), it would therefore have been worse.

You get +1 troll.

Get out you godless commie prophet mohammed!

Not only that, but they are openly stating that if they don't get their way, "Second ammendment remedies" may be the only option. Whoah. That is truly scary. Don't get our way? Start a violent revolution! After all, your political opponents are godless communist muslim monsters bent on destroying America, so revolution is justified. Or something.

('wowser' is a uniquely Aussie term for a strong supporter of interventionist government policy).

Er, no. A 'wowser' is typical right-wing, puritanical, fundie-Christian, save-the-children, hand-wringing moron. It's got nothing to do with whether or not they agree with Government policy (and given the current Government, they probably don't, since such people wouldn't support the godless Labor heathens in a pink fit).