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Ignorant Godless liberals... why do you think the kids are out of control now a days? Can't be your defective parenting ideas.. no, can't be that.

The Bible says, "spare the rod, spoil the child" Why can't you guys understand that, oh I know, because that means work. It's not easy raising kids, but it is if you let them have everything they want. Losers. You cannot rationalize with a 4 year old. May God have mercy on your soul. Whatever you have done to the least of these, you have done to Jesus.

Posted anon for the impending troll mods and so I don't have anymore libtards stalking me.

I'm rather sure that if religious types would keep their religion for themselves and contain their own wackos nobody would have a problem with them.

But when:

• my kids - if I'll ever manage to have any - will have to study christian orthodox religion in school and learn that if they don't say their prayers they'll get hit by a car - this being in a country that's supposedly secular, mind you
• the education minister says "we don't want to raise godless robots"
• a senator says the atheists are dangerous
• the prime minister is consulting with the head of the church whether to uncriminalise prostitution or not (I'll leave you to guess the result), and about the definition of marriage (ended up with "union between man and woman")
• some other MPs gather a crowd to protest against a (non-public) lesbians' meeting (I dislike the attention whores' parades, but a private, no-media, event? wtf?) - and they're from the governing party
• a nation-wide HPV vaccination attempt has failed due to religious wackos spreading FUD
• religious fundamentalists have monopolised the discution about RFID passports and turned it into "omg they'll brand us with the number 666" crap, so people who have reasonable complaints about this can't get their voice heard any more
• this year's budget gives money for 806 new churches, 242 schools, 36 hospitals, 37 cultural centres

it starts to become annoying. really annoying.

The greek 'a' meaning 'non' and 'theos' meaning god, godless.

The lack of belief in a God. You cannot disbelieve something. I actually have a logical proof of this somewhere, but I can't find out where I put it.

But until then, let's do a little thought experiment. The chair you're sitting on, does it believe in god?

Nope. From Merriam-Webster atheism atheism Pronunciation: \-th-i-zm\ Function: noun Etymology: Middle French athéisme, from athée atheist, from Greek atheos godless, from a- + theos god Date: 1546 1archaic : ungodliness , wickedness 2 a: a disbelief in the existence of deity b: the doctrine that there is no deity
Sounds like faith to me...

But why hate?

I am not saying that feelings should be against the law, but if you don't believe, why do you care enough to hate?

I dislike the godless world that we are becoming, but I am not about to hate you for it.

It goes back to the old hate the sin and not the sinner. It may not seem like it, but there is a difference.

I've never understood why religious folk have such a hard time with evolution. I mean, can't they just say "okay, fine, evolution is the process, and God is the architect". Far as I can see, that kind of solves it.

It generally comes down to this. Young-earthers are, probably without exception, biblical literalists. They base their entire belief system on one "truth" - that the bible is the inerrant, indisputable, and irreplaceable "word of god". For them, evolution strikes at the very heart of their beliefs. Their argument, while ludicrous, actually follows a fairly logical progression.

According to Genesis, the world was "good" until Adam and Eve ate the magic fruit at the behest of a talking snake. This introduced "Sin" into god's perfect creation. And you see, god hates sin. It doesn't matter if your sin is mass murder, child molestation, theft, or gawking at a lingerie ad, he'll gladly send you to Hell for all eternity (merciful and all-loving god he is) if you have the scent of "sin" on you after you die.

Now, Jesus, rebellious offspring that he was, thought that this kind of sucked, and allowed himself to be executed as a political dissident so that he could go to hell, kick Lucifer in the nads, and pay off all of our sin debt to the old man. So now, we can continue with the murder, molestation, theft, and lingerie gawking, we just need to make sure that we "accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior" afterwords. And Christians worldwide have thought this was a pretty good deal for the past 2000 years.

So here's the problem. If you accept Genesis as an "allegory", and not a literal truth, there is no event that causes sin to be introduced into the world. Without sin, there's no reason or need for Christ to "die for us". And without the need for Christ, there's really no compelling need for Christianity. And if you don't need Christianity, you turn into a godless, heathen atheist like me.

Kinda makes Bears look bad as godless killing machines.

"Social conservatives" in the US are essentially Christian Taliban. They don't have the power to act with the savagery of Taliban (abortion clinic bombers excepted) but never forget that people who believe in primitive superstitions only function in the modern world by compromising their beliefs.

Hate to break it to you, Eric Rudolph was captured 5 years ago, and he'll be in jail for the rest of his life.

Don't get too cocky. Christians have been under attack for years in this country to the point where many are even scared to talk about it anymore, as if it were embarrassing. So much for being Taliban-like.

And yes, I am a Christian.

When they have power, they revert to type.

Funny. I thought the same thing about liberals. Largely godless, living according to what they can get from others, and forcing their opinions upon everyone. When they have power, they revert to type.

The entry was written as rest of the world still struggling with pathetic 3G/4G hundred megabit speeds while "Europe" pushes ahead with 12.5 Gbps.

There are multiple problems with this statement.
1. "Europe" isn't doing the research, some European researchers are.
2. It's not a valid comparison of technologies.

You're making it sound like I'm bashing Europe when I've said no such thing. Europe (along with the US and many other countries produces very good research. I didn't even mention godlessness and you don't even know who I am or what my religious beliefs (or lack thereof) are to be making that type of insinuation.

You're missing the point.

We don't need another clueless USA bashing headline.

Europe Is Testing 12.5 Gbps Wireless

What exactly could be done to the headline to mollify you?

Godless Communists in Europe Testing Unwholesome, Anti-Family Services

This is not a criticism of America, though the comments make some still-valid criticisms of US telecoms services.

That's right. They don't want to stifle discussion... all the state of Oklahoma wants to do is prevent Dawkins from delivering his hate speech.

Dawkins does more harm to atheism than good. He attracts undesired attention, makes too much of a fuss and behaves like a fanatic.

He should just let us atheists live on with our lives without inciting hate against us. He should stop behaving like a spoiled child that just want his annoying moaning to be heard no matter what and in total disregard to other people's feelings.

See if I care if my husband is a Christian. I really don't, because it's simply not offensive against my godless belief. Now Dawkins speech is certainly offensive to so many people in so many levels and does soooooo little to improve an atheist welfare that one must ask if it's worth it.

This is great news. The puritanical and backwards thinking of the W years has hurt America while other countries not hindered by superstition have moved ahead to become leaders in this field.

No wonder America has lost it's edge.Maybe we can get back to the godless heathen science that made us so great.

This is great news. The puritanical and backwards thinking of the W years has hurt America while other countries not hindered by superstition have moved ahead to become leaders in this field.

No wonder America has lost it's edge.Maybe we can get back to the godless heathen science that made us so great.

Since you still don't seem to get it, here, I'll try to make it even more simple.

Have you ever been to a funeral? They're pretty somber occasions. Most of the time, people stand around a church moping, rehashing good memories about the person who is deceased and comforting the family with kind words. Now imagine that some asshole comes in and starts loudly condemning what a lousy son of a bitch that Democrat was (when the deceased was not, in fact, particularly political), and started essentially making a Republican stump speech griping about those damn liberals with their social programs, homosexuals, killing babies, godlessness, political correctness, and so on.

Obviously, it would be well within the church's right to ask the person to leave, possibly even calling the cops to remove them if necessary. Even most right-wingers would agree that this is an inappropriate time and place to push a political agenda, especially in such a provoking way.

Of course, the next recourse of that person would be to post on The Internets how they got kicked out of one of those new age liberal churches because (gasp!) they have Conservative political views, and chances are, they'd round up a bunch of naive stupid twits who take everything they read from anonymous strangers at face value talking about how awful that church is.

Being a gay rights supporter and card-carrying member of the ACLU, incidentally, I seen this kind of bullshit happen all too often. Some gay twit gets the idea in their head that even though a company like Microsoft doesn't allow topics of sexuality in profiles at all, even for straight people, they have some special magical right to disregard the rules, break the terms of service, and get away with it because they're gay. When Microsoft hits them with the ban stick—again, for sexuality, not gay sexuality, a point you keep deliberately overlooking—then they seek commiseration in The Internets, where they know they'll find a bastion of really stupid people who take the word of an anonymous stranger at face value.

Of course, if this conversation follows its normal course, this is the part where you misinterpret where I said "gay twit" as meaning that all gay people are twits, instead of the reasonable assertion that in the population of gay people, some of them are stupid. At any rate, congratulations on being sucked into The Agenda. Microsoft is one of the first companies to offer same-sex domestic partnership benefits back in 1993 when this was very odd for a company to do. I remember how much shit they took from the right wingers for doing so and, while I'll be the first in line to gripe about their anti-competitive practices and support for DRM, I think it's pretty stupid that one of the companies instrumental in advancing gay rights is now being attacked for applying their terms of service equally.

But cases like these aren't about equality. It is, as I said before, about pushing an agenda in an inappropriate place and trying to use a minority status to get a free pass on breaking the rules. It is disgusting and counterproductive to the very cause they are trying to advance.

Mayby they thought that all GNU programmers --- "Them Thar Godless Communists" --- are named Percy...

Of course if I'd been named Percy... I suppose I'd want to be a "godless communist"

But Stallman isn't a Percy by a long shot... but he does believe in code and ideas being free.

As for "reward enough" I don't suppose that they've bother to read "For the Fun of It" by Linus Torvalds...

as for the premise of "Open Source + Money = Slavery" I have to ask? For whom? The User? The Programmer? Or for the VC that makes billions off of someone else's ideas?

I don't believe people should be rewarded for "marketing" or "Selling" someone else's idea. That way of doing business is indeed slavery and that pretty much how we got in the mess we're in...

the GNU license is about freedom... Where as Closed Source is generally all about slavery: for the user and for the programmer... the only person that's free is the one that is pocketing your money

"You think Americans are just that much more sinful than all them godless heathens combined?"

Yes, obviously.

In May, 2008 they went so far as to predict that the North Pole would be ice-free during the 2008 'melt season,'

Er, no, they said it was possible and later quote "a 59% chance of a new record minimum this year". How the media chose to report this is another matter... Oh yes, note the date: May 2008.

Today, however, they say that they have been the victims of 'sensor drift' that led to an underestimation of Arctic ice extent by as much as 500,000 square kilometers.

And if you read TFA, the sensor drift started in January 2009, was spotted within a few weeks and only affected their daily images which are effectively "live" and hence haven't gone through QA.

So how exactly does an error which occurred in Jan/Feb 09, was almost immediately spotted and declared affect a (misreported) prediction made last May?

<irony>Meanwhile, I'm sure the little fairies are hard at work ensuring that the geological era's worth of sequestered CO2 we're in the process of releasing back into the atmosphere magically changes its physical properties. After all, it is made from special carbon that God put there in 4004BC for us to burn, unlike that nasty communist CO2 that exhibits the greenhouse effect in godless laboratories.</irony>

Hey it could be worse. It could have been bears and we all know we can trust those godless killing machines.

It also stems from the fact that we don't lock up innocent people in the western world.

Thanks. I just sprayed coffee all over my keyboard. Let me try this in a dialect you might understand.

Son, not only do we lock up innocent people here in the US but, Hell, in Texas we've condemned men to die when their defense attorney didn't even show up in one case, or showed up too drunk to stand straight in another. Up there in Yankeeland, they just caught a judge getting commissions from the prison for sending kids to jail.

Pound for pound, we lock up more people than the Russkies and the Chicoms COMBINED ever did. What, you think they're all guilty? You think Americans are just that much more sinful than all them godless heathens combined?

Thank God I don't live in New York.

I actually insulted New York twice in that sentence! :D A Godless state with a bunch of liberals who want to tax the crap out of everything.