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Bill Maher’s Big Lie Contribution?

“( or dumb enough as you would probably think)”

Where do you get the idea that I think it is dumb that there are all sorts of things that Man cannot explain? I never said anything of the sort.

And the incitement to violence is intrinsic in almost all religion. To claim a superior understanding of the mind of god is to claim the right to murder and enslave. That simple.

» Posted By KevenSeven On February 15, 2011 @ 6:27 pm

Well, actually, on this very blog atheism has been called a religion, so do be very careful with that absolutism that you seem so concerned about.

There is nothing “absolutist” about atheism. To be an atheist is to say that one has yet to see convincing evidence of a god. It is not to say there is no god. Just that one has no reason to believe that there is.

The ABSOLUTISTS are the people who say there is a god and that they know his mind. Plenty of them kicking around.

» Posted By KevenSeven On February 15, 2011 @ 5:04 pm

I’m sorry, but I have no idea how one is of a religion, yet does not “practice” it.

Sounds like a big fat guy glued to his sofa calling himself a professional baseball player. I don’t see how the two can exist in one person.

» Posted By KevenSeven On February 15, 2011 @ 4:56 pm

Be disheartened if you must, but the simple fact is that religion poisons everything.

Go ahead. Tell me about good works, about charity.

Then you need to credit Hamas and Hezbollah with being forces for good. You want to take that position?

This is not about “blind intolerance”. There is ample evidence to indict religion and “faith”

Try this on for size:

Name a good deed or utterance that could be done or made by a person of faith that could not be done by an unbeliever.

Now the corollary:

Name a wicked or evil deed or utterance committed or made by a person of faith in the name of their faith that could not be done by a person lacking in a faith.

What atheist blows up a church or mosque or synagogue because it does not comport with his belief systems? Happens every week in the real world, and it is always the work of some religious zealot.

The extremism of the zealots is built right into the religion. The religion claims to a special understanding of the mind of the maker, and an authority to enforce that will on those around the believer.

Sorry, not buying a nickel of it.

» Posted By KevenSeven On February 15, 2011 @ 10:39 am

Yes, you are wrong.

» Posted By KevenSeven On February 15, 2011 @ 9:57 am

Well, you may or may not question other people’s professions of faith or love or hope or whatever suits you. It is a free-ish country.

And you may go ahead and be bothered by the reality that it is next to impossible for an American pol to get elected without faking some religious conviction. You may as well go to the shore and scream at the tides for all the difference it makes. Until Man loses his fear of death, people will insist on believing in god. And those people will insist on being offended by people who do not believe in god.

I find people chewing gum offensive, but I don’t make any sort of deal out of it. Not worth the trouble.

My opinion: Obama is a secret atheist.

» Posted By KevenSeven On February 15, 2011 @ 9:56 am

Um. No. I can assure you that you are perfectly wrong about the meaning of being an atheist.

To be an atheist means that you recognize no evidence of a guiding intellect that designed or built that which is around us. It is in opposition to both a theist (belief in a mind that builds, guides and supervises) and deism (belief in a mind that builds and then pisses off to some other hobby).

Atheist means not believing, based on the evidence laid out before one, that this fat man in the sky exists and is keeping track of how often you masturbate.

Atheists do not, despite the propaganda of theists and deists, deny the beauty of life or the mysteries of existence. We are not immune to the glorious and luminous.

As for your meme of science evolving outside our understanding of reality; this is what is called and ever evolving tautology. No matter how much science proves that there is no reason to believe that there is not “maker”, the religious and those desperate to not believe that they are the most complex intelligence in this solar system (who knows what is out in the next galaxy?) will say “see, that only proves that God is even more subtle and complex than we could ever know.”

When next you have two hours to spare, perhaps you would care to watch:

» Posted By KevenSeven On February 15, 2011 @ 9:42 am

Careful. Soon somebody will be trying to convince you that atheism is a religion. I can’t get enough of that one.

» Posted By KevenSeven On February 15, 2011 @ 9:21 am

I think you are reading a lot into Maher’s comments re: Obama’s faith or lack there-of.

Of course, you detest Maher, as you have made a point of saying for the last two years here. That’s OK, Bill is a smug little dick.

But I for one don’t believe for a moment that Barack Obama believes in any flying spaghetti monster in the sky.

Did I just call my good friend Barack Obama a liar? I suppose I did. What of it? He’s a politician. His morning movements smells as much as anyone else’s.

I just listened to the president’s press conference, and while I cannot recall the point he was making, I remember thinking that he was just proposing one cut or other in order to force the Repugs to cast an embarrassing vote, that the Dems could then use in the next election.

I like Obama. A lot. But as an anti-theist, I gotta insist that he does not walk on water.

I think Maher is spot on. Obama has no religious faith, but professes a faith due to his need to gain votes.

Hey, if the religious are so easily duped, tough luck of them. I wish it was not necessary to suck up to the bible thumpers, but there are lots of things in this life that do not suit me very well. This one is not at the top of the list.

» Posted By KevenSeven On February 15, 2011 @ 9:19 am

An HP Moderator Replies

Hurummph!

» Posted By KevenSeven On February 15, 2011 @ 6:51 pm

Intimidated?

Nonsense! Forward!

» Posted By KevenSeven On February 15, 2011 @ 6:49 pm

I managed to get banned a few days back. Stephanie seems to recognize my many efforts to register a new moniker. I’m getting worn out.

How do I go about registering a new moniker without her recognizing that it is me?

I like it over there. You can be pretty damned rude to stupid people there.

Not that I mind this place…..just gotta be nice…..

» Posted By KevenSeven On February 15, 2011 @ 12:45 pm

I have had two e-mails with here in the last two days.

She wants for me to beg to come back. Screw that.

Actually, she wants me to “prove” that I’ll be nice.

Yawn. I pay her damned salary. She is a dolt to ban me.

» Posted By KevenSeven On February 15, 2011 @ 12:43 pm

True that.

I got banned just yesterday by a clique of “community moderators”. Twice in one day.

» Posted By KevenSeven On February 14, 2011 @ 4:23 pm

Oh, sure, Shirk the duty…..

» Posted By KevenSeven On February 14, 2011 @ 9:22 am

You got your spamming, you got your obfuscation (?) and then you got your “stalking”.

Or your false charges of stalking that get people banned.

» Posted By KevenSeven On February 14, 2011 @ 4:42 am

Blow me a kiss and we can call it even.

» Posted By KevenSeven On February 13, 2011 @ 9:05 pm

Well, in fact, there were four of us before the blog was launched…..

Not that it counts for a lot, I grant you.

» Posted By KevenSeven On February 13, 2011 @ 8:56 pm

What HP needs in addition to the “fan” button is a “this clown is such a drooling dolt I’d not trust him with a burnt-out match” button.

I’m weak on names, you see.

» Posted By KevenSeven On February 13, 2011 @ 8:50 pm

Yeah.

It’s a party.

» Posted By KevenSeven On February 13, 2011 @ 8:48 pm

I feel he is a pustule.

» Posted By KevenSeven On February 13, 2011 @ 8:39 pm

Not new. Several years old.

» Posted By KevenSeven On February 13, 2011 @ 7:28 pm

Just been banned. Twice in one day. Apparently responding to a mod who is responding to a comment I started is “stalking”.

Blueeyedbull, should anyone give a flying f***.

The Egyptian revolution was good for my fan count. Plus 100 or there-abouts.

Up to 540 plus.

Got banned because a “community moderator” got her panties in a bunch.

What a gang of jerks.

» Posted By KevenSeven On February 13, 2011 @ 7:25 pm

A Short List of Pres. Obama’s Accomplishments

“There always seems to be…”

Yes. Yes there does.

This did not spring into existence on Jan 20, 2009, now did it?

So it is a reality that Obama should have been aware of. And he is doing a poor job of working in that reality.

Thank you for conceding my point.

» Posted By KevenSeven On February 14, 2011 @ 4:35 am

Is it Obama’s fault that he is not getting it done?

Yes. Whose fault is it, anyway? The facts that propaganda exists and he needs to be better at it are just facts. I don’t care why it is as it is. It just is. I’m old and many pounds over weight. I cannot run a marathon tomorrow. Am I gonna cry about the realities of what it takes to run a marathon, or am I going to find a really good recipe for wallnuts and goranzola over bowties? The second, I think.

And I don’t know what the hell you mean by “media laws”. We have an excellent media law. It says that the govt cannot write any media laws. Read the first amendment for more details.

Any response saying that Obama does not have the time is silly. Obviously Obama does not take the limo out to the gas station, either. He has staff, the DNC has staff, the congressional caucuses have staff.

If Obama is paying no attention to the messaging, none at all, then indeed he is not doing his job. He needs to be part of the process. Perhaps being above it is why he is having a lousy time of it.

» Posted By KevenSeven On February 14, 2011 @ 4:31 am

There still is no excuse. The reality that exists is the reality that exists. Obama must perform better in the reality that exists, or Dems will continue to lose seats across the nation.

» Posted By KevenSeven On February 14, 2011 @ 4:22 am

Hey, I think the “you did not get your pony” was my meme.

But feel free to use it.

» Posted By KevenSeven On February 13, 2011 @ 6:49 pm

One failure worthy of note:

Telling the story competently.

Or beating the reactionaries at their own game of spin.

And there is no excuse. The truth makes perfectly good spin. Just damned do it.

» Posted By KevenSeven On February 13, 2011 @ 6:48 pm

Following the Rightwing Fashion?

Hey, K.

How you doing?

» Posted By KevenSeven On February 13, 2011 @ 8:46 pm

Everything from “Over There” belongs “Here!”

I am soooooo sick of HP and the little hitlers with their moderator badges.

Just been banned for “stalking” which in this case was a matter of responding to a com mod in such a way that her panties got into a bunch.

Drooling dolts.

» Posted By KevenSeven On February 13, 2011 @ 6:56 pm