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""Everything that has happened shows just how vital our message is," Shawn Jeffers, co-coordinator for the Cincinnati Coalition of Reason, said. "It proves our point, that bigotry against people who don't believe in a god is still very real in America."" - Tanath from Bookmarklet

Unless that book is the HGTTG - Edward Zwart

*liked* a second time - Heather

The official winner of the Evolution in Two Minutes or Less video contest: "Evolution: The Song," by teacher Scott Hatfield, from Bullard High School in Fresno, California - Janice from Bookmarklet

The viewer's choice was really good, but the singing teacher was a bit too noisy for me (Get off my lawn! :) ) - Eivind

LOL Eivind! - Janice

"With a global pandemic afoot, the last thing many people want to do is put their hands in water that many other people have already touched, even if it happens to be holy water. But in Italy, where about 30 people have already died from swine flu, many Catholics will soon be able to get untainted holy water as part of church sacrament. Catholic churches around Italy are scrapping their traditional water fonts in favor of new automatic, motion-activated holy water dispensers invented by Luciano Marabese." - Eivind from Bookmarklet

How do they make holy water anyways? Is it blessed by a priest? How much chlorine is allowed? - David (slumrig)

How awesome. - parsonii from Bookmarklet

The main message many Christians take from the Bible would fit on a post it note: "Don't tolerate gay people." - Eivind

"Thank you for not provoking my uncontrollable lust" - Eivind from Bookmarklet

"During a radio address in which President Obama spoke about the recent murders at Fort Hood, he made a point to acknowledge the existence of atheists in the military. This marks the second time Obama has mentioned nonbelievers. This certainly is a pleasant change from most previous occupants of the White House. Referring to the diversity of U.S. military personnel, President Obama said something we all know but are still not used to hearing a president acknowledge. That's right, he mentioned nonbelievers again, saying, They are Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus and nonbelievers. So our President recognizes that atheists serve in the military. I feel sort of silly for thinking that this is a big deal, but dammit, it is a big deal!" - Richard ¿digame? Walker from Bookmarklet

Thank you for your service, Alex! :) - Richard ¿digame? Walker

Looks like I finally killed that thread :) - Eivind

Congrats :P - Heather

Err, Frankenstein was the doctor not the monster! - Neil de Haan

Just think "Frankenstein('s monster)." - Tanath

"Hussein's girlfriend, who is now said to be pregnant, will also be executed by stoning after she gives birth." - Tanath from Bookmarklet

It's very thoughtful of them to let the baby live before killing both its parents. - Edward Zwart

"We are told that people need to “fight cancer” and that people with long-term diseases should pray fervently and “never give up hope” because God may deliver a miracle. But is that true?" - Tanath from Bookmarklet

"Without a doubt, Philip Henry Gosse's Omphalos is one of the strangest books I have ever read. Published in 1857, two years before Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species would cause the public and academics alike to take evolution more seriously, Gosse's book was an attempt to rescue Creation itself from the perceived threat of science denuded of Christian authority. Gosse fervently believed that God's word and works were in accord, but if there was any conflict between the two it was because naturalists had been looking at the world in the wrong way. Gosse attempted to mend the increasing tear between a literal reading of Genesis and the facts of geology in a very peculiar way. If you found the skeleton of an extinct animal, Gosse proposed, you would naturally assume that the bones must have given form to an animal that lived at some distant period. But what if you were mistaken? What if, instead, the bones had been created already in place in the ground and had never been clothed in flesh and blood?" - Eivind from Bookmarklet

"For Gosse fossils were just components of the earth that implied history without actually possessing it. God, in other words, had created the world " already in progress." The first plants and animals were all adults, ready to reproduce "after their kind" and bearing the marks of age that they would be expected to bear. This rule applied to the first humans, too; Adam and Eve had been... more... - Eivind

Intelligence² occupies a unique position in London’s social and intellectual landscape. It is the only institution in town - aside from Parliament - to provide a forum for debate on the crucial issues of the day; but unlike Parliament, its debates are consistently exciting, witty, provocative… and comfortable, held as they are at the Royal Geographical Society’s Ondaatje Theatre and other venues. Intelligence² takes information and analysis as its raw material, and translates this into discussion, conversation, and sexy debate. - Richard ¿digame? Walker from Bookmarklet

Sure hope there's video! - Edward Zwart from Bookmarklet

Oh my, those voting results are fun to watch, aren't they? :) - Edward Zwart

"Earlier this week, a billboard went up in Nashville for a group called Secular Life. An offensive, hateful, evil billboard. One so awful, a number of people denounced it! Which makes sense, I guess… just look at all the blasphemy:" - Christopher A Carr from Bookmarklet

Couldn't stop laughing at the dude repeatedly saying 'Believe in god or burn', failed brainwashing ftw! - Jeremy˚H

and such - Edward Zwart

Try to replace it with a good trip to the zoo, or a great dinner, or a fabulous drunk. - Christopher A Carr

"The first Kiva Lending Team to reach $1,000,000 in loans is the Atheists, Agnostics, Skeptics, Freethinkers, Secular Humanists and the Non-Religious!" - Tanath from Bookmarklet

It's not long before we reach two now :) - Eivind

Nearly double the Kiva Christians, nice. - Tanath

A response to this: http://friendfeed.com/aasfshn... - Mark from Bookmarklet

The Vice-chancellor of the Australian Catholic University shows that he can be just as hateful as his apparent antagonists. - Mark from Bookmarklet

Wow, this guy is MAD! I like his style, even though he's somewhat lacking in content :) (I guess this must be the respectful tone I keep hearing about,) - Eivind

"Local TV report on the Fort Hood shooting rampage. My heart goes out to the victims' families. A few hateful, racist and politically extreme Americans are exercising their right to free speech on YouTube. Ironically, this right includes equating Islam and Muslims with terrorism, insulting President Obama, betraying a lack of basic respect for government and the citizens, and attempting to use a horrible tragedy to score whatever sick political points their puny minds can imagine. Speak up, America, it seems I don't know you very well any more. We will not throw out "freedom of religion" or start persecuting people because of one horrible tragedy. We will not stone him to death. He will have legal counsel, a military court proceeding, and we will learn more hopefully." - Richard ¿digame? Walker from Bookmarklet

Warlord - I agree with you. I think someone said Hasan had lost confidence in the Afghanistan effort. Do you know if he volunteered to go to war? I understand he was at Walter Reed... which raises the possibility of his having PTSD-by-proxy. Since Fort Hood is a staging area for deployment, I assume he was going to get combat zone training at least. I'm unclear on whether military psychiatrists ever get "basic training".even. - Richard ¿digame? Walker

"The Chief Rabbi, Lord Sacks of Aldgate, warned today that Europe was dying because the growth of secularism had made people too selfish to have children. Its loss of a tolerant religious culture made it vulnerable to the advance of fundamentalism, he argued. Comparing its decline to that of ancient Greece in the third century of the pre-Christian era, he said the answer lay in the rediscovery of the continent's Judeo-Christian religious roots. Tolerant religion was “the only strong enough defence with some of the religiosity that is coming our way with the force of a hurricane", the Chief Rabbi said." - Eivind from Bookmarklet

True :) And having a lot of babies isn't an unselfish act. - Eivind

"AMHERST, Mass. — Creationism is growing in the Muslim world, from Turkey to Pakistan to Indonesia, international academics said last month as they gathered here to discuss the topic. But, they said, young-Earth creationists, who believe God created the universe, Earth and life just a few thousand years ago, are rare, if not nonexistent. One reason is that although the Koran, the holy text of Islam, says the universe was created in six days, the next line adds that a day, in this instance, is metaphorical: “a thousand years of your reckoning.”" - Eivind from Bookmarklet

"Saudi Arabia, for example, does not let foreigners see the biology textbooks." How retarded is THAT? - Edward Zwart

"Birds do it; bees do it; even educated fleas do it" - Edward Zwart from Bookmarklet

"The Cruise-related madness has the celeb-factor, but Headley also has lots to say about the more sinister things he observed during his time in Scientology, including the violence perpetrated by Church boss David Miscavige against employees, which we first heard about in the St Petersburg Times exposé, and the lengths the Church is willing to go to in order to stop members speaking out." - Edward Zwart from Bookmarklet

LMAO re Coulter! - Edward Zwart