http://technorati.com/tag/Religion+makes+you+stupid Posts tagged with "Religion makes you stupid" on Technorati Thu, 15 May 2008 19:52:03 -0700 Technorati v1.0 http://static.technorati.com/pix/logos/logo_sm.gif http://technorati.com/tag/Religion+makes+you+stupid support@technorati.com (Technorati Support) http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Religion makes you stupid http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2008/05/goddamnit_somebody_vote_this_b.html http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2008/05/goddamnit_somebody_vote_this_b.html Tue, 13 May 2008 10:18:26 -0700 Kerns, that is, Sally Kerns, homophobe, anti-intellectual, Oklamhoma State Rep. Not content with asserting that homosexuality is worse than terrorism, she's found a new way to make sure that Oklahoma is not left behind by Florida and Texas in the race for "America's Next Top Dumbass": New language in Oklahoma House Bill 2633, aka "The Return of the Religious Viewpoints Antidiscrimination Act". Once again, justifying it with anecdotes:Kern spoke of an instance when a child was criticized for 2008-05-13 10:18:26 PDT http://technorati.com/search/www.bynkii.com/archives/2008/05/goddamnit_somebody_vote_this_b.html 90 128 http://www.timeimmortal.net/2008/05/12/child-murder/ http://www.timeimmortal.net/2008/05/12/child-murder/ Mon, 12 May 2008 11:22:38 -0700 Child murder • written by Kenneth Dinesh D’Souza talks about his debate with atheist Peter Singer, who is an advocate for what could be called “post-term abortion” and, bizarrely, animal rights. Singer’s arguments in favour of abortion and the legalization of infanticide are infused with comparisons between the unborn (or the newborn) human and different animals at similar stages of development. Working from the conclusion that, “at any stage of pregnancy,” the “calf, the pig, and the muc 2008-05-12 11:22:38 PDT http://technorati.com/search/www.timeimmortal.net/2008/05/12/child-murder/ 48 395 http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2008/04/religion_makes_the_stupid_part.html http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2008/04/religion_makes_the_stupid_part.html Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:54:53 -0700 So a girl dies of undiagnosed diabetic ketoacidosis because her parents decided to play mumbly-peg with the magic man in the sky instead of doing like God told them and helping themselves...to commonly available and reliable medical treatment. However in this case, they aren't getting the standard "Christian Get Out Of Jail Free" card, normally given in this country to anyone who belongs to the right sect, and are instead being charged with second-degree reckless homicide. Good, and I'm pretty 2008-04-30 04:54:53 PDT http://technorati.com/search/www.bynkii.com/archives/2008/04/religion_makes_the_stupid_part.html 90 128 http://www.timeimmortal.net/2008/04/18/joel-isnt-speaking-to-me-anymore/ http://www.timeimmortal.net/2008/04/18/joel-isnt-speaking-to-me-anymore/ Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:48:00 -0700 Not directly, at least. Fortunately, Wordpress keeps an accurate list of inbound links. He has his own blog, and has decided to issue his response to my latest reply to him there. That’s just as well; he wasn’t doing all that well via the contact form. He seems to be clinging to insisting that all Religions are basically the same (a common fallacy among atheists, I have learned). To which I can only say, again, what I said to him before: “While you see a distinction between various sports, as 2008-04-18 13:48:00 PDT http://technorati.com/search/www.timeimmortal.net/2008/04/18/joel-isnt-speaking-to-me-anymore/ 48 395 http://www.timeimmortal.net/2008/04/02/there-is-no-bigot-like-an-atheist/ http://www.timeimmortal.net/2008/04/02/there-is-no-bigot-like-an-atheist/ Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:14:23 -0700 Jonah comments on a phenomenon that is getting a bit on the old side by now — the “Darwin Fish”. You know, that “clever” little modification of the classic “Jesus Fish” that you see tacked onto the bumpers of some cars, that has taken the classic fish shape and added legs to it, with either “Darwin” or “Evolve” replacing the traditional texts one finds printed in the “Jesus Fish”? It’s one of those things that I think was meant, by whoever came up with it, to be a witty little statement agains 2008-04-02 08:14:23 PDT http://technorati.com/search/www.timeimmortal.net/2008/04/02/there-is-no-bigot-like-an-atheist/ 48 395 http://www.timeimmortal.net/2008/03/14/rational-responders-dont-get-your-hopes-up/ http://www.timeimmortal.net/2008/03/14/rational-responders-dont-get-your-hopes-up/ Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:02:33 -0700 I don’t usually cruise atheist websites all that much — few enough of them are designed well enough for my tastes, and at any rate I don’t much enjoy having to switch off large portions of my brain just to be able to successfully navigate through one irrational tirade after another. That said, for some reason I decided to check out the Rational Responders website. Their byline reads: “Believe in God? We can fix that.” And yet, reading through their list of ‘frequently asked questions’ (and some 2008-03-14 09:02:33 PDT http://technorati.com/search/www.timeimmortal.net/2008/03/14/rational-responders-dont-get-your-hopes-up/ 48 395 http://www.timeimmortal.net/2008/03/12/hey-look-at-thatits-nearly-easter/ http://www.timeimmortal.net/2008/03/12/hey-look-at-thatits-nearly-easter/ Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:00:19 -0700 Hey look at that…it’s nearly Easter You know what that means, right, O Reader? Yup…it’s time for another movie about how the Gospels don’t tell us the truth about the life of Jesus and/or his disciples! The BBC is to screen a new drama about the final week in the life of Jesus Christ which appears to exonerate [Judas Iscariot] and Pontius Pilate. Producers of The Passion have portrayed the men in a sympathetic light because they believe they have been”very harshly judged” by history. Jud 2008-03-12 10:00:19 PDT http://technorati.com/search/www.timeimmortal.net/2008/03/12/hey-look-at-thatits-nearly-easter/ 48 395 http://www.timeimmortal.net/2008/03/07/reader-mail-remember-when/ http://www.timeimmortal.net/2008/03/07/reader-mail-remember-when/ Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:33:50 -0800 Reader Mail: Remember when? GuyInCT writes in with a wistful reflection on the current state of freedom of expression in Canada. The thing you have to realize is that the Leftists are basically cowards and bullies. Like any bullies, they capitulate in the face of bigger bullies. Thus Christians calling for their natural and legal rights are ignored or ridiculed. Similar calls from Islamists have the unspoken threat of physical or economic harm behind them. So like true cowards, the Left ba 2008-03-07 09:33:50 PST http://technorati.com/search/www.timeimmortal.net/2008/03/07/reader-mail-remember-when/ 48 395 http://www.timeimmortal.net/2008/03/06/simple-truth/ http://www.timeimmortal.net/2008/03/06/simple-truth/ Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:38:23 -0800 Simple truth When we’re fed the lie that you can separate sex from procreation, we make up other lies to convince ourselves that the evil being done as a result isn’t really evil, and even more, is a “right” and a good worth fighting for. As with most things that pit Christianity against the secular, it is the secular that will ultimately fail — indeed, in Christ, the Christian victory is assured, and has already been won. And in a way, one can look to the future in observations like the a 2008-03-06 07:38:23 PST http://technorati.com/search/www.timeimmortal.net/2008/03/06/simple-truth/ 48 395 http://www.timeimmortal.net/2008/02/20/it-must-be-a-wednesday/ http://www.timeimmortal.net/2008/02/20/it-must-be-a-wednesday/ Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:58:03 -0800 I’m dead tired this morning, so this will kind of just be a list of things that I noticed on my morning browse through a few parts of the internet. Regular posting will resume tomorrow, ideally. Apparently, the Milky Way is twice as thick as was previously thought — 12,000 light years, instead of 6,000. That’s kind of interesting, admittedly, although also rather “ho hum” — given the massive distances we’re talking about here, what’s a factor of two? Apparently, the researchers at the Universi 2008-02-20 08:58:03 PST http://technorati.com/search/www.timeimmortal.net/2008/02/20/it-must-be-a-wednesday/ 48 395 http://www.timeimmortal.net/2008/01/21/the-popes-supporters/ http://www.timeimmortal.net/2008/01/21/the-popes-supporters/ Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:44:02 -0800 The Pope’s supporters More than 100,000 people filled St Peter’s Square on Sunday in a show of support for Pope Benedict XVI after protests by scientists forced him to cancel a university speech. The pilgrims gave a roar of approval when Pope Benedict, speaking after his weekly blessing, said: “I encourage all of you, dear academics, to always be respectful of the opinions of others, and to seek the truth and the good with an open and responsible mind.” The 80-year-old head of the Roman 2008-01-21 10:44:02 PST http://technorati.com/search/www.timeimmortal.net/2008/01/21/the-popes-supporters/ 48 395 http://www.timeimmortal.net/2008/01/17/but-remember-its-catholics-who-are-biased-and-unfair/ http://www.timeimmortal.net/2008/01/17/but-remember-its-catholics-who-are-biased-and-unfair/ Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:15:14 -0800 Italian political leaders have expressed their dismay that a noisy protest at La Sapienza university in Rome prompted Pope Benedict XVI to cancel his planned appearance there. Italian president Giorgio Napolitano released a statement condemning the “inadmissible intolerance” shown by the campus protestors, who had planned to greet the Pope with loud rock music, anti-clerical posters, and parades of militant homosexuals. Prime Minister Romano Prodi said that the protests had “provoke unacceptab 2008-01-17 09:15:14 PST http://technorati.com/search/www.timeimmortal.net/2008/01/17/but-remember-its-catholics-who-are-biased-and-unfair/ 48 395 http://www.timeimmortal.net/2007/12/28/some-good-finds-this-week/ http://www.timeimmortal.net/2007/12/28/some-good-finds-this-week/ Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:26:03 -0800 This is mostly a round-up of articles I discovered on or just before Christmas Eve, things I wanted to get down all in one place. Bear with me, O Reader, if there isn’t any real direction to what I’m about to write. First, I tripped over this enjoyable video of Christian writer/speaker Dinesh D’Souza mopping the floor of the debate room with Christopher Hitchens. The picture on D’Souza’s site almost tells the whole story before one even clicks on the link to watch the video record of the event 2007-12-28 09:26:03 PST http://technorati.com/search/www.timeimmortal.net/2007/12/28/some-good-finds-this-week/ 48 395 http://www.timeimmortal.net/2007/12/18/the-tragic-and-dangerous-stupidity-of-atheism/ http://www.timeimmortal.net/2007/12/18/the-tragic-and-dangerous-stupidity-of-atheism/ Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:58:36 -0800 The tragic and dangerous stupidity of atheism December 18th, 2007 I rarely — if ever — cite an entire post, but there really doesn’t seem to be any way that I can think of to distill all that Mark Shea says in his latest article for the National Catholic Register down to a few sample lines. So…permit me to simply re-quote the whole thing. It’s that good…and highlights well, I think, just why I love reading Mark Shea’s work as much as I do. A remarkably 19th-century Manichaean view of religio 2007-12-18 13:58:36 PST http://technorati.com/search/www.timeimmortal.net/2007/12/18/the-tragic-and-dangerous-stupidity-of-atheism/ 48 395 http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2007/12/so_id_isnt_about_christianity.html http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2007/12/so_id_isnt_about_christianity.html Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:00:10 -0800 Hmm...because according to this interview with William Dembski, Mr. ID himself, (Thanks to ERV for the link!), it most certainly is:4. Does your research conclude that God is the Intelligent Designer? I believe God created the world for a purpose. The Designer of intelligent design is, ultimately, the Christian God. The focus of my writings is not to try to understand the Christian doctrine of creation; it’s to try to develop intelligent design as a scientific program. So one of the two bigg 2007-12-14 20:00:10 PST http://technorati.com/search/www.bynkii.com/archives/2007/12/so_id_isnt_about_christianity.html 90 128 http://www.timeimmortal.net/2007/12/14/idiot-of-the-week/ http://www.timeimmortal.net/2007/12/14/idiot-of-the-week/ Fri, 14 Dec 2007 06:42:02 -0800 Idiot of the week December 14th, 2007 That would be a poster named unionist at the babble forums at Canadian leftist web-haven rabble.ca. Witness the brilliance: Christmas is a holiday and a season of peace, love, and giving. I really resent those who try to remove this content of Christmas and replace it with nonsense about Christ, prayer, church, religion, etc. The term “Christmas” is a modern-day contraction of an older term, “Christ’s mass”, which is a phrase that dates back about 1 2007-12-14 06:42:02 PST http://technorati.com/search/www.timeimmortal.net/2007/12/14/idiot-of-the-week/ 48 395 http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2007/12/a_bit_of_a_logical_conundrum.html http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2007/12/a_bit_of_a_logical_conundrum.html Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:23:36 -0800 It occurred to me that a great many people say that homosexuality should not have protected status, ala race, sex, religion, because it's a choice. In other words, just as you choose to be gay, you can choose to not be gay. I disagree, but okay, let's run with that. No federal protection for conditions that are choices. Sex, but not sexual identity. Gender, but not gender preference. So keeping that in mind, why is religion protected. I mean, it's obviously a choice. There's no "religion gen 2007-12-09 20:23:36 PST http://technorati.com/search/www.bynkii.com/archives/2007/12/a_bit_of_a_logical_conundrum.html 90 128 http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2007/12/proof_there_is_no_god.html http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2007/12/proof_there_is_no_god.html Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:12:19 -0800 Because if there were, this statement from Mitt Romney would require lightning:Romney said religion is essential to freedom, without pointing to any specific faith. "Freedom requires religion, just as religion requires freedom. Freedom opens the windows of the soul so that man can discover his most profound beliefs and commune with God. Freedom and religion endure together, or perish alone," the GOP contender said. BAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH! Freedom req 2007-12-07 11:12:19 PST http://technorati.com/search/www.bynkii.com/archives/2007/12/proof_there_is_no_god.html 90 128 http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2007/12/oh_come_on_now.html http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2007/12/oh_come_on_now.html Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:51:22 -0800 There is no way in hell that they're keeping Sherri Shepherd around for any reason other than to show how funny stupid is, and that's just mean: Actually, I don't believe anyone can be on television, not continuously digging in random orifices, and be THAT STUPID. Technorati Tags: Religion makes you stupid 2007-12-04 19:51:22 PST http://technorati.com/search/www.bynkii.com/archives/2007/12/oh_come_on_now.html 90 128 http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2007/12/ah_the_sweet_rationality_of_ou.html http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2007/12/ah_the_sweet_rationality_of_ou.html Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:58:50 -0800 Because as we've been told, Christian fundamentalism is so rational compared to the Islamic kind. Oh, just in case it comes up... It's curious how when Phelps was just ranting against gays and other marginalized groups, the reaction from the Christian fundamentalist community at large was "tsk, tsk, that's so crude". It was only after Phelps and clan targeted people the fundies approve of, (read: Soldiers), that the reaction suddenly became OMG, WE MUST STOP HIM! Evidently, hating homosexual 2007-12-04 16:58:50 PST http://technorati.com/search/www.bynkii.com/archives/2007/12/ah_the_sweet_rationality_of_ou.html 90 128